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Διθυράμβων νοῦν ἔχεις ἐλάττονα
you have less sense than dithyrambs.
… (delta 1029, kappa 2647, pi 3225,etc.) in Birds. Compare generally
Lucullus's
retort to Pompey: "do I seem to you to have less sense than the cranes and the storks?" (Plutarch,
Lucullus
39.5).
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3075
Ἀπεσφακέλισεν
had a seizure, had frost-bitten limbs
… LSJ s.v. also cites Herodotus 4.28.4 (of horses) and Plutarch,
Lycurgus
16 (of the convulsions experienced by weakling Spartan babies when their mothers bathe them in wine); cf. epsilon 2090.
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3250
Ἀποβάτης
dismounter
Abridged from Harpokration (and Photius) s.v., who cites Dinarchus,
Lycurgus,
and (for the information that such an event was found only in Athens and Boiotia) Theophrastus on this. See also Kassel-Austin, PCG II p.34 …
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3962
Ἄρκυς
hunting-net
… in other lexica. [3] Abridged from Harpokration s.v., who cites
Lycurgus
(fr.86 Conomis), Xenophon (On Hunting 2.3, etc.), and Cratinus (fr 79 Kock = 84 K.-A.).
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1228
Διώκειν
to prosecute
… marketplace is self-evident, but such idioms as ei)s a)gora\n e)mba/llein
(Lycurgus,
Against Leocrates 5) are also used in the sense of "being a citizen"; and in the present instance the use of diw/kein highlights …
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46
Χαλκίοικος
Bronze-House, of the Bronze House; Chalkioikos
… also e.g. Euripides, Helen 228 & 245; Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1299;
Lycurgus
1.128, Polybius 4.22.8 and 4.35.2. Pausanias 3.17.1-3 gives reasons for accepting the first of the three etymologies proffered here; he saw it himself, …
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