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- λ551Λίμνηpool… [1] cf. the scholia to Sophocles, Trachiniae 636, and to Homer, Odyssey 3.1. [2] cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 5.709.
- ε1931Ἐπακτῆρεςhunters[1] Same material, variously, in other lexica, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon. From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 17.135, where the headword occurs. (This explanation is adopted in LSJ s.v.) [2] From the scholia to …
- κ1747Κλεῖε πηκτὰ δωμάτωνclose the barriers of the house… For a different sense of phkto/s, see pi 1503. [1] Homer, Iliad 9.475 (web address 2).
- α1795Ἄναup[1] Homer, Iliad 18.178 (web address 1). Same material in other lexica. [2] Sophocles, Ajax 194 (web address 2), with scholion; cf. epsilon 265. [3] Example in Homer, Iliad 3.351 (of Zeus): web address …
- η654Ηὐχένιζεwas cutting the throat… address 1); cf. alpha 2950. [1] Of a ship's sails: Homer, Odyssey 9.77, 12.402.
- δ1212Διὸς φήμηZeus' voice… [1] Prophet, in its strict sense. [2] An approximation of Homer, Iliad 2.93-94.
- κ2547Κοιμίσαιto put to bed… 832 (web address 1), on which scholia comment similarly. [2] Homer, Iliad 11.241 (web address 2), in reference to a warrior killed on the battlefield.
- α606ἈείalwaysSee also alpha 605, alpha 607. [1] Homer, Iliad 13.517 (web address 1). [2] Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1583-1584 (web address 2), with comment from the scholia there.
- ε1027Ἔμπληκτοιcapricious, impulsive… epsilon 1026), presumably quoted from Sophocles: see n.3 below. [2] Homer, Odyssey 20.132 (web address 1), with the related adverb e)mplh/gdhn. [3] Sophocles, Ajax 1358 (web address 2), with scholion.
- α4518Αὐτόςhimself[1] Homer, Iliad 1.3-4 (web address 1 below). [2] Aristophanes, Acharnians 398-399 (said of Euripides: web address 2), with scholion; cf. omicron 868.
- χ410Χορόςchorus, orchestra[1] Homer, Iliad 18.590 (Hephaestus decorates a shield for Achilles), and scholia on this verse. [2] Scholion on Aristophanes, Knights 589. (Not proverbial, despite this billing.)
- δ1673Δυσώνυμοςill-namedSee 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 …
- αι280Αἶρεlift… cf. alpha 635, alphaiota 281, mu 35, sigma 299. [1] Homer, Iliad 6.264, with scholion. This passage has the uncontracted form of the headword imperative (from a)ei/rw). [2] Aristophanes, Peace 1, quoted again at …
- μ477Μέλεοςidle, miserable… and the Lexica Segueriana. "Vain" is already the gloss in Homer, Iliad 23.795, Hesychius mu678, and Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. [2] i.e. Homer ("the Poet") uses the word to mean "idle" (LSJ s.v. me/leos I), …
- κ758Καταρτύσωνintending to prepare… Laws 808D; Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.392; Plutarch, Moralia 38D. [2] Homer, Odyssey 11.439 (web address 4). The context is Odysseus' conversation with Agamemnon in the Underworld. In place of do/lon other manuscripts read either …
- α4350Ἄτηdestruction, Destruction[1] Likewise in Hesychius; cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 2.111, where a form of the headword occurs (web address 1 below). [2] Homer, Iliad 19.126 (web address 2). [3] Homer, Iliad 19.93 (web …
- η403Ἠνύσατεyou finished, you accomplished… of a)nu/w; cf. alpha 2783, alpha 2794, alpha 2799. [2] Homer, Iliad 11.365. [3] Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 166, with scholion.
- ε969Ἔμελλεwas likely to, was about to[1] Homer, Iliad 2.36 (web address 1), with comment from the scholia there; similarly in ps.-Zonaras; and cf. generally mu 481. [2] Sophocles, Ajax 925, with comment from the scholia there. The line continues …
- ε3967ἜφριξαI bristled, I shivered… and phi 719. For the glossing cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 13.339 (about to quoted: see next note) and to Sophocles, Ajax 693 (from where the headword itself is presumably quoted; cf. below …
- δ352Δεινοὶ πλέκειν τοι μηχανὰς ΑἰγύπτιοιEgyptians (are) clever at crafting machines… phrase itself is Aeschylus fr. 373 Nauck (726 Mette). [2] Homer, Iliad 2.742, 15.626. The added comment comes from the scholia to the first of these passages. (The fame of Hippodameia was in itself …
- α127Ἀγακλειτόςcelebrated, very famous… (130); see also Hesychius s.v. a)ga/kleitoi, and the scholia to Homer, Iliad 3.59. [2] Homer, Iliad 18.45 (of the Nereid Galateia).
- λ356Λείαςbooty, plunder… from somewhere, is accusative plural of LSJ's lei/a (B). [2] Homer, Iliad 11.677 (web address 1). [3] Sophocles, Ajax 25-26 (web address 2), with scholion; cf. kappa 1052. [4] Quotation unidentifiable. [5] Homer, Iliad …
- α1796Ἀναβάδηνlifted up; propped up… Hippolytus 612 (web address 3 below); cf. eta 63. [4] Homer, Iliad 1.3-4. See web address 4 below. [5] So too Photius, and cf. Hesychius.
- ε991ἘμόγησαI toiled… form of moxqe/w. It must be quoted from somewhere; perhaps Homer, Odyssey 12.259, though Latte on Hesychius s.v. cites Iliad 1.162 (which in fact has one of Homer's six instances of mo/ghsa). See also …
- αι122Αἰθὴρether, sky… (with other cross-references there), and see generally LSJ s.v. [1] Homer, Iliad 16.365. [2] Pindar, Olympian 1.6 (10), with comment from the scholia there. (NB: "desolate", e)rh/mas, is the reading in manuscripts of Pindar, …
- κ2388Κρημνόςcrag… address 2), and scholia; the reading e)rei/dwn is doubtful. [3] Homer, Iliad 21.26, 21.244 (web addresses 3 & 4: referring to banks of rivers) and scholia; cf. omicron 1047. [4] From the dream-interpretations, in …
- δ1415Δούλειον ἦμαρday of slaveryHomer, Iliad 6.463 (with dou/lion), picked up by Euripides: Andromache 99, Hecuba 56, and cf. Trojan Women 1330.
- μ917ΜῆλαsheepSee also mu 916. [1] Homer, Odyssey 9.336 (web address 1). [2] Aristophanes, Lysistrata 155-6 (in Doric dialect ma=la, web address 2). A scholiast thereto identifies this as an allusion to Euripides, Andromache 629ff. …
- ει152ΕἰμίI am… Hesychius epsilon957 (where Latte claims the headword as quoted from Homer, Iliad 1.186); and cf. Choeroboscus in Anecdota Oxoniensia 2.210.32, 211.18. See also epsiloniota 158, eta 568, and cf. omicron 407. [2] This puzzling …
- λ237Λέλακαςyou have cried out… by Euripides (web address 1). See also lambda 432. [1] Homer, Iliad 20.277 (web address 2). [2] Homer, Iliad 13.616 (web address 3). [3] Homer, Odyssey 12.85 (web address 4), about Scylla (sigma 709).