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Διεσμιλευμένον
polished-off
= Synagoge delta267, Photius delta552 Theodoridis, Etymologicum
Magnum
273.53. The headword is perfect middle/passive participle, neuter nominative/accusative or masculine accusative singular, of diasmileu/w; literally 'polish off with a chisel'. [1] The pertinence of this …
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3040
Ἑρμίας
Hermias
… from Harpokration s.v.; similar entries in Photius (and, post-Suda, Etymologicum
Magnum).
Hermias' daughter was Pythias: see below, and alpha 3929. [6] That is, not Hermeias (as in epsilon 3036 and alpha 3929). See Choeroboscus …
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1315
Ἄλογοι ἐρανισταί
unaccounted-for club-members
trade and manufacture
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… headword phrase in Dinarchus fr. LXIX.2 Conomis. See also Etymologicum
Magnum
70.31-33. On eranoi see generally epsilon 2892. [2] A phrase which includes another sense of the adjective (alogos) used in the headword phrase. …
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4173
Ἀσκληπιάδης
Asclepiades, Asklepiades
… formulation of this etymology can be found in the Etymologicum
Magnum,
s.v.: 'because he makes tough [askele] (i.e. harsh) diseases mild [epia]'. [4] pi 823. [5] Aelian fr. 92c Domingo-Forasté (part of 89 Hercher); …
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239
Αἰξωνεύεσθαι
to be an Aixonian, to play the Aixonian
… the phrase "to be an Aixonian" occurs; Hesychius s.v.; Etymologicum
Magnum
36.57. [1] cf. alphaiota 240, alphaiota 241. [2] See alphaiota 242.
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63
Γαργαλίζει
titillates
… as an error for u(posai/nei "fawns on" in the Etymologicum
Magnum.)
[2] Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 132-3 (web address 1). [3] Same material in other lexica. If gargari/zei is quoted from somewhere, the source is unidentifiable.
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271
Γίνεται
comes to pass
… (the headword) and gei/netai. [1] Choeroboscus, Anecdota Oxoniensia 2.188.26, Etymologicum
Magnum
232.24; cf. gamma 214, gamma 215. [2] cf. pi 2535 and omicroniota 71, where these are, more exactly, three forms of God's providence.
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1029
Διθυραμβοδιδάσκαλοι
dithyramb-directors
… 1965, without text, identified as a dithyramb poet in Etymologicum
Magnum
164.20, from Tzetzes on Lycophron, Alexandra 879 p.2846 Scheer; PC2 52; PMG fr.837; Campbell 198-203; Aristotle, Poetics 1455a6; RE 21.1659-61 'Polyidos 9'), and …
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1588
Δυσαλθές
hard to cure
… neuter nominative/accusative singular, as in (e.g.) Etymologicum Gudianum and Etymologicum
Magnum,
but here without the definite article to/. Identical entry also in Timaeus Sophista, Platonic Lexicon s.v., probably from a scholion to [Plato], Axiochus …
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1631
Δυσηνίους
hard to bridle, hard to rein, refractory
= Synagoge delta406; Photius, Lexicon delta820; and cf. Etymologicum
Magnum
292.3. Both headword and glosses are accusative plurals: see further below. Hesychius delta2572 has a broadly comparable entry, but couched in nominative plurals and …
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ε
807
Ἐλεύθερος
free
[1] Diogenes Laertius 7.121; cf. delta 1424. [2] cf. Etymologicum
Magnum
329.42. On the verb e)leu/qw see LSJ s.v. and epsilon 836. [3] From gamma 4, q.v. The quotation here has to\n where gamma …
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961
Ἐμβρίθεια
severity, weight
… and strength of thought", or a similar one. Compare Etymologicum
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334.17 (= Lexica Segueriana 249.16) s.v. e)mbriqe\s; and see generally LSJ s.v. See also epsilon 958, epsilon 959, epsilon 960, epsilon 962.
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1126
Ἐνάργεια
distinctness, vividness
… entry at epsilon 1251. cf. epsilon 1127. [1] cf. Etymologicum
Magnum
337.53-55 (which supplies the noun 'swiftness', omitted here). [2] John Philoponus, On Aristotle's de anima 296.25 Hayduck.
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2154
Ἐπήβολος
capable, possessing, skilled
… so, are Hesychius epsilon4526, Lexica Segueriana 252.21, and (post-Suda) Etymologicum
Magnum
357.16. [2] Quotation unidentifiable. Certain features of the language might suggest a late source, esp. the use of the headword without an objective …
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2171
Ἐπηλυγάζονται
they are being obfuscated
… offers the other). Compare also Erotian 127-11-12 and, post-Suda, Etymologicum
Magnum
356.2-3. [2] At this point Adler cites the unedited Ambrosian Lexicon (1569). [3] Aelian fr. 246 Hercher, 244a Domingo-Forasté (cf. epsilon 1137). [4] …
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2172
Ἐπηλυγασάμενος
overshading
… but not incompatibly: e.g. Hesychius epsilon4551; Photius, Lexicon eta132; Etymologicum
Magnum
356.56. The headword also appears in quotations in epsilon 2171 and epsilon 1612.
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2315
Ἐπιεικῶς
properly
… epsilon665 (with the omission of 'and sufficiently'); Photius epsilon1543; Etymologicum
Magnum
359.35-8. For other comparanda and sources see the apparatus to Theodoridis' edition of Photius. [4] Procopius, De bellis [History of the Wars of …
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2332
Ἐπιθεῖναι
to dispatch
… to that passage and to Iliad 21.535, along with Etymologicum
Magnum
354.25. [2] Quotation unidentifiable. Perhaps [WH] an uncomprehending abridgment of Eunapius, Vita sophistarum 7.4.6: th\n pro\s *xrusa/nqion ai)th/sas e)pistolh/n, ei)=ta ei)sbalw\n e)kei/nhn kai\ …
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2442
Ἐπὶ Ληναίῳ
at Lenaion, at Lenaeum
… found in Hesychius (epsilon4933), the Etymologicum Genuinum, and the Etymologicum
Magnum
(361.39); see also Photius, Lexicon epsilon1617 and 1617a in Theodoridis' edition. The headword phrase itself occurs in several classical-period authors including Aristophanes, Plato …
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2591
Ἐπισκύνιον
highbrow; superciliousness
… passages; also Apollonius Sophistes, Homeric Lexicon 74.2; Hesychius epsilon5192; Etymologicum
Magnum
364.5. [2] Greek Anthology 7.63.2 (author unknown), of Diogenes; cf. nu 146. The Anthologia Palatina notes that the author of this epigram is …
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2734
Ἐπιτροχάδην
fluently, trippingly, volubly
… passages it is in a phrase describing speaking; cf. Etymologicum
Magnum
367.3 and, more remotely, Synagoge, Hesychius epsilon5362, Etymologicum Gudianum 512.5. [2] Aelian, History of Animals 7.7 (which contains a related but different and …
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3544
Εὐκράς
temperate
… (epsilon6939), Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon, Photius' Lexicon, ps.-Zonaras, and the Etymologicum
Magnum
(claiming the word as a rhetorical one). See also Euripides fr. 504 (from the lost Melanippe); Greek Anthology 12.105.4 (Asclepiades).
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3707
Εὐρώς
dankness
… de se ipso had used the word); and cf. Etymologicum
Magnum
397.52. Probably all derive ultimately from commentary to Plato, Timaeus 84B, where the genitive eu)rw=tos occurs. [2] Callimachus, Hecale fr. 236.3 Pfeiffer.
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40
Εἶδος
appearance, species
[1] cf. epsiloniota 23. [2] cf. Etymologicum
Magnum
295.47. [3] Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 249 Zintzen (80 Asmus); again at epsiloniota 301.
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201
Ἠλέκτωρ
beaming
… appears -- from the Synagoge (cf. e.g. Photius s.v., Etymologicum
Magnum
425.31, Apollonius Sophistes, Homeric Lexicon 83.20). Elsewhere this word is used to denote fire (Empedocles 22.2). [2] Aristotle, Topica 142b1-2; cf. [Plato] Definitions …
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360
Ἵνα
in order that, where
… the Great in NW India, 327/6). [4] cf. (e.g.) Etymologicum
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471.13; scholion on Homer, Iliad 5.245. See also iota 376, iota 603.
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288
Καμόντων
of those whose work is done
… current quotation is a reminiscence; cf. scholia ad locc., Etymologicum
Magnum
102.50, 488.25; Lexicon Vindobonense kappa56; and kappa 286. [1] Greek Anthology 7.68.3-4 (Archias); see also the LSJ entry for ei)/dwlon for 'ghosts' (web …
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1575
Κίβδηλον
counterfeit, adulterated
… phrase a)po\ i(stori/as "[taken] from history" appears in the Etymologicum
Magnum
s.v. ki/bdhlon. [5] Aelian fr. 70h Domingo-Forasté (67 Hercher). [6] Aelian fr. 61 Domingo-Forasté (58 Hercher).
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105
Χαριεντίζεις καὶ καταπαίζεις ἡμῶν καὶ βωμολοχεύῃ
you jest and make fun of us and would play tricks
… in a scholion to Plato, Republic 436D and in Etymologicum
Magnum
807.18-19; cf. (without the actual quotation) Harpokration s.v. bwmoloxeu/esqai, and see also chi 106. According to LSJ, classical writers use the middle voice …
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110
Χαρίζεσθαι
to indulge, to please, to pleasure
… one in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. See also Etymologicum Genuinum, Etymologicum
Magnum
807.19, and the scholia to Plato, Phaedrus 227C (web address 1 below). [1] Plato, Parmenides 137A, has o(/mws de\ dei= ga\r xari/zesqai ("For …
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