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- ε3692Εὐριπίδη ΕὐριπίδιονEuripides little Euripides… Aristophanes, Acharnians 404, with comment from the scholia there. For Euripides see generally epsilon 3695. [2] Other instances of the 'wheedling diminutive' (Dover) in Aristophanes: Clouds 80, 132, 221-2, 746.
- ι386Ἰνοῖ κρεμαμένῃ πρὸ ποδῶν Εὐριπίδου[like] Ino hanging on to Euripides' feet… iota 381 and iota 382. This Aristophanic passage refers to Euripides' lost play of that name, where 'there must have been a scene...in which Ino abased herself by hanging on to the feet of …
- ε3691Εὐριπίδειον ἔποςEuripidean word… proper adjective is used in place of a genitive. For Euripides the tragedian, see generally epsilon 3695. [2] Euripides fr. 1086: "physician, heal thyself." Later proverbial: see Tosi (cited under alpha 378) no.1729. [3] …
- ε3693ΕὐριπίδηςEuripides[1] For the famous Euripides see epsilon 3695. The historicity of a nephew and namesake, also a tragedian (epsilon 3694), is generally accepted, but that individual cannot be equated with the subject of the …
- ε3695ΕὐριπίδηςEuripides… in OCD(4) s.v. For a balanced and succinct investigation of Euripidean lore (with ample sourcing), see the Introduction (1-49) by David Kovacs in Euripides: Cyclops, Alcestis, Medea in the Loeb Classical Libarary. [1] Philochorus …
- δ1442Δωδεκαμήχανονtwelve-device, twelve-trick… on which see further below. cf. generally pi 253. [1] Euripides fr. 755. In his note on Aristophanes, Frogs 1327-8 (which refers to "the twelve-trickery of Kyrene"), Dover 357 inclines to a variant version …
- α1594Ἅμιλλαcontest… [1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica and several Euripidean scholia; references at Photius alpha1201 Theodoridis. (Latte on Hesychius s.v. makes the Euripides connection explicit by citing e.g. Hecuba 226.) [2] Aelian fr. …
- λ853Λυσανίας πατρῴων μεγάλων κακῶνgrief-dispeller of his father's great troubles… is known to contain at least one and probably two Euripidean quotations, and elsewhere it displays some typically Euripidean stylistic features (so Angel y Espinós), so it is possible that the present headword phrase …
- α2373Ἀνειλήθυιανhaving never given birth… See LSJ s.v. a)neilei/quia [sic], and cf. epsiloniota 108. [1] Euripides, Ion 453 (web address 1).
- λ529Λίθων χοαίstreams of stones, outpourings of stones… other lexica: see the references at Photius lambda307 Theodoridis. [1] Euripides fr.1007; cf. Appendix Proverbiorum 3.69, and see already at lambda 336 with note there. (How precisely Euripides' phrase connects with the proverb is …
- α2868Ἀπάγουcarry away, lead away[1] That is, the middle rather than the active imperative: Euripides fr. 1097. Likewise in Photius and elsewhere. [2] See already under alpha 2865 (and other entries).
- α1367Ἄλοχοςspouse… Homer, Odyssey 1.36, where the headword occurs (accusative case). [2] Euripides fr.132 Nauck, quoted in an anecdote (about a male homosexual relationship) in Diogenes Laertius 4.29.
- α2039Ἀνάπτυξιςunfolding… entry appears also in Photius (alpha1623 and alpha1622 Theodoridis). [2] Euripides, Heracles 1256 (web address 1 below).
- δ1227Δίωκε ἀρετήνpursue excellence… kai\ a)reth/n, feu=ge yo/gon "pursue glory and excellence, flee blame"; Euripides, Ion 439-440 su/ [...] e)pei\ kratei=s a)reta\s di/wke (web address 3). Bernhardy's suggested correction of the entry to a)reta\s di/wke, rests on this …
- α1188Ἀλλήλωνeach other… Photius (Lexicon alpha998 Theodoridis) and elsewhere. [1] This refers to Euripides, Supplices 676, according to Theodoridis (following Naber). Adler had cited Euripides fr. 1124 Nauck, but that instance is dubious. [2] An approximation of …
- μ673ΜεσῶI am in the middle, I am midway… phrase qe/rous mesou=ntos occurs. [1] That is, an o/w-verb. [2] Euripides, Medea 60: web address 1.
- ει258Εἴσῃyou will know… are optative and subjunctive respectively. See also epsiloniota 296. [2] Euripides fr.129, from Diogenes Laertius 4.29.
- μ1000Μὴ τὸν ἐμὸν οἴκει νοῦν ἔχεις γὰρ οἰκίανdo not manage my mind for you have a house… 105, with scholion. [1] As Adler notes, 'Matthiae' [= the Euripides editor August Matthiae, 1769-1835] proposed emending 'Andromache' to Andromeda (see next note), presumably on the basis that these words do not occur in …
- μ1242Μονῳδεῖνto sing a monody… Same material in Photius (mu527 Theodoridis) and other lexica. [2] Euripides in Aristophanes, Frogs 944 (web address 1), with scholion. Dover ad loc. is suitably sceptical about Kephisophon (sic: for the name-garbling see already …
- μ291Μάττονταςkneading… scholia there; but read Eupolis (epsilon 3657) for the Suda's 'Euripides'.
- α4408ΑὐγάζωI see clearly, I illumineLikewise in syntactical lexica. See e.g. Euripides, Hecuba 637.
- δ1680Δυσπάλαιστοςhard to wrestle with… is a)katagw/nistos); the second is also in Hesychius delta2641. [1] Euripides, Alcestis 889 and (neuter) Supplices 1118. See also (and also figurative) Aeschylus, Supplices 468 and Choephori 692. [2] Perhaps quoted from Pindar (Olympians …
- κ1785Κλῆρος ἙρμοῦHermes' lot… 'lot' see also kappa 1782, kappa 1783, kappa 1784. [1] Euripides fr. 39.
- κ2023Κομψευριπικῶςboasteuripically… headword adverb, a comic coinage, occurs (web address 1). For Euripides see generally epsilon 3695. [2] Aelian fr. 157 Domingo-Forasté (154 Hercher). Adler notes the observation of Perizonius [Jakob Voorbroek, 1651–1715] that this sentence …
- χ452Χραίνεινto stain… grammars, e.g. Hesychius s.v., ps.-Herodian 149; also the scholia to Euripides, Hecuba 366 (web address 1), where a form of the headword appears. (The present form perhaps comes from another passage in Euripides: Hippolytus …
- ι217Ἰήie… follows Heath in printing i)h\ ko/pon as separate words.) Aristophanes' Euripides is here quoting Aeschylus (fr. 132, from the Myrmidons).
- δ518ΔιαγελῶI laugh at, I mockLikewise in syntactical lexica. LSJ s.v. gives examples from Euripides, Xenophon and others.
- ε3795Εὐφημίαgood speech… 3792. [1] Apparently a fragment of Iambic poetry. Ascribed to Euripides by Nauck (fr.1087), but to an unknown tragic poet by Snell (Tragica Adespota fr.562a). [2] Aelian fr. 265 Domingo-Forasté (267 Hercher); cf. epsilon …
- ε750Ἐλατήρbroad-cake… and upsilon 118. For Alkman see generally alpha 1289. [3] Euripides, Trojan Women 1063 (web address 2). [4] From a scholion on Aristophanes, Knights 1181, where this genitive occurs (web address 3); Euripides fr. …
- α3819Ἄραιτοmight lift, might raise… the first quotation given. [1] Same glossing in Hesychius. [2] Euripides, Orestes 1-3 (web address 1 below). [3] Aristophanes, Frogs 1406 (web address 2), with scholion; cf. alpha 4703.