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α3741Ἄρασθαιto lift up, to raise up… perhaps (though not necessarily) extracted from the quotation given. [2] Pindar, Olympian Odes 1.83 uses the word a)fi/stamai (web address 1 below). [2] Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 252 Zintzen (150 Asmus); cf. fr.55 …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3360Εὐαγήςbrilliant, holy, undefiled… in Photius. [3] Greek Anthology 7.34.1-2 (Antipater of Sidon), on Pindar; quoted again at chi 33; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 17) and (vol. II, 47-48). For Pindar see generally pi 1617, pi …Matched in noteshighshort
α133Ἀγάλματαdelights, ornaments, statues… the story of Europa in the Catalogue of Women. [3] Pindar, Nemean Odes 10.125 (67 Bowra): web address 2. [4] Euripides, Alcestis 613: web address 3. [5] Already at alpha 131. [6] Used as …

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Ἄρασθαι

to lift up, to raise up

[Meaning] to carry off. Or to take, to pack away. By as much as the magnitude of the succession was increased in argument, by so much rather this man reduced it by persuasion, since it was at any rate a greater burden…

Ἄρασθαι· ἀπενέγκασθαι. ἢ λαβεῖν, φορτίσασθαι. ὅσῳ δὲ ηὔξετο τῆς διαδοχῆς τὸ μέγεθος ἐν τῷ λόγῳ, τοσούτῳ μᾶλλον οὗτος πρὸς τὴν πειθὼ συνεστέλλετο, μεῖζόν γε ὂν ἢ καθ' ἑαυτὸν…

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α1514Ἄμαχονimpossible, unconquerable… adjective. For its more literal sense, see alpha 1515. [1] Pindar, Olympian 13.16 (web address 1 below). Entry so far = Photius, Lexicon alpha1149 Theodoridis. [2] Aelian fr. 135 Domingo-Forasté (132 Hercher). [3] Quotation …Matched in noteshighmedium

α3750Ἀράχνηspider's web… Hesiod, Works and Days 777 (not Adler's "475": cobwebs). [3] Pindar fr. 296. [4] Callias fr. 2 Kock, now 5 K.-A. [5] Sophocles fr. 264 (= fr. 286 Radt); cf. Lloyd-Jones, who translates in …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ523ΔιαγόραςDiagoras… 524, and generally OCD(4) s.v. (p.444). [1] delta 448. [2] Pindar pi 1617, Bacchylides beta 59, Melanippides mu 455. [3] 468-465. [4] For this work cf. alpha 3493, pi 3200. On the (controversial) view …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε745Ἐλασίβροντ' ἀναρρηγνὺς ἔπηbreaking forth thunder-driving words… is based on the text of the Aristophanes scholia. [3] Pindar fr. 144 Snell-Maehler. [4] For Kleon see generally kappa 1731.Matched in noteshighshort

ει45Εἴδωλονlikeness, image, phantom… Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 55 Zintzen (242 Asmus), citing Pindar, Pythian 8.95; cf. sigma 599. [9] Quotation unidentifiable. For Ephraim see epsilon 3965.Matched in noteshighmedium

ι723Ἰσχύωνpowerful… qeo\s o( i)sxu/wn e)pi\ pa/ntas ["God powerful over all"]. [2] Pindar, Pythian 2.50-1 (web address 1), quoted in the scholia to Sophocles, Electra 696 (where the present headword occurs). See also theta 180, and …Matched in noteshighshort

κ2161Κοτίνου στεφάνῳwith a wreath of wild olive… Olive of Beautiful Crown grew. [6] In Olympian Ode 3, Pindar tells the story of how Herakles brought the olive trees to Olympia from the land beyond the Hyperboreans where he first saw them …Matched in noteshighmedium

α18ἌβαριςAbaris, Avars… (696-693) or "the time of Croesus, king of Lydia" (so Pindar, fr.270 Snell-Maehler), i.e. c.560-546. [6] The word used for the Avars here, *)aba/ris, is a homograph for the name of the Hyperborean wise …Matched in noteshighmedium

α130Ἀγάλλειglorifies, honours… under alpha 131), evidently quoted from somewhere. The possibilities include Pindar, Nemeans 5.43, and Euripides, Hercules 379. The verb is used especially of what one does to a deity: see LSJ (web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort

α1278Ἀλκήενταςmighty… 1787. The adjective a)lkh/eis is attested in the Homeric Hymns, Pindar, and late epic. Gow and Page identify (ibid.) the princess as Ptolemy Euergetes's daughter, who had been present with her brother at the …Matched in noteshighshort

α4566Ἀφαυροτέροιςmore feeble (ones), rather feeble (ones)… this comparative, must be quoted from somewhere; extant possibilities include Pindar and Oppian. [2] Greek Anthology 6.267.3-4 (Diotimus), a dedication to Artemis on a landowner's estate; again at iota 238, with (correctly) the adverb …Matched in noteshighshort

δ116Δαιμονίᾳby a miracle, by a miraculous (fate)… in the feminine dative singular; according to the scholia on Pindar, Olympians 9.110, from where it is probably quoted, the noun presupposed is moi/ra|. See generally LSJ s.v. daimo/nios, III. [2] Damascius, Life of …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1030Διθύραμβοςdithyramb… the right arrow to continue through the surviving fragments) and Pindar (pi 1617); but see also Sutton's collection. [1] Likewise in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon and in Glosses on Herodotus 1.23; similarly in the scholia …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1109Δικροῖςbifurcated, forked, two-pronged… fr. 9 Kock and K.-A.). See also the scholia to Pindar, Nemean 6, 50b (3.112.7 Drachmann): di/kroun ga\r, w(/ste du/o a)kma\s e)/xein kai\ mia=| bolh=| dissa\ ta\ trau/mata a)perga/zesqai. "(Achilles’ sword is) forked, so …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1189Διοπομπεῖσθαιto escort [evil] away… every kind of negative, ill-omened events or things (scholion on Pindar, Nemean 10 th\n e)/rin th\n pro\s tou\s krei/ttwnas; scholion [both the vetus and Tzetzes] on Aristophanes, Frogs 1340 tou\s xalepwta/tous tw=n o)nei/rwn; Clement …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1605Δυσδιάλλακτονhard to reconcile… a lyric composition, the qrh=nos was developed by Simonides and Pindar and, later, in tragedy, where it acquired an important function.Matched in noteshighshort

ε749Ἐλάτειρανcharioteeress, (female) driver… 750, epsilon 751), quoted from somewhere most likely to be Pindar fr.89a Snell-Maehler (qoa=n i(/ppwn e)la/teiran, a phrase apparently referring to Artemis). On the other hand: (a) This same accusative singular also occurs, in …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3540Εὐκλέϊσονglorify… mu (a)mmete/ran.) Other instances of this verb in Tyrtaeus and Pindar.Matched in noteshighshort

ε3549νονεprayed-for… proper name, Euktemon, but for the adjectival sense see e.g. Pindar, Nemeans 7.92.Matched in noteshighshort

ε3585ΕὔμολποςEumolpus, Eumolpos… and *no/stoi tw=n *(ellh/nwn, home-comings of the Greeks (scholia to Pindar, Olympian 13.31a.2). [1] Eleusis, originally an independent community in western Attica, was later (by c.700 BCE) subsumed into the emerging polis of Athens. …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε3617Εὐορκίαfidelity to an oathPindar uses the headword -- a single word in the Greek -- in the plural at Olympian 2.66 (web address 1); subsequently attested in a variety of authors including Demosthenes, Appian and Philo Judaeus. …Matched in noteshighshort

ι394ἸξίωνIxion… mythology; for his offense against Hera and Zeus, see especially Pindar, Pythian 2 (web address 1), and generally OCD(4) s.v. See also delta 430, iota 391, pi 1168, tau 613.Matched in noteshighshort

κ404ΚάρνιοςKarnian… was an epithet of Apollo in the Peloponnese (see e.g. Pindar, Pythians 5.79-80), and the Karneia his great festival there, esp. in Sparta (Herodotus 7.206, Thucydides 5.75, etc.). The Suda's headword 'Karnios' is also …Matched in noteshighshort

κ465Καστόρειον μέλοςCastor's song, Kastor's songThe headword phrase, first attested in Pindar Pythians 2.69 (web address 1 below) with the noun implicit, is probably quoted from Plutarch, Lycurgus 22.2 (cf. Moralia 1140C): when the Spartans are about to join …Matched in noteshighshort

χ4Χαΐαgenuine, fine, true… out the modernity of the term); see e.g. Strabo 8.20.20. (Pindar records the dedication of a large number of them at fr. 122.) In any case, the connection between Corinth and the sex-trade is …Matched in noteshighshort