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- ε2903Ἐργαστήριονworkshop… are manufactured. Polybius [writes]: "there was no possibility -- as Xenophon puts it -- that someone could have seen that city and not called it a workshop of war".
- α108Ἀγαθάgoods, goodiesXenophon used the word of foodstuffs and drinks which bring enjoyment and good cheer. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "Good Things Kilikon" - with "has" omitted. Kilikon [is] a proper name. He was …
- κ313Κανθήλιοςpack-ass… Someone] slow to understand, or dull. Or a large ass/donkey. Xenophon says: "in Babylon the date-palms are not less than a plethron in size: indeed, when they are under great pressure, they bend upwards, …
- ε1822Ἔξω βελῶν καθῆσθαιto stay out of missile-rangeApostolius 7.54, etc. For "out of missile-range" see e.g. Xenophon, Anabasis 3.4,15; Cyropaedia 3.3.58, 3.3.70, 4.1.3.
- ι538Ἱππεῖς λευκοθώρακεςwhite-corsleted horsemenThe headword phrase here, from Xenophon, Anabasis 1.8.9 (web address 1), is not itself glossed. [1] Julian, oration 7, 205D.
- ει321Εἰς τὸν τετρημένονinto the perforatedFor the myth see under epsiloniota 315; for the proverb Xenophon, Oeconomicus 7.40; Apostolius 6.79, etc.
- ι185Ἱερόνsacred… Aristophanes fr. 33 Kock, now 32 K.A., and also in Xenophon, Plato and elsewhere; cf. Zenobius 4.40 and other paroemiographers; Tosi [cited under alpha 378] no.473.
- α2156Ἀνδραποδώδειςslavish… accusative a)ndrapodw/deis is extracted from somewhere else -- such as Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.1.16 or 4.2.22. [2] Meaning in practice crudely close-cropped; cf. alpha 2157. [3] Diogenianus 1.73. [4] Imperfectly quoted from Plato, Alcibiades 1.120B …