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1025
Ἀκρωλένιον
elbow
Same entry in ps.-Zonaras; and cf.
Pollux
2.140 for this sense of the neuter headword. (Xenophon, Cynegeticus 2.6 and 6.9 has another -- the outer part of a mesh net; cf.
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5.29).
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140
Χαρώνειος θύρα
Charon's door
… the dead, see chi 135. [1] (Repeated at nu 488.)
Pollux
(8.102) and Hesychius call it the Charonion. On the nomophylakion as the Athenian prison see L. O'Sullivan, "Philochorus,
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and the nomophylakes of …
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457
Γρῖφος
riddle, conundrum
… Soli (also known as Soleus), On Riddles (FHG II 31).
Pollux
6.19, from the same source, classifies it among "questions over the wine-cups" (zhth/mata kuli/keia) or "to test memory" (mnhmo/neia), and distinguishes it from …
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799
Διατοιχεῖ
rolls side-to-side
… 51 Kock, now 50 K.-A.), is preferred by Phrynichus and
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over a)natoixei=; see LSJ s.v. (web address 1). For the toichoi, literally walls, of a boat cf. e.g. Homer, Odyssey 12.420 and see …
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961
Διεσμιλευμένον
polished-off
… Hesychius delta1663 (gloss leptologhqe/ntwn); adverb id. delta1664 (gloss h)kribwme/nws); and
Pollux
6.150. See also the scholia to Lucian, Bis accusatus 34, applying the headword to stylistic elegance: to\n *)attikismo/n fhsi kai\ to\ th=s le/cews …
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964
Διεσπλεκωμένῃ
her who has been fucked
… 1722). It can also be written pl- or spekl-; cf.
Pollux
5.93. For the violent vulgarity of the term (reflected in translation here) see J. Henderson, The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 154 #214. …
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1205
Διοσημεία
Zeus-omen, Zeus-sign
… a bad omen rested with the presiding magistrate(s). According to
Pollux
8.24 the e)chghtai\ were appointed to the interpretation of signs and used to give instruction about the will of gods. [9] The information …
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1560
Δοῖδυξ
pestle
… Peace 295 derive the word from a(/las tri/bein "grind salt".
Pollux
1.245 mentions the a)letri/banos among implements used by peasants. For 'pestle' doi/duc see Peace 288, 295; a scholion ascribes to Crates of Mallos …
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1658
Δύσμηνις
wrathful
… 1659) is very rare outside grammars and lexica, but see
Pollux
1.39 (a 'wrathful god') and Greek Anthology 9.69.1.
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1271
Ἐνετρύλλισε
whispered [in someone's ear]
… aorist indicative active, of the very rare e)ntrulli/zw (or e)ntruli/zw);
Pollux
9.109 connects it with quail-baiting.
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1462
Ἐντερόνεια
inner-timbering
… commentary on the Aristophanes passage (Herodian, On Orthography 3.2 507.28,
Pollux
2.212, Hesychius epsilon3349; cf. epsilon 1460, tau 282), perhaps as a result of someone's speculation about whether this word should be read in …
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2768
Ἐπιχειλές
rim-full
… glossed accordingly (cf. already Hesychius epsilon5426, glossing to\ e)llipe/s, and
Pollux
5.133) -- must be quoted from somewhere else. An extant possibility is Synesius, Dion 14.
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3620
Εὐόφθαλμον
fine-eyed
[1] Neuter singular, glossed as in Photius; and cf.
Pollux
2.51. For the glossing term cf. already epsilon 3619. [2] Or "speciously". Antiphon fr. 60 Sauppe, from Harpokration s.v. eu)ofqa/lmws.
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3847
Ἐφεδρεύει
lies in wait
… [2] Likewise in Photius and other lexica, and cf. also
Pollux
1.209. The headword is third person singular, present indicative active, of e)fedreu/w. It must be quoted from somewhere; there are numerous possibilities. [3] …
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198
Καλαμώμενος
stalk-binding, reaping
… but Hesychius kappa407 has an entry for kalamw/menon, said by
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7.142 to occur in Cratinus (fr. 420 Kock, now 461 K.-A.). [2] This third person plural, present indicative middle, of the same verb …
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620
Χύτρον
pot
… the other by the ears as by handles' (LSJ); cf.
Pollux
10.100. [3] Greek Anthology 6.306.1 (Ariston), a list of kitchen equipment dedicated to Hermes by Spinther the cook upon his manumission; cf. Gow …
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