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α3963ἍρμαHarmaHarma, in the mountains between Attica and Boiotia (Strabo 9.2.11 calls it "in Boiotia"), was a place where lightning-omens were watched for; the proverb from it (besides Strabo loc.cit. see Plutarch, Moralia 679C) thus …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1955Κολοφώνsummit, top, colophon… in other lexica; see the references at Photius kappa902 Theodoridis. Strabo 14.1.28 (web address 1) proffers an explanation for its second part: the city of Kolophon in Asia Minor (cf. kappa 1956) had such …Matched in noteshighshort
η609Ἡ Συρακουσῶν δεκάτηthe Syracusans' titheStrabo 6.2.4 : "it came to pass that the Crotoniates took up residence in so healthy a city, as we said before [6.1.12], and that Syracuse fell into such wealth that the name of …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1580Κίγκαλοςdabchick… of ill-omen". However, the word also means snakeskin (and, in Strabo 3.2.6, hare), and there seems a strong possibility that two (or even more) proverbs have become conflated here. See also lambda 218. For …Matched in noteshighshort
β270Βίαντος Πριηνέως δίκηBias of Priene's justice… the detailed account in Diogenes Laertius 1.82-88 and more briefly Strabo 14.1.12. The point of the quotation from Hipponax (an Ionian poet and Bias' contemporary) is that Bias was the standard for powerful forensic …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2310Κωφότερος τοῦ Τορωνέος λιμένοςdeafer than Torone's harbour… is mentioned by e.g. Thucydides 5.2.2 (as conventionally emended) and Strabo 7 fr.32; and the headword phrase itself is believed to come from Attic comedy (Fragmenta adespota 943 K.-A.). [3] Likewise Zenobius 4.68. [4] …Matched in noteshighshort
α4368ἌτλαςAtlas… is a mountain in northwest Africa, cf. Herodotus (4.184) and Strabo (17.3.2), evidently a coastal promontory opposite Gibraltar, to the north of today's Atlas Mountain Range (Barrington Atlas map 1a grid C2). For both, …Matched in noteshighshort
α523Ἀδράστεια ΝέμεσιςAdrasteian Nemesis, Nemesis of Adrastos… goddess as Adrasteia." For the temple to Adrasteia Nemesis, see Strabo 13.1.13.Matched in noteshighshort
ε3408Εὐδαίμων ὁ Κορίνθιος ἐγὼ δ' εἴην Τενεάτηςfortunate is Corinth but for myself I would rather be a Teneate… The headword phrase was already proverbial in the time of Strabo, who classifies it as an oracular response (8.6.22). See J. Fontenrose, The Delphic oracle: its responses and operations with a catalogue of responses …Matched in noteshighshort
ε937Ἔμβαρός εἰμιI am weighty… see also beta 122 and pi 1455. [1] So e.g. Strabo 1.3.18. [2] Mounykhos is cross-referenced at mu 1289. [3] The name means 'Mister Weighty' (but apparently implying intellectual rather than bodily "weight"). [4] …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2290Κῷος πρὸς ΧῖονCoös against Chios, Coan against Chian… from the same root as the adjective koi=los "hollow". At Strabo 8.5.7 it means "cavern". Taillardat discusses these throws (see Bibliography), especially the effect of throwing Chios after Coös, and suggests, contrary to Hesychius …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2482Κρότωνος ὑγιέστεροςsounder than a tick; sounder than Croton… other sentence is unknown. Eustathius, on the other hand, follows Strabo 6.1.12.31f. and argues (Commentary on Dionysius Periegetes 369.18-32, cf. Commentary on the Odyssey 2.147.23-30) that the phrase refers to the proverbial athletic training …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2299ΚωρυκαῖοςKorykaian, man from Korykos… are the pirates and not just the informants is in Strabo 14.1, Stephanus of Byzantium (Ethnica p.4-2 Meineke), and Zenobius 4.75, who also cited the passage from Menander as a proverb. Zenobius' version is …Matched in noteshighmedium
α1298Ἀλκυονίδες ἡμέραιAlcyon days, Halcyon days, kingfisher days… nesting (Simonides). The Alcyon Sea was so named, according to Strabo, because this corner of the Gulf of Corinth is both a nesting place for the kingfisher and a stretch sheltered from the wind. …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1189Διοπομπεῖσθαιto escort [evil] away… that place all that they wanted to cleanse off" (cf. Strabo 8.6.8; Pausanias 8.15.8). For further relation to rituals of ka/qarsis see [Lysias] 6.53 th\n po/lin kaqai/resqai kai\ a)podiopompei=n kai\ farmako\n a)pope/mpein kai\ a)lith/rion …Matched in noteshighshort

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