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α651Ἀηδών καὶ ἀηδοῦςnightingale, songstress[1] A scholiast to Lucian, Portraits [Imagines] 18, describes Sappho (sigma 107, sigma 108, and quoted below) as 'looking small and dark, and exactly like a nightingale with misshapen wings enfolding a tiny body'. …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ243ΔέονnecessaryAristophanes, Clouds 859, with comment from the scholia there. cf. Thucydides 1.114.2, 2.21.2 and 5.16.3; Plutarch, Pericles 22-23. For discussion of the incident see Donald Kagan, The Archidamian War (Cornell UP 1974) 92 n.64. …Matched in noteshighmedium
α3438Ἀπὸ μηχανῆς

α651

Ἀηδών καὶ ἀηδοῦς

nightingale, songstress

And [in the genitive singular] a)hdou=s; such [was] Sappho according to Mytilenians. Sophocles [writes]: "ill-starred, she will not sing the lament of the piteous nightingale, but she will sing shrill dirges and the…

Ἀηδών. καὶ ἀηδοῦς· ὡς Σαπφὼ κατὰ Μιτυληναίους. Σοφοκλῆς· οὐδ' οἰκτρᾶς γόον ὄρνιθος ἀηδοῦς ᾄσει δύσμορος· ἀλλ' ὀξυτόνους ᾠδὰς θρηνήσει, χερόπληκτοι δὲ στέρνοις πεσοῦνται δοῦποι.…

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from a machine

cf. Diogenianus 2.84 and other paroemiographers; also the scholia to Plato, Clitophon 470A (and other scholia). For the proverbiality of the phrase see also e.g. Demosthenes 40.59: "Timocrates alone, as if from a machine, …

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α3756Ἀργαλέον φρονέοντα παρ' ἄφροσι πόλλ' ἀγορεύεινpainful for someone of sound mind to say many things to the senseless… proverbial by Diogenianus (2.90) and other paroemiographers. [2] From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 4.471, where a)rgale/on occurs. [3] Lejeune (below) 151 accepts this etymology, as an instance of dissimilation of liquids. [4] From …Matched in noteshighmedium

α4716Ἄχρησταuseless (things), unprofitable (things)… Clouds 996-999 (web address 1 below), with glosses from the scholia there. [7] cf. iota 41. [8] ibid. 994-995 (abridged); a difficult and probably corrupt passage; see web address 1 below. Again, comments from …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ1168ΔιονύσιαDionysia[1] cf. the scholia to Plato, Republic 475D, where it is mentioned. Though Dionysiac festivals were widespread throughout the Greek world, the most renowned was the "City" Dionysia in Athens, important because of the …Matched in noteshighmedium

χ90Χαραδριόςcharadrios, plover… is Plato, Gorgias 494B (web address 1 below), with the scholia thereto. [4] Aristophanes, Birds 266 (web address 2 below), with scholia. [5] For the erudition of Euphronius (the teacher of Aristophanes of Byzantium) …Matched in noteshighmedium

χ362Χοᾶchous; pitcher… it out; see LSJ s.v. xou=s (A). [2] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Acharnians 961 or Knights 95. [But NB: a chous held twelve, not eight, kotulai.] [3] Aristophanes, Acharnians 1085-6 (web address 1 …Matched in noteshighmedium

α104Ἄβυσσονabyss… 105. [1] This comment on Ionian pronunciation comes from the scholiast on Aristophanes, Frogs 138, quoted later in the entry. [2] In Homer, Odyssey, where bussodomeu/w occurs most frequently, it has the sense "brood …Matched in noteshighmedium

α328Ἀγωνάρχαιcontest-judges… next note. [3] Used in Plato, Cratylus 421D (where a scholiast cited Aristophanes fr. 321 Kock as an earlier attestation of it) and Laws 751D. Also in the paroemiographers, e.g. Gregorius 1.11.Matched in noteshighmedium

α676Ἄϊδος κυνῆHades' dog-skin [helmet]Aristophanes, Acharnians 388-390 (web address 1 below), with scholia. Modern editors prefer tin to the transmitted th\n, i.e. "a" rather than "the" helmet.) On Hieronymos son of Xenophantes see also kappa 1768, where he …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1002Ἀκροθίνιαspoils, akrothinia… similar material in Photius and other lexica; and cf. the scholia to Euripides, Phoenissae 203, where the neuter plural headword occurs. [2] cf. Hesychius alpha2606. [3] Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists 1.19; cf. eta …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1298Ἀλκυονίδες ἡμέραιAlcyon days, Halcyon days, kingfisher days… of ill-omen (e.g. Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1085). [1] cf. the scholia to Aristophanes, Birds 250. [2] The halcyon days were associated with a habit of nesting and incubating for 7 days on either side …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1355Ἀλλ' οὐκ ἔνεστι συκοφάντου δήγματοςbut it does not have [a charm] against an informer's bite… address 1 below). The explanations offered here are taken from scholia there. Again (with slight variations) at omicron 885. In Appendix Proverbiorum 1.21 and other paroemiographic collections. For informers/blackmailers in classical Athens, see sigma …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1409Ἁλσὶ διασμηχθεὶς ὄναιτ' ἂν οὑτοσίthis man might be helped if he were rubbed with salt… and the substance of the entry is from the longwinded scholia there. (See also the paroemiographer Apostolius (2.34), confirming the idea implicit here that the phrase become proverbial.) Compare the brevity of Dover (below) …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1449ἈλφειόςAlpheios, Alpheus… 1121 (web address 3); cf. alpha 1362. [4] From the scholia on the line. [5] Gregory of Nazianzus PG 36 524c.Matched in noteshighmedium

α1825Ἀναγκαία τράπεζαnecessary table, needy table… Ajax 485-6 (web address 1 below), with comment from the scholia there. [3] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 59 Habrich.Matched in noteshighmedium

α1998Ἀνάπαυλανrest… address 1), here and below (with the comments of the scholia in the interstices); cf. lambda 416, tau 655. [6] ibid. 194.Matched in noteshighmedium

α2707Ἀντιπελαργεῖνto cherish in turn… 1. [3] Aristotle, History of Animals 9.13, cited in the scholia to Aristophanes, Birds 1354 (where storks are mentioned). For storks in this context cf. pi 931. [4] me/ropas; the Suda mss have the …Matched in noteshighmedium

α2815Ἄξιονproper, fine, worthy… Aristophanes, Frogs 736 (web address 1), with comment from the scholia there; cf. alpha 3334, kappa 321. [3] Aristophanes, Knights 894-5 (web address 2), with scholion. Again, cf. alpha 2813, and alpha 2814.Matched in noteshighmedium

α4218Ἀστάθμητονuncertain… a)/dhlon… u(pologizo/menos. [2] For the second gloss here cf. the scholia to Thucydides 4.62.4, where the headword appears (web address 1). [3] Quotation unidentifiable, but Adler (apparatus) suggested Damascius, and now Life of Isidore …Matched in noteshighmedium

α4348Ἀτέχνοιςfor unskilled ones, to unskilled ones, with unskilled ones… the entry consists of quotations, often overlapping, of various lexicographers, scholiasts, and grammarians of late antiquity. Only citations of significance are noted here. [3] Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 125 Zintzen (75 Asmus. See …Matched in noteshighmedium

α4466Αὐταῖσι διαβολαῖςslanders and allFor the idiom cf. alpha 4465. [1] Aristophanes, Knights 7, scholiastic comment on which is followed here. [2] A central conceit in this play (beginning at line 2) is that Kleon (kappa 1731), Aristophanes' …Matched in noteshighmedium

α4576Ἀφελέςsimple… H2; cf. Everill (1-6)); cf. Frendo (73). [2] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Knights 527, quoted below. [3] Greek Anthology 5.42.1 (Rufinus); cf. delta 1482, mu 1130. (This bad sense of the headword adjective …Matched in noteshighmedium

αι86Αἰδώςshame… Works and Days 317 (web address 2); quoted in the scholia to the Homer passage just mentioned. [4] Appendix Proverbiorum 1.10. [5] See already alphaiota 85.Matched in noteshighmedium

δ319Δειλότερος τοῦ παρακύπτοντοςmore cowardly than a peeper… Birds 1556-8 (web address 1 below), with comment from the scholia there; cf. pi 1467.Matched in noteshighmedium

δ565Διαθήκην διαθώμεθα ἣν διέθετο πίθηκος τῇ γυναικίlet us arrange the arrangement that the ape arranged with his wife… not literally an ape. The entry is derived from the scholia to this passage. See generally Dunbar (below) 204-5; and cf. gamma 503, omicron 673, pi 185, pi 1577. [1] a)nai/tios, a pun on …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ1207Διὸς ΚόρινθοςZeus' [son] Korinthoscf. the scholia to Aristophanes, Frogs 439, and Plato, Euthydemus 292E (both of which passages mention the proverb); and Zenobius 3.21. For an alternative explanation to the one given here see omicron 40. [1] …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε1717ἘξηκεστίδηςExekestidesAfter the opening grammatical point, the entry derives from the scholia to Aristophanes, Birds 11 (web address 1), where this proper name appears: Peisetairos says to Euelpides that 'not even Exekestides' could find his …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε3348Ἐοίκασι τοῖς ἐκ Πύλου ληφθεῖσι τοῖς Λακωνικοῖςthey look like those taken out of Pylos -- the LakoniansFrom the scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 186, where (with the addition here of 'they look like') the headword phrase occurs. It is spoken by Strepsiades on seeing the sun-starved inmates of Sokrates' Wisdom Factory. …Matched in noteshighmedium

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