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4192
Ἀσωπός
Asopos, Asopus
… and emptying into the strait of Euboia near Oropos. See
Pausanias
9.4.4 (web address 1). There was also a river of this name in the NE Peloponnese
(Pausanias
2.5.2-3; web address 2).
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1023
Ἀκροχειρίζεσθαι
to struggle at arms length
… from where the headword is evidently quoted. [3] Abbreviated from
Pausanias
6.4.1-3. The actual name of this "Akrokhersites" was Sostratos (of Sikyon); cf. sigma 866. Leontiskos has his own Suda entry at lambda 258, …
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1263
Ἀλίφειρα
Alipheira, Aliphira
… 1). Together with several other cities in the region (cf.
Pausanias
8.27.4, web address 2), Alipheira belonged to the Kynourian tribal state (T.H. Nielsen in Hansen & Nielsen 509-510 #266; cf. Walbank 531). A …
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1502
Ἀμαρυγκεύς
Amarunkeus, Amarynkeus, Amarynceus
… Pyttios; helper of King Augeas of Elis against Heracles; see
Pausanias
5.1.11 (web address 1), and next note. [2] Amarynkeus' son Diores is named in this way in Homer, Iliad 6.622, a passage cited …
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4669
Ἀχαΐα
Akhaia, Achaia, Achaea
… from the first few centuries CE (perhaps an epitome of
Pausanias
7.16.1-10), but the source is unidentifiable. [1] So the transmitted text, both here and again at mu 565; but the Roman conqueror of …
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1210
Διὸς κῴδιον
Zeus' ram-fleece
Same entry in Photius, Lexicon delta657 (=
Pausanias
the Atticist delta18); similar material elsewhere. cf. generally kappa 2216. [1] So DW; the translator prefers 'where' for this opening ou(=. [2] The transmitted text has …
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1586
Δυρράχιον
Dyrrachion, Dyrrachium
… Dyrrachion homonymously with the peninsula on which it is situated'.
Pausanias
6.10.8 (web address 2) records the coexistence of both names, arguing that in fact we have two different towns: Epidamnos the ancient one …
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420
Ἐκκεχιλωμένην
grassed-over
… similar glosses, but in the nominative, occur in previous lexica:
Pausanias
the Atticist epsilon23 Erbse; Hesychius epsilon1438 Latte). See further, next note. The word is unattested outside lexicography. cf. chi 303. [1] Hesychius has …
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749
Ἰτώνη
Itone
… is more usually applied to Athena; see LSJ s.v., and
Pausanias
9.34.1-5 (web address 1) on the sanctuary of Itonian Athena in western Boiotia (cf. Hesychius iota1102).
Pausanias
derives the epithet from Itonios, son …
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101
Ἄβυδος
Abudos, Abydos, Abydus
… and generally OCD(4) s.v. [2] = the first sentence of
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the Atticist alpha3 and Photius alpha63 Theodoridis; cf. also Zenobius 1.1, s.v. *)abudhno\n e)pifo/rhma (alpha 100), and Kassel-Austin, PCG III.2 p.376 on Aristophanes …
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257
Ἄγκυρα
Ankyra, Ancyra, Ankara
… about 125 miles south of the Black Sea. According to
Pausanias
(1.4), Ankyra was founded by Midas. Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Ankyra ( = Apollonius of Aphrodisias FGrH 740 F14) traces the name of …
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267
Ἀγλαοφῶν
Aglaophon
Pausanias
(10.27.4, see web address 1) quotes an epigram of Simonides, naming Aglaophon as the father of the painter Polygnotos. See also pi 1948.
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339
Ἄγρα
Agra
… Theodoridis), similar ones elsewhere. The toponym is more accurately, Agrae/Agrai:
Pausanias
1.19.6. The "Lesser Mysteries" were celebrated there each spring.
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774
Ἀκαδημία
Academy
… (= schol. Demosth. 24.114); cf. epsilon 338. See also (e.g.)
Pausanias
1.29.2, 1.30.1-3. [2] Aristophanes, Clouds 1005-1008; cf. alpha 3682, mu 1058, mu 1248.
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780
Ἀκακήσιον
Akakesion, Acacesium
In western Arcadia (Peloponnese, central Greece).
Pausanias
8.36.9-10 (web address 1 below) mentions both it and the city -- defunct by his day -- to which it had given its name; cf. Stephanus of …
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781
Ἀκάκητος
guileless; of Akakesion
… be not a)ka/khtos but *)akakh/sios. See alpha 780 and the
Pausanias
passage cited there, in which Hermes Akakesios is mentioned; and cf. LSJ s.v.
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791
Ἀκαμαντίς καὶ Ἀκάμας
Akamantis and Akamas, Acamantis and Acamas
Abbreviated from Harpokration s.v. Akamantis. [1] cf.
Pausanias,
Description of Greece 1.5.2. For Theseus see theta 364.
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858
Ἀκή
Ake, Acre
… confusion with the Arcadian city of that name mentioned by
Pausanias
in the wanderings of Orestes (8.34.2) and clearly in the neuter plural.
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1298
Ἀλκυονίδες ἡμέραι
Alcyon days, Halcyon days, kingfisher days
… basis of the present entry and those in lexica by
Pausanias
the Atticist, Photius, and others. [3] Demagoras fr. 3 FHG (4.378); Philochorus FGrH 328 F186. (For Philochorus see phi 441 and generally OCD(4) …
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1357
Ἁλουργά
sea-wrought
… purple dye produced along the Laconian coast, surpassed in quality--as
Pausanias
explains (3.21.6, web address 1)--only by that from shellfish harvested from the Phoenician sea. Gow and Page observe (vol. II, 289) that goddesses …
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1449
Ἀλφειός
Alpheios, Alpheus
… [1] Meaning: taking its name from. [2] cf. alpha 3821.
Pausanias
gives a more complete description of the river in 8.54.1-3 and the mythology behind it in 5.7.1-3 (web addresses 1 & 2). [3] …
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1534
Ἀμβούλιος
Amboulios, Ambulius
Epithet ("Counsellor") of Zeus, Athena and the Dioskouroi in Sparta:
Pausanias
3.13.6.
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1781
Ἀμφιφῶντες
double-lights
From
Pausanias
the Atticist alpha105. [1] Offered to Artemis Mounichia: see LSJ s.v. (web address 1). [2] FGrH 244 F152. See also alpha 2082.
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2371
Ἀνεῖλεν
prophesied, took up, took away, killed
… [4] Ephorus FGrH 70 F150 (quoted in Strabo 8.6.14) and
Pausanias
2.33.2. The text there has Kalaureian for Kalabrian. See web address 2, and kappa 188. [5] See note 1 above. [6] *)Anairei=n literally …
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2504
Ἄνθεια
Antheia, Flowery
At Argos [Myth, Place]
(Pausanias
2.22.1) and Miletos: see LSJ s.v.
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2676
Ἀντικυρίας σοι δεῖ
you are in need of hellebore
… of Antikyra (alpha 2675), where it grew abundantly (so e.g.
Pausanias
10.36.7). The gloss does not seem very cogent as it stands; one would have expected something about purging the bowels. Possibly exousia can …
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2973
Ἀπέδει
fell short of
… and elsewhere. [1] Similar glossing in Hesychius s.v. a)pode/ontes. [2]
Pausanias
8.49.3 (web address 1 below). For Philopoimen see generally phi 409.
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2981
Ἀπέδοξεν
it seemed good not, it was resolved not
… be quoted from somewhere: there are instances in Herodotus, Xenophon,
Pausanias
and Philostratus. Impersonal a)pe/docen is the opposite of e)/docen as a decision-making formula: see LSJ s.v. a)podokei=.
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3205
Ἀπιθής
inflexible, unyielding
… 9.2.36 calls a small polis situated in a plain, though
Pausanias
9.33.5 classified it as a mere 'village'. There was also, however, an Al(al)komenai on the island of Ithaka (Barrington Atlas map 54 grid …
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3785
Ἀργώ
Argo
… Fleece and brought back Medea. See Apollodorus 1.9.17-26; also e.g.
Pausanias
2.12.6 and 9.32.4. [1] Quoted from somewhere, such as Herodotus (who has 3 instances).
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