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3402
Ἀπόλογος Ἀλκίνου
Alkino(o)s' story, Alkino(o)s' tale
… Plato, Republic 614B; Aristotle, Poetics 1455a2; Aristotle, Rhetoric 1417a13-14 ("the
tale
of Alkinos ... is reduced to sixty lines in the presence of Penelope [book 23]"). For Alkinoos see generally OCD(4) p.53, under 'Alcinous(1)'.
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230
Αἶνος
tale, story
… mu 1389. For Hesiod see Works and Days 202-12, the
tale
of the hawk and the nightingale. [5] Accented as in the headword; thus this coda is semi-repetitious.
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2807
Ἐποποῖ
epopoi (in hoopoe-ese)
… question Iris the Rainbow on her arrival on stage, he
talks
like the birds. The text of the entry follows the Canon for the accentuation of monosyllabic adverbs poi= poi=, but the repeated sound …
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319
Ἐς τὸ δέον
for the necessary
… appears variously as ten, fifteen (as here), twenty and fifty
talents.
[3] Aristophanes, Clouds 859. [4] Menander fr. 163 Kock (128 K.-A.).
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493
Ἀδμήτου μέλος καὶ Ἁρμοδίου
Admetos' song and Harmodios'
… in turn by guests at a banquet, when their poetical
talents
might be affected by drink. Harmodios was a regular subject of these songs: see alpha 3975. For Admetos see alpha 492.
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139
Βάσανος
touchstone, test
… [1] Variously attributed to Antiphon the orator (fr.161 Sauppe, 157
Thalheim)
and his namesake the Sophist (fr.88 D.-K.). [2] Pindar, Pythian 10.67(105). [3] Sophokles fr. 91a Radt. [4] Hyperides fr. 5 Jensen. [5] Apostolius …
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112
Γελλοῦς παιδοφιλωτέρα
more overfond of children than Gello
cf. Zenobius 3.3, attributing the
tale
to Lesbos, and specifically to Sappho; hence the headword phrase itself is regarded as a fragment of Sappho (178 Lobel-Page). Hesychius has two consecutive 'Gello' entries (gamma307-308) of …
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536
Διὰ δακτυλίου δεῖ σε ἑλκυσθῆναι
you must have been dragged through a ring
… was about thy years, Hal, I was not an eagle's
talon
in the waist; I could have crept into any alderman's thumb-ring".
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1504
Δραπέτης κλῆρος
runaway lot
… was simply limp and soggy). Teucer, in Sophocles' play, is
talking
of the lots that the Greek heroes cast in a helmet at Homer, Iliad 7.175ff. (web address 2), to choose one to fight …
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3442
Εὐερμία
good fortune, a stroke of luck from Hermes
… 287-88 "le dieu d'abondance"); it is related to the phallic
talisman
called the herm (epsilon 3029) and to the noun e(rmai=on for a lucky find (epsilon 3030, epsilon 3031, with ancient explanations of this …
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3864
Ἐφέσια γράμματα
Ephesian letters
This entry is virtually identical with those of Aelius Dionysius, *)attika\ o)no/mata epsilon79, and Photius, Lexicon epsilon2403 (cf. 2405). See also, post-Suda, Etymologicum Magnum 402.23 (Kallierges), the paroemiographer Apostolius (11.29), and Eustathius, Commentary on …
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67
Εἰ καὶ λύκου ἐμνήσθης
if you even mentioned a wolf
… Apostolius 6.50, etc.; and cf. Latin lupus in fabula; English
'talk
of the devil'. Tosi (cited under alpha 378) no.1304.
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62
Ἡ γλῶττα τῷ κήρυκι τούτων τέμνεται
the tongue of these is cut for the herald
… [Hermes] of these tidings'; that is what really Cario means,
talking
to Hermes. The scholion mentioned above reports and analyses both senses, but the Suda’s compiler only reports one. [1] Despite this gloss, reflected …
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1347
Κέπφος
stormy petrel
LSJ considers this to be "perhaps" the stormy petrel,
Thalassidroma
pelagica. See also kappa 1348. [1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica (see the references at Photius kappa575 Theodoridis); ultimately from Aelius Dionysius, Attika …
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604
Λίσποι
smooths; half-dice
… also lost his arse would appear to be a folk
tale
rather than a religious myth. See also the preceding entry, lambda 603, based on the scholia to Aristophanes, Frogs 826. [1] See alpha …
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775
Λυγκέως ὀξυωπέστερον βλέπειν
to see more sharp-sightedly than Lynkeus
… to the future dolofonh/sonta ["intending/about to murder treacherously"]? This would
tally
with the version in the scholia to Pindar, Nemean 10.114b -- where Lynkeus sees Kastor waiting in ambush for Idas, and tells Idas, …
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191
Χελώνη μυιῶν
a tortoise [uncaring] of flies
… a blow from Odysseus. See theta 257.) [3] An apocryphal
tale
about the death of Aeschylus; from alphaiota 357.
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478
Χρήματα χρήματ' ἀνήρ
money money (is the) man
… and the notes there. [1] The Seven Sages are usually
Thales
of Miletus, Bias of Priene, Cleobulus of Lindos, Pittacus of Mitylene, Solon of Athens, Chilon of Sparta and Periander of Corinth. See generally …
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