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- δ366Δεισαλέαdungish (ones), slimy (ones)[1] Neuter plural(s). The headword occurs in Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus 4.55.5. [2] See already delta 365, where its watery consistency is to the fore.
- κ2099Κοροκόσμιαmaidens' ornaments… Photius kappa973, where Theodoridis regards the headword as quoted from Clement of Alexandria, Paedagogus 2.12.121.2 (cf. the scholia there).
- α4055ἈρτώριοςArtorios, Artorius… but for another Artorios see Josephus, Jewish War 6.188; and Clement of Alexandria mentions a writer, author of a treatise On Longevity, with this name.
- β8ΒαβοῦςBabo's, Baubo's… perhaps identical with the Baubo mentioned in Eleusinian contexts by Clement of Alexandria, etc. (e.g. Protrepticus 2.20; cf. Mylonas 1962: 221-224). A Baubo, who may or may not be the same as Dinarchus's Baubo, …
- μ948Μηναγύρτηςmonthly collector… (according to Adler); and more fully in a scholion to Clement of Alexandria. See also mu 947. For Rhea see generally rho 83.
- κ174Κακόχαρτονdelighting in evil… evidently quoted from somewhere else; extant instances include ones in Clement of Alexandria and Gregory of Nazianzus.
- δ1479ΔωσιάδηςDosiades… poet a century later. [1] So in the transmitted versions (Clement of Alexandria, Eusebius) of FGrH 458 F7.
- μ170Μαντοσυνῶνof divinations… from Empedocles (fr. 112 Diels & Kranz, as preserved in Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 6.3.30.3).
- ι635ἼσιςIsis… Oracles (ed. Geffcken) 5.484; and cf., for something very similar, Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus 4.50.3.
- λ240Λελειουργημέναsmooth-worked [things]… somewhere. The participle occurs in the masculine nominative plural in Clement of Alexandria, Paedagogos 3.3.15.4, referring to men who undergo depilatory procedures.
- ε3168Ἐς ὀψιγόνουςto late-born (persons)… not independently attested in this precise form, but one in Clement of Alexandria, Eclogae propheticae 27.3, comes close: ei)s tou\s o)yigo/nous. For its noun, and a comparable gloss, cf. omicron 1078.
- ν99Ναὶ μήνyes indeed… becomes frequent in later poetry (Nicander, Oppian) and prose (especially Clement of Alexandria).
- κ1327Κενόσπουδοςzealous pursuit of frivolities… Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Diogenes Laertius, the emperor Marcus Aurelius, and Clement of Alexandria. [2] Used, among others, by Cicero, Letters to Atticus 9.1.1 (web address 1).
- μ1422Μυούμενοςbeing initiated… though Latte connects the corresponding entry in Hesychius (mu1880) to Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus 2.14, where a scholium glosses the plural of the headword (muou/menoi) with the first of the glosses used here.
- δ473ΔημώDemo[1] Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus p.16.5 Staehlin; see already beta 195. In both entries, however, the Suda mss distort these names (from Eleusinian mythology): 'Demo' is Deo, i.e. Demeter (delta 483), and 'Bauo' is …
- η617Ἡταίρηκενhas acted licentiously… quoted from somewhere: apparently (to judge from the scholia there) Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus 4.61.3, though one might otherwise have suggested Aeschines 1.160. [2] Polybius 12.13.1 (web address 1); quoted more fully at delta …
- μ308Μαχλῶντεςacting wantonly… a present participle -- but in other cases -- in Clement of Alexandria, e.g. Paedagogus 3.3.21: "fathers often unwittingly have sex with a child acting as a prostitute or daughters acting wantonly, unaware of …
- κ2407Κρητίζεινto Cretanise, to play the Cretan, to speak like a Cretan… is attributed to the Cretan Epimenides (fr. 1 Diehls-Kranz) by Clement of Alexandria, cf. Epistle to Titus 1.12 (web address 2).
- μ94Μαλακόςdelicate, soft, mild… the cause in the strict sense or “the perfect cause” (Clement of Alexandra, Stromateis 8.9.33; see also Cicero, On fate 41-42, quoting the Stoic theory of causation): 'that which is able to produce an …
- κ2489Κρωβύλοςtop-knot… 1); cf. scholia ad loc., and to Xenophon, Anabasis 5.4.13, Clement of Alexandria 220.12. See also kappa 2488 (q.v. for further references and links), epsilon 1257, tau 377. [3] For this sentence, absent from …
- η544ἩρώδηςHerodes, Herod, Herod the Great… by citing the seventh book of the lost Hypotyposes of Clement of Alexandria. The accuser of James "was so moved at seeing him testify as to confess that he also was himself a Christian. …
- δ1189Διοπομπεῖσθαιto escort [evil] away… in Etymologicum Gudianum 147.54, with the gloss pe/myis, "mission"; cf. Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 7.6.33 th=i diopomph/sei tw=n kakw=n. For the meaning see Hesychius alpha6304 a)podiopompei=sqai: a)postre/fesqai, to\n a)potro/paion e)kpe/mpesqai makra/n, a)pokaqai/resqai, "to escort …
- ε3864Ἐφέσια γράμματαEphesian letters… Pausanias the Atticist, *)Attikw=n o)noma/twn sunagwgh/ epsilon85, and Diogenianus (4.78). Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 5.8.45.2ff., and more briefly Hesychius epsilon7401 give the six words which purportedly comprised the canonical incantation (askion kataskion lix tetrax …