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Ἡβός
humpbacked
… fact an error for u(bo/s: see upsilon 10. In the
Hippocratic
corpus -- see under next note -- this word occurs at Aphorisms 6.46. See also Theocritus, Idylls 5.43, and LSJ s.v. on both …
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1759
Ἀμφιρύτη
sea-girt
… Smith s.v. (935). On the great physician and medical writer
Hippocrates
of Cos, see iota 564.
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4705
Ἄχναι
foam, down
… There seems to be a double dose of confusion here.
Hippocrates
uses the word a)/xnh only in the sense of fine threads of lint; and indeed in the second of the Suda's two purported …
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464
Ἀδηνέως
unpremeditatedly, without malice
… attestations outside lexicography include one in Galen, apparently deriving from
Hippocrates,
and one (cited in LSJ s.v.) in an inscription from Chios. For the epic/poetic neuter plural dh/nea see LSJ s.v. (The Suda has …
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851
Ἀκέστας
healers
… and 'healing': Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.512 (and scholia thereto), Corpus
Hippocraticum,
De flatibus 1.8, Lycophron Alexandra 1050, some ecclesiastical writers, incl. St. Basil, and the poems of the Greek Anthology. Akestor is once used …
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978
Ἀκρησία
bad-mixture, ill-temperature; debility
… the Ionic dialect variant ought to be a)krhsi/h (as in
Hippocrates,
for LSJ's A); this a)krhsi/a is confined to lexicography.
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4170
Ἄσκησιν
practice, training
… the comic poet: see fr. 297 Kassel-Austin. [3] cf. Erotian,
Hippocratic
Vocabulary 152.7, and already alpha 740.
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246
Αἰόλλει
turns, variegates
… belongs to the medical verb ai)ola/omai, used only in the
Hippocratic
Corpus at De mulierum affectibus (On women’s disorders) 2.174b. The best-known use of the headword is the one cited above: Homer, Odyssey 20.27, …
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255
Αἰών
aion, eon, age, marrow
… the Creation to the general Resurrection. (v) spinal marrow (citing
Hippocrates).
[3] Psalm 89.8 LXX.
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397
Βορόν
gluttonous; appetite-inducing
… has become dative, ruining the sense. The quotation is from
Hippocrates,
De morbis popularibus 6.4.18.
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515
Διαγεγονότος
elapsed, gone through, surviving
… but is particularly important in medical literature -- starting from
Hippocrates,
and specially in Galen -- to indicate the different kinds of investigation necessary for a diagnosis. Nonetheless, in proffering a generic definition (which …
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843
Διὰ χρόνου
after a time
… in the medical field for its many useful qualities. In
Hippocrates,
first it is considered useful in gynaecologic aspects, but in De diaeta 54.36 he adds: *glh/xwn qermai/nei kai\ diaxwre/ei, “pennyroyal warms and is …
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957
Διεσκεδασμένον
dispersed, disseminated, scattered (?)
… In Platonis Parmenidem 71.15; Gregory of Nyssa, De virginitate 6.2;
Hippocrates,
De aeris aquis locis 8 and Epidemiae 4.1.14; Libanius, Epistles 1426.2. In none of these passages, is the gloss offered here appropriate. [2] …
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1029
Διθυραμβοδιδάσκαλοι
dithyramb-directors
… 200 PCG vol. 7, quoted with diagnosis by Galen, on
Hippocrates,
Aphorisms 7.322), with a pig's snout for a face (Anaxilas, fr. 13 PCG vol. 2), and for his case of diarrhoea. Lysias also …
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1392
Δόρπιστος
supper-time
… in Aristophanes. The -ist- form is extant once in the
Hippocratic
corpus; otherwise it is confined to lexicography. cf. generally delta 1390, delta 1393.
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1614
Δυσέμβολος
hard to enter
… Diodorus Siculus. (Nonetheless its earliest attestation is in medical language:
Hippocrates,
Fractures 38, writing about dislocations 'hard to reduce'.). In the nominative singular (as here) it is only attested prior to the Suda at …
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1631
Δυσηνίους
hard to bridle, hard to rein, refractory
… is normally used, as indicated, of unbroken horses, although in
Hippocrates
and Galen it can mean a state of affliction in human beings. Also, it is used in many authors in figurative senses (intractable, …
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513
Ἐκνεφίας
cloud-produced
… medical texts, is illustrated by Galen, Linguarum seu dictionum exoletarum
Hippocratis
explicatio, vol 19.96.5 Kuehn, where e)knefi/as o)/mbros is "the rain coming with sun" (evidently mentioned for its influence on human health: cf. Oribasius …
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771
Ἑλλέβορον
hellebore
… and Roman doctors: see e.g. Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 9.10.1;
Hippocrates,
Diseases of Women 2.126; Dioscorides 4.148 and 4. 162; see also Riddle 1992, p. 34. The plant has a complicated chemical composition of …
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860
Ἐλινύειν
to rest
… to a 'Tarantinos' (perhaps Heraclides of Taras/Tarentum, a commentator on
Hippocrates).
The word is frequently used in medical writers, including Galen, in the sense of therapeutic "rest". See also Hesychius epsilon2095, Etymologicum Gudianum epsilon457. …
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2718
Ἐπιτωθάζων
mocking, teasing
… is evidently quoted. Otherwise, except in a letter attributed to
Hippocrates
(Epistles 17 line 91), it is attested only from the second century CE onwards -- with a particular concentration in Appian -- and …
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3371
Εὐανθὴς γλῶσσα
flowery tongue
… literal sense -- "(sc. abnormally) bright tongue" -- in the
Hippocratic
Epidemiae 2.3.11. Nevertheless the present phrase, also in Photius (unglossed), is apparently figurative, at any rate to judge by the phrase (seemingly itself …
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3700
Εὐροώτερος
better-flowing
… in a medical sense ("with passages more open") in the
Hippocratic
corpus and elsewhere. See also epsilon 3701. The gloss suggests a confusion with derivatives of eu)ru/s (epsilon 3728 etc.); cf. again under epsilon …
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3904
Ἐφήμερος
ephemeral, for a day
… to fevers which recur daily, generally translated 'quotidian.' See e.g.
Hippocrates
Epidemics 1.6.
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63
Ἰατρός
doctor
… Aristotle's Topica 561.12-13. [4] Aristophanes, Clouds 332, with scholion. On
Hippocrates,
see iota 564. [5] From tau 582; and cf. gamma 277. [6] The Suda manuscripts have r(e/on (twice), but the noun in question …
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82
Ἴγδη
mortar
… alphaiota 155. "The form i)/gdh in Herodian the Grammarian 2.523,
Hippocrates
Mul. 1.103, Galen 14.130, Ps.-Democr.Alch. p.55 B. is probably incorrect": LSJ s.v. i)/gdis. cf. iota 83.
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117
Χαρίωνος
Charion's; of Charion
… case, evidently quoted from somewhere. 'Charion' is mentioned in the
Hippocratic
corpus (in a passage also quoted by Galen); however, in other such passages the name is Chairion.
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