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η350Ἡμίσεια Ἥμισυ παντόςhalf… of h(/misus. It is followed by two words from the Hesiod quotation which follows. [2] Hesiod, Works and Days 40 (web address 1); cf. scholion on Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1211. See also nu …Matched in noteshighmedium
α1279ἌλκηστιςAlkestis, Alcestis… she was prepared to die. First mentioned in Homer and Hesiod, but most fully depicted in Euripides' tragedy Alkestis (438 BCE).Matched in noteshighshort
α133Ἀγάλματαdelights, ornaments, statues… an ivory cheek-piece for a horse. [2] This fragment of Hesiod (142 Merkelbach-West, 233 Rzach) is not known from any other source. It may pertain to the story of Europa in the Catalogue of …Matched in noteshighmedium
χ346Χλοερόςgreen, verdant… uncontracted form of the gloss, often preferred in poetry (e.g. Hesiod, Shield of Heracles 393, Euripides, Bacchae 866). See also chi 358, Hesychius s.v., and (according to Adler) Lexicum Ambrosianum 271.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1093Δίκηςof justice… entry = Aelian fr. 28 Domingo-Forasté (25 Hercher). [4] cf. Hesiod, Works and Days 256 (web address 1). Aelian's words summarize the comparison between the just and unjust cities in Hesiod's text, which M.L. …Matched in noteshighmedium
η307Ἡμερόκοιτοςday-sleeper… Hesychius. The headword is an epithet of a thief at Hesiod, Works and Days 605. Also found in the form h(merokoi/ths; and cf. the Doric forms a(mero/koitos (Euripides, Cyclops 58) and a(merokoi/ths (Hesychius alpha3603, …Matched in noteshighshort
α262Ἀγλαΐαsplendor… but more probably quoted from somewhere external (the possibilities include Hesiod, Pindar and Euripides).Matched in noteshighshort
δ1673Δυσώνυμοςill-named… generally LSJ s.v. Occurs not infrequently in early poets: Homer, Hesiod (Theogony 171), Sophocles, Euripides. (Less common thereafter, and no longer in poetry.) For the present gloss cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 6.255, …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1451Δῶρα θεοὺς πείθει καὶ αἰδοίους βασιλῆαςgifts sway gods and revered kingsHesiod fr.361 Merkelbach-West, preferring Plato's version of this hexameter line (Republic 390E: dw=ra qeou\s pei/qei, dw=r' ai)doi/ous basilh=as). The Suda's version with 'and' for the second 'gifts' occurs also in Apostolius 6.42; and see …Matched in noteshighshort
α3750Ἀράχνηspider's web… that the Anthologia Planudea transmits sth/mon (vol. I, 12). [2] 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. …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3536Εὔκηλοςat ease… corresponding scholia. Also in Homer, Odyssey 3.263 (web address 2); Hesiod, Works and Days 671 (web address 3); Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 238 (web address 4); and Sophocles, Electra 241 (web address 5). Also …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1286Κελαινόςblack, murky, dark… a wound. The heart of a man may be kelaino/n (Hesiod, Shield 429), or his spirit kelainw/pan (of Odysseus, Sophocles, Ajax 955, cf. kappa 1288), cf. kelaino/frwn, spoken by Orestes of his mother (Aeschylus, …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1627Δυσείμωνill-clad… first attested in a fragment of hexameter poetry attributed to Hesiod (fr. 372 Merkelbach-West, in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 3.116A [3.84 Kaibel]): "ill-clad fisherfolk" In Hesychius s.v. the (singular) headword is glossed with a)kth/mwn, "possession-less". Wearing …Matched in noteshighshort
λ424Ληΐζεταιseizes booty, plunders… third person singular of lhi+/zomai; perhaps from (or generated by) Hesiod, Works and Days 702, where lhi+/zet' occurs (though the precise form here has already featured in kappa 423 and kappa 832). See also …Matched in noteshighshort
μ1373Μυδαλέαςsodden… singular masculine, appears in Archilochus fr. 249, and elsewhere, including Hesiod, Works and Days 556. For the gloss see Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon (113.34) and Photius mu586; also Hesychius mu1776, who also includes a version …Matched in noteshighshort
αι245Αἰόλανdarkening, discolouring… for the darkening of a black grape as it ripens (Hesiod, Shield 399; alphaiota 246) and the developing lividity (i.e. black and blue discoloration) of a potentially mortal wound (Sophocles, Philoctetes 1157, with scholia); …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1052Κατηναρισμέναςhaving been slaughtered… 4.137, it describes a protection against thrown arms, whereas in Hesiod, Works and Days 536 it means a protection from snow. The present occurrence is the only attestation of the two lines of Callimachus …Matched in noteshighmedium
αι253Αἰόλοςundulating, wavelike, advancing in a winding or rolling fashion, agile in turning side to side; multicoloured, discoloured, black or chestnut with white markings; easily moved, changeable, wily, quick-witted, liable to metamorphosis, disturbed in mind; whirling; self-generating in movement, ever-turning; lively, flashing, shimmering… Nicander, Theriaca 155, alphaiota 246), the undulating body of Echidna (Hesiod, Theogony 300, cf. scholia, polue/likton), and a mass of flesh-eating worms (Iliad 22.509), and might apply visually to the shapes of a wasp …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1832ΚλωθώKlotho, Clotho… trinity of Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos were the fruit of Hesiodic theology' (B.C. Dietrich in OCD(4) s.v. 'fate'). [1] Differently glossed in ps.-Herodian and, according to Adler, the Ambrosian Lexicon. [2] Greek Anthology 7.148.3-4 …Matched in noteshighshort