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1947
Ἄναλτον
unfillable, saltless
Homer and
Cratinus
[use this word] to mean insatiable, but Dinarchus [uses it] to mean without salt.
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2153
Ἀνδρακάδα
man by man
[Accusative of] a)ndraka/s. [Meaning] one man at a time, separately.
Cratinus
in Herdsmen [sc. uses the word]. Thucydides calls [this] the same and [its] opposite. Alternatively a)ndraka/s [means] in groups of ten men.
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2819
Ἄξιος λαβεῖν ὁ μισθός
the wage [is] worth taking
… worthy, so that [one should] take it." It is in
Cratinus.
Homer was the first to use this figure: "for you shall be easier to slay, with that man dead." And elsewhere: "it is …
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1504
Δραπέτης κλῆρος
runaway lot
… is] "in Drapetides" ["Runaway Women"] in the feminine form in
Cratinus.
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471
Χρή
it is necessary
… xrh=|s [means] you may need, and [sc. so does] de/h|.
Cratinus
in Laws [writes]: "for now indeed the laws of our men are at your service to do what ever is necessary." And xrei/h …
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282
Γλαὺξ ἵπταται
an owl is flying
… arise merely out of a parody of Iliad 14.291 in
Cratinus
fr. 315 Kock = 352 K.-A.; see LSJ s.v.
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