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- ι99Ἴδειwith sweat, with heatSee Hesiod, Shield of Heracles 397 (web address 1).
- ε780Ἐλεδώνηeledone… Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 7.318E (7.107 Kaibel), citing Aristotle and Speusippus. [2] Hesiod, Works and Days 524; see under tau 308, and cf. tau 313.
- δ126Δαῖταςfeasts… 274, beta 527, and omicron 158. [3] Polybius 5.2.6, quoting Hesiod fr.206 Merkelbach-West (77 Rzach).
- κ2714Κυνοκέφαλοςdogshead… scholia to that passage. For Kleon see kappa 1731. [2] Hesiod, Theogony 287 (web address 2). The connection that the scholiast is making between Kleon and Geryon(eus), gamma 254, is vague; perhaps he imagines …
- α1277Ἀλκήmight… and cf. also the scholia to Homer, Iliad 4.245. [2] Hesiod fr. 203 Merkelbach-West (in Nicolaus of Damascus FGrH 90 F33), on Zeus. [3] Polybius fr. 5 Büttner-Wobst. Büttner-Wobst notes (p. 514) that this …
- δ350Δεινωποίterrible-visaged (ones)… plural headword is probably quoted from its only other attestation: Hesiod, Shield (Aspis) 250, describing the goddesses of doom.
- α4456Αὖονparched… where the headword (accusative singular of this adjective) occurs. [2] Hesiod, Works and Days 743 (web address 1), probably referring to trimming the fingernails. [3] Greek Anthology 6.105.3-4 (Apollonides), a fisherman's offerings to Artemis, …
- ε362Ἑκατηβελέτηςfar-shooter… similarly in other lexica and grammars. See Homer, Iliad 1.75, Hesiod, Shield of Heracles 100, Homeric Hymn to Apollo 157. cf. epsilon 432.
- ε3749Εὐστέφανονwell-crowned… this adjective. It must be quoted from somewhere, perhaps from Hesiod, Shield 80 (of Thebes; cf. Homer, Iliad 19.99).
- χ346Χλοερόςgreen, verdant… uncontracted form of the gloss, often preferred in poetry (e.g. Hesiod, Shield of Heracles 393, Euripides, Bacchae 866). See also chi 358, Hesychius s.v., and (according to Adler) Lexicum Ambrosianum 271.
- λ309Λέσχηlounging, lounge; conversation… the title of a book containing the Halicarnassian's works. [4] Hesiod, Works and Days 493 (web address 2), here wrongly interpreted. (For kiln, see kappa 284.)
- δ1093Δίκηςof justice… entry = Aelian fr. 28 Domingo-Forasté (25 Hercher). [4] cf. Hesiod, Works and Days 256 (web address 1). Aelian's words summarize the comparison between the just and unjust cities in Hesiod's text, which M.L. …
- δ356Δειπνολόχονdinner-trapping… similarly in other lexica. The headword adjective famously occurs in Hesiod, Works and Days 704 (of a bad wife): deipnolo/xhs, feminine genitive singular. Here in the lexica, however, it is masculine accusative singular (or, …
- η307Ἡμερόκοιτοςday-sleeper… Hesychius. The headword is an epithet of a thief at Hesiod, Works and Days 605. Also found in the form h(merokoi/ths; and cf. the Doric forms a(mero/koitos (Euripides, Cyclops 58) and a(merokoi/ths (Hesychius alpha3603, …
- ε3535Εὐκηλήτειραsoother… feminine headword is attested only in (and quoted here from) Hesiod, Works and Days 464 (web address 1). Refers to fallow land; see the corresponding scholia. Identically glossed in Hesychius (and ps.-Zonaras); and cf. …
- α3750Ἀράχνηspider's web… that the Anthologia Planudea transmits sth/mon (vol. I, 12). [2] Hesiod, Works and Days 777 (not Adler's "475": cobwebs). [3] Pindar fr. 296. [4] Callias fr. 2 Kock, now 5 K.-A. [5] Sophocles fr. …
- ε4007Ἔχιδναviper… mythical monster Echidna (half-women, half-snake; mate of Typhon [tau 1226]; Hesiod, Theogony 295ff., etc.; OCD(4) 483).
- ε3010Ἐρισμάραγδοςloud-thundering… a (unique) variant of, or a simple error for, e)risma/ragos (Hesiod, Theogony 815, etc.). As the present gloss is feminine, in context the headword must have been attached to a noun of that gender, …
- α1341Ἄλλοτε μητρυιὴ πέλει ἡμέρη ἄλλοτε μήτηρsometimes a day is a step-mother (but) sometimes a motherHesiod, Works and Days 825; in Macarius 1.90 and other paroemiographers. Tosi [see under alpha 378] no.31.
- α1135Ἀλεξιάρη γῆdeath-averting earth… as e)pi/kouros, a)lecika/kos. Latte regards that entry as prompted by Hesiod, Works and Days 464 (where fallow land, neio/s [nu 291], is called a)lecia/rh); and the same is surely true of the present one. …
- αι132Αἴθοπαfiery-looking… from the quotation given (though there are alternatives in Homer, Hesiod and elsewhere). [1] cf. alphaiota 133. [2] Greek Anthology 5.218.9-10 (Agathias Scholasticus), on the poet's rival in love.
- η109Ἡδυεπήςsweet-speaking… also in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo (4) and in Hesiod and Pindar. (The scholia to the Iliad passage gloss it: o( h(du\s e)n tw=| le/gein). Entry paralleled in the Synagoge (Lexica Segueriana 242.12), …
- κ1918ΚοκκύζωI crow, I cry like a cuckoo… already in Hesychius kappa3296: kokku/zei -- very probably quoted from Hesiod, Works and Days 486 -- glossed with tara/ssei "harasses" and fwnei= o)ce/ws "makes a sharp sound". [2] From Aristophanes, Frogs 1380 (web address …
- ε2917ἘρεβεινόςErebos-like, Erebus-like… form e)rebenno/s, with Aeolic treatment of *-sn-, in Homer and Hesiod; the Ionic form e)rebeino/s, as here, is confined to lexicography. See also epsilon 2921.
- μ317Μαιευόμενοιdelivering, serving as a midwife (?)… headword to maio/menoi, twice attested in Pindar; also in e.g. Hesiod and Oppian.
- ε661Ἐκτολυπεύσαςhaving wound off… quoted from somewhere, doubtless (as Latte on Hesychius s.v. claims) Hesiod, Shield 44. [2] Also quoted from somewhere, presumably, but source unidentifiable. [3] Addendum lacking, Adler reports, in mss AV, and a marginal addition …
- α3749Ἀράχνειον νῆμαspidery web… phrases is illustrated by the quotation given; the first by Hesiod, Works and Days 777 (web address 1). cf. generally alpha 3750. [1] Greek Anthology 6.39.3-4 (Archias), three sisters dedicate their spinning and weaving …
- κ1286Κελαινόςblack, murky, dark… a wound. The heart of a man may be kelaino/n (Hesiod, Shield 429), or his spirit kelainw/pan (of Odysseus, Sophocles, Ajax 955, cf. kappa 1288), cf. kelaino/frwn, spoken by Orestes of his mother (Aeschylus, …
- κ520Καταδεύσῃwould soak… very probably a version of kata/ q' ei(/mata deu/sh| in Hesiod, Works and Days 556. For this and the glosses cf. generally the second part of alpha 1851 (on which see further, next note). …
- ε513Ἐκνεφίαςcloud-produced… Meteorologica 113.15 passim. See also Chrysippus in the scholia to Hesiod, Theogony 148. A detailed definition of this kind of winds is provided by Posidonius fr.337a, lines 9ff. For an occurrence in comic poetry …