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2233
Κῶλα τοῦ ζεύγματος
arms of the bridge
… generated from the quotation given, where it is genitive. A
zeu=gma
(zeta 33), literally a binding, was a bridge or barrier across a waterway improvised by lashing together boats. For 'arms' cf. kappa 2231, …
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1205
Διοσημεία
Zeus-omen, Zeus-sign
… dia\ tou=to w)no/mastai, "[a manifestation of divine will is] when
Zeus,
or the sky, shows a sudden lightning: for this reason, that [phenomenon] is called dioshmi/a". Some natural phenomena, such as earthquakes, thunders and …
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1216
Διοτρεφής
Zeus-fostered, Zeus-reared
… the river Scamander as fed by the rain, thus by
Zeus.
LSJ entry at web address 1.
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391
Καρῖνος
Karinos, Carinus
… Adler notes, Wölfflin and Casaubon proposed inserting eu)= before gegono/twn,
born
to the nobility, which emendation Blockley (p. 13) appears to accept; but cf. epsilon 133 and upsilon 15. [3] Eunapius fr.4 FHG (4.14); …
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454
Κάσιον ὄρος
Kasian mountain
… s.v. Antioch(1)) in 114 CE. Trajan delivered the dedication at
Zeus's
temple on Mount Kasios and fortified it with spoils from the earlier victories over the Getae (Dacians; cf. delta 20 and OCD(4) s.v. …
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1093
Δίκης
of justice
… as a girl sitting by the throne of her father
Zeus
is developed in Aeschylus' Aitnaiai (cf. fr. 530 Mette-282 Lloyd-Jones). See also Solon 4.15ff., where justice is silently observing human events both of …
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4397
Ἀτυζομένη
distraught
… and to "that bird mad with grief, the messenger of
Zeus,"
Electra likens herself to Philomela. In the Attic version of the myth, Philomela was raped by her brother-in-law Tereus, who cut out her …
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3909
Ἀρίστιππος
Aristippos, Aristippus
… 836 (web address 1 below). The second trimeter, "having been
born
a male and from a male line", appears to be an addition. [3] Euripides, Bacchae 317-318 (web address 2).
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1062
Ἐμοί τε ἐπιστολαί
I have letters
… one of mythology's Seven Against Thebes, boasted that not even
Zeus
could stop him scaling the city's walls -- whereupon he was destroyed by a thunderbolt. [2] The electronic text erroneously repeats qeou\s (singular …
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2075
Κορείας
of maidenhead
… 1510, kappa 454. See further extracts from this epigram, on
Zeus's
seduction of Danae, at delta 57, epsilon 919, and rho 317.
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535
Χρόνου πόδα
time's foot
… Euripides fr. 487 (from the Melanippe), ai)qe/r' oi)/khsin *dio/s ("aither,
Zeus's
dwelling"). The second is best-known for its appearance in Bacchae 889 (web address 2), where the word for 'foot' appears, as here, in …
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368
Ἴνδακος
Indakos, Indacus
After the opening gloss, this material is Priscus fr.60
Bornmann,
now fr.79 Carolla. See also iota 370 (and epsilon 3827, epsilon 4014 and chi 200, which incorporate part of the present entry). On Indakos, …
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1584
Κιγκλίζει
wags one's tail
The verb kigkli/zw -- of which this is ostensibly the present indicative, third person singular (but see below) -- is derived from ki/gklos "dabchick" (kappa 1585), and literally means to act like the dabchick, …
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1277
Ἀλκή
might
… 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 fragment is in fact Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 5.5.1; cf. de Boor (196) …
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1298
Ἀλκυονίδες ἡμέραι
Alcyon days, Halcyon days, kingfisher days
… seem to have thought of the real kingfisher, beloved by
Zeus,
who calms the weather for its nesting (Simonides). The Alcyon Sea was so named, according to Strabo, because this corner of the Gulf …
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2521
Ἄνθρακες ὁ θησαυρὸς ἦσαν
the treasure was ashes
Same entry in Photius. For this proverb see e.g. Lucian,
Zeuxis
2, Philopseudes 32, Navigium 26. Its modern (if nowadays little-used) equivalent would be "apples of Sodom".
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4232
Ἀστέρειος
of a star, star's
… Electra 866 for 'sun's four-horser'. [4] Homer, Iliad 1.580 (of
Zeus),
with the gloss of the scholia there.
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4463
Αὐτάγγελος
self-announcing, announcing what one has seen
… [2] A (poor) iambic trimeter; perhaps from a story concerning
Zeus's
sacred oak at Dodona (see delta 1447). [3] Quotation unidentifiable. [4] Quotation unidentifiable.
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178
Αἰλιανός
Aelian, Aelianus, Ailianos
… 170-235), Roman author and teacher of rhetoric at Rome, was
born
at Praeneste, offspring of freedmen, and flourished under the reign of Septimius Severus (192-211). He wrote in Greek and was admired for it; …
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263
Γιγαντιᾷ
acts the giant
… latter is used of Athena in ps.-Lucian. [4] Used of
Zeus
in Lucian.
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919
Ἐλύγωσεν
mastered
… (and rare) lugo/w. [1] Greek Anthology 5.217.7 (Paul the Silentiary),
Zeus
turns into gold so as to seduce Danae. Further excerpts from this epigram are at alpha 1510, kappa 454, kappa 2075, and rho …
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1499
Ἐνυδροβίων
of aquatic (ones)
… means, by transference, any matched pair: see generally LSJ s.v.
zeu=gos,
II (web address 1). On this epigram, the seafarer Damis's dedication and prayer to an unnamed Egyptian goddess, see Gow and Page (vol. …
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2073
Ἐπερρόσαντο
they rushed toward
… see at alpha 1538), in reference to the hair of
Zeus
as he nods in assent. A large percentage of the attestations result from quotations of or commentary on this passage. [1] So far, …
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3131
Ἐσσήν
monarch
[1] From scholia to Callimachus, Hymn to
Zeus
1.66 ("monarch of gods" -- accusative case).
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1711
Κλεάνθης
Kleanthes, Cleanthes
… a few fragments; the most important is the Hymn to
Zeus.
The main fragments are preserved in Diogenes Laertius and Stobaeus, together with Cicero and Seneca.
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2341
Κράτης
Krates, Crates
… 517. [3] 328-325. The Suda actually says that Krates was
"born"
then, but for "flourished", h)/kmaze, see D.L. 6.87. [4] cf. theta 606. [5] cf. beta 492 (with the note there) and theta 19. …
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2713
Κυνθιάδες
Kynthos' children, Cynthus' children
… Apollo and Artemis, since they were said to have been
born
on Mt. Kynthos. But here, as we learn in the last line of the poem, it refers to goats inhabiting the mountain that …
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33
Λάγυνος
flask, flagon
… the bibliography below) or, more briefly, OCD(4) p.148. [1] Aphrodite,
born
in the sea off Cyprus (kappa 2738). See the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite. [2] An Homeric formula (delta 128). [3] This unparalleled and …
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