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α1531Ἀμβολάδηνbubbling up[Meaning] throwing [sc. itself] up. Herodotus [sc. uses it to mean] excessively.Matched in translationhighshort
ε977ἜμειαEmeiaMycenae (mu 1393) is in the NE Peloponnese, Greece; Emeia itself cannot be more precisely located than the indication given here.Matched in noteshighshort
μ13Μαγικήmagic, Magian [lore]… discovered this. It differs from goeteia [sorcery] and pharmakeia [witchcraft] itself.Matched in translationhighshort
α2248Ἀνελεῖνto overturn; to take up… or indeed broken it, [the council] passed a vote about itself, [to the effect] that it should be crowned. But the [version] with dative [sc. must be understood differently]: having overturned this law, [the …Matched in translationhighmedium
α3746ἈραφήνιοςAraphenian… headword is the demotic adjective; the name of the deme itself is Araphen.Matched in noteshighshort
μ1009ΜητροφάνηςMetrophanesof Eucarpia in Phrygia. Sophist. He wrote on Phrygia itself (2 books); On Types of Style; On Issues; a commentary on Hermogenes' Art; a commentary on Aristides.Matched in translationhighshort
κ2606ΚυδαντίδηςKydantides, Cydantides, Kydantidian… on Hyperides fr. 158 Jensen; in both lexica the headword itself is the demotikon ['demesman of Kydantidai'].Matched in noteshighshort
ι633Ἰσσικὸς κόλποςIssic gulf, gulf of Issos… extremity of the Mediterranean, where Cilicia met Syria. For Issos itself, site of a famous victory by Alexander the Great in 333 BCE, see iota 662.Matched in noteshighshort
μ435Μεθόριονborder-country, frontier-land… The glossing phrase spells out the etymology of the headword itself. For an instance see kappa 1283.Matched in noteshighshort
ε2901ἘργάνηErgane, Worker… amongst Athenians and Samians. It also signifies the work [sc. itself].Matched in translationhighshort
χ194Χελύνηlip[Meaning specifically] the upper lip. "A Median arrow planted itself in his upper lip." And elsewhere: "... man standing by man, biting his [sc. upper] lip in anger."Matched in translationhighshort
μ1441ΜύριςMyris… The adjective in the phrase is presumably geographical, but is itself an oddity (cf. mu 1431?).Matched in noteshighshort
δ1462ΔώριοςDorios, Dorius… attested is the phrase] Dorian economy: "Polemon had assumed the simplicity and squalor of Xenocrates and his gravity, as if a kind of Dorian economy." Also [sc. attested is the phrase] Dorian song.Matched in translationhighshort
δ352Δεινοὶ πλέκειν τοι μηχανὰς ΑἰγύπτιοιEgyptians (are) clever at crafting machines[1] Zenobius 3.37. The headword phrase itself is Aeschylus fr. 373 Nauck (726 Mette). [2] Homer, Iliad 2.742, 15.626. The added comment comes from the scholia to the first of these passages. (The fame …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1291ΚελεζηνήKelezene… of Melitene: Barrington Atlas Map 89 grid A1. For Melitene itself see the adjoining Map 64 (and mu 522).Matched in noteshighshort
α781Ἀκάκητοςguileless; of AkakesionThough the manuscript tradition is unproblematic in itself, the headword here should clearly be not a)ka/khtos but *)akakh/sios. See alpha 780 and the Pausanias passage cited there, in which Hermes Akakesios is mentioned; and …Matched in noteshighshort
ε1997Ἐπ' αὐτοφώρῳin the very act (of theft), red-handed[Meaning] caught before one's eyes, in the theft itself. "[Belisarius], although he had caught the affair in the very act at Carthage, was willingly deceived by his wife [Antonina]."Matched in translationhighshort
γ213ΓεφυρίςGephyraean (woman)[1] Herodotus 5.57 (web address 1 below). The present headword itself, however, is unattested outside lexicography.Matched in noteshighshort
χ91Χαραδροῦταιis being gullied… quoted from somewhere but is not independently attested. The verb itself occurs first in Herodotus: see LSJ s.v. cf. generally chi 86, chi 87.Matched in noteshighshort
λ334ΛευκονοιεύςLeukonoian, Leuconoean… The demotikon is correctly given here, but the deme name itself is more authentically -- as in Harpok. -- Leukonoion; cf. lambda 333.Matched in noteshighshort
β118ΒάρνηBarne… Ambrosian Lexicon. Its gloss, nevertheless, is not only obscure in itself (though cf. beta 111) but, surely, misplaced here. Cadesh Barnea (present-day Ein el Qudeirat, in NE Egypt) is mentioned in several books of …Matched in noteshighshort
α1776Ἀμφίτρητονpierced-through… case). [2] Either the wife of Poseidon or the sea itself: see LSJ s.v.Matched in noteshighshort
γ408ΓούνδαςgoundasBoth the headword itself and the gloss's alternative are otherwise unattested. Nevertheless, both are evidently variants on what scholia to Lucian twice (on Gallus 22 and Dialogues of the Courtesans 14.2) call gonde, and …Matched in noteshighshort
κ594Κατακωχήpossession[Meaning] holding. "And the place itself was a fortification for possession of the season/time." And elsewhere: "... [that it] was the divine possession which gently opens and purifies the eyes of the soul."Matched in translationhighshort
μ1097ΜινύειονMinyan, MinyeiosA name of a place. But *minuh/ion too is itself a name of a place.Matched in translationhighshort
ι738ἸτέαItea, Eitea… the next derive from Harpokration s.v. Iteaios, which explicitly concerns itself with the deme Eitea in the tribe Akamantis; note, however, that there was also an Eitea in the tribe Antiochis. For bibliography see …Matched in noteshighshort
δ223Δεξαμενήreceptacle… sanctuary of Wisdom and sat unexpectedly in the sacred receptacle itself [...] But even from there [Theodora] was able to drag her off." That is, the table which receives the sacred articles.Matched in translationhighshort
α4014ἉρποκρατίωνHarpocration, Harpokration… 4012, alpha 4013) and an important source for the Suda itself. [1] RE Harpocration(5), with Suppl. 6.1026; OCD4 Harpocration, Valerius.Matched in noteshighshort
λ348Λεχεποίηνgrassy, meadowy… 2. The gloss brings out the etymology of the word itself. For 'sleeping-mats' see psi 93.Matched in noteshighshort
κ2351Κραυγὴ Σοδόμωνcry of Sodom… punishment, saying, 'the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah has propagated itself in my presence'.Matched in translationhighshort

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