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κ
2248
Κωλύμη
hindrance
Same entry in other lexica (and
Thucydidean
scholia); see the references at Photius kappa1302 Theodoridis. For the feminine headword see
Thucydides
1.92, 4.27.3, and (plural) 4.63.1. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, On
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1676
Ἀμύνασθαι
to ward off, to requite, to repay
… (fend off). Here the Suda's version is slightly preferable. [1]
Thucydides
1.42.1 (web address 1 below). [2] Simonides fr. 229 Bergk. [3] Sophocles fr. 1004 Radt (908 Nauck). Adler, following Nauck, connects this reference …
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2488
Κρωβύλος
top-knot
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… Theodoridis; cf. Hesychius kappa4266, Synagoge, etc. [2] A misunderstanding of
Thucydides
1.6.3 (web address 1), where the golden cicada is a pin used to fasten the top-knot; both pin and top-knot are part of …
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1020
Ἀκροτελεύτιον ἔπος
fag-end word
… Arabius, Praeparatio sophistica fr. 14. [2] From the scholia to
Thucydides
2.17.1, where the adjective 'fag-end' (with 'word' or the like implicit) is used.
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974
Ἀκραιφνοῦς
pure, sheer
… headword is genitive singular of the adjective a)kraifnh/s, extracted from
Thucydides:
see n. 2 below. (It also appears in the quotation given, in the uncontracted form a)kraifne/os. LSJ entry at web address 1. [1] …
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1205
Διοσημεία
Zeus-omen, Zeus-sign
… bloody behaviour of the Thracians see Aristophanes, Lysistrata 563f; cf.
Thucydides
7.29.4, describing a savage attack of the mercenaries on Mycalessos. [4] cf. Eustathius on Homer, Iliad 1.34 to\ a)stra/ptein to\n *di=a, h)/toi to\n …
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3344
Ἔτυχον
hit (the target), succeeded (through preparation) in obtaining, achieving or winning, met; coincided, happened (to hit), chanced
… constant in all later uses. In an important note on
Thucydides'
use of the verb for the arrival of Demosthenes and the Messenians at Pylos during the Peloponnesian War, Gomme observed that the historian …
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324
Ἀγωγόν
escorting
… plural of the headword, again extracted from somewhere -- perhaps
Thucydides
2.12.2, which generated scholiastic comment.
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α
1068
Ἀλλὰ νῦν
right now
… confined to this genre, or even to poetry: see e.g.
Thucydides
1.63.2.)
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α
3975
Ἁρμόδιοι
fitting
… not, see LSJ s.v. sko/lion (web address 2). [3] See
Thucydides
1.20.2 (web address 3).
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4372
Ἄτολμοι
undaring
… from the first quotation given, though there are alternatives, e.g.
Thucydides
8.96.5. [2] Babrius 25.3-4. [3] Richard Porson (1759-1808) would emend presbu/thn "old man" to presbu/teron "older." [4] Aelian fr. 99 Domingo-Forasté (96 Hercher). …
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208
Δελφίς
dolphin
… by comment from the scholia there. See further below. [3]
Thucydides
7.41.2 (web address 2); see already delta 207. [4] The chorus in Aristophanes' Knights uses the metaphor of a naval battle to warn …
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1220
Δι' ὄχλου
troublesome
… sense of being or becoming troublesome or tedious; cf. e.g.
Thucydides
1.73.2, and see generally LSJ s.v. . At this point of the comedy, the word 'this' (tou=to) refers to an old woman's singing, …
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1546
Δρύοπες
Dryopes
… the Peloponnese at Asine, Hermione and Eion. See Herodotus 8.46.4;
Thucydides
7.57.4; Diodorus Siculus 4.37.2; Pausanias 4.34.9-11. [2] The fourth labour of Heracles was to capture the Erymanthian boar and bring it alive to …
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1596
Δυσαρεστούμενος
displeased
… been famous for its lack of a city wall (cf.
Thucydides
1.10), but the hellenistic period was another matter: a rudimentary ditch-and-palisade was built in c.317 (Diodorus Siculus 18.75.2, 19.35.1), and the (authentic) circuit-wall …
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ε
1946
Ἐπάλξεις
battlements
… lego/menoi promaxw=nes). The word also occurs frequently in prose, e.g.
Thucydides
3.21.3 (web address 2). See also epsilon 1947, mu 1272, pi 2501, pi 3201. [1] Up to this point the entry = Lexica …
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2043
Ἐπ' ἐλάχιστον
very little, to a very little extent
… given (though there are many alternatives, beginning with three in
Thucydides).
[1] Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 112 Zintzen (61 Asmus, 48A Athanassiadi); quoted more fully at alpha 4304.
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ε
2597
Ἐπισπέρχει
rushes
… to Homer, Odyssey 5.304, Hesychius epsilon5207-8, and the scholia to
Thucydides
4.12.1, but these gloss different forms of the headword with different words for the glosses. Both the headword verb and the present glossing …
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2600
Ἐπισπόμενος
coming after
… appears: web address 1. (Other instances in Odyssey 24.338, Herodotus,
Thucydides,
and elsewhere.) Hesychius epsilon5211 glosses the feminine form of the headword (probably [DW] quoted from Plato, Republic 611E) with the corresponding form of …
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3972
Ἔφυδρος
moist, rainy, wet
… notes below. [2] A reference to the underwater divers in
Thucydides
4.26.8, on Pylos (web address 2), but here with the wrong adjective; cf. again upsilon 742. [3] Cassius Dio 51.9.4, which describes how …
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37
Ἡγεμονεύω
I rule
… (and ps.-Zonaras 974). The gloss is a)/rxesqai in Hesychius eta53
(Thucydides
3.61.2; see also eta91). [2] No, imperfect (as translated here): imperfect indicative active, third person singular, with contraction (from h(gemo/nee), of the verb …
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152
Κακιζόμενοι
being insulted
… sources for the lexicographers this particular form occurs only in
Thucydides
1.105.6 (web address 2) and 5.75.3 (web address 3) where the usage is passive. (This connection was also proposed by Naber and Theodoridis …
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κ
404
Κάρνιος
Karnian
… Karneia his great festival there, esp. in Sparta (Herodotus 7.206,
Thucydides
5.75, etc.). The Suda's headword 'Karnios' is also found twice in Stephanus of Byzantium: as the ktetikon of a city of Aiolis called …
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