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- α4539Αὐτῷ στεφάνῳcrown and all, garland and all[Meaning] with the crown itself. "So that each man, drunk, can take a torch and depart, crown and all."
- α1482Ἀμάμυξιςamamyxis… a kind of grape-cluster - though some [say] the vine [itself] is so called. The noun also occurs in Epicharmus and in Sappho.
- χ194Χελύνηlip[Meaning specifically] the upper lip. "A Median arrow planted itself in his upper lip." And elsewhere: "... man standing by man, biting his [sc. upper] lip in anger."
- χ517Χρηστῶςdecently, well… if it kept the ancient law and did not busy itself and bring on new constitutions.
- α4511Αὐτὸν κέκρουκας τὸν βατῆρα τῆς θύραςyou have hit the very threshold of the door… speaking truthfully; in effect, you have come to the truth itself.
- α2547Ἀνόδοντονtoothless… nominative in the quotation (below) but accusative as the headword itself. [1] Pherecrates fr. 74 Kock, now 79 K.-A.
- α2680Ἀντιλογιῶνdisputations… for this genitive plural (web address 1 below); the noun itself does occur in book 1, but in the accusative singular (1.31.4, 1.73.1). [2] Aristophanes, Clouds 321 (web address 2).
- α2885Ἁπαλοὶ θερμολουσίαις ἁβροὶ μαλθακευνίαιςsoft men in hot baths [and] delicate men in soft beds… mu 107.) Same entry in other lexica. The headword phrase itself is Comica adespota fr. 56 Kock, now 555 K.-A.; proverbial in the paroemiographers.
- α2855Ἀωρόλειοςunseasonably-smooth… other lexica; from Phrynichus, Praeparatio sophistica (fr. 295). The headword itself occurs in Cratinus fr. 10 Kock, now 11 K.-A. (genitive plural). [2] See omega 95.
- α2751Ἀντλίαbilge, bilge-water… ship]. "So I will seize and take away the bilge[-water] itself". From a metaphor of ships. For antlia is also said to be the efflux of a ship. And the Pisidian [writes]: "from those …
- α2058Ἀναρρύειdraws back the head… a sacrificial victim]. Eupolis [uses the word]. And the sacrifice [itself is an] epanarrhysis. Also [sc. attested is] Anarrhysis, [the] chief day of the Apatouria. [The] Apatouria is a festival among [the] Athenians which …
- α2897Ἅπανθ' ὅμοια καὶ Ῥοδῶπις ἡ καλήeverything similar even for Rhodopis the fair… and elsewhere; Phrynichus, Praeparatio sophistica fr. 233. The headword phrase itself is Comica adespota fr. 579 Kock, now 489 K.-A. [1] Again at pi 191 (with a gloss more closely related to her profession) …
- α4516Αὐτόπρεμνονuprooted, pulled up by the roots… has the masculine dative plural of the adjective; the headword itself is neuter nominative/accusative singular, evidently quoted from somewhere else. [2] Aristophanes, Frogs 903-4 (web address 1 below); see already alpha 1233; also epsilon …
- α2952Ἀπ' αἰγείρου θέα καὶ ἐπ' αἴγειρονview from the poplar and (view) at the poplar… again, albeit slightly differently, at alphaiota 35). The headword phrase itself goes back to C5-BCE Athens: Cratinus fr. 339 Kock, now 372 K.-A.
- α3032Ἀπεπόνουνthey finished work… alpha 399 note for related entries. Both the headword verb itself, a)popone/w, and other vocabulary here (see epsilon 2921) come from Aristophanic comedy. See also phi 743, chi 348.
- α1808Ἀναβλυστωνῆσαιto gush forth… this entry is also in Photius, where however the headword itself, an aorist infinitive, is not the Suda's a)nablustwnh=sai (repeated later in the entry) but a)nablusqwnh=sai. [1] Eupolis fr. 105 Kock, now 119 K.-A. …
- α2957Ἀπαιθριάζειis clearing awayBoth the headword itself (third person singular, present indicative active, of a)paiqria/zw) and the word contrasted with it (the corresponding form of sunne/fw) are drawn from the quotation given. Weather verbs are normally impersonal, …
- α1451Ἄλφιbarley-meal… now 201 K.-A. The phenomenon (more commonly known as apocope) itself, however, predates him: LSJ notes an instance of, precisely, a)/lfi in one of the Homeric Hymns. Chantraine s.v. supposes that a)/lfi was the …
- β61Βαλανάγραbolt-hook… and to Aristophanes, Birds 1159 (where bebala/nwtai occurs). The headword itself, balanagra, first appears in Herodotus (3.155).
- χ103Χάριενpleasant… an adverbial form of the adjective, to which the Suda itself attests (see chi 104). The Suda seems to be saying that the neuter adjective is also proparoxytone. See LSJ s.v. IV at web …
- α1581Ἄμηταmilk-cake[1] The headword itself is in the accusative case (from the Aristophanic phrase about to be quoted); this is the nominative. [2] An approximation of Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 999 (web address 1). What follows …
- α1590Ἀμίδαchamberpot… scholia to Aristophanes, Wasps 807 (quoted below). Nevertheless, the headword itself is in the accusative case and might therefore be quoted from somewhere else -- perhaps Aristophanes, Wasps 935 (a passage quoted in the …
- α2345Ἄνευ ξύλου μὴ βαδίζωνnot walking without a stick… But in any case this whole Frogs song (706-17) declares itself to be about a bath-attendant called Kleigenes.
- α4544Αὐχμεῖς αἰσχρῶςyou are shamefully dirty… transmitted as the particle me/n, and omitted from the quotation itself.) [4] Here in the genitive case, evidently quoted from somewhere. [5] Again this must be a quotation.