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1796
Ἐξομόργνυνται
they wipe off (from themselves)
The headword is third person plural present middle of e)como/rgnumi. It must be quoted from somewhere: same or similar glossing in other lexica, and cf. also the scholia to Plato, Laws 775D, where the …
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2000
Ἀναπεμπάζειν
to ponder, to calculate, to count over
Same entry in ps.-Zonaras; similar ones in Photius (s.v. a)napempa/zesqai) and Hesychius (s.v. a)napempa/zei and a)napempazo/menoi, on the second of which see below). [1] The Aeolic form for pe/nte "five" is pe/mpe -- both …
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3523
Ἀποσκευαζόμενος
discarding, discounting, disowning, jettisoning
[1] For this verb cf. generally alpha 3059. Its present participle (masculine nominative singular), here, must be quoted from somewhere; same or similar glossing in other lexica. [2] Quotation unidentifiable--but Alcibiades is evidently alpha …
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94
Δαυίδ
David
Source (after the opening gloss): George the Monk, Chronicon 1.176.10-13, 178.4-11, 179.5-25. Some repetition at omicron 974, and cf. sigma 1035. For David see also delta 95, delta 96. [1] Judaism, as in the …
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1093
Δίκης
of justice
The headword is the genitive singular of the noun di/kh (delta 1089, delta 1090, etc.), evidently quoted from somewhere, although not from either of the quotations given; perhaps from commentary to Aristophanes, Clouds 764 …
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414
Χοροῖσι τῶν τραγῳδιῶν ἄχθεται
he is grieved at the choruses of the tragedians
Aristophanes, Birds 787-788 (web address 1: the Suda's e)kpeto/menos needs for metrical reasons to be e)kto/menos), immediately preceded by an explanation from the scholia to 787. The rephrasing and presentation of this quotation as …
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240
Δέομος
constraint
Same entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. The form de/omos is otherwise unattested, but Hesychius has entries for de/hmos (delta422) and, apparently, deo/menos (delta651) with the same glossing. (LSJ prints the latter.)
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250
Δέρας
skin
Incompetently adapted from John of Antioch fr.15.3 FHG (5.548), now 26.3 Roberto; the original has 'Jason and his associates' (justifying the plural participle parageno/menoi which is retained here) and has them taking Medea and …
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964
Διεσπλεκωμένῃ
her who has been fucked
The headword is the perfect middle participle, in the feminine dative singular, of the verb diaspleko/w; cf. also spleko/w in Aristophanes, Lysistrata 152 (pi 1722). It can also be written pl- or spekl-; cf. …
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1340
Δολιχόσκιον
long-shadowing
The headword, neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective, occurs 26 times in Homer, as a formulaic epithet for a spear: 'casting a long shadow'. (For the 'long' part of the compound cf. delta 1336, …
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70
<20Ἐγκαλινδεῖσθαι σωματικοῖς παθήμασι
to wallow in bodily affections
A marginal gloss mising from mss TFV and misplaced in ms G. Adler tentatively ascribes it to Symeon Metaphrastes. (But see below.) The verb e)gkalindei=sqai, literally meaning to roll around in, occurs occasionally in …
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714
Ἐκφορούμενοι
being carried out
The headword (which must be quoted from somewhere but is not independently attested) is present middle/passive participle, masculine nominative plural, of e)kfore/w. Earlier lexica have other glosses, such as korennu/menoi, 'being satiated'; see Photius …
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1564
Ἐξαρτήσας
having hung on
The headword (evidently quoted from somewhere) is aorist participle, masculine nominative singular, of the verb e)carta/w; cf. epsilon 1748, epsilon 1749. See also ps.-Zonaras 766.1, with the same glosses; cf. Etymologicum Gudianum 485.17 s.v. …
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1740
Ἐξηπάτησεν ἡ χάραξ τὴν ἄμπελον
the stake deceived the vine
Aristophanes, Wasps 1291 (web address 1), with scholion; cf. Appendix Proverbiorum 2.71. See also eta 672, chi 97. [1] Here the manuscripts read sw=|zon "that which saves," but Kuster emends to sw|zo/menon "that which …
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1946
Ἐπάλξεις
battlements
The headword is the nominative/ accusative plural -- glossed here as nominative -- of the noun e)/palcis. This form of the noun occurs numerous times in Homer's Iliad, e.g. 12.258 (web address 1), and …
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306
Χιλιοστύς
chiliostys
For this entry (prefigured at kappa 274), after the initial gloss, cf. eta 634 and especially iota 374. The source of the material -- transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti -- …
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