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1603
Δυσγάργαλις
skittish, ticklish
… in Photius, Lexicon delta804, and Etymologicum Genuinum s.v. (cf. Etymologicum
Magnum
291.47). For the etymological expansion of the gloss cf. generally gamma 62, gamma 63 (and further in n.2 below). [1] An adjective even …
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253
Αἰόλος
undulating, wavelike, advancing in a winding or rolling fashion, agile in turning side to side; multicoloured, discoloured, black or chestnut with white markings; easily moved, changeable, wily, quick-witted, liable to metamorphosis, disturbed in mind; whirling; self-generating in movement, ever-turning; lively, flashing, shimmering
… 286 col. 1.9; Liber 1; on Odyssey 20.27; cf. Etymologicum
Magnum
37.3 and the exceptional scholion B to Iliad 22.509, eu)/strofoi kai\ poiki/loi). He correctly took a)/ella from the same root of rolling or …
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1161
Διόμεια
Diomeia
… episode, interpreting it as a divine omen. Cf. also Etymologicum
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s.v. *kuno/sarges. [3] The text implies (by a standard use of the genitive case) that Diomos was a son of Herakles. But the …
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2257
Ἐπιβύσας
having stopped up
… also quoted in Photius s.v. kro/khn nh/qein le/gousin and Etymologicum
Magnum
s.vv. nh=ma, para/buston. [2] Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 379 (web address 2), with scholia; also quoted in Etymologicum
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s.v. e(kato/mbh; cf. Acharnians 463 …
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3040
Ἑρμίας
Hermias
… from Harpokration s.v.; similar entries in Photius (and, post-Suda, Etymologicum
Magnum).
Hermias' daughter was Pythias: see below, and alpha 3929. [6] That is, not Hermeias (as in epsilon 3036 and alpha 3929). See Choeroboscus …
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303
Κάνδυλος
kandulos, kandylos
… [2] Very similar entries in Etymologicum Gudianum 297.22 and Etymologicum
Magnum
488.54 (s.v. kandu/lh). The second part is unintelligible in all three versions, but in different ways: Etymologicum Gudianum has "and sour-sauce qroiko\n food", …
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104
Ἄβυσσον
abyss
… frequently, it has the sense "brood over." [3] cf. Etymologicum
Magnum
4.44. These are principal parts of the verb bu/w, which means "to stuff," followed by buso/s, which does not exist according to LSJ. …
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1057
Ἀλαζών
boaster, imposter
… and alpha 1058. [1] cf. Hesychius s.v. and (post-Suda) Etymologicum
Magnum
55.42. The second synonym is in Photius and elsewhere. [2] Outside the Suda this compound is attested only in a fragment of the …
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1396
Ἄλλως
otherwise
cf. Hesychius s.v., Etymologicum
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68.37, and a scholion on Aristophanes, Acharnians 114 (where the headword occurs: web address 1). cf. already alpha 1318, alpha 1395, and again alpha 1398. [1] Quotation unidentifiable. (The …
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3962
Ἄρκυς
hunting-net
[1] cf. Etymologicum
Magnum
144.9. [2] Likewise 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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239
Αἰξωνεύεσθαι
to be an Aixonian, to play the Aixonian
… the phrase "to be an Aixonian" occurs; Hesychius s.v.; Etymologicum
Magnum
36.57. [1] cf. alphaiota 240, alphaiota 241. [2] See alphaiota 242.
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4
Βαβάκτης
reveller
… Lexica Segueriana 223.31 Bekker; Photius, Lexicon beta5, 6, 8; Etymologicum
Magnum
183.45. Its only appearance outside lexicography is in the Doric vocative form baba/kta in a fragment of Cratinus (321 Kock, 22 Meineke, 359 …
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194
Βαῦνος
furnace
… derivation of banausos from baunos is given in the Etymologicum
Magnum
187.38. [3] This extra observation is missing, Adler reports, from some manuscripts.
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489
Βωμολόχος
altar-ambusher
… cited in the scholia on Plato, Republic 606C (and Etymologicum
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218.7). It would be derived from 'altar' and a verb for watching attested only in the Cypriot dialect by Hesychius and possibly in …
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63
Γαργαλίζει
titillates
… as an error for u(posai/nei "fawns on" in the Etymologicum
Magnum.)
[2] Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 132-3 (web address 1). [3] Same material in other lexica. If gargari/zei is quoted from somewhere, the source is unidentifiable.
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208
Δελφίς
dolphin
[1] cf. Etymologicum
Magnum
255.25 (plurals). [2] Aristophanes, Knights 761-762 (web address 1), followed by comment from the scholia there. See further below. [3] Thucydides 7.41.2 (web address 2); see already delta 207. [4] …
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698
Διαπηνικίσαι
to pull the wig over
… 304 K.-A.), to whom the grammarian Pausanias and, post-Suda, Etymologicum
Magnum
269.31 attribute this very rare verb. [1] Actually phnh/kh; see LSJ s.v. (web address 1) and pi 1529. [2] cf. LSJ s.v. fenaki/zw …
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911
Διεκπερδικίσαι
to slip through and out like a partridge
… in the aorist infinitive diaperdiki/sai in Hesychius delta1213 and Etymologicum
Magnum
269.37, regarded as a context-less fragment of Attic comedy) LSJ s.v. claims the Suda's diekperdiki/zw as its equivalent, though that does less than …
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1029
Διθυραμβοδιδάσκαλοι
dithyramb-directors
… 1965, without text, identified as a dithyramb poet in Etymologicum
Magnum
164.20, from Tzetzes on Lycophron, Alexandra 879 p.2846 Scheer; PC2 52; PMG fr.837; Campbell 198-203; Aristotle, Poetics 1455a6; RE 21.1659-61 'Polyidos 9'), and …
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1106
Δίκρανα
pitchforks
… as lexica and grammars (Hesychius, Herodian, Photius, ps.-Zonaras, the Etymologicum
Magnum).
It is a wooden (Etym.Magn. 506.18) gardening implement as well as a defensive weapon; cf. the diminutive in the gloss at delta 1109 …
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1189
Διοπομπεῖσθαι
to escort [evil] away
… to whom one turns to obtain purification]". According to Etymologicum
Magnum
125.33, which offers the etymology a)po\ tou= *dio\s kai\ tou= pompo/s, "from Zeus and escort", following a grammatical explanation of the verb (prw/ths …
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1516
Δραχμή
drachma
[1] tau 34. [2] cf. mu 1144. [3] cf. Etymologicum
Magnum
287.20. [4] Aristophanes, Peace 374, with scholion; cf. mu 1385. [5] alpha 3729.
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1602
Δυσβράκανος
hard to deal with
… headword in Photius (dusba/rkanos, obelized by Theodoridis) and the Etymologicum
Magnum
(dusba/rnakos), probably by corruption in the manuscript transmission. Nonetheless it seems that the gloss stems from Photius, Lexicon delta799. (The Suda compiler either …
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73
Ἐγκάναξον
slosh in!
… the same sense, and with similar words, see also Etymologicum
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310.1. [3] Aristophanes, Knights 105. [4] Extra synonyms added here and in the parallel entry in ps.-Zonaras; the last of them is also …
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745
Ἐλασίβροντ' ἀναρρηγνὺς ἔπη
breaking forth thunder-driving words
… from similar material are to be found in Hesychius, Etymologicum
Magnum
325.45; and cf. alpha 2044. [2] Supplementation of this sentence is based on the text of the Aristophanes scholia. [3] Pindar fr. 144 …
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924
Ἔλυτρον
case
… 637. [1] Up to this point the entry = Etymologicum
Magnum
333.40, with the exception that the EM identifies the headword as a receptacle for a bow, rather than a spear. Aristophanes, Acharnians 1120, …
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1177
Ἐν δίκῃ
with justice
… 'in' justice. For the glossing cf. Hesychius epsilon2794 and Etymologicum
Magnum
339.4. But according to a different interpretation reported by a scholion on Aristophanes, Wasps 421, e)n di/kh| (= e)n th=| di/kh|) means dika/zontes, …
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1295
Ἔνη
the day after tomorrow, the second day after
… probably an error for h( triaka\s th=s selh/nhs at Etymologicum
Magnum
340.55f., 'the 30th. day of the month', i.e. the 29th., in a definition of e(/nh kai\ ne/a (cf. epsilon 1292, epsilon 1293, epsilon …
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1526
Ἐξαλίσας
having rolled out
… (where the headword occurs: web address 1); and cf. Etymologicum
Magnum
64.16. [1] The headword is aorist active participle, masculine nominative singular, of e)cali/ndw; cf. epsilon 1726. [2] An imprecise quotation of Aristophanes, Frogs …
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1560
Ἔξαρνος
obstinately denying, obstinate in denying
[1] Same gloss at Etymologicum
Magnum
346.50; cf. ps.-Zonaras, epsilon755, with gloss a)rnou/menos (Hesychius epsilon3604, Scholia recentiora on Aristophanes, Clouds 1230a). See also ps.-Zonaras iota1124 [ = iota 728], where the same explanation occurs …
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