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κ373ΚαρδοῦχοιKardouchi, CarduchiA careless summary of what is said by Xenophon, Anabasis 4.2.27-28: the Kardouchoi (whom the Greek mercenaries encountered in Kurdistan) were armed only with arrows and slings, and it was as archers that they …Matched in noteshighshort
χ93ΧαράκωμαstockadeFrom Harpokration s.v. xa/raka: sic, i.e. the accusative case of charax (chi 92, chi 96, chi 97, chi 98); for the Suda's xara/kwma, see already at chi 92. [1] Demosthenes 6.23, cf. 18.87. [2] …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1852ΚνάπτωI card… of Plato after Speusippus, see xi 42, pi 1707. The carding of wool in preparation for spinning is used as a metaphor for preliminary studies. For the verb kna/ptw, see also epsilon 510.Matched in noteshighshort
λ124Λάρκοςcharcoal-scuttle… the first instance from Lysias fr. 139 Sauppe, now 192 Carey OCT, but goes on to cite Acharnians.] In the play Dicaeopolis confronts a chorus -- a posse, we might say -- of charcoal …Matched in noteshighshort
α1490Ἁμαξουργοίcartwrights, wagon-makersThe word cartwright occurs (in the singular) at Aristophanes, Knights 464; this material is from the scholia on the line. For the distinction between wild and cultivated trees see e.g. Herodotus 4.21.Matched in noteshighshort
κ326Καπανῆταιcords? charioteers?… perhaps a better alternative is to connect it with kapa/nh, "chariot"; hence, 'chariot-men', though "Chariot-man" is also a likely etymology of the name of the hero Kapaneus. Also possible is a connection with skapanh/ths …Matched in noteshighshort
κ369Καρδιοφύλαξheart-protector, heart-guard… property class. The heart-protector (in Latin, pectorale) has already been characterized as worn by common soldiers; the lorica is for the rich.Matched in noteshighshort
α3967Ἁρμάτειος τροχός Ἁρμάτειοςchariot wheel… up, the subject of this entry switches to music. The "chariot nome" (played on the aulos) is mentioned by Plutarch, Moralia 335A and 1133A, and the "chariot tune" is an intrusive stage-direction (which generated …Matched in noteshighshort
κ400ΚαρνεάδηςKarneades, Carneades214/3-129/8. See generally Gisela Striker in OCD(4) s.v. Carneades; Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy at web address 1. [1] Philokomos or Epikomos (Diogenes Laertius 4.62). [2] Karneades was the most recognized member of the "New" …Matched in noteshighshort
ε1558Ἐξαργυρῶσαιto turn [something] into silver [coinage]Same or similar entry in other lexica. It concerns Thucydides 8.81.3, where the aorist infinitives of e)carguro/w and e)carguri/zw are alternative readings (web address 1). Alcibiades represents the words as coming from the Persian …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2225Κώθωνkothon; Kothon… "a drinking vessel most suitable for campaigning and most easily carried in a knapsack. The reason why it is a military item is that (soldiers) must often drink water that is not pure. So …Matched in noteshighshort
χ67Χαμαίζηλοιground-seeking [ones]… and Etymologicum Magnum 806.24. The first of these reads di/froi ("chariots" or "seats") for the Suda's di/frioi ("[things] of a chariot"). The quotation which follows the gloss clearly pertains to chariots, but di/froi is …Matched in noteshighshort
β114Βάρειςbarges… 125. [4] Greek Anthology 7.67.3-4 (Leonidas of Tarentum), addressed to Charon [Author, Myth] by Diogenes; already at alpha 3638 (in part) and, again, at omicron 124. See Gow and Page (vol. I, 126); (vol. …Matched in noteshighshort
α4703Ἀχθοφόρονburden-bearing… quoted from somewhere. [2] Aristophanes, Frogs 1406 (of corpses and chariots: web address 1 below), with scholion. [3] cf. e.g. Aristophanes, Birds 1133. Passages such as these appear to reflect awareness of the Pyramids …Matched in noteshighshort
λ526Λιθουργικὴstone-workingcf. lambda 525. [1] Lysias fr. 186 Sauppe (now 238 Carey OCT).Matched in noteshighshort
ι526Ἱππαφέσεωνof horse-starting-posts… Deipnosophists 13.586E [13.51 Kaibel] and 13.592E [13.62] = Lysias fr.208 Carey OCT. [1] cf. alpha 4592. [2] Polybius fr. 52 Büttner-Wobst. Read (with Hultsch) dative plural e)fistame/nois for the present nominative plural in the …Matched in noteshighshort
α3875Ἀρίδεςbow-drills… [2] Greek Anthology 6.205.5 (Leonidas of Tarentum), upon retirement the carpenter Leontichus dedicates the implements of his craft to Athena; cf. Gow and Page (Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, 109); (Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, 316-319); …Matched in noteshighshort
η305Ἡμεροδρόμοςcourier, long-distance runner… but 'stones' with this adjective are problematic (not least when carried, purportedly, by runners). Chap.37 of the treatise Physiologus is entitled 'Concerning fire-projecting stones', and says that these stones come in male and female …Matched in noteshighshort
α1748Ἀμφίξουνall-round-smoothing… given. [1] Greek Anthology 6.205.9 (Leonidas of Tarentum), the retiring carpenter Leontichus dedicates his tools to Athena; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 109); (vol. II, 316-319); and other extracts from this epigram at …Matched in noteshighshort
δ733Δίαρμαpassage by sea[1] Polybius 10.8.2, on New Carthage (web address 1). [2] Quotation unidentifiable. (Adler mentions Toup's attribution of the passage to Polybius, but it does not appear in the standard texts.) [3] Or "blocked," as …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ796Διατρέχοντεςmeteors… scholia to Aristophanes, Peace 838 (web address 1), where one character asks what oi( diatre/xontes a)/steres are (and another replies that they are "rich folks on their way home from the feast with a …Matched in noteshighshort
α2660Ἀντιγόχνοιαιantigochnoiai… a garbling of the phrase a)ntu/gwn xnoi/ai, literally "axle-boxes of (chariot-)rails", which -- drawn from Euripides, Rhesus 118 (accusative case: web address 1) -- appears in other lexica.Matched in noteshighshort
κ2166Κοτύληkotyle… so defined is the kaloume/nhn tu/lhn, "the so-called shoulder-pad". Protagoras' career is also mentioned in phi 610.Matched in noteshighshort
α249Ἀγκώνelbow… Justinian 3.20.4-7 (web address 1), the prison guard at Gelimer's Carthage palace releases the captive traders as Belisarius's (cf. beta 233, generally) fleet makes its approach (September 533 CE); cf. Kaldellis (184). On Gelimer, …Matched in noteshighmedium
η685Ἠχώecho… Suda's text, since it reveals that yo/fwn should be yofw=n "carrying the sound". Cf. Alexander of Aphrodisias, On Aristotle's De anima 48.7 e)/ti fula/sswn yo/fon, "(the air) still keeping the sound". [4] (This last …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3020Ἕρμαballast… 37.14 (web address 1), where a plan to sink two cargo vessels heavy with ballast into the narrow entrance of the harbor at Ephesus is debated--and ultimately rejected--by the Romans (under Lucius Aemilius Regillus, …Matched in noteshighshort
α254Ἀγκύλονcrooked… Homer, Iliad 6.39, where the neuter headword occurs (of a chariot), though there are other possibilities.Matched in noteshighshort
α2057Ἀναρροιβδεῖνto slurp up… a)narroibdei= (with single or double rho) describes what the whirlpool Charybdis (chi 144) does.Matched in noteshighshort
ε2275Ἐπίγυονhawser, limb-rope… was used by e.g. Lysias (fr. 16 Sauppe, still 16 Carey OCT) and Aristophanes (fr. 426 Kock = 440 Kassel-Austin). See also epsilon 2276.Matched in noteshighshort
χ31ΧαλκεύωI forge, I make of copper or bronzeThis is the normal way of characterizing transitive verbs in the Suda: see alpha 139 and passim. A similar entry occurs in a syntactic lexicon. Active voice again under chi 32; middle under (e.g.) …Matched in noteshighshort

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