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1502
Ἀμαρυγκεύς
Amarunkeus, Amarynkeus, Amarynceus
… Pyttios; helper of King Augeas of Elis against Heracles; see
Pausanias
5.1.11 (web address 1), and next note. [2] Amarynkeus' son Diores is named in this way in Homer, Iliad 6.622, a passage cited …
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210
Δελφοί
Delphi, Delphoi
… mothers in Argos until the Argive hero Coroebus killed her.
Pausanias
1.43.7-8 (web address 1) provides more background to the epigram's story and describes the tomb of Coroebus in the agora at Megara (mu …
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1406
Κέρκωπες
Kerkopes, Cercopes, Tailed-men
[1]
Pausanias
the Atticist kappa26, and similarly elsewhere (see the references at Photius, Lexicon kappa606 Theodoridis). For this nominative plural headword see already kappa 1405. [2] A fragment of hexameter poetry (Kinkel EGF p. …
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101
Ἄβυδος
Abudos, Abydos, Abydus
… and generally OCD(4) s.v. [2] = the first sentence of
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the Atticist alpha3 and Photius alpha63 Theodoridis; cf. also Zenobius 1.1, s.v. *)abudhno\n e)pifo/rhma (alpha 100), and Kassel-Austin, PCG III.2 p.376 on Aristophanes …
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1989
Ἀναξιμένης
Anaximenes
… 72. [1] [zeta 130] Zoilus. [2] This material comes from
Pausanias
6.18.2-6. For discussion of it see M.A. Flower, Theopompus of Chios (Oxford 1994) 21-22. [3] [theta 172] Theopompus.
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3985
Ἄρνη
Arne
… but the one the Suda means is unambiguous. According to
Pausanias
9.40.5 (web address 1), Arne was the original name of the settlement later (and better) known as Chaeroneia (chi 176), but Strabo 9.2.35 …
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4268
Ἀστύνοος
Astunoos, Astynoos, Astynous
… killed by Diomedes [Author, Myth] in Homer, Iliad 5.144; cf.
Pausanias
10.26.4.
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4299
Ἀσφόδελος
asphodel
cf. already alpha 4298. Same material in
Pausanias
the Atticist and other lexica. [1] Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 7.13.4. [2] Hesiod, Works and Days 41 (web address 1). [2] Homer, Odyssey 11.538 (web address …
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85
Αἰδῶ
respect, shame
… scholion on Homer, Iliad 2.262, and mu 825. [2] cf.
Pausanias
1.17.1 (web address 1).
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246
Αἰόλλει
turns, variegates
… of snake (sh/y), similar to the cerastes or horned viper.
Pausanias
8.4.7 tells us on the basis of autopsy that the seps was of a drab colour, changing to match its hole, and that …
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248
Αἰόλιος
Aeolius, Aiolios
… of Hippodameia (PW 1.1034), daughter of Oinomaos [Author, Myth]: see
Pausanias
6.21.11; scholion d to Pindar, Olympians 1.79(127); and a broken line of a papyrus fragment of the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women (Eoiai fr. …
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268
Αἴπεια
Aipeia
… of it with Thouria or Methone/Mothone (mu 1189), while in
Pausanias
4.34.5 it is Korone. See Graham Shipley, 'Messenia' in Hansen & Nielsen 540-568, at 552 and (twice) 555.
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344
Αἴσυμνος
Aisumnos, Aesymnus
… slain by Hector: Homer, Iliad 11.303. The heroized Megarian in
Pausanias
1.43.3 is presumably a descendant.
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1399
Δορύξενος
spear-friend
cf. 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 …
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1416
Δουλίχιος
Doulichios, Doulichion, Dolicha, Doliche, Dulichium
… given here is a mistake; it was Doulichion (Homer, Strabo,
Pausanias,
Stephanus of Byzantium), when not Dolicha/Doliche. NF adds: Doulichion in Homer seems to be a substantial island and (controversially; cf. Strabo 10.2.10, 14, …
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1504
Δραπέτης κλῆρος
runaway lot
… Sophocles, Ajax 1285-87 (web address 1). Late sources (Apollodorus 2.8.4;
Pausanias
4.3.3) tell of how Cresphontes (kappa 2377), Temenus and the sons of Aristodemus cast lots to divide the Peloponnese among themselves. The first …
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1569
Δύμας
Dymas
… (Herodotus 5.68.13), a certain Dymas (stem Dyman-; erroneously Dymant- at
Pausanias
7.17.6. and Lycophron, Alexandra 1388), son of Aigimios (Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Dymanes (240.12), quoting Ephorus; Hesiod fr.10(a).7; Alcman fr.19.8). [1] Homer, Iliad …
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879
Ἑλκεσίπεπλοι
robe-dragging
… cf. e(lkhsi/staxus with an eta in an oracle quoted by
Pausanias
(8.42.6, s.v.l.; also in Anthologia Graeca Appendix, Oracula 54.6).
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1002
Ἐμπεδοκλῆς
Empedokles, Empedocles
… incident "clearly invented as a background to Empedocles' promise to
Pausanias
that he will be able to check the force of harmful winds." Wright 1981: 12 and n. 53. For this material cf. alpha …
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3718
Εὐρύβατος
Eurybatos, Eurybatus
cf.
Pausanias
the Atticist epsilon83; Lexica Segueriana 257.13; Hesychius epsilon7129; Harpokration s.v. *eu)ru/baton. "Eurybatos" was a popular by-word for "scoundrel" since at least the time of Demosthenes (On the Crown 18.24: web address 1) …
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481
Ἥρας δὲ δεσμοὺς ὑπὸ υἱέος
Hera's bindings by (her) son
… state). [2] Pindar fr. 283 Maehler. For the legend, see
Pausanias
1.20.3 (cf. 3.17.3). See also note 3 below. [3] According to Libanius, Narration 7 (Foerster vol. 8, pp. 38-39), Hephaestus built a chair …
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596
Ἱρή
Hire
… Messenia; cf. Homer, Iliad 9.150 (web address 1); Strabo 8.4.5;
Pausanias
4.30.1 (Web address 2). The name means "Holy", and Homer also calls Troy *)/ilios i(rh/, "Holy Ilium" (Iliad 4.46, etc. [Web address 3]). …
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776
Ἴφιτος
Iphitos, Iphitus
… of the Olympic Games in (trad.) 776 BCE. See e.g.
Pausanias
5.4.5-6 and passim.
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1339
Κεντρηνεκέες
spurred-on
… the formula; it is frequently glossed, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon,
Pausanias
the Atticist, Hesychius, Orion [Author, Myth], the Etymologicum Magnum, and scholiasts. The wording of the present gloss (for the corresponding nominative singular) is …
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1805
Κλιμακόεσσαν
stepped, having steps
… epithet of Ithome (web address 1). This variant occurs in
Pausanias'
quotation of the Iliad passage, in Nonnus' Dionysiaca 18.56, and in the Etymologicum Magnum s.v. *iqw/mh.
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2301
Κώρυκος
leather sack
… lexica (see the references at Photius kappa1329 Theodoridis), deriving from
Pausanias
the Atticist (kappa62), and cf. also several Homeric scholia (e.g. to Odyssey 5.267). [2] boulgi/dion is a diminutive from Latin bulga, used e.g. …
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2660
Κυλλήνη
Kyllene, Cyllene
… There was also a Mt. Kyllene, part of Mt. Geronteon
(Pausanias
8.16.1), and an unlocated city in NW Turkey. [2] Homer, Odyssey 24.1 and elsewhere.
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57
Χαλκώδων
Chalkodon, Chalcodon
… Trojan War. Chalcodon himself was killed in Thebes by Amphitryon.
Pausanias
8.15.6 (web address 1), etc.
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415
Χοροιτύπος
choral-beating, choral-dancing
… epic/poetic adjective, occurring in a fragment of Pindar quoted by
Pausanias
(3.25.2), as well as several times in Nonnus' Dionysiaca.
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