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κ228ΚαλλίμαχοςKallimachos, CallimachusFor this Callimachus 'Junior' (C3) see H. Lloyd-Jones and P.Parsons, Supplementum Hellenisticum (Berlin 1983) 144, fr.309. [1] kappa 227.Matched in noteshighshort
κ226ΚαλλίμαχοςKallimachos, CallimachusAn Athenian. This man was found into [sic] the war against the Persians standing as a corpse [propped up] on spears.Matched in headwordhighshort
κ227ΚαλλίμαχοςCallimachus, Kallimachos, Kallimakhos… of Euphrates of Syracuse; his sister's son was the younger Callimachus, who wrote on islands in epic verse. He was so diligent that he wrote poems in every metre, and compiled very many works …Matched in translationhighmedium
ω71ὨλήνOlen… epic poet. But probably Lycian from Xanthos [Myth, Place], as Callimachus shows, and Polyhistor in his [books] On Lycia.Matched in translationhighshort
κ2113ΚόροιβοςKoroibos, Coroebus… proper name. And a certain fool, [for] measuring the waves. Callimachus [writes]: "the eighth [was] like some Koroibos". Boutalion and Koroibos and Melitides had been slandered for foolishness. Aristophanes [sc. shows this].Matched in translationhighshort
ε345ἙκάληHekale, HecaleA proper name. [That of] the heroine in Callimachus, she who calls [kalou=sa] to herself [e(auth\n]. "For she kept an unlocked house."Matched in translationhighshort
κ2260Κωμῆταιvillagers… [means] neighbors: for the neighborhood is called a village [kome]. Callimachus in Hecale [writes]: "for the villagers round about called her this." Babrius [writes]: "a certain villager had a wooden statue and loaded it …Matched in translationhighshort
κ1953Κολουραία πέτρα'stump-tailed' rock[Meaning one which is] hollow, curved, or round, in Callimachus.Matched in translationhighshort
μ177ΜαραθώνMarathon… place in Athens; [named] from Marathos, a son of Apollo. Callimachus calls this [place] moist, that is, watery. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "Marathonian task". Also [sc. attested is] "Marathon-fighters, stout-hearted". Look, concerning …Matched in translationhighshort
κ1587ΚιδαλίηKidalie, Kidalia… a spring (as in a fragment of poetry attributed to Callimachus: fr.751 Pfeiffer, "I strayed from the Kidalian spring").Matched in noteshighshort
κ1960Νησάωνof Kolonai['Of Kolonai'] and 'of islands'. Callimachus used [these forms] irregularly; for [*Kolwna/wn] is not derived from [feminine] kolw/nh, but from [masculine] o( kolwno/s.Matched in translationhighshort
κ1320ΚενθίππηKenthippeCallimachus, Hecale fr.279. According to Etymologicum Magnum 503.34-35, it was a 'place of Argos [Myth, Place]', named from Bellerophon having spurred on [kentei=n] Pegasus there.Matched in noteshighshort
β225Βέβυστοhas been stuffed full, is stuffed full… extracted from the quotation given. [1] cf. beta 224. [2] Callimachus, Hecale fr. 320, with scholion.Matched in noteshighshort
κ2713ΚυνθιάδεςKynthos' children, Cynthus' children… of Delos; cf. Barrington Atlas map 61 grid A3. [1] Callimachus, Epigram 62.1-2 Pfeiffer (= Greek Anthology 6.121.1-2). "Kynthos' children" could have meant Apollo and Artemis, since they were said to have been born …Matched in noteshighshort
ν551ΝωνακρίνηNonakrine, NonacrineBy Callimachus: frs.250 (lines 9-10) and 251 (line 15). The headword is an adjective -- here in the feminine, obviously -- meaning 'of Nonakris' (in northern Arcadia: nu 552). For Callisto, a mythical Arcadian …Matched in noteshighshort
ι545ἹππίαςHippias… -- waiting for the Lacedaemonians, but with Miltiades and then Callimachus recommending that they go forth, the Athenians went out, themselves being nine thousand and having one thousand Plataeans [in support]. And they say …Matched in translationhighmedium
η250Ἠλιτενὴς πέτραlofty rock… identified. Adler (apparatus) draws attention to its mistaken attribution to Callimachus' Hecale (as fr. 133 Kapp) but has no alternative suggestion to make.Matched in noteshighshort
ε2898ἘρατοσθένηςEratosthenes… philosopher Ariston of Chios, the grammarian Lysanias of Cyrene, and Callimachus the poet. Ptolemy III summoned him from Athens, and he lived until Ptolemy V. Because he came second in every branch of learning …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε854Ἑλικώτατον ὕδωρmost swirling water, very swirling waterLikewise in ps.-Zonaras. The headword phrase is ascribed to Callimachus, Hecale fr.299.1 Pfeiffer (116.1 Hollis; 101a Kapp, 290 Schneider), and occurs in the context of a longer fragment where it is used to describe …Matched in noteshighshort
γ46Γαμβρὸς ἘρεχθῆοςErechtheus' son-in-lawThe headword phrase is Callimachus fr.321 Pfeiffer, from the Hecale. For Erechtheus see epsilon 2943. [1] Or Boreas, the north wind: see beta 390.Matched in noteshighshort
κ545Καταΐξsquall… a poetic form, glossed with the more usual form. [2] Callimachus, Hecale fr.238 (line 29), with scholion. [3] Merisos is independently attested only in ps.-Herodian.Matched in noteshighshort
α4322ἈταρνεύςAtarneus… a citizen of Atarneus. So e.g. in the epigram of Callimachus quoted by Diogenes Laertius 1.80.Matched in noteshighshort
κ2679Κύματος ἄκρον ἄωτονwave's topmost bloomThe headword phrase is derived from Callimachus, Hecale fr. 260.57 Pfeiffer (288.57 Lloyd-Jones Parsons), although in the original the words 'topmost bloom' appear in the dative case (a)/krw| a)w/tw|) instead of the nominative/accusative as …Matched in noteshighshort
α302Ἀγορανομίαςmarket-supervisorship, market-supervisorships… others from Lepreon a small town of the Peloponnese which Callimachus also mentions in the Hymns: "citadel of Kaukones, which is called Lepreion." Others still [sc. derive it] from mangy cattle, since the hides …Matched in translationhighmedium
α248Ἄγκοςglen… web address 1; cf. alpha 245. [2] An approximation of Callimachus, Hecale fr. 309 Pfeiffer (read possi\ d' a)nelqei=n, after Toup and Valckenaer; noted in Adler's addenda), with comment from the scholia there.Matched in noteshighshort
μ194ΜαριανόςMarianos, Marianus… [lines]; Paraphrase of Apollonius' Argonautica in iambics, 5608; Paraphrase of Callimachus' Hecale and hymns and Aitia and epigrams in iambics, 6810; Paraphrase of Aratus in iambics, 1140; Paraphrase of Nicander's Theriaca in iambics, 1370; …Matched in translationhighmedium
αι142ΑἴθωνblazingFrom ancient comment on Callimachus, Hymn 6 (to Demeter), which has the phrase limo\n ai)/qona at lines 66-67. [1] Or (Toup) Aithon 'of Elis'.Matched in noteshighshort
μ1272Μόσσυνεςtowers… Hesychius mu1704, where Latte claims the headword as coming from Callimachus (Aetia fr.43.69 Pfeiffer; accusative plural there, nominative here). But alternatives should not be ignored, notably Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.381A-B; and see generally Xenophon, …Matched in noteshighshort
μ251Μᾶσσονlonger… as well as a scholion on Homer, Odyssey 8.203. [2] Callimachus, Hecale fr.238.22-23 Pfeiffer; quoted again at upsilon 75. See also alphaiota 17.Matched in noteshighshort
αι126ΑἰθιοπεὺςEthiopian… fill the same metrical space as a dative plural *ai)qio/pessi. Callimachus uses the genitive singular as an adjective (referring to the source of the Nile) in his Hymn to Delos (4.208 Pfeiffer). cf. alphaiota …Matched in noteshighshort

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