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1664
Δυσξύμβολα
(things) hard to deal with
… word in this form prior to the Suda are in
Pollux
5.150 and Artemidorus 4.56 (although LSJ reports a variant reading for this word, duscu/mblhta). In all the attestations of the word, the only …
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409
Ἀγχιστίνδην
by closeness, by next-of-kin
… single-word adverb cognate with it is used of marriages by
Pollux
6.175. The two adverbs introduced as comparanda are formed, like the headword, with the suffix -indhn. Aristotle contrasts a)risti/ndhn ('by merit') and plouti/ndhn …
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3498
Ἀπορρηθέν
prohibited
… aorist passive participle, neuter nominative/accusative singular, of the verb a)pei=pon.
Pollux
2.127 cites it, with this same gloss, as occurring in Demosthenes; the passage is Demosth. 33.21. [2] Third person singular, aorist subjunctive passive, …
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222
Αἴνικος
Eunikos, Eunicus
… both here and in ps.-Zonaras, but it should be Eunikos
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10.100; Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 13.567C (13.21 Kaibel), who mentions the play mentioned here -- see further, next note). See generally Kassel-Austin, PCG V pp. …
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549
Βροντή
thunder
… Aristophanes, Clouds 294 (cf. 292), where thunder is mentioned; cf.
Pollux
4.130.
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961
Διεσμιλευμένον
polished-off
… Hesychius delta1663 (gloss leptologhqe/ntwn); adverb id. delta1664 (gloss h)kribwme/nws); and
Pollux
6.150. See also the scholia to Lucian, Bis accusatus 34, applying the headword to stylistic elegance: to\n *)attikismo/n fhsi kai\ to\ th=s le/cews …
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1077
Δικαιούμενος
being judged, being sentenced
… lemma and the first gloss; and cf. Hesychius delta1800 (=
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8.25). The lemma converts to the masculine nominative singular a present passive participle which appears in Plato, Laws 934B, in the accusative (those …
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1086
Δικαιωτήρια
houses of punishment, places of judgment
… in the underworld. Similarly in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon, Hesychius delta1804,
Pollux
8.25.
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2578
Ἐπίσκηψις
denunciation
… 1). Likewise Lexica Segueriana 255.27 and Photius, Lexicon epsilon1698; cf.
Pollux
8.31, and epsilon 2083. Though used in the context of Plato's imaginary polis Magnesia, it is an item of vocabulary well-attested in classical …
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2772
Ἐπιχειρημάτων
of attempts
= Synagoge epsilon777; Photius, Lexicon epsilon1804; and cf.
Pollux
2.154, 9.150. The headword is genitive plural of the neuter noun e)pixei/rhma (for which see already under epsilon 2770). It must be extracted from somewhere; …
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3442
Εὐερμία
good fortune, a stroke of luck from Hermes
… unattested and probably in error for eu)erme/w, for which see
Pollux
5.135. [Theodoridis now prints eu)ermw=.] This abstract noun is derived from the name of Hermes (epsilon 3037, epsilon 3038, epsilon 3034) in his …
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3640
Εὐπάρυφα
finely-bordered
… the headword certainly might refer, but not exclusively (more ambiguously
Pollux
7.46.3). Unless Herodian (1.16.3) and Irenaios (1.7.2) are being pleonastic, the sense of the headword can be separate from purple-ness. See also alpha …
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