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- α3437Ἀπομηνίσαςhaving rejected in wrath, having ceased from wrathSame entry in other lexica. A reflection (as Dindorf first realised) of scholiastic comment on Homer, Iliad 2.772, where the headword participle attracted these two differing glosses.
- α865Ἀκηλίδωτονspotless… outside lexicography.) The point of this addendum is to draw attention to the form -o/teros rather than -w/teros.
- κ339Κἀπιδώσειν μοι δοκῶ τὸ χρῆμα μᾶλλονand it seems to me the matter will increase further… moi dokw= ("I think that I..."). The context is the reflection of the chorus of old men on the women's outrageous and offensive behavior.
- α1084Ἀλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν ῥείτω κατ' οὖρονbut let these things flow on a fair wind… cf. omicron 953. The "you" addressed, as Deianeira refocuses her attention on the immediate situation, is Lichas the herald.
- κ2592Κυβείαdice-playing… entry in Photius (Lexicon kappa1142 Theodoridis), where the editor draws attention to the conjunction of the present headword and glossing word in the New Testament (Ephesians 4.14). Kybeia applied in antiquity both to dicing …
- κ2023Κομψευριπικῶςboasteuripically… [2] Aelian fr. 157 Domingo-Forasté (154 Hercher). Adler notes the observation of Perizonius [Jakob Voorbroek, 1651–1715] that this sentence refers to a different (missing) headword. [3] Aristophanes, Wasps 1317 (web address 2); it contains …
- αι359Αἰσχύνη πόλεως πολίτου ἁμαρτίαthe citizen's error (is) the city's disgraceAdler draws attention to Aeschines 3.241, where Demosthenes is described as 'a fellow who is a disgrace of the city'. The present four-word lemma as a whole appears as proverbial in the C15 paroemiographer …
- α2812Ἀξιόμαχοςbattle-worthy, well-matched… cf. alpha 1585 note), when the latter appeals for a pause in the Goths' siege of the city; cf. Kaldellis (412). Totila reminds Pelagius that, complying with a Roman request not to burden the …
- ε1507Ἐν χρῷ κεκαρμένοςshorn [close] to skin… Courtesans 12.5 -- though Theodoridis on Photius, Lexicon epsilon1069 draws attention to the accusative plural version in Xenophon, Hellenica 1.7.8. [2] Quotation unidentifiable. [3] cf. epsilon 1508.
- ε3781Εὐτυχεῖsucceeds… in its usage 'mark you', "with a proverb or general reflection [...] to point the applicability of a universal truth to the special matter in hand" (J.D. Denniston, The Greek Particles, 2nd. corr. edn., …
- ι354ἹμείρωI long [for]… fragment as what might be given in retort. But, in reflection, Walbank also concedes that -- as Schweighäuser emphasized -- the present fragment could represent an assertion that has been advanced disingenuously (ibid.).
- κ1189Καιρόςopportune time… 75-6, with scholion; cf. epsilon 3615. [2] An extra, general observation on the above. It is not from the Sophoclean scholion; rather, from an indeterminable source also quoted in writers later than the Suda …
- α1458Ἅμαas soon as, at the same time[1] Same observation in syntactical lexica. [2] Demosthenes fr. 12 Sauppe. [3] Aeschines 3.52. [4] Demosthenes 21.122. [5] Antiphon fr.71 Sauppe. [6] Demosthenes 18.34.
- ε760Ἐλάχιστοςthe least [thing]… on, largely, Luke 16.10-12 (web address 1). Adler's note draws attention to similarities ('cf.') between it and later material: PG 123.968bc, by Theophylact Hephaistos, archbishop of Achrida (Ochrid) from the 1090s onwards. She did …
- κ2134ΚόσσαςKossas, Cossas… be utterly speculative. A further potential complication (brought to my attention by Javier Sanz) arises with the only other attestion of the name Kosas (sic): that of the S. Italian river (a.k.a. Casuentus, present-day …
- κ867Κατάχει τοὔλαιον ἐν τῷ χαλκείῳpour the oil in the shield… a shield. Aristophanes' passage is a burlesque of augury through reflection, such as lecanomancy. The mention of being blinded by the shield presumably intends to explain the augury. [4] The connection between this material …
- ε2736Ἐπιτυχοῦσινto just any people; to those who happen to be there; to people of no consequence; to those who happen to succeed… does not use e)pituxw/n in the sense required here (an observation I owe to F.W. Walbank in correspondence). If the passage refers to electing consuls carefully at Rome in times of danger, it might …
- α3831Ἀρετήarete, virtue, excellence… 3.71-72), where the author points out that if one pays attention to the organization, discipline or "good order" of the Roman army, it will be recognized that the Roman power is like a prize …
- ε3598ΕὐνόμιοςEunomios, Eunomius [of Cyzicus]… of Constantius: see Vaggione (who brought this fact to my attention), Eunomius of Cyzicus and the Nicene Revolution, pp. 292-4. [2] alpha 571. [3] The confusion between plural and singular here, and again in …
- α1270ἈλκάνηςAlkanes, Elkanas, Elkanah… addendum, in the margin of mss AM, is to draw attention to the Elkanas form of the name. The main body of the entry has Alkanes, as the headword. (The fourth book of Kingdoms …
- α4446Αὖλος ΠοστόμιοςAulus Postumius… yet humbles himself before their language appears to exemplify Horace's observation: "Captured Greece took her fierce victor captive" (Letters 2.1.156). [7] Aulus Gellius (Attic Nights 11.8.1) preserves another reaction by Cato that appeared in …
- ε549Ἑκὼν ἀέκοντί γε θυμῷwilling but with an unwilling heart[1] Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 4.15.11, on the reflections of Chosroes II (cf. generally chi 418 note) during the Roman siege of Martyropolis (cf. alpha 3649 note) in the autumn of 590; cf. de Boor …
- β489Βωμολόχοςaltar-ambusher… and Photius, Lexicon beta321. It is based in part on observations of the grammarian/lexicographer Apollodorus of Cyrene (RE 1.286 'Apollodorus 65'). It should be read in the context of complementary observations in beta 486, …
- α4570Ἀφαιρεῖν κροκύδαςto pluck off threads… hairs out of the beard, to the object of his attentions); and cf. Valeria and Sulla in Plutarch, Sulla 35.4. [2] If this is a quotation, it is unidentifiable.