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- ι368ἼνδακοςIndakos, Indacus… the same day but collapsed and died soon after his return; cf. epsilon 3827. [4] Carolla (op. cit.) identifies this part of her fr.79 as Priscan. The names of these two fleet-footed men, however, …
- α852Ἀκέφαλοςheadless[1] epsilon 3782 (but without mention of Severus). See also iota 436 (without mention of Eutyches). Severus of Antioch has an entry at sigma 271. This heresy is described by Theodoretus in one of …
- ε3256Ἐσχάτωςterminally… cf. Hesychius epsilon6457, who uses the same gloss (alongside another) without quoting or citing Menander. [1] Menander fr. 912 Kock (542 Kassel-Austin; 729 Körte-Thierfelder).
- ε328Ἔθοςcustom, habituation… Orations of Dio Chrysostom: 76 On Custom (as far as 'without necessity'), 75 On Law. [3] cf. Aristotle, Rhetoric 1370a6-7: "for what is habitual becomes as if it were already natural; for habituation is …
- ε2308Ἐπίδοσιςcontribution… George of Pisidia, Heraclias 3 fr. 45 Tartaglia; irony, but without context.
- α4637Ἀφόρητονunbearable… be quoted from somewhere -- but instances are numerous, and without a context we cannot say whether it is being used literally or figuratively.
- η60ἩγίαςHegias… [5] According to Athanassiadi ad loc., what Hegias was restoring without his relatives' permission might have been either rites or shrines. She mentions, without accepting it, Alan Cameron's suggestion that Hegias' relatives may have …
- μ1424Μυόχοδονmouse-droppings, mouse-dungSame entry in Photius mu622 Theodoridis; similar one (without the quotation) already in Hesychius mu1882. [1] Or someone, in the accusative case. [2] Menander fr. 325 K.-A. (430 Kock, 363 Koerte-Thierfelder).
- κ1049Κατηλωκυῖαhaving been nailed down… nominative singular, of the compound verb kathlo/w (more commonly kaqhlo/w). Without a context it is impossible to tell whether the subject is a woman or merely something grammatically feminine, and whether the use of …
- α3516Ἀποσαφοῦντεςmaking clear… Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 132 Zintzen (80 Asmus); again, without the name of Isidore, at epsilon 3779.
- β227ΒεζέκBezekMore briefly -- i.e. without the quotation itself -- already in Hesychius (beta455). [1] Ezekiel 1:14 LXX (not in all manuscripts). Theodoret's commentary on the passage attributes this exegesis of the word to Symmachus. …
- δ934Διεπεραιώθηwere ferried across… takes a singular verb; this cannot be reproduced in translation without grammatical incongruity.
- ε2023Ἐπέβρισενpressed down, pressed on… is plural). The earliest attestation of this form, with or without the nu-moveable, is in Plutarch, De fortuna Romanorum 321F (where the sense is figurative -- as, of course, it may also be here). …
- κ833Κατατρίψεινto be about to consume… indeed, in this fragment mh\ follows the perfect participle dedoiko/ti, without the particle a)/n, whose presence would represent an optative mood (Smyth, §§1845-1849, 411-412). Defending the attribution, however, Büttner-Wobst cites (op. cit., 536) two …
- κ1287Κελαινοφαήςblack-coloured… of Euripides, adding the suffix -fa/hs to adjectives of colour without adding to the meaning (see Dover ad loc., citing D. Hense in Philologus 60, 1901, 389). See Dover’s analysis (p. 358ff.) of the …
- μ315Μαιεύεταιserves as a midwife… note 96) that fragments 54-57 relate to the emperor's triumphant return to the Byzantine capital (September 629); cf. eta 366 and omicron 965. On Heraclius see generally eta 465. For the headword verb, here …
- ε876Ἐλθεῖνto come… rather, a reference to the use of the simple verb without any prefixes, in contrast to what follows. [2] Romans 5:20; cf. pi 604.
- ε3558Εὔλαχαeulaka… the behest of the disgraced Spartan king Pleistoanax, anxious to return from exile. The oracles declare that unless the Spartans do recall him they will have "to plow with a silver plowshare", i.e. (presumably) …
- α1324Ἀλοκίζεινto trace a furrow… of wax on it enabled him to indicate, in trials without fixed penalty, whether he favoured the one proposed by the plaintiff (long line) or the defendant (short line). See MacDowell (below) 244 with …
- κ1025Κατεχόρευενwas dancing in triumph over… kataxoreu/w (kappa 871). [2] Quotation (and individual) unidentifiable. Adler notes, without adopting, two suggested emendations for the transmitted peiqh=sai: peisqh=nai (Bernhardy) and pu/qesqai (Wolf).
- κ2090ΚορινθικόνCorinthian… (on Corinthian bumper crops see alpha 1579 note) and a)filosta/xuos ("without corn", "cornless", i.e. "starving"); cf. Madden (175). [2] delta 1207.
- α1808Ἀναβλυστωνῆσαιto gush forth… makes no obvious sense. Theodoridis on Photius (Lexicon alpha1414) lists, without adopting, three suggested emendations, one of them pai/zontes.
- ε2154Ἐπήβολοςcapable, possessing, skilled… suggest a late source, esp. the use of the headword without an objective genitive (though cf. already Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.1280, 4.1380).
- α3106Ἀπεχώρησενwithdrew… in delta 233 and pi 782 (and quotes it again, without attribution, at mu 156). Jacoby (FGrH 156 F136) assigns it to an unknown book of Arrian's Parthika; and it is Arrian, Parthika fr. …
- ε2057Ἐπενήνοθενwas flourishing upon… Homer, Iliad 2.219 (web address 1), where the headword occurs (without, however, the nu-moveable at the end; cf. Iliad 10.134, Odyssey 8.365). The scholiast here seems to associate the headword with a)nqe/w ('bloom'), and …
- α1790Ἄμφωboth… scholia to Homer, Iliad 4.523, where this phrase occurs (though without the article). [3] Again at alpha 1792 (and theta 78). (This 'saying', from Damascius, is not in the paroemiographers.)
- α3982Ἀρνακίδα Ἀρνακίςsheepskin[1] The headword has appeared first in the accusative, without gloss; now it is in the nominative. [2] Aristophanes, Clouds 729-30 (web address 1 below), with comment from the scholia there; cf. already alpha …
- μ1022Μῆχοςdevice… prayed to Demeter that she would go 'one hundred suns' without alcoholic drink if saved from illness, discharges the vow early by arranging to see several suns at once; cf. Gow and Page (74-77) …
- λ59Λακκόπρωκτοςpit-arse, tank-arse… The lexicographer quotes these two lines in reverse order and without regard to the speakers, who are the befuddled and battered Strepsiades and his sophistic son Pheidippides. Note that the initial insult is by …
- λ546ΛιμηράLimera… (epsilon 2278, epsilon 2279). Often the "Limera" suffix is used without explanation (e.g. Thucydides 4.58.2, 6.105.2; Pausanias 3.21.7, 3.23.6 & 10), but see Strabo 8.6.1 (web address 1): "Apollodorus observes that this city, because …