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- χ477υνκνοων—Χρήματα χρήματ' ἀνήρ πενιχρὸς δ' οὐδέποτ' ἐσθλόςmoney money (is the) man but a pauper (is) never noble… who are always catering to the masses." Sophocles [writes]: "'what matter [xrh=ma] do you attend to, Ajax? Why do you set out on this attempt neither summoned by messengers nor hearing any trumpet? In …
- α904Ἀκμήmoment, point, still… sharpness, the exact decisive moment of the intensity of the matter, and power, and youth. But "akme of opportunity" [means] good fortune. Thus Isocrates [writes]: "[it is best] to grasp the akme of the …
- ει142Εἱμαρμένηfate… account of an "unavoidable" cause; or "the power that moves matter". But we acknowledge Christ as the god who governs everything.
- α383Ἀγυιαίhighways… in Krapataloi [writes]: "o master Aguieus, remember me in these matters."
- ε3736Εὐσεβεῖνto act piously… becomes a good guide for humans with regard to divine matters."
- ε3735Εὐσέβειαpiety… what is related to sacrifices, foundations, purifications, and the other matters appropriate to the divine. "Piety is an easy thing and quite full of temperance and in no way burdensome." "For piety does [not] …
- α905Ἀκμὴ καλεῖa moment is calling… was contemptuous of these things and ignorant of them and materialistic." "At the instant of the evil came some memory of the Samothracians: for that is where the two were initiates." Instead of u(ph=rxon …
- χ445Χωρὶς τὰ Μυσῶν καὶ Φρυγῶν ὁρίσματαseparate are the boundaries of Mysians and Phrygians"[Kreon:] Speaking a lot and speaking appropriately are separate matters. [Oedipus:] You talk as if you are speaking briefly but appropriately." That is, it is one thing to talk nonsense and another to say …
- ε3254Ἔσχατος Μυσῶν πλεῖνto sail last of the Mysians… is ascribed by Erbse to Pausanias the Atticist (epsilon58). Similar material -- especially similar in the account of Telephos -- appears in a scholium to Euripides, Rhesos 251, where Mysians are mentioned. The same …
- κ437Καρύκηsauce… derived terms see already kappa 435, kappa 436. [1] Similar material in a variety of other lexica, grammars and scholia. [2] Aristophanes, Knights 343: web address 1 below. [3] cf. Zenobius 5.3, and the …
- α1912Ἀνακωχεύειrefrains… [1] Sophocles, Electra 732 (web address 1), with scholion; similar material in Photius, Hesychius and elsewhere. [2] cf. alpha 2238. [3] This rather poetic expression paraphrases that of the Sophocles passage.
- δ1145ΔιογένηςDiogenes… likewise charged with a sword to his love and settled matters with his father in respect of the disease.
- δ1541ΔρύινοςoakenSame material, variously, in other lexica, and cf. also scholia on Homer, Sophocles, Aristophanes and Nicander. [1] cf. delta 1552 etc. [2] alpha 1001. [3] delta 1554. [4] delta 1544. [5] delta 1377, delta …
- ε257Ἑδωλιάσαιto floorcf. alphaiota 255, alphaiota 256, epsilon 256. [1] Similar material in other lexica. [2] From glosses on Herodotus 1.24.4. For this "quarterdeck" usage (also in the Sophocles passage about to be quoted) see LSJ …
- α1933Ἀνάλγητοςunfeeling… Tyrannus 12-13 (web address 1 below), with scholion. [2] Same material in Photius and elsewhere. [3] Sophocles, Ajax 946-8 (web address 2 below), with scholion.
- α2786Ἀνύπαρκτονnon-existent… and epsiloniota 46), the scholia on which have supplied the material for the present entry. [3] Homer, Odyssey 18.130. See web address 3.
- χ5Χάλαζαhail, hailstorm[1] Stoic definitions from Diogenes Laertius 7.153. [2] Similar material, more briefly, in the Lexica Segueriana, s.v. nifeto/s. Perhaps from a Life of Pythagoras (so Adler). [3] Aristophanes, Frogs 852 (Dionysus talking about Aeschylus), …
- α1002Ἀκροθίνιαspoils, akrothinia[1] Same or similar material in Photius and other lexica; and cf. the scholia to Euripides, Phoenissae 203, where the neuter plural headword occurs. [2] cf. Hesychius alpha2606. [3] Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists …
- ε1348ἜννιοςEnnius, Ennios… [1] Aelian fr. 119 Domingo-Forasté, 116 Hercher (i.e. the present material). [2] Quoted again at mu 359. [3] Before his naturalization as a Roman citizen (in 184) Ennius had originated from Messapia, in the …
- δ1701Δυστράπελοςintransigent… K.-A.). [2] Sophokles, Ajax 912 (web address 1), preceded by material from the scholia there. [3] Sophokles, Ajax 430-433 (web address 2); cf. alpha 748 (end), alphaiota 91.
- ε3580ΕὐμενίδεςEumenides… 2994. [2] Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 39-42, preceded here by material from the scholia to line 42 there. (Philemon = fr. 217 Kock, now 180 Kassel-Austin.) [3] Quoted from alpha 1053.
- ε3850Ἔφεδροςreserve, in reserve… address 1). [3] Sophocles, Ajax 609-610 (web address 2), with material from the scholia there.
- α133Ἀγάλματαdelights, ornaments, statues… [6] Used as prizes for victors in competition. [7] Same material in Photius (Lexicon alpha92 Theodoridis) and elsewhere; cf. Kassel-Austin, PCG II p.365 (on Antiphanes fr.102).
- κ1272ΚέκροψKekrops, Cecrops… kappa 1270. Images at web addresses 1 and 2. [2] Material from the scholia to Aristophanes, Wealth 773, where the phrase "land of Kekrops" occurs. [3] Greek Anthology 7.21.2 (Simias of Thebes): referring to …
- κ1301Κέληςdinghy, yacht… of ke/lhs; Adler notes with approval Bernhardy's view that this material belongs with kappa 1288. [5] Greek Anthology 5.204.1-2 (Meleager [Author, Myth]). Because the Suda's text is mangled, it does not quite make grammatical …
- χ364Χοάςpourings… Athenian festival. The "backbone" of the present entry (with other material interpolated) is the scholia to Aristophanes, Acharnians 961, where *xoa=s occurs.
- ει22Εἰδέαidea, form, aspect, figureThis entry draws on (and rearranges) material in Diogenes Laertius 3.63-64. cf. iota 96, phi 141. For the headword see also epsiloniota 23. [1] For Plato’s identification of Forms with genus, paradigm, and cause …
- ε3695ΕὐριπίδηςEuripides… s.v. 'homosexuality' (or the Oxford Companion (below) 347-54 for this material without bibliography); and Cambridge Illustrated History 126-27. The Suda includes a parenthetical comment here: "for he also had erotic passions for that sort …
- κ2216Κῴδιονsmall fleece, small sheepskin rug (for sleeping on) or cloak (against rain)… Knights 399-400, but with a manifestly incorrect reading. The following material here corresponds for the most part to the scholia ad loc., but with the sentences often in a different order. [3] The text …