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1135
Ἀλεξιάρη γῆ
death-averting earth
[Meaning] that which aids men.
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545
Ἐκκόψαι
to cut out
Meaning to defeat: so
Alexis
[uses the word]. Also in reference to piercing the eye. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] e)ceko/ph ["was cut out"] meaning was pierced.
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3469
Εὐημερία
good-weather
As in the vernacular.
Alexis
in Olynthian Woman [writes]: "mistress Good-Weather and the friendly Muses."
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518
Βράσσει
boils
… headword occurs in (and is probably quoted here from) Nicander,
Alexipharmaca
359. See also epsilon 37, kappa 1153 (and beta 520).
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457
Γρῖφος
riddle, conundrum
… cites with evident pleasure many riddles from Greek comic playwrights
(Alexis,
Antiphanes, Diphilus, Eubulus) and elsewhere, and demonstrates the extraordinary literary and intellectual breadth required by this game. The griphos was included as one …
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961
Διεσμιλευμένον
polished-off
… participle, see Greek Anthology 15.38 (Cometas), referring to books, and
Alexis
frs. 220-1 Kock (now combined as 223 Kassel-Austin): leptoi\ diesmileume/nai te fronti/des, "subtle, refinished [philosophical] theories". Genitive plural in Hesychius delta1663 (gloss leptologhqe/ntwn); …
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1205
Διοσημεία
Zeus-omen, Zeus-sign
… qeou= o)rgh/) as referred to plagues and famines; Anna Comnena,
Alexiad
4, 2, 1; Arrian, Bithyniaca fr. 37, 4; scholia to Hesiod, Works and Days 661; scholia to Homer, Iliad 8 77a2. The word …
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1326
Δοκίδες
beams, meteors
… Aristotle, De mundo 392b4; Eusebius, Demonstratio evangelica 9.1.14; Anna Comnena,
Alexias
12.4.1. See also kappa 1996. The noun doki/s is also used in mathematical contexts, as one of the several names given to different …
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1499
Δραματουργήσας
having staged a drama, having fabricated
… metaphor for "staging" or manipulating political situations (e.g. Anna Comnena,
Alexias
1.12.9.7, although in a different form), or to wicked machinations in general, hence Hesychius' glossing (delta2312) of the infinitive of the verb as …
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513
Ἐκνεφίας
cloud-produced
… fr.337a, lines 9ff. For an occurrence in comic poetry see
Alexis
fr. 46.5 Kock = 47.5 K.-A. A different specific meaning, peculiar to medical texts, is illustrated by Galen, Linguarum seu dictionum exoletarum Hippocratis …
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