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- α3930ἈριστοτέληςAristotle, Aristoteles"Timaios says against Aristotle that he was arrogant, reckless, and headstrong . . . (but not) a pedantic and detestable sophist who had just locked up his precious surgeon's shop, and who besides [this] …
- ε138Ἐγκύρτιαfish-trap entrances, weel entrances… woven parts in fish-traps. But Plato uses the term in Timaeus in reference to the throat.
- γ240Γῆν ἰλλομένηνfettered landSame entry in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon and in Photius, Lexicon gamma110 Theodoridis. The headword phrase, in the accusative case, is generated by Plato, Timaeus 40B (quoted by Plutarch, Moralia 1006C). cf. generally iota 285, …
- α2143ἈναψῦχονrefreshingSame entry in Photius, and in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. For this verb see already alpha 2142. [1] The primary headword is quoted from Plato, Cratylus 399D. [2] This secondary headword is surely also quoted …
- δ666Διανενεύκαμενwe have swum throughSame entry in other lexica, including Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. The headword comes from Plato, Republic 441C, tau=ta me\n a)/ra...mo/gis dianeneu/kamen ('that was a tough swim for us'). cf. delta 667, delta 670.
- κ721Καταποντωθῆναιto be drowned, to be thrown into the seaSame entry in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. The headword, aorist passive infinitive of this verb, is therefore highly likely to be quoted from Plato, Gorgias 511E (on good steersmanship preventing this: see web address 1).
- ε1796Ἐξομόργνυνταιthey wipe off (from themselves)… to Plato, Laws 775D, where the participle e)comorgnu/menon (e)comorgnu/menos in Timaeus, Platonic Lexicon) occurs.
- μ813Μετρίως ὠργιασμένωςas kneaded moderately… in Photius mu368 Theodoridis, though with w)rgasme/nws transmitted, and in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon, which (as emended by Ruhnken) correctly has the participle w)rgasme/nos. The headword phrase comes from Plato, Theaetetus 194C (an image of …
- κ1997ΚόμμιgumCited more extensively in pi 928, Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon, and Pausanias the Atticist s.v. pe/lanoi, and attributed to Dionysius Thrax fr.51 Linke. Tree sap is frequently termed "tears", starting with Herodotus 2.96: "its sap …
- ε2107Ἐπέφυclung to… of Constantine Porphyrogenitus 1.128.4-5. The subject is his especial bugbear Timaeus [tau 600, etc.] and his attitude to truthful information.
- δ1655Δυσμαῖς βίουat life's settingsSame entry in Hesychius (delta2605) and elsewhere, including Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. The headword phrase is probably quoted from Plato, Laws 770A (even though 'life' has the definite article there); other instances and parallels in …
- ει165Εἴξασιthey are like[1] Similarly in other lexica, including Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. See Plato, Politicus 291A and Sophist 230A. [2] Aristophanes, Clouds 341-3 (web address 1) with scholion. For e)/oika etc. see epsilon 3347, epsilon 3348, epsilon …
- ε3544Εὐκράςtemperate… describes a spring: web address 1). See also Hesychius (epsilon6939), Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon, Photius' Lexicon, ps.-Zonaras, and the Etymologicum Magnum (claiming the word as a rhetorical one). See also Euripides fr. 504 (from the …
- β27Βαθεῖαν αὔλακαdeep furrowLikewise in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon (and again, post-Suda, in the Etymologicum Magnum). The headword phrase, in the accusative case, is a version of baqei=an a)/loka in Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 593 (web address 1 …
- α375ἈγροικίζωI am a boor… (cf. already alpha 369.) Same material in other lexica, including Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon, and cf. also the scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 43. [2] From Alexander of Aphrodisias, Commentaries on Aristotle's Topics 324.9-12.
- α3775Ἀργιλλώδηςclayey, clay-like… Ambrosian Lexicon. [2] Likewise or similarly in other lexica, including Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. Perhaps stemming from the Arabian and Syrian gh=n ... a)rgilwdeste/rhn in Herodotus 2.12.3. [3] Greek Anthology 7.194.3 (Mnasalces), an epitaph for …
- ε584Ἔκπλυτονwashed-out… Lexicon epsilon478), evidently because it appears as a totality in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. Thus the source of the headword is probably Plato, Laws 872E, where it is used figuratively of a miasma. (Nevertheless see …
- κ1924Κολλάβουςcakes, rolls… on Aristophanes, Frogs 507 (web address 1). [2] Likewise in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon; also a scholion on Plato, Republic 531B (web address 2; cf. kappa 1957). See also a scholion on Lucian (61.2 Rabe).
- δ1535Δρόμοις[in] races… King Ptolemy II Euergetes (SIG 463.14). Note, nevertheless, that in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon the gloss is simply toi=s gumnasi/ois, suggesting a wider application. (Plato, Phaedrus 227A-B, perhaps lies behind Timaeus' entry.) [2] The quotation …
- κ481Καταβολήonset… kappa 483) has the same gloss in Photius and in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. This sense (LSJ's III) of katabolh/ is attested in Plato, Gorgias 519A (web address 1) and also -- though as the …
- κ1795Κλητῆρεςsummoners, witnesses to summons[1] Gloss routinely used for klhth=res, from Timaeus (Platonic Lexicon s.v. lh/ceis) and Hesychius onwards. [2] Properly (LSJ s.v.) "witness who gave evidence that the legal summons had been served". [3] The entire paragraph …
- κ1537Κηροῦ εὐπλαστότεροςmore malleable than wax[1] Same glossing in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. The headword phrase (with its comparative of the adjective eu)/plastos) is almost certainly quoted from Plato, Republic 588D (accusative case there: web address 1). Similar entry in …
- κ2746Κύρβιςbillboard… from scholia to this line. See also Hesychius kappa4464, and Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon.
- α3586Ἀποτεθρίακενhas unpetalled… Haven 1975) 118, #37. [2] (cf. tau 237.) Likewise in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon, and similarly in Photius and elsewhere. This participle, transmitted here as a)poteqruwme/noi, is actually a)poteqrumme/noi, quoted from Plato, Republic 495E; see …
- ι165Ἱερείας ἐνύπνιονpriestess's dream… 3.25. Ultimately a fragment of tau 602, the Sicilian historian Timaeus of Tauromenium (FGrH 566 F29) preserved in the scholia to Aeschines 2.10 (which alludes to this episode of 'the priestess's dream' as one …
- α187Ἀγελαῖοςordinary… its entirety are found in the Platonic Lexicon ascribed to Timaeus (971b.10); Synagoge (Codex B) alpha99; Photius, Lexicon alpha134 and alpha141 Theodoridis; none of these matches up precisely, however. Snippets evidently from the same …
- χ538Χρῶμαcolor, musical modulation, chromatic scale… Metaphysics 1057b8-10 and, for the underlying theory of color, Plato, Timaeus 67D-E). cf. chi 551, end. [2] Diodorus Siculus [delta 1151] fr.13 Walton.
- κ1561Κηφήνdrone… of the booty thus collected; cf. Kaldellis (335). [4] From Timaeus, Platonic Lexicon (and Photius); cf. the scholia to Plato, Laws 901A. [5] cf. the scholia to Plato, Republic 552B.
- λ325Λευκὴ στάθμηwhite measuring-line= Pausanias the Atticist lambda14; cf. Timaeus, Platonic Lexicon 994a17; a scholion to Plato, Charmides 154B [see below]; Aelius Dionysius lambda8, Hesychius lambda789, Photius lambda220 Theodoridis, Zenobius 4.89, [Diogenianus] 6.8, Gregorius 2.67 Apostolius 10.64. …
- ε2171Ἐπηλυγάζονταιthey are being obfuscated… = Hesychius epsilon4553, possibly deriving from the scholia to Thucydides. Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon offers the same glosses in reverse order. This form of the headword does not occur in the received text of Plato …