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η74Ἠγρίωσαιyou have become cruel… person singular, of a)grio/w. It is presumably extracted from the Sophoclean quotation given (though also attested in Euripides, Orestes 226 and 387). [1] Sophocles, Philoctetes 1321-3 (Neoptolemos addresses Philoctetes: see web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort
α1933Ἀνάλγητοςunfeeling… not be quoted from somewhere. cf. generally alpha 1098. [1] Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 12-13 (web address 1 below), with scholion. [2] Same material in Photius and elsewhere. [3] Sophocles, Ajax 946-8 (web address 2 …Matched in noteshighmedium
α2363Ἀνέχειexalts… verb see also alpha 2361, alpha 2362, alpha 2364. [1] Sophocles, Ajax 211-212 (see web address 1), with comment from the scholia there. [2] Procopius, History of the Wars of Justinian 2.6.24 (web address …

η74

Ἠγρίωσαι

you have become cruel

Meaning you get hard. Sophocles [writes]: "you have become cruel and you welcome no counsellor, and if someone warns you, even speaking in goodwill, you detest [him] and consider [him] a malevolent enemy".

Ἠγρίωσαι· ἀντὶ τοῦ σκληρύνῃ. Σοφοκλῆς· σὺ δ' ἠγρίωσαι κοὔτε σύμβουλον δέχῃ, ἐάν τε νουθετῇ τις εὐνοίᾳ λέγων, στυγεῖς πολέμιον δυσμενῆ θ' ἡγούμενος.

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Konstantinos Kopanias2

Konstantinos Kopanias2

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Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝1

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D. Graham J. Shipley1

Elizabeth Vandiver1

Elizabeth Vandiver1

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Massimo Forconi1

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Matthew Farmer1

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Nathan Greenberg ✝1

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Oliver Phillips ✝1

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α4350Ἄτηdestruction, Destruction… [4] A Christian gloss here obtrudes. [5] An approximation of Sophocles, Electra 233-235 (web address 4); line 234, here the corrupt mh/thr w(s h(/tis pikth/, should be ma/thr w(sei/ tis pista/. [6] Sophocles, Ajax …Matched in noteshighshort

αι133Αἴθοποςfiery-looking… (alphaiota 138, and cf. alphaiota 132), is extracted from the Sophocles quotation about to be given (but see next note); the scholia there give both of the Suda's glosses. [2] Sophocles, Ajax 221-223 (web …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1668ΔύσοργοςcholericThe adjective *du/sorgos occurs three times in Sophocles (Trachiniae 1118 besides the two passages quoted here) but is quite rare in other writers. In Galen 16.326, to be du/sorgos is the consequence of an …Matched in noteshighshort

ε399Ἐκδίκουςavenging; lawless… be quoted from somewhere (perhaps, though not demonstrably, the first Sophocles passage below). For the adjective see already epsilon 398, and cf. also epsilon 400; and for the twin meanings of it see LSJ …Matched in noteshighshort

ε4016Ἐχθραντέοςhateful, to be hatedSophocles, Ajax 679-682, with comment from the scholia there; cf. alpha 655. NB: in both of these entries, and again implicitly in epsilon 4017, Sophocles is credited with having written e)xqrante/os, but the mainstream …Matched in noteshighshort

α1825Ἀναγκαία τράπεζαnecessary table, needy table… of the quotations given, sounds proverbial; cf. alpha 4543. [2] Sophocles, Ajax 485-6 (web address 1 below), with comment from the scholia there. [3] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 59 Habrich.Matched in noteshighmedium

ε3850Ἔφεδροςreserve, in reserve… tau 7). [2] Aristophanes, Frogs 791-794 (web address 1). [3] Sophocles, Ajax 609-610 (web address 2), with material from the scholia there.Matched in noteshighmedium

α2020Ἀναμπλάκητοιunerring… purports to be extracted from the quotation given; in fact Sophocles wrote a)napla/khtoi. On the Keres cf. kappa 1530, kappa 1531. [1] Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 471-472 (web address 1), with scholion.Matched in noteshighshort

α2206ἌναιτοςuninjuredSophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 785-6, with comment from the scholia there. The Suda's a)/naitos is the reading of the Laurentian manuscript of Sophocles; others have a)/natos (from a)/th); the latter is generally printed.Matched in noteshighshort

δ1504Δραπέτης κλῆροςrunaway lot… in the (slightly abridged) quotation describing the courage of Ajax: Sophocles, Ajax 1285-87 (web address 1). Late sources (Apollodorus 2.8.4; Pausanias 4.3.3) tell of how Cresphontes (kappa 2377), Temenus and the sons of Aristodemus …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε1027Ἔμπληκτοιcapricious, impulsive… plural of this adjective (cf. epsilon 1026), presumably quoted from Sophocles: see n.3 below. [2] Homer, Odyssey 20.132 (web address 1), with the related adverb e)mplh/gdhn. [3] Sophocles, Ajax 1358 (web address 2), with …Matched in noteshighshort

η403Ἠνύσατεyou finished, you accomplished[1] The headword (extracted from the Sophocles passage quoted) is second person plural, aorist indicative active, of a)nu/w; cf. alpha 2783, alpha 2794, alpha 2799. [2] Homer, Iliad 11.365. [3] Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 166, …Matched in noteshighshort

χ477υνκνοων—Χρήματα χρήματ' ἀνήρ πενιχρὸς δ' οὐδέποτ' ἐσθλόςmoney money (is the) man but a pauper (is) never noble… see also pi 1450. This quotation and the one from Sophocles which follow seem to be tenuously connected with the rest of the entry. The only association is that they contain instances of the …Matched in noteshighmedium

α170Ἀγάσματαobjects of wonderThe headword, a neuter plural, is printed as Sophocles fr. 971 Radt (885 Nauck edn.2), on the authority of this entry and Photius p.13, 28 Reitzenstein [now alpha131 Theodoridis] = Synagoge alpha95. Similar definitions …Matched in noteshighshort

α283Ἀγνώμονεςunpardoning, hard-hearted… headword, nominative plural, is extracted from the quotation given. [1] Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 86 (Oedipus is addressing the Eumenides), with glosses from the scholia there. See web address 1.Matched in noteshighshort

α328Ἀγωνάρχαιcontest-judges[1] Sophocles, Ajax 572-3 (web address 1 below); again at lambda 839. [2] (Also in the paroemiographers, e.g. Apostolius 1.25.) Possibly Contest, the divine personification of the agon (cf. Pausanias 5.26.3), though the apparently …Matched in noteshighmedium

α519Ἄδωραgiftless [gifts], no-gift [gifts]… a neuter plural, is extracted from the quotation given. [1] Sophocles, Ajax 665 (web address 1 below), with scholion. For a longer extract see epsilon 4028. [2] Aelian fr. 125d Domingo-Forasté (part of 122 …Matched in noteshighshort

α550Ἄελπτονbeyond expectation, unexpected, unhoped-for… quotation given, is neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective. [1] Sophocles, Ajax 648-649 (web address 1); quoted again, more fully, at pi 1281. [2] Same gloss in Apollonius the Sophist; cf. Hesychius. See also …Matched in noteshighshort

α632Ἀεὶ παρθένουςeternal virgins, eternally virgins… epsilon 3580, epsilon 3581, and generally OCD(4) s.v. (pp.535-6). [1] Sophocles, Ajax 835-837 (abridged: web address 1 below), with scholion.Matched in noteshighshort

α1116Ἄλεκτρα καὶ ἄνυμφαunmarried and unwedded… the quotation given, is a pair of neuter plurals. [1] Sophocles, Electra 492, with scholion.Matched in noteshighshort

α1180Ἀλλ' ἢ καλῶς ζῆν ἢ καλῶς τεθνηκέναι τὸν εὐγενῆ χρή πάντ' ἀκήκοας λόγονBut the well-born man should either live well or die well - end of storySophocles, Ajax 479-480 (web address 1); again at epsilon 3393.Matched in noteshighshort

α1311Ἀλόγιστα παροίσομενwe will bear reason-baffling thingsSophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1675, with scholion. For "at the last" cf. pi 3172.Matched in noteshighshort

α1428Ἀλύεινto be beside oneself, to be overwhelmedSee also alpha 1427. [1] Homer, Odyssey 18.332. [2] Sophocles, Electra 135. [3] Agathias, Histories 1.10 (p.33 Niebuhr); again (slightly differently) at alpha 1575. His initial assault (553 CE, during the Gothic War of …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1666Ἀμυγνόνundefiled[1] Sophocles fr. 1005 Pearson. See also alpha 1686 and alpha 1689.Matched in noteshighshort

α1689Ἀμυχνόνundefiledcf. already alpha 1666, alpha 1686. [1] Sophocles fr. 1005 Radt.Matched in noteshighshort

α1753Ἀμφιπλήξdouble-edgedSophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 417-8 (web address 1), with scholion. See also delta 342.Matched in noteshighshort

α2337Ἄνετέ μ'let me be[1] Sophocles, Electra 229-232 (web address 1 below), followed here by comment from the scholia there. [2] This term, a)na/nomos, is attested only here and in the scholion which is the Suda's source, as …Matched in noteshighmedium

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