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1953
Κολουραία πέτρα
'stump-tailed' rock
[Meaning one which is] hollow, curved, or round, in
Callimachus.
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3622
Ἀπ' οὔατος ἄγγελος ἔλθοι
may the messenger go far from my ear
[sc. The phrase occurs] in
Callimachus.
That is, one of ill-boding, not worthy of not being heard.
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3750
Ἀράχνη
spider's web
… "all the weavers' things were a spider's web in weight".
Callimachus
[writes]: "a spider's-web work". Cratinus in Pytinê [writes]: "you are holding your stomach in the middle of spiders' webs." Pherecrates in Tyranny [writes]: …
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Αἴθ' ὄφελες θανεῖν ἢ πανύστατον ὀρχήσασθαι
if only you had died or danced for the very last time
… a blow she turns about as though she were dancing.
Callimachus
speaks of her in Hecale.
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340
Δεινόν
terrible
… I desire to know the cause of your disability. And
Callimachus
[writes]: "Why do you awaken a sleeping tear"? Aristophanes [writes]: "it is terrible for the spirit of a man to be so unripe …
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139
Ἐγκυτί
to the skin
Meaning close. So
Callimachus
[uses the word].
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2389
Ἐπικλινές
slanted
[Meaning something] leaning into evil. "The scale is slanted."
Callimachus
[sc. writes this].
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2515
Κτείς
comb
[Meaning] the pubes, and the hairstyling implement.
Callimachus
[writes]: 'not for those for whom there were hairs upon the "comb".' And elsewhere: 'and a hair-arranging comb'.
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2647
Κυκλίων τε χορῶν ᾀσματοκάμπας
and tune-benders of cyclic choruses.
… he was severely beaten as one obscuring the muses". And
Callimachus
alludes to them, attacking them in this kind of way: "they introduced bastardly songs". Or he is hinting at the associates of Cinesias …
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2713
Κυνθιάδες
Kynthos' 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 …
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854
Ἑλικώτατον ὕδωρ
most swirling water, very swirling water
Likewise 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 …
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128
Ἀγάλακτες
milkmates
… -- probably from its only attested instance outside lexica (etc.):
Callimachus,
Hymns 2.52. cf. generally gamma 17. [1] Same material in Eudemus, partially in other lexica.
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633
Ἀείπλανα
ever-wandering [lips]
The headword is neuter plural, from the quotation given. [2]
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 310 Pfeiffer, with the glossing of the scholia thereto.
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663
Ἀήσυρον
light-as-air
… in reference to ants in (?)Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 452-3.) [3]
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 311 Pfeiffer (where the editor prints a lacuna between adjective and noun).
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860
Ἀκηδής
uncared-for, uncaring
… of Acragas, but confuses historical facts (see sigma 441; cf.
Callimachus
fr. 64 Pfeiffer). The allusion is to the desecration of the tomb of the poet Simonides of Ceos, who was buried at Acragas; …
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2801
Ἄξεινος
inhospitable
[1] A fragment of
Callimachus,
taken from epsilon 10.
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4543
Αὐχμηρὰ τράπεζα
dry table, parched table
The headword phrase is unidentifiable
(Callimachus
fr.33 Kapp, but not in Pfeiffer). See also alpha 1825. See generally LSJ s.v. au)xmhro/s for the full range of meanings, literal and figurative, of this adjective. [1] …
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142
Αἴθων
blazing
From 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'.
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225
Βέβυστο
has been stuffed full, is stuffed full
… extracted from the quotation given. [1] cf. beta 224. [2]
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 320, with scholion.
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187
Γεργέριμον
over-ripe
… of olive which was small and pale in colour. [2]
Callimachus,
Hecale fr.248, with comments from the scholia there; cf. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 2.56C (2.47 Kaibel). See also delta 1549, epsilon 729, and phi 494.
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861
Ἐλινύειν
to rest
… part of] those idling or spending time. [3] Attributed to
Callimachus'
Hecale by Kapp (fr.128a), Pfeiffer (fr. 330) and Hollis (fr. 130), an attribution rejected by Schneider fr. an. 22, who suggests instead the …
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1180
Ἔνδιος
daytime
[1] cf. epsilon 1172. [2]
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 238 (lines 15-16); cf. eta 399. [3] So again in Etymologicum Magnum 432.36.
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1181
Ἐνδόμυχος
hole-in-the-corner, lurking within
… the quotation given, though there is an earlier instance in
Callimachus,
Hymn to Demeter 87 (on Erysichthon hiding away and gorging on food). [1] Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 28 Asmus, 59 Zintzen, 30B …
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2080
Ἐπέσειεν
was brandishing against
… given, lacks the headword's nu ephelkustikon). [2] Source unknown, although
Callimachus
has been suggested (anonymous fr.25 Schneider; not accepted by Pfeiffer), as has Babrius or a Babrian imitator (Crusius, p. 216, with reference to …
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2082
Ἐπέσθων
eatin' upon
… grammatical, and more poetical, th\n a(li/hn. [3] An abridgment of
Callimachus,
Epigram 47 Pfeiffer ( = Greek Anthology 6.301.1-3). The original has, more understandably, "great storms of debts", a nautical metaphor which the poet …
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3131
Ἐσσήν
monarch
[1] From scholia to
Callimachus,
Hymn to Zeus 1.66 ("monarch of gods" -- accusative case).
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128
Ἠέρος ὄγμοι
furrows of mist
[1] The headword phrase is
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 335. For o)/gmos, see also omicron 26, omega 10. [2] Greek Anthology 6.183.5-6 (Zosimus), a dedication to Pan by three brothers, a hunter, a fowler, and …
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545
Καταΐξ
squall
… 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.
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1843
Κλύμενος
famous, heard-of; Klymenos
… this etymology: see next note. [1] From ancient commentary on
Callimachus,
who uses the headword in the genitive case, and in the upper-case way noted by LSJ s.v.: see Hecale fr. 285; also fr. …
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1864
Κνηκίς
wisp
… and deer". See also, more generally, under Hesychius kappa3103. [1]
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 238 Pfeiffer.
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