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- α1139Ἀλεξιφάρμακαcharms[Meaning things] able to keep off spells. Menander in Child [writes]: "Ephesia walks thus around those getting married, speaking charms".
- α1138ἌλεξιςAlexisOf Thourioi, [the place] previously called Sybaris; a comic playwright. He produced 245 plays. He was the paternal uncle of Menander the comic playwright. And he had a son, Stephanos, a comic playwright himself.
- β277ΒιδίνηBidine… lexicography, only in a few Byzantine sources (e.g. Anna Comnena, Alexiad 14.9.1).
- κ202Καλάσιριςkalasiris… similar Persian one; also the title of a comedy by Alexis. [2] In Herodotus 2.164, etc.: a branch of the military caste in Egypt.
- κ1560Κηφηῒς γῆKephean land… a periphrasis for 'Ethiopia' (alphaiota 126, alphaiota 127) by Nicander, Alexipharmaka 100 (accusative case); cf. the scholia there. Similarly (adjective only), according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon; and more fully than the Suda …
- α3250Ἀποβάτηςdismounter… Theophrastus on this. See also Kassel-Austin, PCG II p.34 (s.v. Alexis). "Dismounting" meant, in practice, vaulting from one horse to another: see LSJ.
- ε2659Ἐπὶ τὰ Μανδροβόλουon Mandrobolos' property… [2] A ram, because, according to a scholiast on Nicander's Alexipharmaka, this was the creature that accidentally found the deposits. [3] Ephorus FGrH 70 F59b.
- κ2318Κράμβηcabbage… because it would make wine "dimmer", and adds support from Alexis and Eubulus (referring to the equivalent r(a/fanos). Cabbage is as a hangover cure in [Aristotle], Problems 3.17 (873a37-b24). [5] On the interpretation of …