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- ε2389Ἐπικλινέςslanted[Meaning something] leaning into evil. "The scale is slanted." Callimachus [sc. writes this].
- α4208Ἀσπαστοίwelcome, welcomed[Meaning] glad [men], god-like [men]. But in Callimachus [one finds] a)spastu/s ["welcome"], [genitive] a)spastu/os, that is, a friendly greeting.
- κ2113ΚόροιβοςKoroibos, Coroebus… proper name. And a certain fool, [for] measuring the waves. Callimachus [writes]: "the eighth [was] like some Koroibos". Boutalion and Koroibos and Melitides had been slandered for foolishness. Aristophanes [sc. shows this].
- δ1566Δύηmisery… misfortune. Hence also dou=los ["slave"], as being someone miserable [duhlo/s]. Callimachus [writes]: "[one would] ward off despised misery." [Meaning that] which nobody craves. In Fables: "because no one has seen his own misery."
- μ177ΜαραθώνMarathon… place in Athens; [named] from Marathos, a son of Apollo. Callimachus calls this [place] moist, that is, watery. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "Marathonian task". Also [sc. attested is] "Marathon-fighters, stout-hearted". Look, concerning …
- ι545ἹππίαςHippias… -- waiting for the Lacedaemonians, but with Miltiades and then Callimachus recommending that they go forth, the Athenians went out, themselves being nine thousand and having one thousand Plataeans [in support]. And they say …
- δ340Δεινόνterrible… I desire to know the cause of your disability. And Callimachus [writes]: "Why do you awaken a sleeping tear"? Aristophanes [writes]: "it is terrible for the spirit of a man to be so unripe …
- μ194ΜαριανόςMarianos, Marianus… [lines]; Paraphrase of Apollonius' Argonautica in iambics, 5608; Paraphrase of Callimachus' Hecale and hymns and Aitia and epigrams in iambics, 6810; Paraphrase of Aratus in iambics, 1140; Paraphrase of Nicander's Theriaca in iambics, 1370; …
- κ2647Κυκλίων τε χορῶν ᾀσματοκάμπαςand tune-benders of cyclic choruses.… he was severely beaten as one obscuring the muses". And Callimachus alludes to them, attacking them in this kind of way: "they introduced bastardly songs". Or he is hinting at the associates of Cinesias …