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- ε2257Ἐπιβύσαςhaving stopped up[Meaning] having filled full, having freighted. As Homer [says]: "stopped-up with adorned thread". Aristophanes in Wealth [writes]: "having stopped up the mouth [sic] of the orators with coins".
- ε2411Ἐπίκωποςto the hilt, through and through[Meaning] armed with a sword. Because the hilt (kw/ph) [is] the handle of the sword. Or meaning by ship, [kw/ph] being also a naval term ['oar-handle']. And Homer [says]: "for I do not have …
- ε2519Ἐπιπλώσαςhaving sailed upon[Meaning he] having floated on. Also [sc. attested is] e)piplw/s, in Homer. [It comes] from the [verb] ple/w, [Ionic] plw/w, [future], plw/sw, [aorist participle] plw/sas, by syncope plw/s, and [compound] e)piplw/s. It is indeclinable, …
- ε2714Ἐπίτονοςrope, stayAristophanes [says] "on a rope/stay". A joke [meaning] on a hide. And Homer [says]: "the back-stay had been flung".
- ε2834Ἐπ' ὠκεανοῖο ῥοάωνon ocean's streamsHomer [sc. uses the phrase]. Meaning as at ocean's streams. And elsewhere: "but come, shoot [an arrow] on Menelaus". Meaning at Menelaus.
- ε3064Ἐρωήσαςforcing backMeaning [he] bringing down, busting. "Forcing back the destructive horn". Callimachus [sc. writes this]. Aalso, "[your dark blood] will flow about [my] spear". Homer [sc. writes this].
- ε3236Ἔστυγενglowered[Meaning he/she/it] was gloomy. [The term arises] from the gloominess [stugno/ths] of the face. Homer [says]: "[he] glowered at hearing the tale".
- ε3277Ἔτεαyears[e)/tea means the same as] e)/th in Homer.
- ε3292Ἕτερονone thing, one of two thingsHomer [writes]: "[he] who hides one thing (e(/teron) in his mind and says something else (a)/llo)". Here it seems that there is a confusion about the two. For it should have been "says another", …
- ε3302Ἐτετρήχειhad been disturbed[Meaning he/she/it] had become rough.
- ε3305Ἔτειρενwas wearing out[Meaning he/she/it] subdued.
- ε3308Ἔτηςtownsman[Meaning] a citizen; from the [word] e)/qos ['custom']. Like [the word] ce/nos ['foreigner'], he who is outside [e)/cw] the community [e(no/ths], or from being outside [e)/cw ei)=nai].
- ε3322Ἔτισανthey paid[Meaning] they gave. Aelian [writes]: "in return for which the Phocians paid very heavy penalties."
- ε3535Εὐκηλήτειραsoother[Meaning] a rest-giver.
- ε3536Εὔκηλοςat ease[Meaning] quiet/peaceful.
- ε3537Εὐκλεέςglorious[Meaning something] held in honour.
- ε3585ΕὔμολποςEumolpus, Eumolpos[He was an] Eleusinian, that is to say Athenian, [he was] son of Musaeus the poet, and according to some, a pupil of Orpheus and an epic poet among those before Homer. He was …
- ε3793Εὐφημησμός Εὐφήμου στόμα φροντίδοςreligious silence"Mouth of religiously-silent thought", [meaning its] voice. For [the word] mouth [can also mean] the voice. Homer [writes]: "war's mouth". And Sophocles [writes]: "of a bronze-mouthed bell". The sense [is], they uttering the voice …
- ε3967ἜφριξαI bristled, I shivered[Meaning] I was set upright as regards the hairs [i.e. my hair(s) stood on end], I was compressed. Homer [writes]: "and the battle bristled". And Sophocles [writes]: "I shivered with passion, and I soared …
- ε3996ἜχετοςEchetus, EchetosA rough and hard tyrant. Homer [writes]: "I shall send you [...] to king Echetus, baneful to all men, who will cut off your nose and ears with pitiless bronze". And another [passage?]: "Festus …
- κ521Κατὰ δὲ φρόνιν ἤγαγε πολλήνhe brought back much prudence[Meaning] he hated, he thought little of [sc. the Trojans]. Homer [writes]: "he brought back much prudence".
- κ1946Κόλονdocked[Meaning something] empty, vain, curtailed. Homer [writes]: "he brandished all vainly a docked spear in the hand". And in the Epigrams: "this docked horn, two cubits long, [Saon], the cattleman from Ambracia [sc. dedicated], …
- κ2098ΚορνοῦτοςCornutusThere were two Roman writers, Titus Livius, whose name spread in greatness and fame, and Cornutus. I hear that the latter was rich and childless, but not at all worthy. So great was the …
- λ156Λαφυγμόςedacity, gourmandising[Meaning] gluttony, and extragavance in eating; that is, [one] out of the ordinary, expensive luxury. Eating greedily. Eupolis in Flatterers [writes]: "[he/she/it] will be devoured with altogether vigorous edacity". Homer [writes]: "and [sc. a …
- λ356Λείαςbooty, plunder[Meaning] spoils from enemies. Also [sc. attested is the headword] lei/as, [meaning] the flocks, the cattle, in Sophocles; hence also lh|sth/s in its proper sense ["plunderer"]. Homer [writes]: "we drove together a lot of …
- λ570Λίνοςlinos, linusΑ sort of hymn. Homer [writes]: "he sang a fine linos". [The term arises] not because of the strings [being made] from flax, but [because] they sang a sort of hymn, like a paean. …
- μ153Μανιῶνof follies, of madnessesIn the plural. Instead of 'of folly/madness'. "You have arrived to such a point of follies/madnesses". They also use [the word] in the singular, but mostly in the plural. "For you hear a sample …
- μ481Μέλειis an object of care[Meaning it] seems. It is used so in Homer. And [there is] a proverb: 'I care for such things no less than [sc. I do for] the frogs in the swamps'.
- μ505Μελιηδήςhoney-sweet[Meaning] the sweetest. And Homer [writes]: "[A] robbed [B] of honey-sweet life".
- μ580Μεμυκόταclosed[Meaning] concealed, shut; or (?)stuck. And Homer [writes]: "and all the wounds are closed". Homer is saying, out of observation, that the wounds of those wounded in war do not close, apart from Hector’s …