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1796
Ἐξομόργνυνται
they wipe off (from themselves)
The headword is third person plural present middle of e)como/rgnumi. It must be quoted from somewhere: same or similar glossing in other lexica, and cf. also the scholia to Plato, Laws 775D, where the …
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471
Χρή
it is necessary
[1] See the A scholia to Homer, Iliad 1.216 (web address 1), where the form xrh/ appears; see also Etymologicum Magnum 814.50. [2] Eupolis fr. 4 Kock, now 11 K.-A. [3] See chi 493 …
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1889
Ἐωνημένοι
having purchased
[1] The headword is the perfect middle participle, masculine nominative plural, of w)ne/omai. Same or similar glossing in other lexica; evidently quoted from somewhere (perhaps Plato, Republic 563B, though there are other possibilities). As …
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1375
Δοξούμενοι
(they) credited with being, (they) having the character
In ms M only, Adler reports. The unglossed headword is apparently the present participle, masculine nominative plural, of the verb doco/omai (found only in the passive in classical writers: see LSJ s.v. at web …
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94
Δαυίδ
David
Source (after the opening gloss): George the Monk, Chronicon 1.176.10-13, 178.4-11, 179.5-25. Some repetition at omicron 974, and cf. sigma 1035. For David see also delta 95, delta 96. [1] Judaism, as in the …
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1093
Δίκης
of justice
The headword is the genitive singular of the noun di/kh (delta 1089, delta 1090, etc.), evidently quoted from somewhere, although not from either of the quotations given; perhaps from commentary to Aristophanes, Clouds 764 …
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2200
Ἀναίμονες
bloodless [ones]
… 116:996b. [5] The reference is to the author of the
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of Basil II, Symeon Metaphrastes, often identified as Symeon Logothete. The entry for Daniel's festival on Dec. 11 [PG 117:201] refers, however, to …
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1126
Διμοιρίτης
double-pay soldier, half-file commander
[1] See LSJ entry at web address 1. The explanation "half-file commander" offered by the military glossary of ms. Coislin. 347 (whose entries have been picked up from Aelian the Tactician, C2 AD) has …
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2330
Ἐπιθειασμοί
divine appeals
[1] Paraphrase or approximation of a longer quotation ascribed to Arrian at theta 310, and combined with a quotation at alpha 4495 to form Arrian, Parthica fr. 34 Roos-Wirth (cf. FGrH 156 F149). [2] …
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1280
Ἀλκιβιάδης
Alcibiades, Alkibiades
451/0-404/3. See generally P.J. Rhodes in OCD(4) s.v. (pp.52-3). The present entry is attributed by Adler to the biographies of notable individuals by Hesychius of Miletus (C6 CE); and specifically, the section beginning 'This …
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1652
Ἀμπέχῃ
wearing
The SOL text wrongly shows the supplementary headword a)pe/xh|, not the primary one a)mpexo/menos. For the verb a)mpe/xw cf. eta 362. [1] The headword, which has the same glossing in other lexica and is …
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183
Βαττολογία
battology, empty repetition
Likewise in other lexica. For the related verb see Matthew 6.7 (the Sermon on the Mount): "and in praying do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they …
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110
Δαιδάλου ποιήματα
Daidalos' creations, Daedalus' creations
The phrase "Daidalou poiemata" occurs in Plato,
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97D-E, and this material derives from ancient comment on that passage. For Daidalos/Daedalus cf. already delta 106, delta 107, delta 108, delta 109; and see generally …
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1189
Διοπομπεῖσθαι
to escort [evil] away
The headword is the present infinitive of the compound verb diopompe/omai. Lexicographers are the only extant source for forms of the un-compounded diopompe/omai, since the verb normally appears as a)podiopompe/omai (alpha 3297; LSJ entry …
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1230
Διῳκίσατο
dispersed, scattered
For this verb see also delta 1231; LSJ entry at web address 1. [1] See e.g. Isocrates 5.45 d. ta\s po/leis, "breaking cities up into villages"; Demosthenes 19.81 diwkisme/noi kata\ kw/mas, "dispersed into villages"; …
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70
<20Ἐγκαλινδεῖσθαι σωματικοῖς παθήμασι
to wallow in bodily affections
A marginal gloss mising from mss TFV and misplaced in ms G. Adler tentatively ascribes it to Symeon Metaphrastes. (But see below.) The verb e)gkalindei=sqai, literally meaning to roll around in, occurs occasionally in …
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134
Ἐγκύκλιος
cyclical, periodic
For this adjective cf. epsilon 133. [1] Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 7.8.2, says that the Avars (*)/abaroi) called their leaders Khagans or Khans (*xaga/noi: see chi 2, chi 3). [2] The use of e)gku/klion plou=ton …
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466
Ἐκλῃδονίζετο
was foretelling
Same entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (437). The headword is imperfect indicative middle-passive, third person singular, of the verb klh|doni/zw, "vaticinate". A Biblical entry, from 4 Kingdoms 21.6 LXX. A longer …
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551
Ἐκπαγλούμενοι
being struck
Same entry in ps.-Zonaras. For this verb see already epsilon 550. In the present instance the participle (presumably extracted from the quotation given) is masculine nominative plural. Construed with an accusative, the verb has …
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718
Ἔκφρων
witless
cf. epsilon 716, epsilon 717. [1] Similar glossing already in Hesychius (epsilon1807). [2] Quotation unidentifiable in this precise form, but very like what Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 12.531F-532A (12.42 Kaibel), citing Theopompus (FGrH 115 F31), says …
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735
Ἐλάκησε
burst asunder
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica. The headword is aorist indicative active of laka/w, third person singular. It must be quoted from somewhere -- almost certainly (given the amount of patristic comment on …
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1137
Ἐναύειν
to supplicate
[1] This meaning of the verb e)nau/w, labelled sense C in LSJ s.v., is unattested outside Photius (epsilon824 Theodoridis), the Suda, and ps.-Zonaras. They or their source seem to have confused e)nau/w "kindle" (sense …
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2619
Ἐπιστεφέας κρατῆρας
crowned craters, crowned mixing-vessels
The headword phrase, in the accusative plural, occurs twice in Homer (Iliad 8.232; Odyssey 2.431), but with the order of the words reversed. The comments here are an opaque paraphrase of Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.13D-E …
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