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α4350Ἄτηdestruction, Destruction… [4] A Christian gloss here obtrudes. [5] An approximation of Sophocles, Electra 233-235 (web address 4); line 234, here the corrupt mh/thr w(s h(/tis pikth/, should be ma/thr w(sei/ tis pista/. [6] Sophocles, Ajax …Matched in noteshighshort
α651Ἀηδών καὶ ἀηδοῦςnightingale, songstress… a nightingale with misshapen wings enfolding a tiny body'. [2] Sophocles, Ajax 629-634 (web address 1 below), with comment from the scholia there. [3] cf. omicron 828. [4] Sophocles, Electra 147-9 (web address 2, …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1504Δραπέτης κλῆροςrunaway lot… in the (slightly abridged) quotation describing the courage of Ajax: 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 …

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Ἄτη

destruction, Destruction

[Meaning] harm. Homer [writes]: "immediately he seized Destruction by her shining-tressed head." "[She] who walks upon the heads of men." But a)/th [sc. can also mean] the devil, the adversary. Sophocles [writes]: "but…

Ἄτη· ἡ βλάβη. Ὅμηρος· αὐτίκα δ' εἷλ' Ἄτην κεφαλῆς λιπαροπλοκάμοιο. ἀπὸ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ κεφαλῆς εἷλε τὴν Ἄτην· ἣ κατ' ἀνδρῶν κράατα βαίνει. Ἄτη δὲ ὁ διάβολος, ὁ ἀντικείμενος. Σοφοκλῆς·…

trade and manufacture5

trade and manufacture5

science and technology2

science and technology2

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Massimo Forconi1

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ε1027Ἔμπληκτοιcapricious, impulsive… plural of this adjective (cf. epsilon 1026), presumably quoted from Sophocles: see n.3 below. [2] Homer, Odyssey 20.132 (web address 1), with the related adverb e)mplh/gdhn. [3] Sophocles, Ajax 1358 (web address 2), with …Matched in noteshighshort

α550Ἄελπτονbeyond expectation, unexpected, unhoped-for… quotation given, is neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective. [1] Sophocles, Ajax 648-649 (web address 1); quoted again, more fully, at pi 1281. [2] Same gloss in Apollonius the Sophist; cf. Hesychius. See also …Matched in noteshighshort

α606Ἀείalways… alpha 607. [1] Homer, Iliad 13.517 (web address 1). [2] Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1583-1584 (web address 2), with comment from the scholia there.Matched in noteshighshort

α904Ἀκμήmoment, point, still… elsewhere. [1] Isocrates 2.33. [2] Hyperides fr. 116 Jensen. [3] Sophocles, Philoctetes 12-14 (web address 1 below), with scholion. [4] Greek Anthology 6.252.1, 3-4 (Antiphilus), on the gift of a quince, preserved in winter, …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1428Ἀλύεινto be beside oneself, to be overwhelmedSee also alpha 1427. [1] Homer, Odyssey 18.332. [2] Sophocles, Electra 135. [3] Agathias, Histories 1.10 (p.33 Niebuhr); again (slightly differently) at alpha 1575. His initial assault (553 CE, during the Gothic War of …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1795Ἄναup… 18.178 (web address 1). Same material in other lexica. [2] Sophocles, Ajax 194 (web address 2), with scholion; cf. epsilon 265. [3] Example in Homer, Iliad 3.351 (of Zeus): web address 3.Matched in noteshighshort

α2652Ἀντιάσαςhaving approached, having faced, having met… epigram at epsilon 265, iota 336, and iota 755. [3] Sophocles, Electra 1009-10 (web address 1 below).Matched in noteshighshort

α2786Ἀνύπαρκτονnon-existent… the singular anthropos, "man". See web address 1. [2] In Sophocles, Ajax 125-6 (on man as an empty shadow: see web address 2 and epsiloniota 46), the scholia on which have supplied the material …Matched in noteshighmedium

α2819Ἄξιος λαβεῖν ὁ μισθόςthe wage [is] worth taking… 1 below). [3] Homer, Iliad 12.63 (web address 2). [4] "Sophocles" is a mistake (also in the Synagoge); this is Euripides, Medea 319-320. See web address 3. [5] Zenobius 2.4. Phrynichus, Praeparatio sophistica fr. …Matched in noteshighmedium

α3031Ἀπεπλίξατοtrotted off, strode off… also pi 1076, pi 1771, pi 1779, pi 1780. [2] Sophocles fr. 596 Pearson (of the coils of serpents). [3] Homer, Odyssey 6.318 (web address 2 below). [4] i.e. the pelvis.Matched in noteshighshort

α3114Ἄπειyou will go awaySophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 430-431: ou) pa/lin ... a)/pei; "won't you go away?" = "go away!" Indicative forms of a)pie/nai are used with present sense in Homer, but usually with future sense in Attic. See …Matched in noteshighshort

α3420ἈπολλώνιοςApollonios, Apollonius… *tuane/a. [5] Philostratos 1.13. Plato, Republic 329C in reference to Sophocles' "natural force" in "service of Aphrodite." [6] Or "more superbly." [7] In contrast to Pythagoras fleeing the political tribulations of Samos and Croton, …Matched in noteshighlong

α3860Ἄρρητονaccursed… entry will turn: a)/rrhtos, literally unspoken, and so unspeakable. [2] Sophocles, Ajax 214 (web address 1 below), with scholion. [3] An approximation of Julian, Oration 7 (210d Hertlein); cf. pi 1029. [4] Quotation unidentifiable.Matched in noteshighmedium

α4317Ἀτάλλωνfostering; skipping… nominative singular, of a)ta/llw. Similar material in other lexica. [1] Sophocles, Ajax 558-9 (web address 1 below); cf. kappa 2199. [2] cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 13.27, where a)/talle occurs (web address 2).Matched in noteshighshort

α4320Ἀτάρβητοςdauntless… 3.63, where the headword appears (web address 1 below). [2] Sophocles, Ajax 197 (web address 2), with scholion.Matched in noteshighshort

α4684Ἀχέωνgrieving[1] Sophocles, Electra 159 (web address 1 below). The scholia there provide the material here; cf. also the scholia to Homer, Iliad 2.694.Matched in noteshighshort

αι187Αἷμαblood… If this sentence is a quotation, it is unidentifiable. [3] Sophocles, Electra 1395.Matched in noteshighshort

δ119Δαίμωνgod, demi-god, spirit, fortune, genius… Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 6-7 (web address 1), with scholion. [3] Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 76 (web address 2), with scholion. [4] Homer, Odyssey 11.302. [5] Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 2.13; quoted again in part at …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε969Ἔμελλεwas likely to, was about to… there; similarly in ps.-Zonaras; and cf. generally mu 481. [2] Sophocles, Ajax 925, with comment from the scholia there. The line continues as follows (926-7): "[You were likely, you were likely, o suffering one,] …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1067Ἐμφανέςclear, light, visibleSophocles, Ajax 753-4, with scholion; cf. under epsiloniota 142. [1] Homer, Iliad 8.486.Matched in noteshighshort

ε2655Ἐπισχώνholding back… as quoted from Homer, Iliad 9.489; cf. next note. [1] Sophocles, Ajax 845-849 (web address 1), in the scholia to which the initial gloss here is also attested. See also delta 1292, alphaiota 274.Matched in noteshighshort

ε3580ΕὐμενίδεςEumenides… the scholia to Homer, Iliad 9.454; cf. epsilon 2994. [2] Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 39-42, preceded here by material from the scholia to line 42 there. (Philemon = fr. 217 Kock, now 180 Kassel-Austin.) …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε2807Ἐποποῖepopoi (in hoopoe-ese)… or pastiche of tragic laments (cf. its later use at Sophocles, Philoctetes 743, 790). See also iota 56. Modern texts read the same phrase twice: a)ttatai\ a)ttatai/. The prefix para- is used in Byzantine …Matched in noteshighlong

α832Ἀκερδὴς χάριςunprofitable rewardThis phrase occurs only at Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1484, here quoted. The two glosses come, respectively, from Photius, Lexicon alpha726 Theodoridis (= Phrynichus, Praeparatio sophistica fr. 144), and from the scholia to the …Matched in noteshighshort

αι247Αἰόλη νύξsparkling night, swift-circling night, ever-turning night… or similarly in other lexica, and cf. the scholia to Sophocles, Trachiniae 94, where the headword phrase occurs. (See further below.) Some take it to mean either "the ever-turning (or swift-circling) night" or "darkening …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1399Δορύξενοςspear-friend… zeta 122. [2] (sc. in Homer, Iliad 6.119ff.) Scholion on Sophocles, Electra 46 (web address 1); cf. scholion on Lucian, Phalaris 2.1. [3] Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 631-3 (web address 2), with scholion.Matched in noteshighshort

ε2582Ἐπίσκοπονreaching the goalSophocles, Ajax 975-6 (web address 1), with scholion. For the headword, here, accusative singular, see also epsilon 2581. [1] cf. scholion on Homer, Iliad 22.255, where the headword occurs in the nominative plural (web …Matched in noteshighshort

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