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3656
Εὐπολείδιος
Eupoleidios, Eupolidius
… such. (Perhaps an error for, and misunderstanding of, the adjective
eupolideios,
'pertaining to [the comic poet]
Eupolis'
(epsilon 3657), in Dionysius of Halicarnassus and elsewhere: see LSJ s.v.)
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2296
Ἀνεπίπληκτος
unrebukable, beyond criticism
[Meaning someone] whom nobody rebukes as a sinner.
Eupolis
[sc. uses the word].
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3227
Ἁπλήγιος
single-garmented
With rough breathing, [meaning] simple. And
Eupolis
in Cities [writes]: "he is not a busybody but single-garmented." Also [sc. attested is the related noun] a(plhgi/s, a garment of moderate size. In Anagyros Aristophanes [writes]: …
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Ἀγῆλαι
to celebrate, to glorify
[Meaning] to honor a god with celebrations. Thus
Eupolis
in Demes [writes]: "now we too should dedicate to these the twin woolly wreaths and approach in celebration. Hail everyone, we welcome [you]!" Aristophanes in …
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521
Ἀδραμύτειον
Adramyteion
Thus [writes]
Eupolis.
But also [sc. attested is] Adramytenos; and Thucydides [writes] Atramytteion.
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1052
Ἀλλὰ γάρ
but for all that
Instead of "but".
Eupolis
[sc. uses the idiom]. "But for all that, despondent men never yet set up a trophy." The proverb [is used] in reference to those who because of despondency are unable …
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1446
Ἀλφάνει
brings in, yields, fetches [a price]
… when the herald told me: this one's fetching a price."
Eupolis
in Taxiarchs [writes]: "won't one of the archers hurry and announce her, [to see] if she'll fetch a price." And the Poet [writes]: …
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1785
Ἀμφορεαφόρους
amphora-bearers, amphora-carriers
… a tasting-cup, and then hire yourself out as an amphora-bearer."
Eupolis
in Catamite [writes]: "and we go about and [he is] carrying a tribe [as] amphora." An amphoreus, then, [is a] vessel, measure, jar. …
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1808
Ἀναβλυστωνῆσαι
to gush forth
[Meaning] to spout up.
Eupolis
in Demes [sc. uses the word]. The comic poets do everything like this (?)in jest. Also [sc. attested is] a)nablustwnh=sai [in the sense of] to sprout forth.
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1844
Ἀναγχιππεῖν
to be forced to ride a horse
Meaning to serve in the cavalry under compulsion.
Eupolis
[sc. uses the word].
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2058
Ἀναρρύει
draws back the head
Meaning [he/she/it] sacrifices and slaughters [sc. 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 …
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2122
Ἀναφλασμόν
masturbation
[Meaning] Aphrodisiac pleasures.
Eupolis
in Autolycus [sc. uses the word]. And [the related verb] a)nafla=n [is] what they used to say for relieving the penis.
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2234
Ἀνεκάς
upwards
… what they say for up, and a)ne/kaqen [is] from above.
Eupolis
in Autolycus [writes]: "and you, disgusting, lifted up your leg." Crates in Heroes [writes]: "[bring up] your neck from the earth, looking up …
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2282
Ἀνεῴγεισαν
they have been opened
… door." In Thessalian Girl: "and he opened the little jar."
Eupolis
in Cities: "me, I never opened [it] for mortals." And Pherecrates in Frivolous Men: "for nobody welcomed [me], or even opened the door …
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2434
Ἀνήρρησεν
took himself off, went quite away
… scarcely took themselves off, we worn-out old men are nothing."
Eupolis
in Cities [sc. says this].
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3332
Ἀποκαθεύδουσιν
they sleep away
Meaning they sleep apart [a)pokoitou=sin].
Eupolis
[sc. uses this word]. That is, a wife is separated from her husband and avoiding [him].
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3468
Ἀποπάτημα
turd, shit
[Meaning] the same thing [as] dung.
Eupolis
in Golden Race [writes]: "for what is that man? A turd [and] a fox." Cratinus in Runaway Slaves [writes]: "and when I found Kerkyon shitting on the …
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3672
Ἀπώμοτον
abjured
… also impossible. "Why is the deed abjured for the Athenians?"
Eupolis
in the Cities [sc. writes this]. Also [note that] a)pw/moton does not come from w)mo/ths ["cruelty"], and [nor does] e)co/mnusqai ["to abjure"].
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3789
Ἀργύρειος σταυρός Ἀργυρίδιον
silver cross
… a)rguri/dion ["a bit of silver"], [used] as we [use it].
Eupolis
in Demes [writes]: "me, I carried away a bit of silver". But a)rgu/rion [is what] they call the small coin, as Aristophanes [shows] …
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3974
Ἁρμογή
arrangement
As we [use this word].
Eupolis
in Goats [writes]: "I myself sought this arrangement long ago."
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144
Βασιλεὺς μέγας
Great King
… a tyrant, and [others do the same with] Dionysios; and
Eupolis
calls Peisistratos a king. And kings [are also called] tyrants.
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173
Βαστάσας
having raised up
Meaning having approved as fit.
Eupolis
[writes]: "come on now, do you want to hear the composition of an ode or something in the ancient mode? You will say both. But I, after listening, …
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756
Διασκευαζόμενα
items being furnished
Eupolis,
an Athenian, a comic poet, wrote [of someone] furnishing such-and-such items. Also [sc. attested is] to furnish, meaning to provide. Perhaps.
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3449
Εὖ ἔχειν στόμα
to hold a mouth well
[Meaning] to speak words of good omen. So
Eupolis
[sc. uses the phrase].
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425
Χωλός
crippled, lame
… is applied] both to a foot and to a hand.
Eupolis
[writes]: "because you [are] really crippled in the hand." And the Attic[-speakers use the word] kulloi/ ["deformed"] for the feet and hands alike. …
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471
Χρή
it is necessary
… the subjunctive, is perispomenon; it means [the same as] de/h|.
Eupolis
in Goats [writes]: "I will pay the wage, whatever may be necessary." But xrh=n with the nu is past and perispomenon, [meaning] it …
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1313
Ἀλογίου δίκη
prosecution for lack of accounting
… Hesychius s.v. suggests that the source (or prompt) might be
Eupolis
fr. 349 Kock, now 377 K.-A.: kai\ ga\r ai)sxro\n a)logi/ou 'st' o)flei=n, "for it is shameful to be convicted of lack of accounting". …
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2633
Ἀντερώμενος
loving in return
The headword participle, as Pollux 3.72 points out, occurs in
Eupolis
(fr. 398 Kock, now 428 K.-A.).
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336
Βληχὴ
bleating
… [Plutus] 293; see web address 3. Cf. epsilon 29. [3]
Eupolis
fr. 103 Kock (now 112 K.-A.), from a scholion to Aristophanes, Clouds 1001. The quotation is fuller at tau 1135; cf. also upsilon …
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374
Βομβοῦσιν
they bumble
… 241; and see generally Kassel-Austin, PCG V p. 395, on
Eupolis
fr. 179.
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