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κ1618Κιμωλίαcimolite, Cimolian earth… Cimolus/Kimolos (kappa 1619). See also kappa 1744, kappa 2640. This earth, often used as fuller's earth, is a kind of clay of the montmorillonite group, also today called cimolite. It is a hydrated aluminum …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2035Κονιόπουςdust-foot, sandal… kind of shoe Aristophanes meant; the digression on cutting/slaying the earth is etymological guesswork.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1504Δραπέτης κλῆροςrunaway lot… Cresphontes wanted Messenia, so he placed a lot of moist earth in the pot, knowing it would never jump out of the hydria (either because it dissolved in water in the pot or because …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ335Καπηλίςhuckstress, landlady… vine here hinges upon the fact that phlo/s means both "earth, mud" and "wine dregs, lees". [2] For the otherwise unattested e)/mpelos read e)/mphlos ("muddy").Matched in noteshighshort
λ658Λόγοςdiscourse; language… [5] Aristophanes, Peace 146-147, with comment from the scholia there. "Plot" is the conventional translation of logos in dramatic contexts, i.e. the main story in the narrative or drama. [6] chi 569.Matched in noteshighmedium
ε2731Ἐπιτρῖψαιto crush, to wear out… church is carried away by the rivers as the eroded earth.Matched in noteshighshort
γ236Γῆ κληρουχικήallotted land, cleruchic land… phrase translated here "by lot" can equally mean "in a plot"; the kleros is both process and outcome.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1127Καττύεταιis stitched together… In Aristophanes it is used in a metaphor for a plot being put together. See also kappa 1128, and cf. kappa 1129.Matched in noteshighshort
ε320Ἐθείρειtends… drying of a recently soaked a)lwh/ -- here probably "cultivated plot", less likely "threshing-floor" -- by a north wind, whereat "he who e)qei/rh| it" rejoices). The verb has no agreed etymology, but the context …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2201Ἐπῇρενexcited, incited, stirred up, urged on… tyrant Phalaris is told by Aelian, Varia Historia 2.4. The plot failed, but Phalaris displayed clemency by allowing the lovers to live in exile. Phalaris ruled Akragas c.570-554 BCE. See alpha 1812, alpha 2634, …Matched in noteshighshort
α1627Ἀμοργοί πόλεως ὄλεθροςsqueezers [are] a city's ruin… of Aeschylus, Dictyulci or Net-Draggers, apparently had much the same plot.) "Squeezers" or "drainers" are explained by Photius (Lexicon alpha1233) and Eustathius on the Iliad, p. 838.54, as men who inflict outrages on the …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1492Δράκαυλοςdrakaulos; living with a snake… Pandrosus. For speculation on the role of Phineus in the plot of the play see the Loeb edition of the fragments (ed. H. Lloyd-Jones, 1996, pp.308-09). Some have suggested that it was a satyr-play.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1132Δῖνοςrotation… from the scholia there. [2] A dinos was a deep earthenware drinking-vessel wide at the top and running down to a point, thus resembling a vortex. Compare generally delta 1133. [3] See Clouds 265, …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1205ΔιοσημείαZeus-omen, Zeus-sign… that [phenomenon] is called dioshmi/a". Some natural phenomena, such as earthquakes, thunders and storms, were held by the Athenians to be bad omens, so that they would interrupt an assembly and suspend a deliberation …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2225Κώθωνkothon; Kothon… Carthage. The original actually says that the Romans heaped up earthen ramparts before the gates and slung these inflammable subjects onto them, together with pitch, thus setting fire to several towers. [5] After 'sulphur' …Matched in noteshighshort

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