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1025
Ἀκρωλένιον
elbow
Same entry in ps.-Zonaras; and cf.
Pollux
2.140 for this sense of the neuter headword. (Xenophon, Cynegeticus 2.6 and 6.9 has another -- the outer part of a mesh net; cf.
Pollux
5.29).
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4229
Ἀστεμφέα
unshaken
… Page (vol. II, 358). It is described in detail by
Pollux
Onomasticon 5.32. Gow and Page observe (ibid.) that it is not at all clear what type of instruments the a)ntukth=res (here in the …
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1664
Δυσξύμβολα
(things) hard to deal with
… word in this form prior to the Suda are in
Pollux
5.150 and Artemidorus 4.56 (although LSJ reports a variant reading for this word, duscu/mblhta). In all the attestations of the word, the only …
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140
Χαρώνειος θύρα
Charon's door
… the dead, see chi 135. [1] (Repeated at nu 488.)
Pollux
(8.102) and Hesychius call it the Charonion. On the nomophylakion as the Athenian prison see L. O'Sullivan, "Philochorus,
Pollux,
and the nomophylakes of …
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296
Χιάζειν
to play the Chian
… is the import of this entry; it also occurs at
Pollux,
Onomasticon 4.65. The two sources attribute the origin of the Chian musical style to the musician Democritus of Chios (RE 5.140, a contemporary …
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342
Ἄγραφα ἀδικήματα
unwritten crimes
… crimes", a)/grafa dhmo/sia a)dikh/mata. Besides the present entry see, chiefly,
Pollux
8.51 and Lex. Rhet. Cant., s.v. eisangelia; and cf. Aristotle, Rhetoric 1375a15. Amongst modern scholars, Rhodes (below) accepts this while Hansen (below) 16-17 …
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409
Ἀγχιστίνδην
by closeness, by next-of-kin
… single-word adverb cognate with it is used of marriages by
Pollux
6.175. The two adverbs introduced as comparanda are formed, like the headword, with the suffix -indhn. Aristotle contrasts a)risti/ndhn ('by merit') and plouti/ndhn …
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1030
Ἀκρωτηριάζω
I amputate
… [1] Likewise Hesychius on the aorist participle a)krwthria/sas. [2] cf.
Pollux
1.12.
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1532
Ἀμβολὰς γῆ
thrown-up earth, raised earth
… the quotation given. [1] Xenophon, Cyropaedia 7.5.12 (web address 1).
Pollux
7.100 registers this phrase in Xenophon. [2] delta 22; and see also under iota 577 and omicroniota 66.
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1750
Ἀμφιορκία
amphiorkia, double-oath, reciprocal oath
… lexicography; cf. e.g. Hesychius s.v. ("amphiorkia: when litigants exchange oaths"),
Pollux
8.123 (jurors). [1] For apographe see alpha 3272, alpha 3273. [2] Malicious or blackmailing prosecution. See generally sigma 1330.
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1752
Ἀμφιπάτορες
of different fathers
… alpha1376 -- but the gloss misunderstands the term; see rather
Pollux
3.24 (different fathers, same mother). cf. alpha 1745 and alpha 1747.
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1783
Ἄμφοδον
by-way
… -- perhaps Aristophanes fr. 327 Kock (now 342 Kassel-Austin), in
Pollux
9.36. cf. alpha 383, kappa 2263, and see generally LSJ s.v.
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1897
Ἀνάκειον
Anakeion, Anaceum
… [2] On the Dioscuri or Anakes ("Lords"), i.e. Castor and
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see generally OCD(4) s.v. (p.466), and delta 1209.
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2042
Ἀναρᾶσθαι
to revoke a curse
Same entry in Photius; cf.
Pollux
5.130. [1] Callisthenes FGrH 124 F47.
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2080
Ἀνάστασις
destruction
… see alpha 2079. [1] So too in Photius; and cf.
Pollux
3.91. [2] As de Boor pointed out, the source appears, rather, to be Appian (Punica 106). For Polybius (36.16) see mu 245, and …
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2089
Ἀναστύψαι
to draw up
… Comica adespota fr. 81 Kock (now 766 Kassel-Austin), and generally
Pollux
2.176.
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2115
Ἀναυμαχίου
for anaumachion, for non-naval-fighting
… odd construction to\ o)/flhma a)naumaxi/ou. For the offense see also
Pollux
8.40, 42-43. [5] For a discussion of Andocides' treatment of atimia at 1.73-79 (Web address 1) see Hansen (1976) pp. 82-90.
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2365
Ἀνεχρήσαντο
they dispatched
Same or similar entry in other lexica, and cf. also
Pollux
9.153. [1] Thucydides 1.126.11 (web address 1 below). [2] An attempt at an etymological explanation of the verb. (It seems necessary to read …
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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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3498
Ἀπορρηθέν
prohibited
… aorist passive participle, neuter nominative/accusative singular, of the verb a)pei=pon.
Pollux
2.127 cites it, with this same gloss, as occurring in Demosthenes; the passage is Demosth. 33.21. [2] Third person singular, aorist subjunctive passive, …
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4254
Ἀστρατεία
non-campaigning
… also: Lysias 14.6-7; Andocides 1.74; Aeschines 3.175-176; Plato, Laws 943A-945B;
Pollux
6.151, 8.40. On this and other military offenses see chiefly Hamel (below).
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93
Αἰαιοί
brothers-in-law
… way, no attestations outside lexicography. For the glossing term see
Pollux
3.32, etc.
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312
Αἰρόπινον
airopinon
… or (neuter) noun, occurs in Aristophanes (fr. 480 Kock, in
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10.114). [1] ai)=ra: see alphaiota 278.
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161
Βασιλίνδα
king of the castle
This headword (cf. e.g.
Pollux
9.110) appears by mistake at beta 160, q.v. See rather kappa 2777 (end), where it is used of the game played by the young Cyrus -- later to be …
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549
Βροντή
thunder
… Aristophanes, Clouds 294 (cf. 292), where thunder is mentioned; cf.
Pollux
4.130.
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389
Γόργια
Gorgia, Gorgon-masks
Elsewhere (e.g. in
Pollux
10.167) Gorgeia. cf. mu 1250.
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418
Γραμματεύς
clerk, secretary
… already in gamma 417). See (?)Aristotle, Ath.Pol. 54.3-4; and cf.
Pollux
8.98 and Harpokration s.v.
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457
Γρῖφος
riddle, conundrum
… Soli (also known as Soleus), On Riddles (FHG II 31).
Pollux
6.19, from the same source, classifies it among "questions over the wine-cups" (zhth/mata kuli/keia) or "to test memory" (mnhmo/neia), and distinguishes it from …
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200
Δελέαστρα
bait-traps
… quoted here, very probably from Nicophon fr. 4 Kock/K.-A. (cf.
Pollux
10.156). cf. generally delta 197, delta 197, delta 198, delta 199.
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799
Διατοιχεῖ
rolls side-to-side
… 51 Kock, now 50 K.-A.), is preferred by Phrynichus and
Pollux
over a)natoixei=; see LSJ s.v. (web address 1). For the toichoi, literally walls, of a boat cf. e.g. Homer, Odyssey 12.420 and see …
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