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Δυσγάργαλις
skittish, ticklish
… in Photius, Lexicon delta804, and Etymologicum Genuinum s.v. (cf. Etymologicum
Magnum
291.47). For the etymological expansion of the gloss cf. generally gamma 62, gamma 63 (and further in n.2 below). [1] An adjective even …
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303
Χιλή
fodder
… Hesychius, Lexicum Ambrosianum 247 (according to Adler), Etymologicum Genuinum, Etymologicum
Magnum
811.47. [1] Xenophon, Anabasis 4.5.25 (web address 1 below). [2] Herodotus 4.140.3 (web address 2). The text of Herodotus reads sfete/rhs for the …
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4248
Ἀστράβη
mule, mule's saddle
… Synagoge (codex B alpha2268, and Photius (Lexicon alpha3017); cf. Etymologicum
Magnum
158.50. [4] Glossed o)nhla/ths "donkey-driver" in Synagoge alpha1015 and Photius, Lexicon alpha3016. Cf. omicron 368. [5] A continuation of the material referred to, …
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Αἰόλος
undulating, wavelike, advancing in a winding or rolling fashion, agile in turning side to side; multicoloured, discoloured, black or chestnut with white markings; easily moved, changeable, wily, quick-witted, liable to metamorphosis, disturbed in mind; whirling; self-generating in movement, ever-turning; lively, flashing, shimmering
… 286 col. 1.9; Liber 1; on Odyssey 20.27; cf. Etymologicum
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37.3 and the exceptional scholion B to Iliad 22.509, eu)/strofoi kai\ poiki/loi). He correctly took a)/ella from the same root of rolling or …
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Διεσμιλευμένον
polished-off
= Synagoge delta267, Photius delta552 Theodoridis, Etymologicum
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273.53. The headword is perfect middle/passive participle, neuter nominative/accusative or masculine accusative singular, of diasmileu/w; literally 'polish off with a chisel'. [1] The pertinence of this …
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1161
Διόμεια
Diomeia
… episode, interpreting it as a divine omen. Cf. also Etymologicum
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s.v. *kuno/sarges. [3] The text implies (by a standard use of the genitive case) that Diomos was a son of Herakles. But the …
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1586
Δυρράχιον
Dyrrachion, Dyrrachium
… after po/lis, in Addenda in Etymologicum Gudianum and in Etymologicum
Magnum
= Aelius Herodianus et ps.-Herodianus, *peri\ o)rqografi/as (A. Lentz, Grammatici Graeci), through the Etymologicum Gudianum. On Epidamnus/Dyrrachium -- present-day Durazzo in Albania -- …
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456
Ἔκλαγξαν
they made a sharp noise
… (where it describes the sharp sound of arrows). cf. Etymologicum
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516.30, and see Hesychius epsilon1469; a sound compared to the cry of an eagle, according to the additional Hesychian gloss a)etou= tro/pon e)bo/hsan. …
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459
Ἐκλεκτός
chosen, selected
… 2437, and at Etymologicum Gudianum 358.2ff. De Stefani and Etymologicum
Magnum
269.9ff.; cf. also Etymologicum
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569.22, Anecdota Oxoniensia 1.113.22. The form e)/klektos occurs as a proper name in Cassius Dio and Herodian; as …
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861
Ἐλινύειν
to rest
… in mss VM; see also under kappa 2740. Compare Etymologicum
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330.57, where again the transmitted strateu/ein has been emended to straggeu/ein; and see further, next note. [2] This phrase contains present participles in …
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Ἑλκεσίπεπλοι
robe-dragging
… is found in Hesychius (epsilon2131), Lexica Segueriana 216.17 Bachmann, Etymologicum
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334 and 74, and Etymologicum Genuinum alpha559, and the scholia to Homer loc.cit., though none seems to be the direct source for the …
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1461
Ἔντερον
intestine
… is also offered in entries on e)/gkata ('innards') in Etymologicum
Magnum
310.9 and Etymologicum Gudianum 394.19. [2] Another etymology, as if e)/nteron were a combination of words for 'within' (e)nto/s) and 'flow' (r(ei=n). Also …
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2257
Ἐπιβύσας
having stopped up
… also quoted in Photius s.v. kro/khn nh/qein le/gousin and Etymologicum
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s.vv. nh=ma, para/buston. [2] Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 379 (web address 2), with scholia; also quoted in Etymologicum
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Ἐπὶ ξυροῦ
on a razor
… 10.173 (web address 1), a passage cited by the Etymologicum
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in its entry on e)pi\ curou= (see n. 2 below). See also xi 162. [1] This gloss is shared by Hesychius epsilon5023, which …
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Ἐπιστροφάδην
every which way
… Synagoge epsilon744; Photius, Lexicon epsilon1732; cf. Etymologicum Genuinum and Etymologicum
Magnum
365.3-5. Less similarly Apollonius Sophistes, Homeric Lexicon 74.17; Hesychius epsilon5261. The headword is an adverb, initially Homeric, related to epsilon 2644 and epsilon …
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Ἐρωήσας
forcing back
… fr. 258 Pfeiffer, referring to the Marathonian Bull; cf. Etymologicum
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s.v. e)rwh/. [3] Homer, Iliad 1.303(= Odyssey 16.441; web address 2 and web address 3); cf. Hesychius and Etymologicum Gudianum s.v. e)rwh/sei and …
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3252
Ἐσχατιά
frontier
… Photius, Lexicon epsilon2048; and cf. Hesychius epsilon6453 and 6454, Etymologicum
Magnum
384.27-8. [2] Not in the preserved literature, and not registered by LSJ. Adler reports no manuscript variants for h( eu)te/leia, but she does …
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Ἤγαλλεν
used to honour
… eta248, used also by Photius, Lexicon eta14 Theodoridis, and Etymologicum
Magnum
418.5. The headword verb is extracted from the quotation given. [1] Even though we cannot consider this entry a derivation from the Lexicon …
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303
Κάνδυλος
kandulos, kandylos
… [2] Very similar entries in Etymologicum Gudianum 297.22 and Etymologicum
Magnum
488.54 (s.v. kandu/lh). The second part is unintelligible in all three versions, but in different ways: Etymologicum Gudianum has "and sour-sauce qroiko\n food", …
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Κηλόνειον
swipe, swing-beam
… ps.-Zonaras, Gennadius Scholarius' Grammar, the Etymologicum Gudianum and the Etymologicum
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In ps.-Zonaras: "But khlo/neion is a crane: Spelled with a short (omicron) and a diphthong (ei). ... a piece of wood tilting backwards …
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Κίβησις
bag, pouch, wallet
… (Hesychius s.v. xlido/s, ps.-Zonaras s.v. a)skoph/ra, Etymologicum Gudianum and Etymologicum
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s.v. ph/ra, alpha 4178). All other lexica glossing ki/bisis ~ ki/bhsis likewise hedge their bets and gloss it as "chest or pouch" (John …
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Κιγκλίζει
wags one's tail
… (Herodian, Schematismi Homerici 114 and Hesychius give both, the Etymologicum
Magnum
just "tempt"). Ps.-Zonaras and the Etymologicum
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also give "safeguard", deriving the verb instead from kigkli/s "lattice gate" (kappa 1582). Outside the lexica, …
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224
Χειᾷ
in a hole
… the A and D scholia on that line, Hesychius, Etymologicum
Magnum
809.50, and (according to Adler) Lexicum Ambrosianum 175; and further, next note. [1] This sentence = scholium A to Homer, Iliad 22.93, whence …
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Ἀάσχετος
irresistible
… to gloss the neuter form of the headword at Etymologicum
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1.32.
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Ἀβάκησαν
they kept quiet
… to this entry are Photius, Lexicon alpha22 Theodoridis, and Etymologicum
Magnum
2.30-31. Compare also Apollonius Sophistes, Homeric Lexicon 2.16; Hesychius alpha54. The glosses offered here and elsewhere probably represent semantic extrapolation from the Homeric …
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Ἀβαρνίς
Abarnis
… Rhodius, Argonautica 1.932 (repeated in more legible form in Etymologicum
Magnum
2.11-28) provides an etymological explanation of the origin of the name in Aphrodite's refusal (a)parnh/sasqai) to recognize her offspring Priapos, who was born …
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Ἄβδηρα
Abdera
… 'the sea' is unintelligible. [2] Similarly glossed in the Etymologicum
Magnum
and the Lexicon Ambrosianum. An "Abderite" could also signify someone generically stupid: see LSJ s.v. *)abdhri/ths (web address 1 below). [3] These six …
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Ἀβλεμέως
fecklessly, heedlessly
… Kaibel); it refers there to intemperate drinking. See also Etymologicum
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3.24 and other lexica.
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104
Ἄβυσσον
abyss
… frequently, it has the sense "brood over." [3] cf. Etymologicum
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4.44. These are principal parts of the verb bu/w, which means "to stuff," followed by buso/s, which does not exist according to LSJ. …
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164
Ἄγγαρος
angaros, courier
… alpha 162, alpha 163, and alpha 165. [1] cf. Etymologicum
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7.24. [2] Nicolaus of Damascus FGrH 90 F4 (vol. IIA p. 333), with an explanatory gloss drawn from the context of the quotation; …
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