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4339
Ἀτελῆ
cost-less (ones)
[Meaning ones] without expense [a)da/pana]; as
polutelh=
["with great cost"] [means]
poluda/pana
["with great expense"].
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253
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
… 22.300; cf. Apion (de glossis Hom., fr. 74.214.16, but with
poluki/nhton),
and, with taxu/s for eu)ki/nhtos, Hesychius alpha2020, Eustathius on Odyssey 10.2 and many Homeric scholia (see Mette under *sx). Modern dictionaries such as …
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Κρίμνον
barley-meal, barley-corn
… feeding on white barley." Also [sc. attested is the adjective]
polukrimnos,
[meaning] abounding in barley. And in the Epigrams: "the old man is self-sufficient when he has salt and two barley-corns." And Babrius [writes]: …
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979
Ἀκριβής
accurate, precise
… the last sentence. The difference between "inquisitive" (filopra/gmwn) and "curious"
(polupra/gmwn)
in Greek is not as apparent to the modern reader as the difference between the terms used here in English. Both Greek terms …
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2839
Ἄξυνος
unshared, friendless
Same entry in Hesychius (with an odd second gloss,
polu/cenos).
The headword adjective is otherwise unattested, and according to Latte is an error for a)/cenos. The gloss here is the headword at alpha 1039, …
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3069
Ἄπεστιν
is away
… here is probably Aconitum vulparia (wolfsbane) or A.lycotonum (northern wolfsbane)
(Polunin,
no. 208, p. 98; cf. Tutin, pp. 211-212).
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3431
Ἀπολύων
destroying
[1] Likewise in syntactical lexica. [2] A garbled quotation of Psalm 17.13-14 LXX. The commentary on it here is Theodoret's (PG 80, 969c, 972a). [3] i.e. reads a)p' o)li/gwn, "from few", in place of …
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183
Βαττολογία
battology, empty repetition
… mh\ battalogh/shte w(/sper oi( e)qnikoi/, dokou=sin ga\r o(/ti e)n th=|
polulogi/a|
au)tw=n ei)sakousqh/sontai)."
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490
Βωμολόχος
altar-ambusher
… appear as "or who takes pleasure in ill-timed foolish loquaciousness,
polulogi/ais
flua/rois, i.e. acting the altar-ambusher." [2] Agathias [alpha 112], Histories p.26.24-25 Keydell (1.19 Niebuhr). This work is a continuation of Procopius (pi 2479) …
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1004
Διήκει
came through, extended
… model (as Adler notes) is Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 305-6
(polu\
ga\r, w)= ge/ron, to\ so\n o)/noma dih/kei pa/ntas).
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1251
Διώροφον
two-storey
… word is compared to such similar adjectives as a)nw/rofos, triw/rofos,
poluw/rofos,
o(mw/rofos; 241.3.
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2801
Ἐπολυώρησας
you treated with great care
… similar entry in other lexica. The headword is aorist of
poluwre/w
(cf. pi 1991), second person singular. It is quoted from Psalm 11.9 LXX.
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399
Χορηγία
expenditure; supplies
… the quotation with the neuter noun as follows: kai\ xorh/gion
*polu/bios.
See also chi 395, the last lines of which Küster in his edition transposed to the end of this entry.
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