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48 entries for attention, pause for reflection, observation

γ18Γαλαξίαςgalaxy, the Milky Way… meaning significantly from the rather opaque statement found here: "a reflection of the light of the stars that are not being shined on by the sun." This reading is confirmed by reflections of the …Matched in noteshighshort
ν544ΝῶμαNomaOtherwise unattested as such (though Adler draws attention to nu 557, and 'Norma' in ps-Zonaras).Matched in noteshighshort
ν548Νώμησιςwielding… only other attested instance of it, and in another sense ('observation'), see Plato, Cratylus 411D (web address 1). For nwma/w with the sense "observe," see nu 550.Matched in noteshighshort
α3437Ἀπομηνίσαςhaving rejected in wrath, having ceased from wrathSame entry in other lexica. A reflection (as Dindorf first realised) of scholiastic comment on Homer, Iliad 2.772, where the headword participle attracted these two differing glosses.Matched in noteshighshort
δ117Δαιμόνιος ὁρμήdivine impulse… phrase, unattested outside lexicography in this form, is perhaps a reflection of daimoni/h tis gi/netai o(rmh/ in Herodotus 7.18.3 (Artabanus' vision). [1] Likewise, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon.Matched in noteshighshort
η250Ἠλιτενὴς πέτραlofty rock… quoted from somewhere but cannot be identified. Adler (apparatus) draws attention to its mistaken attribution to Callimachus' Hecale (as fr. 133 Kapp) but has no alternative suggestion to make.Matched in noteshighshort
α3243Ἀπνευστίwithout breathing, without stopping for breath… 18.308 (a)pneustei/), referring to Aeschines stringing words together without a pause (web address 1); also Plato, Symposium 185D; etc.etc. See also alpha 1687, epsilon 1537, kappa 365, mu 1279, sigma 728.Matched in noteshighshort
κ668Κατανδρίζεσθαιto fight manfully against… favorite in all forms). Theodoridis on Photius s.v. draws particular attention to Cyril's Commentary on Isaiah 5.5 (PG 70.1368a).Matched in noteshighshort
β194Βαῦνοςfurnace… is given in the Etymologicum Magnum 187.38. [3] This extra observation is missing, Adler reports, from some manuscripts.Matched in noteshighshort
α865Ἀκηλίδωτονspotless… outside lexicography.) The point of this addendum is to draw attention to the form -o/teros rather than -w/teros.Matched in noteshighshort
α1181Ἄληκοςof AlexAdler draws attention (by a simple "cf.") to the suspiciously similar entry alpha 1195: A)/lhc: o)/noma to/pou, where Gaisford had suggested emendation to o)/noma potamou=. It is obviously possible that a river and a …Matched in noteshighshort
α3159Ἀπήμαρτενmissed… original vocalic r; it is attested only here.) Adler draws attention to Hesychius' entry on a)ph/mbrote (quoted, according to Latte ad loc., from Homer, Iliad 15.521), likewise glossed with a)pe/tuxen. See also alpha 4550, …Matched in noteshighshort
κ339Κἀπιδώσειν μοι δοκῶ τὸ χρῆμα μᾶλλονand it seems to me the matter will increase further… moi dokw= ("I think that I..."). The context is the reflection of the chorus of old men on the women's outrageous and offensive behavior.Matched in noteshighshort
χ366Χοάσπειον ὕδωρChoaspeian water… one in question here, since the headword phrase is a reflection of Herodotus' statement (1.188: web address 1) that the Kings of Persia drink their water from no other river. [2] Not otherwise attested …Matched in noteshighshort
ν440Νίφειit snows… [2] Homer, Iliad 3.222 (web address 1). Adler footnotes Bernhardy's observation that this pertains to nu 437, q.v. [3] nu 294. There are instances of this participle in (e.g.) Plutarch's Lives.Matched in noteshighshort
κ29Καθαγίσωlet me make hagios… Greek Religion (Oxford [Blackwell] 1985) 270-1. The scholiast's glosses draw attention to the fact that a regular way of making an offering hagios was to burn it up (holocaust); here the joke comes with …Matched in noteshighshort
ε1490Ἐντροπαλιζόμενοςturning around… Iliad 6.496 (web address 3), and this engenders similar lexicographical attention (e.g. Apollonius, Homeric Lexicon 69.22; Hesychius epsilon3407). cf. generally epsilon 1486.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1047Διισθμήσανταhaving di-isthmusized… verb is unique to this passage (and attracted some lexicographical attention); cf., nevertheless, delta 1048 (and with a different preverb, upsilon 299).Matched in noteshighshort
κ2592Κυβείαdice-playing… entry in Photius (Lexicon kappa1142 Theodoridis), where the editor draws attention to the conjunction of the present headword and glossing word in the New Testament (Ephesians 4.14). Kybeia applied in antiquity both to dicing …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2023Κομψευριπικῶςboasteuripically… [2] Aelian fr. 157 Domingo-Forasté (154 Hercher). Adler notes the observation of Perizonius [Jakob Voorbroek, 1651–1715] that this sentence refers to a different (missing) headword. [3] Aristophanes, Wasps 1317 (web address 2); it contains …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2679Ἐπιτείχισμαassault-fort… of this neuter noun in Demosthenes 18.71, and also drawing attention to a related one in the same speech: see note below. See also epsilon 2677, epsilon 2678. [1] So the transmitted text, with …Matched in noteshighshort
β302Βιῶνταιthey would press hard… is skeptical about whether this fragment is genuinely Polybian, drawing attention (ibid.) to the divergent account of the Roman entry into Carthage at Polybius 36.7.5 (web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort
μ440Μεθύουσανdrenched, steeped… Find another extract from this epigram at delta 1636. [3] Observation also made in the syntactical lexicon edited by Cramer (see Bibliography). There is no good classical precedent for this, other than Alexis fr. …Matched in noteshighshort
ο47Ὁδόςroad… Lysias fr. 237 Sauppe (now 291 Carey OCT). The further observation there, reproduced here, probably arises from the curious use of a)risfale/'... ou)do/s with a smooth breathing at Homer, Odyssey 17.196. This unparallelled use …Matched in noteshighshort
α1332Ἄλοπονunscutched… 'unscutched' flax-stalk (as scholiasts noted) is the penis, awaiting the attention of a woman who "wishes to go home and entice her husband into sexual congress by arousing him" (J. Henderson, The Maculate Muse …Matched in noteshighshort
α2812Ἀξιόμαχοςbattle-worthy, well-matched… cf. alpha 1585 note), when the latter appeals for a pause in the Goths' siege of the city; cf. Kaldellis (412). Totila reminds Pelagius that, complying with a Roman request not to burden the …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2644Κυκλήσωμενlet us wheel… headword is nekrou/s ('corpses'). Perhaps the gloss arises from the reflection that 'wheeling' corpses would involve 'hitching' dray animals to wagons. It may also come from a misreading of a different verb, a)na/comen ('take …Matched in noteshighshort
ε1507Ἐν χρῷ κεκαρμένοςshorn [close] to skin… Courtesans 12.5 -- though Theodoridis on Photius, Lexicon epsilon1069 draws attention to the accusative plural version in Xenophon, Hellenica 1.7.8. [2] Quotation unidentifiable. [3] cf. epsilon 1508.Matched in noteshighshort
ε3781Εὐτυχεῖsucceeds… in its usage 'mark you', "with a proverb or general reflection [...] to point the applicability of a universal truth to the special matter in hand" (J.D. Denniston, The Greek Particles, 2nd. corr. edn., …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2588Κυβελίοις[in] Kybelian [rites]; [in] Cybelian [rites]… in this *Kubeli/ois form, but, as Adler notes, Toup drew attention to the (unique) instance of *Kubelei/ois in Synesius, In Praise of Baldness PG 66.1204d. The words for Cybele, the Phrygian and Roman Great …Matched in noteshighshort

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