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15 entries for attention, pause for reflection, observation

β194Βαῦνοςfurnace… is given in the Etymologicum Magnum 187.38. [3] This extra observation is missing, Adler reports, from some manuscripts.Matched in noteshighshort
κ339Κἀπιδώσειν μοι δοκῶ τὸ χρῆμα μᾶλλονand it seems to me the matter will increase further… moi dokw= ("I think that I..."). The context is the reflection of the chorus of old men on the women's outrageous and offensive behavior.Matched in noteshighshort
κ29Καθαγίσωlet me make hagios… Greek Religion (Oxford [Blackwell] 1985) 270-1. The scholiast's glosses draw attention to the fact that a regular way of making an offering hagios was to burn it up (holocaust); here the joke comes with …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2023Κομψευριπικῶςboasteuripically… [2] Aelian fr. 157 Domingo-Forasté (154 Hercher). Adler notes the observation of Perizonius [Jakob Voorbroek, 1651–1715] that this sentence refers to a different (missing) headword. [3] Aristophanes, Wasps 1317 (web address 2); it contains …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1511Δρᾶσονdo! , get it done!… Cf. psi 62. The quotation, split in two by the observation "in Attic", is Aristophanes, Birds 54 (web address 1, cf. line 80).Matched in noteshighshort
α1332Ἄλοπονunscutched… 'unscutched' flax-stalk (as scholiasts noted) is the penis, awaiting the attention of a woman who "wishes to go home and entice her husband into sexual congress by arousing him" (J. Henderson, The Maculate Muse …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1189Καιρόςopportune time… 75-6, with scholion; cf. epsilon 3615. [2] An extra, general observation on the above. It is not from the Sophoclean scholion; rather, from an indeterminable source also quoted in writers later than the Suda …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ784ΛυδιάζωνLydianizing, playing the Lydian… dieskeda/sqhsan, "were dispersed/scattered/rejected", and that might be right as a reflection of what Aristophanes' chorus says about Magnes having been 'driven off the stage' when elderly. But more probably dieskeua/sqhsan, printed by Adler and …Matched in noteshighshort
κ867Κατάχει τοὔλαιον ἐν τῷ χαλκείῳpour the oil in the shield… a shield. Aristophanes' passage is a burlesque of augury through reflection, such as lecanomancy. The mention of being blinded by the shield presumably intends to explain the augury. [4] The connection between this material …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ227ΚαλλίμαχοςCallimachus, Kallimachos, Kallimakhos… But O'Brien has since argued for the traditional reading, calling attention to strange words used by Democritus, many preserved in ancient testimonia.Matched in noteshighmedium
κ822Κατατιλᾷshits down on… verb in this entry are hardly plausible. It omits the observation there that the verb that (in Aristophanes) means "to excrete diarrhoea stool" (to\ ko/pron dia/rruton e)kkri/nein) "now means to shed semen" (a)pospermai/nein, LSJ). …Matched in noteshighmedium
χ296Χιάζεινto play the Chian… (sigma 510) could mean 'play in the Siphnian style'. This observation is the import of this entry; it also occurs at Pollux, Onomasticon 4.65. The two sources attribute the origin of the Chian musical …Matched in noteshighshort
λ604Λίσποιsmooths; half-dice… li/sphs. [5] I doubt if this is an accurate physiological observation. I have simplified in translation the long sentence, a remarkable example of the diverse ways in which the Greek language expresses reasons: (a) …Matched in noteshighmedium
β489Βωμολόχοςaltar-ambusher… and Photius, Lexicon beta321. It is based in part on observations of the grammarian/lexicographer Apollodorus of Cyrene (RE 1.286 'Apollodorus 65'). It should be read in the context of complementary observations in beta 486, …Matched in noteshighmedium
α4570Ἀφαιρεῖν κροκύδαςto pluck off threads… hairs out of the beard, to the object of his attentions); and cf. Valeria and Sulla in Plutarch, Sulla 35.4. [2] If this is a quotation, it is unidentifiable.Matched in noteshighshort

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