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- α1037ἌκτιαAktia, ActiaAn ancient [sc. athletic] contest, as Callimachus makes clear in his [treatise] On contests.
- α2410Ἀνηλεήςmerciless, pitiless… generally nu 311. There are instances in Aeschines (2.163), Menander, Callimachus, Appian and elsewhere.
- α4322ἈταρνεύςAtarneus… a citizen of Atarneus. So e.g. in the epigram of Callimachus quoted by Diogenes Laertius 1.80.
- α302Ἀγορανομίαςmarket-supervisorship, market-supervisorships… others from Lepreon a small town of the Peloponnese which Callimachus also mentions in the Hymns: "citadel of Kaukones, which is called Lepreion." Others still [sc. derive it] from mangy cattle, since the hides …
- κ2647Κυκλίων τε χορῶν ᾀσματοκάμπαςand tune-benders of cyclic choruses.… he was severely beaten as one obscuring the muses". And Callimachus alludes to them, attacking them in this kind of way: "they introduced bastardly songs". Or he is hinting at the associates of Cinesias …
- χ478Χρήματα χρήματ' ἀνήρmoney money (is the) man… give it to Bias. [3] This proverb first appears at Callimachus, Epigrams 1.12 Pfeiffer, where a man, under the prompting of Pittacus, overhears boys at play saying this. See also tau 522, where attributions …
- α858ἈκήAke, Acre… plural but names a plurality of authorities -- Nicanor and Callimachus -- who said this. [Harpocration's entry itself gives Demosthenes 52 as the principal citation for Ake. The toponym does not appear in the …