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- κ1582Κιγκλίδαςlatticed gates… plural. This form occurs in (e.g.) Plutarch, Caesar 68.1, and Libanius, Letters 119.3 and Speeches 1.41. However, the entire definition is taken, with slight wording changes, from the scholia to Aristophanes, Knights 641, glossing …
- α842Ἀκεσίας ἰάσατοAkesias healed… anus," as a warning not to trust a witless doctor. Libanius uses it thus, "I fear that if I touch the matter I will become Akesias" (Epistulae 476.5). The proverb clearly implies that Akesias …
- κ1342Κεντροτύποςstriking with a goad… as "someone deserving whipping" (mastigi/as). The only literary instance is Libanius, Letters 226.5: "a knavish and goad-struck little man attacked the orator"; the lexicographers' gloss "knavish" could well be from that context. Greek Anthology …
- ε1560Ἔξαρνοςobstinately denying, obstinate in denying… for e)/carnos e)sti/, Lexicon Vindobonense epsilon217, with a quotation from Libanius. An attempted etymology by Hesychius alpha7332 s.v. a)/rna, defined as "the oath at Clazomenae: hence e)/carnos"; cf. also scholia recentiora on Aristophanes, Clouds …
- η481Ἥρας δὲ δεσμοὺς ὑπὸ υἱέοςHera's bindings by (her) son… (cf. 3.17.3). See also note 3 below. [3] According to Libanius, Narration 7 (Foerster vol. 8, pp. 38-39), Hephaestus built a chair to bind his mother Hera in return for her having hurled him …
- κ1429Κεστρᾶν τεμάχηmullets' slices… used by the Alexandrians 1.8; Pausanias, *)attikw=n o)noma/twn sunagwgh/ kappa29; Libanius, Letters 332.2; Gregorius, Proverbs 2.90; Apostolius 9.76. In LSJ s.v. kestreu/s, it is glossed as "of those too honest to make gains". The …
- δ1189Διοπομπεῖσθαιto escort [evil] away… kh=ras, "remove all of the gold and silver as calamities". Libanius 15.1.34 opposes a)podiopompei=sqai to au(tw=| gene/sqai suneu/cesqai "wish to have happen to oneself". [1] = Photius delta648; cf. Photius delta646, scholion on Plato, …