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α2531Ἀνθρωπόλεθροςman-destroying… according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. Also used, by Eustathius and the Homeric scholiasts, of Polyphemus' island in the Odyssey.Matched in noteshighshort
λ757Λοιμόςplague, pestilence… mss PV). From ps.-Herodian, Epimerismi 80, which is probably behind Eustathius' comments on Homer, Iliad 1.67 (1.80). fqoreu/s seems an oddly personal word to use as a gloss (nouns in -eus generally denote personal …Matched in noteshighshort
α2033Ἀναπόμπιμα δῶραgifts sent back… in Aelius Dionysius and Photius (and something similar, post-Suda, in Eustathius). The headword phrase (neuter plural) must be quoted from somewhere, and looks like the end of a line of hexameter verse.Matched in noteshighshort
αι90Αἴδυλοςshameful… (with different accentuation, and possibly different connotations) at alpha 680. Eustathius on Homer, Iliad 3.172 (where ai)doi=os occurs: see alphaiota 89) connects it with ai)dw=s and says it is used euphemistically. Otherwise known only …Matched in noteshighshort
ε800Ἔλλερα ἔργαevil worksThe headword phrase, neuter plural, stems from Callimachus, Hecale fr.283.1. Eustathius on Homer, Iliad 6.183 explains the adjective as a dialect form: e)/llera kata\ dia/lekton ta\ kaka/. For comparable glosses (e)xqra/, pole/mia, a)/dika) see …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2082Κορήσατεsweep out… Etymologicum Magnum has "sweep, make"; the scholiast ad loc. and Eustathius have "sweep"; Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon has "make pretty".Matched in noteshighshort
α170Ἀγάσματαobjects of wonder… = Synagoge alpha95. Similar definitions in Hesychius alpha340 and at Eustathius Commentaries on Homer's Iliad 3.589.17. It is otherwise unattested.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1550Δρυπολεῖνto go around (with) trees… omicron 544), and puri\ poliorkei= ("besieges with fire"). See also Eustathius' Commentary on the Odyssey (2.30.1): to\ cu/lois a(plw=s poliorkei=n h)\ to\ kakohqi/zesqai "simply to besiege with timbers, or to behave maliciously (?)".Matched in noteshighshort
κ287Καμμονίηendurance… names we know: Aristonicus ad locc.; Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon 94.29; Eustathius ad locc.; and cf. Hesychius kappa603.Matched in noteshighshort
ε3154Ἐς κόρακαςto the crows… 3155, and generally Tosi (cited under alpha 378) no.771. [1] Eustathius, in his commentary to Homer, Odyssey 13.408, attributes to a Pausanias (not the topographer but the Attic lexicographer: his fr.183 Schwabe) a somewhat …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1399Δορύξενοςspear-friendcf. iota 114. [1] Pausanias the Atticist fr. 282 (Eustathius I.405.46). See generally zeta 117, zeta 120, zeta 121, zeta 122. [2] (sc. in Homer, Iliad 6.119ff.) Scholion on Sophocles, Electra 46 (web address …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2257Ἐπιβύσαςhaving stopped up… bebusme/nos, bu/ousi. [1] Homer, Odyssey 4.134 (web address 1); see Eustathius ad loc.; also quoted in Photius s.v. kro/khn nh/qein le/gousin and Etymologicum Magnum s.vv. nh=ma, para/buston. [2] Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 379 (web address …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2357Κραιπάληcarousal, hangover… p. 163 Gaisford, the Etymologicum Gudianum, the Etymologicum Magnum, and Eustathius, Commentary on Iliad 1.200. [4] A more strained folk etymology, also from the scholia to Aristophanes, Plutus 298; cf. n.2 above.Matched in noteshighshort
μ184Μάργηςmad, furious… it is not otherwise attested (and Tyrannion's fr.55 Haas, from Eustathius, speaks only of ma/rgos). [1] Same glossing (of margos) in other lexica, from Hesychius onwards: see the references at Photius mu108 Theodoridis. [2] …Matched in noteshighshort
χ95ΧάραξCharax… lacuna (left blank by Adler). An alternative, deriving support from Eustathius, is 'Italic' (Westermann).Matched in noteshighmedium
α1678Ἀμυνόμενοιrevenging themselves… entry in ps.-Zonaras; and cf. Aristophanes of Byzantium, cited by Eustathius in his Commentary on Homer's Iliad 2.70.22 van der Valk. The headword -- present middle/passive participle, masculine nominative plural -- is thus more …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2500Ἐπίορκον ἀνώμοσενswore a false oath… reading known to early commentators (and rejected by them; cf. Eustathius ad loc.), and it is conceivable that this could be behind the Suda's erroneous reading. [1] A garbled paraphrase of comments from the …Matched in noteshighshort
α3207ἈπίκιοςApicius… Paul Maas argued that manuscript M was the work of Eustathius of Thessalonica, but Adler was not convinced (vol. 5, p. 273).Matched in noteshighmedium
κ1891ΚνυζώσωI will darken… a metaphor from dogs, the unseemliness (a)prepe/s) of the eyes." Eustathius, Commentary on the Odyssey ad loc., has his own derivations of the verb. First he offers "I shall shrivel, I shall make unseemly …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1605Δυσδιάλλακτονhard to reconcile… Basil of Caesarea. Also in Ammonius and Herennius, quoted by Eustathius, perhaps via Lexicon Gudianum, as adverbial form in -tws. The main meaning is always the one indicated in the present translation, in accordance …Matched in noteshighshort
α1303Ἅλμη οὐκ ἔνεστ' αὐτῷthere is no salt in him; there is no sauce in him… by many modern sophisticated societies. This proverb also occurs in Eustathius's note to Odyssey 4.511 and in several of the late paroemiographers (e.g. Gregorius 1.25).Matched in noteshighshort
κ1407Κερκωπίζεινto play the ape… and other paroemiographers, e.g.: Diogenianus, Hesychius, the Lexica Segueriana, Photius, Eustathius, Gregorius (Patriarch Gregory II), Michael Apostolius. The Suda's infinitive, here, was once regarded as an unattributable fragment of Attic comedy: adespota fr. 1036 …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3971Ἔφυγον κακόν εὗρον ἄμεινονthey escaped a bad thing [and] found a better… proverb are found in (e.g.) Zenobius 3.98, Hesychius, Photius, and Eustathius' Commentary on the Odyssey (1726.18), but with one noteworthy difference: in these other versions, the boy is said to 'be crowned' (ste/fesqai) rather …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2055Κοππατίαςkoppa-branded… as kai\ to\ n. Other commentators are better informed, e.g. Eustathius, Commentary on the Iliad vol. 3 p. 1, calls san a Doric sigma. [3] The Suda mangles the scholia vetera: "the form of …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1205ΔιοσημείαZeus-omen, Zeus-sign… a savage attack of the mercenaries on Mycalessos. [4] cf. Eustathius on Homer, Iliad 1.34 to\ a)stra/ptein to\n *di=a, h)/toi to\n a)e/ra [...] (o(\ kai\ dioshmi/a dia\ tou=to w)no/mastai, "[a manifestation of divine will …Matched in noteshighmedium

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