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15 entries for attention, pause for reflection, observation

γ18Γαλαξίαςgalaxy, the Milky Way… meaning significantly from the rather opaque statement found here: "a reflection of the light of the stars that are not being shined on by the sun." This reading is confirmed by reflections of the …Matched in noteshighshort
κ668Κατανδρίζεσθαιto fight manfully against… favorite in all forms). Theodoridis on Photius s.v. draws particular attention to Cyril's Commentary on Isaiah 5.5 (PG 70.1368a).Matched in noteshighshort
α865Ἀκηλίδωτονspotless… outside lexicography.) The point of this addendum is to draw attention to the form -o/teros rather than -w/teros.Matched in noteshighshort
α1084Ἀλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν ῥείτω κατ' οὖρονbut let these things flow on a fair wind… cf. omicron 953. The "you" addressed, as Deianeira refocuses her attention on the immediate situation, is Lichas the herald.Matched in noteshighshort
μ440Μεθύουσανdrenched, steeped… Find another extract from this epigram at delta 1636. [3] Observation also made in the syntactical lexicon edited by Cramer (see Bibliography). There is no good classical precedent for this, other than Alexis fr. …Matched in noteshighshort
α1332Ἄλοπονunscutched… 'unscutched' flax-stalk (as scholiasts noted) is the penis, awaiting the attention of a woman who "wishes to go home and entice her husband into sexual congress by arousing him" (J. Henderson, The Maculate Muse …Matched in noteshighshort
ε1507Ἐν χρῷ κεκαρμένοςshorn [close] to skin… Courtesans 12.5 -- though Theodoridis on Photius, Lexicon epsilon1069 draws attention to the accusative plural version in Xenophon, Hellenica 1.7.8. [2] Quotation unidentifiable. [3] cf. epsilon 1508.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1189Καιρόςopportune time… 75-6, with scholion; cf. epsilon 3615. [2] An extra, general observation on the above. It is not from the Sophoclean scholion; rather, from an indeterminable source also quoted in writers later than the Suda …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ784ΛυδιάζωνLydianizing, playing the Lydian… dieskeda/sqhsan, "were dispersed/scattered/rejected", and that might be right as a reflection of what Aristophanes' chorus says about Magnes having been 'driven off the stage' when elderly. But more probably dieskeua/sqhsan, printed by Adler and …Matched in noteshighshort
ε760Ἐλάχιστοςthe least [thing]… on, largely, Luke 16.10-12 (web address 1). Adler's note draws attention to similarities ('cf.') between it and later material: PG 123.968bc, by Theophylact Hephaistos, archbishop of Achrida (Ochrid) from the 1090s onwards. She did …Matched in noteshighmedium
γ25Γαλεάγραweasel-trap, iron-maiden… word. [1] Quotation unidentifiable, though it may be a dim reflection of what we find in Appian, Libyca 15, and Polyaenus 8.12 (both in reference to the death of Regulus at the hands of …Matched in noteshighshort
α2733Ἀντιτυπῆσαιto resist, to strike against… in Photius and other lexica. [1] In the sense of "reflection". [2] That is, flint: Greek Anthology 6.27.4 (Theaetetus Scholasticus). Find further extracts from this epigram, wherein a retiring fisherman dedicates his equipment, at …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε549Ἑκὼν ἀέκοντί γε θυμῷwilling but with an unwilling heart[1] Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 4.15.11, on the reflections of Chosroes II (cf. generally chi 418 note) during the Roman siege of Martyropolis (cf. alpha 3649 note) in the autumn of 590; cf. de Boor …Matched in noteshighshort
β489Βωμολόχοςaltar-ambusher… and Photius, Lexicon beta321. It is based in part on observations of the grammarian/lexicographer Apollodorus of Cyrene (RE 1.286 'Apollodorus 65'). It should be read in the context of complementary observations in beta 486, …Matched in noteshighmedium
α4570Ἀφαιρεῖν κροκύδαςto pluck off threads… hairs out of the beard, to the object of his attentions); and cf. Valeria and Sulla in Plutarch, Sulla 35.4. [2] If this is a quotation, it is unidentifiable.Matched in noteshighshort

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