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19 entries for Hesiod

μ521ΜελίτηMelite… Whitehead, The Demes of Attica (Princeton 1986) index s.v. [3] Hesiod fr. 225 Merkelbach-West. [4] Mousaios fr.2 B 9 Diels-Kranz. (Mousaios of Ephesos, C3 BCE, is known only from the Suda.)Matched in noteshighshort
λ309Λέσχηlounging, lounge; conversation… the title of a book containing the Halicarnassian's works. [4] Hesiod, Works and Days 493 (web address 2), here wrongly interpreted. (For kiln, see kappa 284.)Matched in noteshighmedium
κ1910Κόθουροςdock-tailed, stingless… famously occurs in the dative plural, of drone bees, in Hesiod, Works and Days 304 (web address 1), later quoted by Plato, Laws 901A and elsewhere. Comparable entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian …Matched in noteshighshort
α2889Ἀπαμείρεταιtakes away a share… gloss guarantees that this is the passage in question; in Hesiod, Theogony 801 it is passive. See LSJ entry at web address 1.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1451Δῶρα θεοὺς πείθει καὶ αἰδοίους βασιλῆαςgifts sway gods and revered kingsHesiod fr.361 Merkelbach-West, preferring Plato's version of this hexameter line (Republic 390E: dw=ra qeou\s pei/qei, dw=r' ai)doi/ous basilh=as). The Suda's version with 'and' for the second 'gifts' occurs also in Apostolius 6.42; and see …Matched in noteshighshort
α670Ἀϊδέςunseen… (see LSJ s.v. a)i+dh/s), is evidently quoted from somewhere; perhaps Hesiod, Shield 477 (of the swollen R. Anauros obliterating the tomb of Kyknos), though the glossing might be better suited to one of the …Matched in noteshighshort
ε248Ἕδοςhedos… headword is perhaps extracted from Plato, Symposium 178B (itself quoting Hesiod, Theogony 117), though Timaeus' coverage is wider than his title suggests and there are many other possibilities. See also epsilon 222, epsilon 249, …Matched in noteshighshort
μ1495Μύχιος σήραγξinmost cavern… is in the nominative singular. (For its adjective, first in Hesiod, cf. mu 1493 and LSJ s.v. at web address 1; for 'cavern' see sigma 333, sigma 335 and LSJ s.v. at web address …Matched in noteshighshort
μ77ΜακροκέφαλοιLongheads, Makrokephaloi, Macrocephali… Antiphon (the Sophist) fr. 46 DK, and citing, besides Palaiphatos, Hesiod's Catalogue of Women. [1] FGrH 44 F2. (For the Colchians cf. kappa 1979.)Matched in noteshighshort
μ317Μαιευόμενοιdelivering, serving as a midwife (?)… headword to maio/menoi, twice attested in Pindar; also in e.g. Hesiod and Oppian.Matched in noteshighshort
μ1331ΜῶμοςMomus, reproach[1] A personification of blame or disgrace (from Hesiod, Theogony 214 onwards: see LSJ). [2] Damascius, Life of Isidore fr.120 Zintzen, 54 Athanassiadi (74 Asmus), quoted more fully at epsilon 3036.Matched in noteshighshort
αι211Αἱμύλαwheedling… the latter if, as seems likely, it is quoted from Hesiod, Works and Days 374) and the masculine nominative singular of this poetic adjective, which most often refers to words. [1] Likewise or similarly …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1627Δυσείμωνill-clad… first attested in a fragment of hexameter poetry attributed to Hesiod (fr. 372 Merkelbach-West, in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 3.116A [3.84 Kaibel]): "ill-clad fisherfolk" In Hesychius s.v. the (singular) headword is glossed with a)kth/mwn, "possession-less". Wearing …Matched in noteshighshort
κ520Καταδεύσῃwould soak… very probably a version of kata/ q' ei(/mata deu/sh| in Hesiod, Works and Days 556. For this and the glosses cf. generally the second part of alpha 1851 (on which see further, next note). …Matched in noteshighshort
ε513Ἐκνεφίαςcloud-produced… Meteorologica 113.15 passim. See also Chrysippus in the scholia to Hesiod, Theogony 148. A detailed definition of this kind of winds is provided by Posidonius fr.337a, lines 9ff. For an occurrence in comic poetry …Matched in noteshighshort
χ349Χλοῦναιgreenwood-men… somewhere, but the gloss does not fit the obvious place (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles 177, on boars). [2] The word xlou/nhs is often used as an epithet of the wild boar (presumably referring to …Matched in noteshighshort
ε428Ἐκεῖνοςthat… to the prosaic use of this pronoun. In Homer and Hesiod both forms are to be found, but the shorter is more frequent. A similar use of the two can be observed in the …Matched in noteshighshort
αι165Αἴ κε πάθοι τά κ' ἔρεξε δίκη δ' ἰθεῖα γένοιτοif he should endure the sufferings which he has inflicted, the punishment would be just… he should reap evil gains") -- and attributes them to Hesiod: fr. 286 Merkelbach/West. On the emperor Aurelian, see generally alpha 4458. [2] Aristophanes, Frogs 981-988, with scholia; cf. mu 1051. The passage does …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2405ἘπίκουροςEpicurus, Epikouros… in Crete, a former Lacedaemonian colony mentioned by Homer and Hesiod as participating to the Trojan War. See Stephanus of Byzantium s.v., and lambda 831.Matched in noteshighlong