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19 entries for Thales

ε55Ἔγγειονearthly, landed, terrestrial… Demosthenes 33.3 (web address 1). [5] Lysias fr.265 Sauppe (91 Thalheim), now 428 Carey. The transmitted text does not seem to end intelligibly, and emendations have been proposed which create a proper contrast for …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ94ΔαυίδDavid… delta 95, delta 96. [1] Judaism, as in the Jerusalem Talmud (c.400 CE) (Ginzberg, 5.414), and Christianity (EncycJudaica, 5.1332) have extra-biblical traditions that identify David as a prophet. The Jerusalem Talmud (Sotah 9.24b), for …Matched in noteshighmedium
α4317Ἀτάλλωνfostering; skippingThe headword, extracted from the quotation given, is present participle, masculine nominative singular, of a)ta/llw. Similar material in other lexica. [1] Sophocles, Ajax 558-9 (web address 1 below); cf. kappa 2199. [2] cf. the …Matched in noteshighshort
δ536Διὰ δακτυλίου δεῖ σε ἑλκυσθῆναιyou must have been dragged through a ring… was about thy years, Hal, I was not an eagle's talon in the waist; I could have crept into any alderman's thumb-ring".Matched in noteshighshort
ε2994ἘριννύςFury, Erinnys, Erinys… scholia to Homer, Iliad 9.567. [2] Greek Anthology 7.188.5-6 (Antonius Thallus); cf. mu 1258, phi 800. On this epigram, wherein a young woman dies on her wedding day, see Gow and Page (vol. I, …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1550Δρυπολεῖνto go around (with) trees… indicative drupolei= (presumably quoted from somewhere) in three different ways: talaipwrei= ("is in a miserable state"; cf. tau 49), o)reibatei= ("walks on mountains"; cf. omicron 544), and puri\ poliorkei= ("besieges with fire"). See also …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2476ΚρόταλονrattleThe headword is accusative singular, as it appears in Aristophanes, Clouds 260 (web address 1). The comments here are drawn from the scholia to this line. For the headword see also kappa 2477. [1] …Matched in noteshighshort
αι249ΑἰολοκένταυροςAeolocentaur, (?)Were-centaurSame entry, Adler reports, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. The headword is otherwise unattested (and ignored by LSJ) except in Lucian, who invents this nonsense name for a character in the battle of the floating …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2355Κραιπαλᾶνto carouse… On Sesostris see generally sigma 268, sigma 867. This particular tale about him is loosely paralleled in Diodorus Siculus 1.58.2. In Theophylact's account, Theodore, envoy to the Avars (Thrace, autumn of 593), uses the …Matched in noteshighshort
α1356Ἀλλ' οὐ λαχοῦσ' ἔπινες ἐν τῷ γράμματιso did you not drink in your letter once you had been allotted it?… with scholion. (The participle laxou=sa is feminine because Chremes is talking to, and about, a woman.)Matched in noteshighmedium
χ191Χελώνη μυιῶνa tortoise [uncaring] of flies… a blow from Odysseus. See theta 257.) [3] An apocryphal tale about the death of Aeschylus; from alphaiota 357.Matched in noteshighmedium
ε70<20Ἐγκαλινδεῖσθαι σωματικοῖς παθήμασιto wallow in bodily affections… Chrysostom; ptai/smata (Catenae) and a(marti/ai (Basil of Caesarea); bodily pains (talaipwri/ai), as in Gennadius Scholarius and -- as here -- bodily affections. Despite Adler's indication, it may be connected with Isidore of Pelusium, Epistulae …Matched in noteshighshort
χ5Χάλαζαhail, hailstorm… Life of Pythagoras (so Adler). [3] Aristophanes, Frogs 852 (Dionysus talking about Aeschylus), with comment from the scholia there. The negative ou)k is not in Aristophanes' text.Matched in noteshighmedium
κ1347Κέπφοςstormy petrelLSJ considers this to be "perhaps" the stormy petrel, Thalassidroma pelagica. See also kappa 1348. [1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica (see the references at Photius kappa575 Theodoridis); ultimately from Aelius Dionysius, Attika …Matched in noteshighshort
λ726Λώϊονbonnier… the lines must have been written by a poet more talented than either of the Antipaters. For the masculine noun krwgmo/s (caw, croak), see also kappa 2491.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1504Δραπέτης κλῆροςrunaway lot… was simply limp and soggy). Teucer, in Sophocles' play, is talking of the lots that the Greek heroes cast in a helmet at Homer, Iliad 7.175ff. (web address 2), to choose one to fight …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3605ΕὔξενοςEuxenos, Euxenus… of Apollonius of Tyana 1.7 [1] cf. chi 163. On talking birds as pets, see OCD(4) s.v. "pets." [2] cf. mu 479.Matched in noteshighmedium
μ337ΜαιονίδαςMaionidas, Maeonides; Maion's son, Maeon's son… Sidon. Maion/Maeon's claim to paternity is perhaps based on the tale told by Ephorus of Cyme in his Story of his Native Land (FGrH 70 F1), that there were three brothers in Cyme, of …Matched in noteshighshort
ι368ἼνδακοςIndakos, Indacus… (note 2 in vol. I, ch. XII) comments on Isaurian talent at running; web address 2 (note 41 in vol. I, ch. XII), commenting on p.399 of vol. I, mentions Indakos' role in betraying …Matched in noteshighmedium