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δ352Δεινοὶ πλέκειν τοι μηχανὰς ΑἰγύπτιοιEgyptians (are) clever at crafting machines[1] Zenobius 3.37. The headword phrase itself is Aeschylus fr. 373 Nauck (726 Mette). [2] Homer, Iliad 2.742, 15.626. The added comment comes from the scholia to the first of these passages. (The fame …Matched in noteshighshort
α781Ἀκάκητοςguileless; of AkakesionThough the manuscript tradition is unproblematic in itself, the headword here should clearly be not a)ka/khtos but *)akakh/sios. See alpha 780 and the Pausanias passage cited there, in which Hermes Akakesios is mentioned; and …Matched in noteshighshort
α1776Ἀμφίτρητονpierced-through… case). [2] Either the wife of Poseidon or the sea itself: see LSJ s.v.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1831Κλώθειspins… lexica; see the references at Photius kappa804 Theodoridis. The headword itself (third person singular, present, of klw/qw) must be quoted from somewhere. The verb klw/qein is used properly of spinning thread, and figuratively of …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2676Κυμάτιαcymatia, moldings, volutes… the description of Noah's Ark (Exodus 25:11 of the Ark itself, 25:24 of its table). cf. generally under pi 915 (= tau 207).Matched in noteshighshort
κ1628Κίναδοςbeast, monsterThe headword itself is a neuter noun. The initial glossing noun is feminine, but does not on that account imply a female fox (vixen). [1] From the Sicilian sense cited by Harpocration: see kappa …Matched in noteshighshort
λ251Λεοντεία δοράlion's hide… the phrase 'leo/nteios (sic) dora/' with 'its skin'. The adjective itself can mean anything pertaining to a lion or more specifically (as in the quotation here) its skin. [1] Quotation unidentifiable. Adler suggests Symeon …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3768Εὐτειχεῖ πάγῳon a well-walled hill; with a well-walled hill… address 2). But the source of the present headword phrase itself, in the dative case, is unidentifiable.Matched in noteshighshort
α1674ἈμυμώνειοςAmymonian… according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. But the headword itself is otherwise unattested, and 'Amymon' unidentifiable. [2] Amymone in myth was the daughter of Danaus who went for water at Argos [Myth, Place], …Matched in noteshighshort
μ1143Μιχθῆναι ἢ μιγῆναιto have had intercourse… mother Jocasta: see lines 791 and 995. Yet the verb itself was just as ambiguous in Greek as it is in English; for instances where sexual 'intercourse' is meant see e.g. delta 683, zeta …Matched in noteshighshort
γ112Γελλοῦς παιδοφιλωτέραmore overfond of children than Gello… to Lesbos, and specifically to Sappho; hence the headword phrase itself is regarded as a fragment of Sappho (178 Lobel-Page). Hesychius has two consecutive 'Gello' entries (gamma307-308) of a darker nature: there she is …Matched in noteshighshort
δ980Διέφερονthey bore through, they bore to the end… to Thucydides 1.11.2, and then purports to quote the passage itself (which in fact does not mention the Athenians; the (implicit) subjects are actually the Trojans in the Trojan War). See text at web …Matched in noteshighshort
ι765Ἰφιάλουiphialos, Iphialos… have an entry *)ifi/alos o( *)efia/lths, a fact which in itself would suggest that Iphialos is an alternative name for the mythological giant Ephialtes. If, however, Adler was right to print the present gloss …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3726Εὐρύοπαfar-seeing… the first. [1] In Homer and elsewhere the present headword itself, eu)ru/opa, is sometimes used as a nominative (and vocative); for an instance see under alpha 2371 = tau 1133; but it is also …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2090ΚορινθικόνCorinthian… introduces two neologisms in these last lines: the headword adjective itself (on Corinthian bumper crops see alpha 1579 note) and a)filosta/xuos ("without corn", "cornless", i.e. "starving"); cf. Madden (175). [2] delta 1207.Matched in noteshighshort
ε79Ἐγκαταζεύξαςhaving yoked in together… a doubly compound verb e)gkatazeu/gnumi. It, and indeed the verb itself, occurs nowhere else in classical literature, but there is an instance of the aorist infinitive in one of Cyril of Alexandria's Dialogues on …Matched in noteshighshort
ε935Ἐμβαλόνταhad directed… e)mba/llw (cf. epsilon 934, epsilon 936). As to the quotation itself, Adler suggested Nicolaus of Damascus, and see now Favuzzi (cited under delta 404). Compare also Pausanias 9.29.9: Heracles kills his music teacher Linus …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2490Ἐπινησθένταthreaded-out, spun-out… (260 Hercher): a phrase in the accusative case. The headword itself, evidently extracted from that phrase, is aorist passive participle, masculine accusative singular, of LSJ's e)pine/w (A), a verb especially associated with the idea …Matched in noteshighshort
λ769ΛυγαῖοςLygaian, Lugaean, Lugian?, Leugaian?, of the twilight… twilight (see under lambda 766, lambda 770). The present headword itself, besides being the name of a mythological figure (grandfather of Penelope: Strabo 10.2.24), is thus most commonly met as an adjective meaning gloomy …Matched in noteshighshort
α765Ἄθυμοςdejected, fainthearted… Thus the glossing here, o( leluphme/nos, indicates that the headword itself has been quoted from somewhere else; and in fact that gloss occurs in the scholia to Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 319, where masculine a)/qumos …Matched in noteshighshort
δ404Δηλήσεταιwill be baneful (to), will do mischief (to)… theta 277) in Boeotia, central Greece. As to the quotation itself, in the accusative plural, Adler suggested Nicolaus of Damascus (nu 393), and this is taken up and confirmed by Favuzzi [below] in his …Matched in noteshighshort
ι451ἸοφῶνIophon… the plays of Iophon goes back to the late C5 itself: see Aristophanes, Frogs 73-79.Matched in noteshighshort
α3816Ἀραῖοςaccursed… address 2). [3] cf. alpha 3814, alpha 3836. (The headword itself is properispomenon: a)rai=os.) [4] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 24 Habrich.Matched in noteshighmedium
μ354Μεγακλέους κίοναςMegakles' pillars, Megacles' pillars… modern commentators alike miss the joke inherent in the phrase itself: Megakles' pillars rather than the familiar pillars, stelai, of Herakles (eta 464, and cf. under gamma 29, chi 136).Matched in noteshighshort
δ1402Δορυφορεῖattends (as a bodyguard)… attended. For such (or a similar) figurative sense of doruforei= itself one needs to look as late as the third century CE, and the Orations of Themistius of Constantinople (e.g. 36d4 and 67b3 Harduin); …Matched in noteshighshort
χ521ΧρῖσιςanointingThis headword strictly pertains to the process of anointing itself, the cognate chi 522 to the oil used. [1] The source of this definition is unidentifiable. [2] George the Monk, Chronicon 188.11-13. [3] Greek …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1682Κισσύβιονivy-cup… (flowers and rose-petals). This does not relate to the cup itself, but only its derivation from "ivy". See Gow and Page (vol. I, 137-138), Gow and Page (vol. II, 393-394), and this epigram's further …Matched in noteshighshort
ε1421Ἐν παντὶ μύθῳ καὶ τὸ Δαιδάλου μύσοςin every myth (there is) also the defilement of Daedalus… and other paroemiographers. (There is wordplay, mythos/mysos, in the proverb itself which gets lost in translation.) For Daedalus (Daidalos) cf. generally delta 106, delta 107, delta 108, delta 109, delta 110; for Pasiphae and …Matched in noteshighmedium
μ1276Μοσχίδια σύκωνyoung shootlets of figs… the nominative/vocative/ plural; see LSJ s.v. mosxi/dion. The headword phrase itself is an approximation of one in Aristophanes, Acharnians 996 (web address 1): the chorus-leader promises ne/a mosxi/dia suki/dwn (young shootlets of fig trees), …Matched in noteshighshort
λ451Λήμνιον κακὸν βλέπωνlooking a Lemnian evil… island which was reputedly Hephaistos' forge. The present headword phrase itself is presumably a quotation, but unidentifiable. [2] Myrsilos of Methymna (Lesbos), C3-BCE historian: FGrH 477 (where this fragment is F7b). Medea's rivalry with …Matched in noteshighmedium