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1049
Ἅλα
salt
… 1). Apparently a proverbial expression for a minimal gift; compare
Theocritus,
Idylls 27.61.
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3931
Ἀριστοτόκεια
bearing the best children
… web address 1); used at, and probably quoted here from,
Theocritus
(Idylls 24.73, vocative). Compare dusaristoto/keia at Homer, Iliad 18.54, where Thetis, mother of Achilles calls herself this (the prefix not questioning his excellence …
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1205
Διοσημεία
Zeus-omen, Zeus-sign
… which explains the word: ei)s tri/thn h(me/ran). Cf. Antiphon 6.21;
Theocritus,
Idylls 18.14; Hesychius epsilon1116 and epsilon2996; epsilon 1292. The old adjective e(/nos (cf. Latin senex), normally with rough aspiration in Attic, meaning “belonging …
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1082
Ἐμφύς
sticking to
… quotation given, though there are earlier instances in Euripides and
Theocritus.
[2] Aelian fr. 349 Domingo-Forasté (353 Hercher).
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2251
Ἐπιβρίσησιν ὀδόντας
presses teeth; would press teeth
… indicative). Compare in any event e)pibri/ssh|si (with 'teeth' implicit) in
Theocritus,
Idylls 21.4. For the verb see also epsilon 2023, epsilon 2250.
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