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μ115Μᾶλλον μᾶλλονmore and more… a truncated version in the Lexica Segueriana (Antiatticista 108.5). [1] Alexis fr. 29 Kock (and K.-A.). [2] Anaxilas fr. 32 Kock (31 K.-A.); Alexis fr. 181 Kock (186 K.-A.). [3] Diogenes Laertius 9.75, on …Matched in noteshighmedium
α1930Ἀναλαμβάνεινto gather up… 1.21B-D (1.38 Kaibel); it includes the quotations from Plato and Alexis. The opening verb is the impersonal e)/mele, not (as here) e)/melle. [3] An approximation of Plato, Theaetetus 175E (web address 1 below), again …Matched in noteshighmedium
α2523Ἀνθρακιάcharcoals… and further excerpts at alpha 4456 and zeta 164. [3] Alexis fr. 134 Kock, now 139 K.-A.; cf. tau 1002.

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Μᾶλλον μᾶλλον

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Meaning ever more. Alexis in Atthis [writes]: "how Zeus casts clouds at first quietly, then more and more." Anaxilas in Hours [and] Alexis in Pezonike [sc. also use the phrase]. This 'more' is said affirmatively, as…

Μᾶλλον μᾶλλον· ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀεὶ καὶ μᾶλλον· Ἄλεξις Ἀτθίδι· πῶς ἐπινεφεῖ τὸ πρῶτον ὁ Ζεὺς ἡσυχῇ, ἔπειτα μᾶλλον μᾶλλον. Ἀναξίλας Ὥραις, Ἄλεξις Πεζονίκῃ. τοῦτο τὸ μᾶλλον λέγεται θετικῶς,…

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ε2444Ἐπιλησμότατονmost forgetful, very forgetful… Suda as to which is considered the idiosyncratic form. [2] Alexis fr. 315 Kock, now 317 Kassel-Austin. [3] Cratinus fr. 410 Kock, now 451 K.-A. [4] Aristophanes, Clouds 789-90 (web address 1), with comments …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3469Εὐημερίαgood-weather… phrase cf. alpha 1050, alpha 2367, alpha 4303, etc. [2] Alexis fr. 166 K.-A. (161 Kock).Matched in noteshighshort

αι392Αἶψαswiftly… paralleled only in a scholion to the occurrence in Nicander, Alexipharmaca 463. [2] Greek Anthology 6.190.1-2 (Gaetulicus); cf. lambda 270. Find further extracts from this epigram, the poet Leonidas's dedication to Aphrodite, at alpha …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1205ΔιοσημείαZeus-omen, Zeus-sign… qeou= o)rgh/) as referred to plagues and famines; Anna Comnena, Alexiad 4, 2, 1; Arrian, Bithyniaca fr. 37, 4; scholia to Hesiod, Works and Days 661; scholia to Homer, Iliad 8 77a2. The word …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ1499Δραματουργήσαςhaving staged a drama, having fabricated… metaphor for "staging" or manipulating political situations (e.g. Anna Comnena, Alexias 1.12.9.7, although in a different form), or to wicked machinations in general, hence Hesychius' glossing (delta2312) of the infinitive of the verb as …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1588Δυσαλθέςhard to cure… and gloss twice in Nicander, with corresponding scholia: Theriaca 187, Alexipharmaca 157. An alternative lexicographical tradition (Hesychius delta2513, Photius delta792 Theodoridis) is couched in the masculine nominative singular. The adjective is rare before the …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2659Ἐπὶ τὰ Μανδροβόλουon Mandrobolos' property… [2] A ram, because, according to a scholiast on Nicander's Alexipharmaka, this was the creature that accidentally found the deposits. [3] Ephorus FGrH 70 F59b.Matched in noteshighshort

κ891Καταιγίσαςhaving stormed upon (?)… must be quoted from somewhere -- perhaps a fragment of Alexis the comic poet reported by Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 8.338D-E (8.21 Kaibel), where the fish-loving Phayllos storms into the market to make his purchases. The …Matched in noteshighshort