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William Hutton7
Jennifer Benedict5
Robert Dyer5
Ioannis Doukas4
Catharine Roth3
Antonella Ippolito2

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Anne Mahoney1
Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝1
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ε2428Ἐπικύλλωμαaftertwist… 361.8. The headword appears in quite a different sense in Eustathius' commentary on Homer, Odyssey 8.311, where it stands as a synonym for kataku/llwma. Eustathius says that both these forms are attested as Attic …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2807Ἐποποῖepopoi (in hoopoe-ese)… shouts and 'mimic words' (bird cries and onomatopoeic words: cf. Eustathius on Homer, Iliad 11.251 = vol.3.230.12) from the extant plays of Aristophanes, meticulously ordered and unusually well preserved, throws light on e.g. the …Matched in noteshighlong
αι253Αἰόλοςundulating, 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

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Ἐπικύλλωμα

aftertwist

[Meaning] the bit left over after the formation of breadloaves. For a ko/llic [is] a breadloaf. Whence also kollou/rion ['breadroll'] from kolobo/s ['gimpy'].

Ἐπικύλλωμα· τὸ μετὰ τὴν τῶν ἄρτων διάρτησιν περισσευόμενον· κόλλιξ γὰρ ὁ ἄρτος. ὅθεν καὶ κολλούριον, ἀπὸ τοῦ κολοβόν.

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… 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 LSJ assign these as the two primary meanings …

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ε1413Ἐνωπήcountenance, face… Herodian, *)iliakh\ prosw|di/a 3.2.95.4ff. The same explanation is offered by Eustathius in his Commentary on the Iliad 3.736.14 van der Valk; Etymologicum Gudianum 479.23 Sturz; Etymologicum Magnum 496.12; scholia bT on Homer, Iliad 15.320-321a; …Matched in noteshighshort

χ148Χαυλιόδωνtusked… below). [1] = Etymologium Genuinum, Etymologicum Magnum 807.37. See also Eustathius, Commentary on Homer's Odyssey 1872.33, Pausanius the Atticist fr. 283 (from Eustathius, Commentary on Homer's Iliad 854.13), Hesychius, and the scholia to Scutum …Matched in noteshighshort

α90ἈβροτάζωI miss (someone on the way)… Lexicon 3.1 (= Hesychius alpha205, and cf. Etymologicum Gudianum 3.25ff., Eustathius Commentary on Iliad 10.65), probably following Aristarchus, on Homer's plural.Matched in noteshighshort

α831Ἀκέωνwordless(ly), in silence, speechless, (?)attentive(ly)… the verb of healing, so scholia to Iliad 4.22, Hesychius, Eustathius 1902.47, but properly rejected as inapplicable to almost all occurrences of the word); (3) 'meekly, gently, peaceably' (Boisacq, rejecting de Saussure and citing …Matched in noteshighshort

α856Ἀκεῖσθαιto heal… 22.2; cf. alpha 851), but this was vigorously denied by Eustathius (1647.56), citing Aelius Dionysius. See alpha 851 for the important distinction between the masculine nouns for 'doctor' and 'tailor'. This verb has no …Matched in noteshighshort

α1261Ἀλιτόμηνοςuntimely-born… according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon; also mentioned by Eustathius. [2] This term, whether Doric (headword) or otherwise, was the word for a premature baby. First (as h)lito/mhnos) in Homer, Iliad 19.117-18; cf. …Matched in noteshighshort

α1290Ἀλκμανικὸν εἶδοςAlcmanic form… and this is from the scholia on the line (cf. Eustathius ad loc.). Alternatively known as the Alcmanic figure. For further examples see the scholia to Iliad 18.514, 20.138, Odyssey 10.513; Herodian, de figuris …Matched in noteshighshort

α1678Ἀμυνόμενοιrevenging themselves… entry in ps.-Zonaras; and cf. Aristophanes of Byzantium, cited by Eustathius in his Commentary on Homer's Iliad 2.70.22 van der Valk. The headword -- present middle/passive participle, masculine nominative plural -- is thus more …Matched in noteshighshort

α1817ἈναγαλλίςAnagallis… (scholion T to Iliad 18.483-606, scholion D to Iliad 18.490; Eustathius on Iliad 18.490).Matched in noteshighshort

α2178Ἀνδρόδομοςmen's apartment… has the genitive plural a)ndrodo/mwn glossed with trikli/nwn. See also Eustathius, Commentary on the Odyssey 1573.29 (commenting on Homer, Odyssey 7.122).Matched in noteshighshort

α2531Ἀνθρωπόλεθροςman-destroying… according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. Also used, by Eustathius and the Homeric scholiasts, of Polyphemus' island in the Odyssey.Matched in noteshighshort

αι90Αἴδυλοςshameful… (with different accentuation, and possibly different connotations) at alpha 680. Eustathius on Homer, Iliad 3.172 (where ai)doi=os occurs: see alphaiota 89) connects it with ai)dw=s and says it is used euphemistically. Otherwise known only …Matched in noteshighshort

αι246Αἰόλλειturns, variegates… long and useful discussion at Zetemata cod. Vat. 284col.1-286col.1.9) and Eustathius (his scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 729ff.) were perhaps overly impressed by the similarity of this rare verb to a)/ella ('hurricane, tornado': alpha 545); …Matched in noteshighshort

αι271Αἰπήεσσαlofty… quoted twice by Strabo (13.1.50, 13.3.1) as well as by Eustathius.Matched in noteshighshort

δ1104Δίκορσονtwo-headedcf. generally delta 1105 for a similar headword plus gloss. (Eustathius, in fact, has all four words together.) In the present instance too, it seems, the headword is neuter nominative/accusative, though here it might …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1347ΔολώνειαDoloneia, Dolonia… used in the scholia to Homer and by Aelian, Herodian, Eustathius and others for the "lay" of Dolon in Iliad book 10 (delta 1345); cf. e.g. Odysseia (Odyssey), Diomedeia, Giganteia, Heracleia. (Still commonly used …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1399Δορύξενοςspear-friendcf. iota 114. [1] Pausanias the Atticist fr. 282 (Eustathius I.405.46). See generally zeta 117, zeta 120, zeta 121, zeta 122. [2] (sc. in Homer, Iliad 6.119ff.) Scholion on Sophocles, Electra 46 (web address …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1605Δυσδιάλλακτονhard to reconcile… Basil of Caesarea. Also in Ammonius and Herennius, quoted by Eustathius, perhaps via Lexicon Gudianum, as adverbial form in -tws. The main meaning is always the one indicated in the present translation, in accordance …Matched in noteshighshort

ε774Ἔλεγοςelegy… of this material is unidentifiable, but it reappears (post-Suda) in Eustathius' commentary on Homer, Iliad 24.721. On Midas see generally mu 1036. His mother, according to late sources, was Kybele (kappa 2586).Matched in noteshighshort

ε854Ἑλικώτατον ὕδωρmost swirling water, very swirling water… cf. scholia to Homer, Iliad 1.98 (web address 1), and Eustathius's commentary on the same passage. As Pfeiffer notes, Salustii igitur ad Hecalam explanatio valde differt ab Homeri interpretibus. In favor of the latter …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1124Ἔναραspoils, trappings… also Hesychius epsilon2657, with the additional gloss la/fura [also in Eustathius, Commentary on the Iliad 1.189)] and epsilon2660. [2] Greek Anthology 6.163.6-7 (Meleager [Author, Myth]); cf. epsilon 1390, with the better reading e)nopa=s "of …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1490Ἐντροπαλιζόμενοςturning around… e.g. Iliad 17.109 (web address 2) and commentary thereto (e.g. Eustathius on Iliad 11.547). The feminine form e)ntropalizome/nh occurs at Iliad 6.496 (web address 3), and this engenders similar lexicographical attention (e.g. Apollonius, Homeric …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2221Ἐπιάλτηνnightmare… (and more briefly), in Moeris, Hesychius, and other lexica. Post-Suda, Eustathius cites it as from a rhetorical lexicon: Commentary on the Iliad, 561.16 and Commentary on the Odyssey, 1687.52. [1] cf. epsilon 3909, iota …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2257Ἐπιβύσαςhaving stopped up… bebusme/nos, bu/ousi. [1] Homer, Odyssey 4.134 (web address 1); see Eustathius ad loc.; also quoted in Photius s.v. kro/khn nh/qein le/gousin and Etymologicum Magnum s.vv. nh=ma, para/buston. [2] Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 379 (web address …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2500Ἐπίορκον ἀνώμοσενswore a false oath… reading known to early commentators (and rejected by them; cf. Eustathius ad loc.), and it is conceivable that this could be behind the Suda's erroneous reading. [1] A garbled paraphrase of comments from the …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2519Ἐπιπλώσαςhaving sailed upon… similar entries in other lexica (beginning with Hesychius epsilon5072); also Eustathius ad loc. [2] Homer, Iliad 6.291 (web address 2). [3] According to the scholia to the aforementioned Homeric lines, plw/s is produced by …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2670Ἐπιτετράφαταιthey are entrusted… plural, of e)pitre/pw, in what ancient authorities (Apollonius, Herodian 3.2.223, Eustathius ad loc.) identify as an Ionic form. The gloss is simply a more common periphrasis for the perfect middle. All attestations of this …Matched in noteshighshort

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