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- α1000Ἀκροβυστίαuncircumcision, having a foreskin… e.g. Genesis 17.11 LXX, Acts 11.3), to the condition of having one (in e.g. Romans 2.25), and, collectively, to the uncircumcised (in e.g. Romans 2.26 and 3.30). For circumcision, peritomh/, see more fully at …
- δ1499Δραματουργήσαςhaving staged a drama, having fabricated… the reading of the newly recovered Zavordensis ms, restores sunqei/s ('having composed'), which surely ought to have been (if it wasn't actually) what the Suda compiler wrote as well (as suggested already by Portus …
- κ781Κατασπείραςhaving sown… merely as an intensifier. Cf. Kamerbeek (below ad loc.): "not 'having strewn over me', but 'having sown for me'." Also, compare LSJ s.v. 1, citing this line, and 2.II. Other uses of the verb: …
- η19Ἡβήσαντεςhaving come of age… 14 for other forms of this verb. [1] More literally "having come to their peak." For this gloss cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 5.550, where h(bh/sante occurs. [2] Referring to emotional and physical …
- α4316ἌτταλοςAttalos, Attalus… omitted. [6] The Suda paraphrases the start of Polybios 18.41.8, 'having received this honour and having lived' (tuxw\n de\ th=s timh=s taut/hs kai\ biw/sas). For the first phrase the Suda illogically substitutes 'having reigned', …
- α870Ἀκηρυκτείunheralded… the LSJ translation of this adverb, which reflects modern practices. Having no flags (in this context at any rate) the ancients demarcated states of peace and war by the presence or absence of "heralds", …
- ε1483Ἐν τῷ μέρειin one's turn… (see next note) reads i)dw\n d' e)kei=nos ("and that man having seen...") instead of i)dw\n ke)kei=nos [3] Babrius 32.5-6 Luzzatto-La Penna (4-5 Crusius).
- α255Ἀγκυλοχείλης καὶ Ἀγκυλόχειλοςcrooked-beaked… two words (related to chi 225) that differ only in having different adjectival endings: a)gkuloxei/lhs and a)gkulo/xeilos; LSJ only documents the existence of the former. [1] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Knights 197 (web …
- ε1861Ἔξοινοςdrunken… Theophylact's story concerns the Persian rebel Zadesprates (cf. alpha 3373), having hidden in a rock tower, imbibing and presuming himself secure from Chosroes II's (cf. alpha 2015 note) soldiers. [3] Polybius fr. 40 Büttner-Wobst. …
- λ344Λευστήρstone-thrower, oppressor… morphologically and in usage (LSJ s.v). The phrase "deserving of having stones cast" is used by Photius and others to define kataleu/simon, as is seen at kappa 615; the Suda may have copied this …
- δ1187Διοπετέςheaven-sent… phrase omitted by the Suda, George describes the episode as having taken place 'the day before yesterday' (xqe\s kai\ prw/hn).
- ε671Ἐκτόπωςextraordinarily… been omitted: it begins with e)rasqei=sa au)tou= e)kto/pws "she [Antonina] having fallen in love with him [Theodosius] extraordinarily" and continues later with e)mi/gnuto de\ au)tw=| [...] e)n parabu/stw| "she had intercourse with him in …
- β556ΒρουμάλιαBrumalia… kai\ a)kolou/qws e(/ws tou= w: "from those with a name having an alpha, and so forth, right up to the omega". The Latin alphabet has no omega; Malalas in fact describes the alphabetical ordering …
- ε3213ἙστιάδεςHestiades… is unidentifiable in this precise form, though the final sentence ('Having accomplished etc.') summarizes Eusebius, Life of Constantine 3.46.1-47.1. The relative pronoun a(\s connects the passage awkwardly to the apparently unrelated note on the …
- α4673Ἄχαριharsh… the Romans and the Persians ended without any major battles having been initiated; Procopius evidently confuses the two conflicts here (see Kaldellis (6 note 11)). [4] Part of Aelian fr. 209 Hercher (210b Domingo-Forasté); …
- α2015Ἀνάπηρον ψυχήνcrippled soul, mutilated soul… capture of Bryzakios and the victory over his forces by having the Persian officer killed at a banquet (spring/summer of 591); cf. de Boor (197-198), Whitby (139), and delta 125. On Chosroes, Persian king …
- ε1136Ἐναύεινto kindle, to light a fire… of the Aetolians led by Scopas in 211 BCE. After having sent to Epirus their women, children and elderly people, the Acarnanians solemnly swore to fight the invaders with all their might, and bound …
- μ210ΜάρκιοςMarkios, Marcius… banishment Coriolanus took refuge among the Volscians (cf. mu 211). Having gained the confidence of their leader Tullus Attius (cf. tau 243 n.2) and the rest of the Volscians (cf. Dion.Hal. 8.1-3), he then …
- δ559Διαθέσειςdispositions… virtue is a form of knowledge and they added (probably having Aristotle’s discussion of virtue in mind) that virtue is a “disposition”, or rather “a consistent disposition of the commanding part of the soul” …
- α3909ἈρίστιπποςAristippos, Aristippus… Euripides, Bacchae 836 (web address 1 below). The second trimeter, "having been born a male and from a male line", appears to be an addition. [3] Euripides, Bacchae 317-318 (web address 2).
- α117ἈγαθοκλῆςAgathokles, Agathocles… probably sybolises impudence and shamelessness; the buzzard, in Greek triorkhes, having three testicles, presumably symbolises insatiable lust, which is assumed to characterise the true pornos'. Cf. tau 995, where the first part of this …
- β436Βουλήσεται κἂν ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ τυχεῖν ὢν μᾶλλον ἢ κρῖναι κακῶςhe will wish even to be in Egypt rather than to make a bad judgment… as Herodotus says: 'For then Thebes was rained upon, never having been rained upon before'").] [1] An approximation of Herodotus 3.10.3; again at upsilon 677.
- ε3289Ἑτερόγναθοςother-jawed… in the Etymologicum Magnum and elsewhere. In its technical sense ('having one side of the mouth harder than the other': LSJ s.v.) the headword is applied to horses by Xenophon and other writers.
- μ354Μεγακλέους κίοναςMegakles' pillars, Megacles' pillars… 1). A scholion to the line explains it thus: "i.e. having gone over to the house of your maternal uncle, Megakles, eat up the columns of that house, which are the only things remaining …
- ε2893Ἔρανοςpot-luck meal; philanthropic loan; loan-association… in other lexica. [2] The primary gloss of the entry having covered the first meaning of eranos listed by LSJ s.v., this supplementary paragraph moves to meanings II and III there (for which again …
- λ76Λαλητέοςworthy of mention… to Thucydides the historian. The poet seems to use a)/fwnos 'having no voice' virtually as a passive, as lalhte/os, the verbal formed from lale/w clearly is. The verb lale/w (lambda 80) is used in …
- μ394ΜεγαίνετοςMegainetos, Megaenetus… see sigma 1169. There is no record of Megainetos ever having succeeded in being elected to the board of 10 generals in Athens (though our evidence in this area is admittedly lacunose), and indeed …
- ε3980Ἐχέγγυονsecure, receiving a pledge of safety… form of the two-termination compound adjective e)xe/gguos, which literally means 'having security'. The adjective normally means 'providing security' (as in epsilon 3981) in an active sense. This passive sense of 'receiving security' is rare; …
- α3742Ἀρασσόμενα(things) being smitten… 5.248.5 (Paul the Silentiary), on the shame and loss after having abused a lover. For a)ra/ssw, poetic vocabulary, see LSJ s.v. and eta 482. See further extracts from this epigram at alpha 4419, alphaiota …
- ε784Ἐλεήμωνmerciful, pitiful; susceptible… here Aristophanes (below) uses it with a genitive, to mean having a susceptibility or weakness for something. [1] Aristophanes, Peace 425 (web address 1), with scholion. (Hermes is speaking, and the final noun comes …