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μ809Μέτρησονmeasure, measure out… verb see also mu 806, mu 807, mu 808. [1] Hesiod, Works and Days 349. [2] Theopompus fr. 26 Kock, now 27 K.-A.Matched in noteshighshort
μ1389Μῦθοςmyth… Julian) is repeated from alphaiota 230. [3] A reference to Hesiod's tale of the hawk and the nightingale: Hesiod, Works and Days 202 (web address 1 below).Matched in noteshighshort
ε3618Εὐόρκουfaithful to one's oath… the genitive singular, as in both the quotations given. [2] Hesiod, Works and Days 285 (where the last word of the verse is a)mei/nwn "better": web address 1). [3] Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 61 (web …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1349Δόμεν ὅς κεν δῷ καὶ μὴ δόμεν ὅς κεν μὴ δῷto give [to] whoever gives and not to give [to] whoever does not giveHesiod, Works and Days 354 (web address 1), with scholion on this verse. Both do/men and the gloss do/menai are epic forms of the aorist active infinitive of di/dwmi (Smyth §760D, web address 2). …Matched in noteshighshort
δ126Δαῖταςfeasts… 274, beta 527, and omicron 158. [3] Polybius 5.2.6, quoting Hesiod fr.206 Merkelbach-West (77 Rzach).Matched in noteshighshort
κ2714Κυνοκέφαλοςdogshead… scholia to that passage. For Kleon see kappa 1731. [2] Hesiod, Theogony 287 (web address 2). The connection that the scholiast is making between Kleon and Geryon(eus), gamma 254, is vague; perhaps he imagines …Matched in noteshighshort
αι86Αἰδώςshame… (web address 1). Appendix Proverbiorum 1.9. [3] An approximation of Hesiod, Works and Days 317 (web address 2); quoted in the scholia to the Homer passage just mentioned. [4] Appendix Proverbiorum 1.10. [5] See …Matched in noteshighmedium
α1277Ἀλκήmight… and cf. also the scholia to Homer, Iliad 4.245. [2] Hesiod fr. 203 Merkelbach-West (in Nicolaus of Damascus FGrH 90 F33), on Zeus. [3] Polybius fr. 5 Büttner-Wobst. Büttner-Wobst notes (p. 514) that this …Matched in noteshighshort
η350Ἡμίσεια Ἥμισυ παντόςhalf… of h(/misus. It is followed by two words from the Hesiod quotation which follows. [2] Hesiod, Works and Days 40 (web address 1); cf. scholion on Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1211. See also nu …Matched in noteshighmedium
α133Ἀγάλματαdelights, ornaments, statues… an ivory cheek-piece for a horse. [2] This fragment of Hesiod (142 Merkelbach-West, 233 Rzach) is not known from any other source. It may pertain to the story of Europa in the Catalogue of …Matched in noteshighmedium
ω158Ὡρακιάσας ΚρατῖνοςKratinos having swooned; Cratinus having swooned… [1] More properly w)/ra: see LSJ s.v. w)/ra (A). [2] Hesiod, Works and Days 30.Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1093Δίκηςof justice… entry = Aelian fr. 28 Domingo-Forasté (25 Hercher). [4] cf. Hesiod, Works and Days 256 (web address 1). Aelian's words summarize the comparison between the just and unjust cities in Hesiod's text, which M.L. …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ356Δειπνολόχονdinner-trapping… similarly in other lexica. The headword adjective famously occurs in Hesiod, Works and Days 704 (of a bad wife): deipnolo/xhs, feminine genitive singular. Here in the lexica, however, it is masculine accusative singular (or, …Matched in noteshighshort
κ174Κακόχαρτονdelighting in evil… in other lexica. The headword adjective is first attested in Hesiod, Works and Days 28 & 196, but in the masculine/feminine nominative singular. Here it is masculine accusative singular, evidently quoted from somewhere else; …Matched in noteshighshort
η585Ἧσιςdelight… Lexicon; glossed with eu)frosu/nh by Herodian and a scholiast on Hesiod. The headword is a rare feminine noun derived from the verb h(/domai (eta 95 etc.). Other than lexica, grammars, and scholia, the only …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1451Δῶρα θεοὺς πείθει καὶ αἰδοίους βασιλῆαςgifts sway gods and revered kingsHesiod fr.361 Merkelbach-West, preferring Plato's version of this hexameter line (Republic 390E: dw=ra qeou\s pei/qei, dw=r' ai)doi/ous basilh=as). The Suda's version with 'and' for the second 'gifts' occurs also in Apostolius 6.42; and see …Matched in noteshighshort
μ297Μαυροῦσινthey blot out, they make dim… indicative, of the verb mauro/w [a)mauro/w] -- is quoted from Hesiod, Works and Days 525, where (without the nu ephelkustikon) it describes what the gods do to someone with ill-gotten wealth. cf. the adjective …Matched in noteshighshort
χ434Χωόμενοςvexed… 1). (17 other instances in Homer, and see also e.g. Hesiod, Theogony 533 & 561.) See also Hesychius s.v. (and ps.-Zonaras 1866).Matched in noteshighshort
ν263Νέοις μὲν ἔργαyoung men should act (but) their elders advise… of an axiom attributed by Hyperides (fr. 57 Jensen) to Hesiod: e)/rga ne/wn, boulai\ de\ me/swn, eu)xai\ de\ gero/ntwn, "Young men's acts, the middle-aged's advice, old men's prayers".Matched in noteshighshort
ε817Ἐλεφαίρετοused to destroy… imperfect, third person singular, of e)lefai/romai. It is quoted from Hesiod, Theogony 330 on the Nemean Lion (web address 1); cf. the scholia there. See LSJ s.v. II for the verb (which otherwise means …Matched in noteshighshort
α3231Ἄπλητονunapproachable, terrible… glossing in Hesychius, but the same in the scholia to Hesiod, Theogony 315, from where it must be quoted (neuter, used adverbially). This glossing implies a relation to pi/mplhmi "fill" rather than to pela/zw …Matched in noteshighshort
α898Ἀκλητίunbidden, uninvited, unsummoned… other lexica. [2] cf. Zenobius 2.46 and other paroemiographers. [3] Hesiod fr. 264.Matched in noteshighshort
α1135Ἀλεξιάρη γῆdeath-averting earth… as e)pi/kouros, a)lecika/kos. Latte regards that entry as prompted by Hesiod, Works and Days 464 (where fallow land, neio/s [nu 291], is called a)lecia/rh); and the same is surely true of the present one. …Matched in noteshighshort
χ251Χειροδίκαιοςmight-is-right-man, one who believes that might makes right… attested only here; but cf. the related word xeirodi/kai in Hesiod, Works and Days 189 (web address 2), the plural of xeirodi/khs ("one who believes that might makes right"). Previous Suda editors advocated a …Matched in noteshighshort
α4097Ἀρχὴ ἥμισυ παντόςa beginning (is) half of the whole… (and see already under alpha 4091) -- and ultimately from Hesiod, Works and Days 40: ple/on h(/misu panto/s "the half is more than the whole." Tosi [see under alpha 378] no.59.Matched in noteshighshort
ε1303Ἐνηέοςkind… quoted from somewhere. Extant instances are numerous, from Homer and Hesiod through to Apollonius Rhodius and Oppian (and on to the poems of Gregory of Nazianzus). Same glossing in other lexica, and likewise or …Matched in noteshighshort
αι132Αἴθοπαfiery-looking… from the quotation given (though there are alternatives in Homer, Hesiod and elsewhere). [1] cf. alphaiota 133. [2] Greek Anthology 5.218.9-10 (Agathias Scholasticus), on the poet's rival in love.Matched in noteshighshort
κ2158Κοτιεῖbears a grudge… kote/ei, as in Hesychius kappa3782, taken to be quoted from Hesiod, Works and Days 25; cf. the scholia there. cf. the related noun ko/tos at kappa 2162, and kappa 2156.Matched in noteshighshort
α1533Ἀμβολίαprocrastination… standard technique in a courtesan's repertoire; cf. Madden (134); [2] Hesiod, Works and Days 413.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1918ΚοκκύζωI crow, I cry like a cuckoo… already in Hesychius kappa3296: kokku/zei -- very probably quoted from Hesiod, Works and Days 486 -- glossed with tara/ssei "harasses" and fwnei= o)ce/ws "makes a sharp sound". [2] From Aristophanes, Frogs 1380 (web address …Matched in noteshighshort