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α2081Ἀνάστατοςevicted, desolate… references at Photius alpha1670-1671 Theodoridis. [2] Similarly, post-Suda, in Etymologicum Magnum 100.9-10.Matched in noteshighshort
γ25Γαλεάγραweasel-trap, iron-maiden… (and cf. Lexica Segueriana, Glossae rhetoricae 227.33, Photius gamma10, Etymologicum Magnum 220.27). More frequently the animal trapped and/or held was human, as here. See note 1 below for reference to examples. Hermogenes, On forms …Matched in noteshighshort
γ443ΓράφωI write… Suda follows a source that is also followed in Etymologicum Magnum 240.31, Anecdota Oxoniensia 2.354.22, Lexicon Vindobonense 8.22. For what follows cf. Lexicon Syntacticum Gudianum p. 589. [6] Quotation not identified by Adler but …

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Ἀνάστατος

evicted, desolate

[Meaning someone or something] overturned. Also [sc. attested is the related adverb] a)nasta/tws, [meaning] destroyedly. [sc. anastatos is the term for] the man who, on account of some chance or lawsuit, left his own…

Ἀνάστατος· κατεστραμμένος. καὶ Ἀναστάτως, πεπορθημένως. ὁ διά τινα συμφορὰν ἢ δίκην καταλιπὼν τὴν οἰκείαν καὶ ἐν τῇ ἀλλοδαπῇ διαγενόμενος. εἴρηται δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ πόλεων ἑαλωκυιῶν καὶ…

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gender and sexuality2

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δ509Διαβούλιονdeliberation, council… the plural. [2] Psalm 9:23 LXX. [3] cf. (e.g.) Etymologicum Magnum 267.13.Matched in noteshighshort

δ1093Δίκηςof justice… the translation here. For the gloss timwri/as ('vengeance') cf. Etymologicum Magnum 276.8. [2] Quotation (via the Excerpta Constantiniana, Adler supposes) unidentifiable. Poetry? The words seem to hint at an iambic rhythm, although it is …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ1235Διωμοσία καὶ ἀντωμοσίαdiomosia and antomosia, preliminary oath and counter-oath… outside lexicography, but see e.g. the redaction of the Etymologicum Magnum of ms. Laurentianus Divi Marci 304, where it is related to panippasi/a (sic; corrupted from a)nippasi/a).Matched in noteshighshort

ε494Ἐκμαρτυρεῖνto bear witnessSame entry in ps.-Zonaras and, post-Suda, at Etymologicum Magnum 324.3. See also epsilon 495, epsilon 496.Matched in noteshighshort

ε1177Ἐν δίκῃwith justice… 'in' justice. For the glossing cf. Hesychius epsilon2794 and Etymologicum Magnum 339.4. But according to a different interpretation reported by a scholion on Aristophanes, Wasps 421, e)n di/kh| (= e)n th=| di/kh|) means dika/zontes, …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1560Ἔξαρνοςobstinately denying, obstinate in denying[1] Same gloss at Etymologicum Magnum 346.50; cf. ps.-Zonaras, epsilon755, with gloss a)rnou/menos (Hesychius epsilon3604, Scholia recentiora on Aristophanes, Clouds 1230a). See also ps.-Zonaras iota1124 [ = iota 728], where the same explanation occurs …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2158Ἐπήγγελλενused to proclaim… ps.-Zonaras; very similarly in Lexica Segueriana 258.26 (and, post-Suda, Etymologicum Magnum 353.45-46). The headword is third person singular, imperfect indicative active, of e)pagge/llw (see also epsilon 2157, and cf. epsilon 1914, epsilon 1915, epsilon …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2467Ἐπιμεληταὶoverseers, superintendentsSame or similar material in the Etymologicum Magnum and other lexica. [1] sc. in classical Athens. [2] These officials are perhaps to be identified with the 10 superintendents of the Dionysia mentioned in ?Aristotle, …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2497Ἐπίξηνοςchopping-block… upsilon 265, and cf. Etymologicum Gudianum 415.33, Hesychius epsilon5019, Etymologicum Magnum 362.22-3. Adler also cites the Ambrosian Lexicon (1336) and several references compiled by Ludwich. See also the apparatus in Theodoridis' edition of Photius, …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2507Ἐπίπασταsprinklings… Suda's sw/mati ('body'). Aelius Dionysius epsilon57, Hesychius epsilon5047, and Etymologicum Magnum 362.53, which are similar to this entry up to this point, prefer 'porridge'; and cf. Pollux 6.61. (Thus there is really no need …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε2547Ἐπίρρησιςrebuke, reproach= Orion [Author, Myth] 55.22; Etymologicum Magnum 363.44. Hesychius epsilon5122 has just the first of these glosses; and Latte there regards the headword itself as extracted from Archilochus (fr. 14: accusative case there). cf. …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2691Ἐπιτήθηgreat-grandmother… Genuinum s.v. Also basically = Photius, Lexicon epsilon1756, and Etymologicum Magnum 366.11, though Photius gives the final part as follows th\n de\ e)pithqh\n, th=s tou= patro\s mhte/ra kai\ th=s mhtro\s mhte/ra (with the first …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2701Ἐπίτιμονworthy, enfranchised… (Lexicon epsilon1762) gloss exactly as here; and cf. also Etymologicum Magnum 366.33-35. [2] Lucian, Toxaris 26 (also in the Synagoge and Photius: see preceding note). The council, in the anecdote being related, is the …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2732Ἐπιτροπήarbitration, adjudication, guardianship… misreading of the sort of thing we find in Etymologicum Magnum 367.14: e)pitroph/: oi( me\n para\ to\ e)pitropeu/ein. [2] Polybius fr. 151 Büttner-Wobst. Büttner-Wobst notes (533-534) that Ursinus (Fulvio Orsini, 1529-1600) attributed this fragment …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2789Ἐπλινθεύθησανthey were bricked in… Segueriana 253.8-12 (Glossae rhetoricae; cf. Lex.Seg., *dikw=n o)no/mata 187.27, Etymologicum Magnum 367.43) suggests that the original context was in the corpus of one of the classical Athenian orators. Note LSJ s.v. plinqeu/w, III: 'Pass. …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2830Ἐπωβελίαobol-fine… esp. epsilon 2832. The present entry (taken over in Etymologicum Magnum 368.49-54), of indeterminable origin, combines a attempt at defining it with a dubious and rhetorically-coloured explanation for its introduction. Modern study of the …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3015Ἑρκεῖος ΖεύςZeus Herkeios… the constitutional point. See also Photius and, post-Suda, the Etymologicum Magnum; and epsilon 3017. [2] Sophocles, Ajax 108 and 110 (web address 1), with scholion. Modern editors emend to e(rkei/ou. [3] cf. epsilon 3016.Matched in noteshighmedium

ε3022Ἕρμαballast, prop… Iliad 1.486 (web address 1); also Hesychius and the Etymologicum Magnum. [3] Aristophanes, Birds 1429 (web address 2), with scholion; cf. gamma 184, alpha 2498. [4] Quotation unidentifiable with certainty, but Adler's tentative attribution …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε3308Ἔτηςtownsman… minor differences) Etymologicum Gudianum 547.13, (with more serious differences) Etymologicum Magnum 386.44; cf. Choeroboscus 215.3, Et. Gud. 511.23; contrast Orion [Author, Myth] 170.20. See also omega 260 and ps.-Zonaras s.v. e)/ths. Some of the …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3763Εὐσχήμωνelegant, honorable… glossed in the Lexica Segueriana (259.27) and, post-Suda, the Etymologicum Magnum (398.21). [2] Likewise, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (2360).Matched in noteshighshort

κ122Καθοσίωσιςtreason; holiness… below. [2] cf. Socrates, Historia Ecclesiastica 5.14. "Maximus" here is Magnus Maximus or Maximianus, who usurped control over the Western Roman Empire and on whom Quintus Aurelius Symmachus delivered a panegyric. [3] John of …Matched in noteshighshort

κ154Κάκιθοςcriminal, victim… thus, is unattested outside grammarians and lexicographers. Of these, Etymologicum Magnum 484.55-57 expands the present gloss (for which cf. kappa 152) most helpfully: "it means him who is being punished, or badly treated". Another …Matched in noteshighshort

χ471Χρήit is necessary… address 1), where the form xrh/ appears; see also Etymologicum Magnum 814.50. [2] Eupolis fr. 4 Kock, now 11 K.-A. [3] See chi 493 and chi 494. [4] Pherecrates fr. 103 Kock, now 108 …Matched in noteshighmedium