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3402
Ἀπόλογος Ἀλκίνου
Alkino(o)s' story, Alkino(o)s' tale
… Plato, Republic 614B; Aristotle, Poetics 1455a2; Aristotle, Rhetoric 1417a13-14 ("the
tale
of Alkinos ... is reduced to sixty lines in the presence of Penelope [book 23]"). For Alkinoos see generally OCD(4) p.53, under 'Alcinous(1)'.
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230
Αἶνος
tale, story
… mu 1389. For Hesiod see Works and Days 202-12, the
tale
of the hawk and the nightingale. [5] Accented as in the headword; thus this coda is semi-repetitious.
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2807
Ἐποποῖ
epopoi (in hoopoe-ese)
… question Iris the Rainbow on her arrival on stage, he
talks
like the birds. The text of the entry follows the Canon for the accentuation of monosyllabic adverbs poi= poi=, but the repeated sound …
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Γάγγης
Ganges
The bulk of the entry, from "10 cubits
tall.."
on, is a quotation from Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 3.20.2-3, in a story about how the Ethiopians supposedly came to leave their original …
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4317
Ἀτάλλων
fostering; skipping
The headword, extracted from the quotation given, is present participle, masculine 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 …
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273
Αἰπόλος
herds of goats
… lexica. [2] LSJ s.v. cites an instance in Lysias (fr.25
Thalheim,
now 76 Carey OCT). Also used absolutely.
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553
Βροτολοιγός
mortal-bane
… *)/arhs te brotoloigo/s from Iliad 5.518. [2] Greek Anthology 6.91.5-6
(Thallus),
warriors dedicate battle gear to Ares; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 376-377) and (vol. II, 410).
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1504
Δραπέτης κλῆρος
runaway lot
… was simply limp and soggy). Teucer, in Sophocles' play, is
talking
of the lots that the Greek heroes cast in a helmet at Homer, Iliad 7.175ff. (web address 2), to choose one to fight …
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4
Ἐαδότα
having given pleasure, having pleased
… mu/qon in the Homeric phrase "he had told them a
tale
that had pleased them." On one point the entry is in error, for the form does not contain a dissolution but reflects the …
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2994
Ἐριννύς
Fury, Erinnys, Erinys
… scholia to Homer, Iliad 9.567. [2] Greek Anthology 7.188.5-6 (Antonius
Thallus);
cf. mu 1258, phi 800. On this epigram, wherein a young woman dies on her wedding day, see Gow and Page (vol. I, …
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3992
Ἐχέπωλος
Echepolos, Echepolus
… appears twice in Homer, Iliad: 4.458 (E. the son of
Thalysios),
23.296 (E. the son of Anchises, who really does have them).
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1438
Κευθμώνων
of hiding-places
Likewise or similarly in other lexica; see the references at Photius kappa633 Theodoridis (and kappa 1436). This particular genitive plural (already under alpha 425) is first attested in Synesius (Hymns 1.624) and Origen (Selecta …
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2776
Κῦρος
Kuros, Kyros, Cyrus
… he knew anything about' (De mag. ii. 12), Cyrus’s poetic
talent
was well respected, and Evagrius singles him out as one of the pre-eminent poets of the early fifth century (HE i.19; the 'Claudian' …
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191
Χελώνη μυιῶν
a tortoise [uncaring] of flies
… a blow from Odysseus. See theta 257.) [3] An apocryphal
tale
about the death of Aeschylus; from alphaiota 357.
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