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η127Ἠερόειςmistycf. scholion on Homer, Iliad 15.191 (*)ai+/dhs d' e)/laxe zo/fon h)ero/enta "Hades received the misty realm"), as well as other lexica. See also eta 126.Matched in noteshighshort
ι198ἹερῷsacredDative singular of i(ero/s, with same or similar glossing in other lexica; quoted from Homer, Iliad 17.464. cf. generally iota 197, iota 202.Matched in noteshighshort
αι214ΑἰνέαςAineas, Aeneas… this is intended to be the name of the Trojan hero (OCD(4) s.v.), it is usually spelled Aineias in the Iliad (and cf. generally alphaiota 215). Nevertheless, for 'Aineas' see, apparently, Iliad 13.541; Sophocles …Matched in noteshighshort
α4160ἈσκανίαAskania, Ascania… des frühgriechischen Epos I (fasc.8) 1403-04). In the Aeneid the hero's son is named Ascanius. The name is probably Thraco-Phrygian.Matched in noteshighshort
α562Ἀερόενairy, cloudy, murky… a writer using the Doric dialect. (The epic form is h)ero/en; cf. eta 126.) In extant Greek the only possibility is Telestes [tau 265] fr. 1c.2 (= Page, PMG 805 = Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 14.617A …Matched in noteshighshort
ν133Νέεσθαιto go, to return… called Nasyata (the "two saviors"). Nestor's name would designate the hero who brings his people home safely. See further Frame (1978) 197; also Frame (2009) at web address 2.Matched in noteshighshort
δ210ΔελφοίDelphi, Delphoi… then snatched babies from 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 …Matched in noteshighshort
γ22ΓαλάτειαGalateia, Galatea… for the putative connection between Galateia and Galas, the eponymous hero of the region. [3] Not a very common one, but see for instance Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 11.1009 (on a rock-cut inscription from Messenia, …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1288Κελαινώπανblack-faced.… 553-54. The note refers to the play, not to the hero of the play.Matched in noteshighshort
α1904Ἀνακλῖναιto push back, to turn back… infinitive of a)nakli/nw. [1] Homer, Iliad 5.751, with scholion. [2] Herodotos [not Photius' 'Herodianos'!] 5.16.4. [3] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 26 Habrich.Matched in noteshighshort
γ73Γαῦλοςparasite, stooge, merchant-ship, bucket, pail… Odyssey 9.223, and to Aristophanes, Birds 598, and glosses on Herodotus 3.136.1 and 6.119.3. [1] Herodotos 6.17, on Dionysios of Phokaia (web address 2). [2] cf. mu 2. [3] Greek Anthology 6.35.5 (Leonidas of …Matched in noteshighshort
κ731Καταπροΐξεταιwill escape unpunishedFrom a gloss on Herodotus 3.156.3 (where the headword appears, in a phrase quoted at the end of kappa 730), also in Etymologicum Magnum 689.1, partly from Orion [Author, Myth] 133.24; cf. a scholion …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2630ἘπίστιοςguestFrom glosses on Herodotus 1.35.3 (web address 1), where the word appears; cf. the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 6.265.Matched in noteshighshort
η151Ἤθεαabodes, hauntsFrom glosses on this word (neuter plural) in Herodotus 1.157.1 (see web address 1). Similarly in other lexica, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon, and the scholia to Homer, Iliad 6.511.Matched in noteshighshort
η583ἩσίοδοςHesiod… 5th cent. BC on (Xenophanes in Gellius, Attic Nights 3.11.2; Herodotus 2.53; Ephorus FGrH 60 F101; etc.): Homer's priority was carefully argued by Aristarchus, and generally accepted in later antiquity. Hesiod's absolute date is …Matched in noteshighmedium
α1531Ἀμβολάδηνbubbling up… headword adverb occurs (in a simile of melting pig-fat). [2] Herodotus 4.181.4 (of a flow of water): web address 1.Matched in noteshighshort
α2224Ἀνέδραμενshot up… Iliad 18.56, where the headword occurs: web address 1. [1] Herodotus 1.66.1 (which actually has the plural, of the early Spartans): web address 2.Matched in noteshighshort
ε2629Ἐπίστιονship-shed, ship-slip… LSJ s.v. This definition of it comes from glosses on Herodotus -- see next note -- and there is something similar in Hesychius (epsilon5253). [2] An abridgment of Herodotus 5.72.1, where however epistia has …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2146Κόσμοςorder… 3.1, where a participle cognate with the headword occurs. [2] Herodotus 9.65.1 (web address 1) -- about Plataea, see pi 1700.Matched in noteshighshort
α2408Ἀνηκούστησενignored… headword occurs, of Apollo defying Zeus). [3] Quotation unidentifiable. [4] Herodotus 6.14.2 (web address 1 below).Matched in noteshighshort
ε188Ἐγχριμφθεῖσαcoming close… (where the equivalent masculine occurs). [2] From a gloss on Herodotus 2.60.2, where in fact the participle e)gxri/myantes occurs.Matched in noteshighshort
ε2355Ἐπικάρσιονangled, crosswise… plural occurs (web address 1). [2] From a gloss on Herodotus 7.36.1, where he does indeed use the word (of Xerxes spanning the Hellespont with a bridge of ships laid together thus: web address …Matched in noteshighshort
δ76Δάσασθαιto divide out, distribute… the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 3.66 (where dassa/menoi occurs). [2] Herodotus 7.121.2, with the aorist participle dasa/menos. See generally LSJ s.v. date/omai, II, where this passage is cited for this sense of simply dividing; …Matched in noteshighshort
α2497Ἀνθέρικεςbeards… where the genitive plural occurs. [2] Similarly in Hesychius [3] Herodotus 4.190 (on the portable houses of the Nasamones). [4] See generally LSJ s.v. antherikos.Matched in noteshighshort
ε1255ἜνερθενbelowAdverb, mainly epic and poetic (also in Herodotus); same glossing in other lexica. cf. nu 255.Matched in noteshighshort
ι245Ἰθὺstraight… where the masculine i)qu/s occurs. [2] Dareios on Oroites in Herodotus 3.127.1 (web address 1); cf. omicroniota 37.Matched in noteshighshort
ε898Ἐλῶνdriving… So far the entry is equivalent to a gloss on Herodotos 7.33 (see next note). Homer uses the same form (e)lw=n) as 1st/3rd imperfect indicative, and the scholium referred to by Adler for this …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3780Εὔτυκταwell-made [things], well-wrought [things][1] From a gloss on Herodotus 1.119.3 (web address 1), where the adjective is variously transmitted as eu)/tukta, as here, and eu)/tuka: "but when Harpagus' son came, Astyages cut his throat and tore him …Matched in noteshighshort
α549Ἀελπτέοντεςhaving no hope… 7.310, where a scholiast glossed it with ou)k e)lpi/zontes. [2] Herodotus 7.168.2, on the Corcyrean rejection of the Aegean Greeks' request for help against the Persian invasion: web address 1.Matched in noteshighshort
ι197Ἱεροφώνωνsacred-voiced… as transmitted, i(erofw/nwn; as Dindorf first appreciated, it should be h)erofw/nwn "sounding through the air, loud-voiced" = an epithet of heralds in Homer, Iliad 18.505 (web address 1); cf. the scholia there.Matched in noteshighshort

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