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1447
Ἀλφεσίβοια
oxen-producing
… plural) in Homer, Iliad 18.593, of virgin girls; they are
"oxen-producing"
in the sense of being likely to attract suitors who bring
oxen
as presents. See generally LSJ s.v. Alphesiboia is also a proper …
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3419
Ἀπολλώνιος
Apollonios, Apollonius
… col. ii. See further R. Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship
(Oxford
1968) 154.
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3202
Ἔσται
will be
Similar material, according to Adler, in Anecdota
Oxoniensia
1.136.6 and 1.175.6 (the latter giving rise to entries in the Etymologicum Gudianum and, post-Suda, the Etymologicum Magnum). Compare also epsilon 3126. Only three forms for …
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2807
Ἐποποῖ
epopoi (in hoopoe-ese)
… all the examples are of mimic words and shouts with
oxytone
accents on the last syllable. Has a copyist erroneously restored the Canonical accentuation on words that Suda correctly listed as exceptions to the …
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1670
Ἑξέτει
six-year
… is attested as barytone (accented on the next-to-last syllable) or
oxytone
(accented on the last syllable). Grammarians discuss this variation in compounds of e)/tos "year." Some say that it is a difference of dialect, …
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691
Ἀΐσσουσιν
they dart
… wording. See F.W. Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius, iii
(Oxford
1979) 662-3. [3] Cato the Elder (kappa 1113). [4] Aemilianus. [5] A reference to Homer, Odyssey 10.494f.: "to him [Teiresias] alone Persephone granted …
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1296
Ἀλκτῆρες
protectors
… See further H.W. Parke & D.E.W. Wormell, The Delphic Oracle
(Oxford
1956) no.327; J. Fontenrose, The Delphic Oracle: its responses and operations with a catalogue of responses (Berkeley 1978) 297; Aelian, Historical Miscellany, edited …
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1989
Ἀναξιμένης
Anaximenes
… For discussion of it see M.A. Flower, Theopompus of Chios
(Oxford
1994) 21-22. [3] [theta 172] Theopompus.
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2236
Ἀνεκήκιεν
gushed forth
… the scholia to Homer, Iliad 13.705, where a)nakhki/ei occurs (of
oxen
sweating): see web address 1.
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2954
Ἀπαίδευτοι
uneducated, untrained
… Melite, see generally J.K. Davies, Athenian Propertied Families 600-300 BC
(Oxford
1971) 422. For Lais (or Nais?) see lambda 40, nu 16, and chi 190. For Circe see kappa 1662.
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3215
Ἀπίων
Apion
Fl. C1 AD. See generally RE Apion(3); NP Apion; OCD4 Apion; FGrH 616. P.Oxy. 5202 (edited with commentary by A. Benaissa) is a copy of an honorific inscription for him, including a detailed c.v./eulogy. …
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4261
Ἀστυάνασσα
Astyanassa
… collected in F.W. Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius, ii
(Oxford
1967) 356-7.
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4298
Ἀσφόδελος
asphodel
… the noun (as the headword) is proparoxytone, but this adjective
oxytone.
The "asphodel meadow" was supposedly haunted by the shades of dead heroes; cf. Homer Odyssey 11.539 and 24.13 (web address 1 and web …
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4447
Αὐλός
aulos, pipe
… like an oboe. See generally M.L. West, Ancient Greek Music
(Oxford
1992) 81-109. [3] Adler notes (but does not follow) Kuster's deletion of the words "and again". [4] Greek Anthology 6.92.1 (Philip), the goldsmith …
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1313
Δμώς
prison-of-war, slave (taken in war)
… For its feminine counterpart see delta 1312. [2] Accented thus
(oxytone),
this is genitive singular of the headword; dmw=os (properispomenon) would be an alternative form of the nominative.
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366
Ἑκατομβαιών
Hekatombaion, Hecatombaeum
Abridged from Harpokration s.v., citing Hyperides fr.237 Jensen. The first month of the Athenian year, which began in midsummer. [1] Literally, 'hundred-ox' offerings (though LSJ s.v. notes variation, as early as Homer, in both …
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1578
Ἐξαίρετον
taken out, picked out
… the masculine nominative plural e)cai/retoi occurs (web address 1). The
oxytone
form should mean "removable," while the form with recessive accent should mean "having been removed." Both are neuter nominative/accusative singular or possibly masculine …
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ε
2066
Ἐπέπυστο
had perceived
… the gloss rather than the aorist. Adler also cites Anecdota
Oxoniensia
2.438.27. All are probably drawn (perhaps independently) from commentary to Homer, where the headword occurs both with the epsilon augment, as here (e.g. …
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3141
Ἐσθλά
[things] good [of their kind]
… Hesychius epsilon6206; Anecdota graeca, ed. L. Bachmann 1.237.5 and Anecdota
Oxoniensia
2.435.30. [1] For this proverb (from an unknown elegiac epigram similar to those in the collection ascribed to Theognis) see epsilon 2239, note …
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3674
Εὐράξ
on the blind side; on the open side
… lists it among adverbs ending in -x that have the
oxytone
(acute) accent on the final syllable (cf. epsilon 2807). It is used twice in Homer of a warrior who attacks unseen from the …
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152
Εἰμί
I am
… quoted from Homer, Iliad 1.186); and cf. Choeroboscus in Anecdota
Oxoniensia
2.210.32, 211.18. See also epsiloniota 158, eta 568, and cf. omicron 407. [2] This puzzling statement perhaps distinguishes ei)mi/ "be", where the present …
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