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αι7Αἰανὴς κύκλοςdread circle… (see, for instance Jebb's translation of the word in the Sophocles passage quoted below: "weary" (i.e. unrelenting)). Chantraine, however, disputes this etymology and sees instances where the term has unequivocal connotations of "everlasting", "persistent" …Matched in noteshighshort
α1933Ἀνάλγητοςunfeeling… not be quoted from somewhere. cf. generally alpha 1098. [1] Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 12-13 (web address 1 below), with scholion. [2] Same material in Photius and elsewhere. [3] Sophocles, Ajax 946-8 (web address 2 …Matched in noteshighmedium
α2363Ἀνέχειexalts

αι7

Αἰανὴς κύκλος

dread circle

[Meaning one that is] dark, unceasing. Sophocles [writes]: "night's dread circle". Or [sc. with different accent] ai)anh=s, [meaning] lamenting. From the [verb] ai)a/zw, [meaning] I lament.

Αἰανὴς κύκλος· σκοτεινός, ἀδιάλειπτος. Σοφοκλῆς· νυκτὸς αἰανὴς κύκλος. ἢ Αἰανῆς, θρηνητικῆς. παρὰ τὸ αἰάζω, τὸ θρηνῶ.

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… verb see also alpha 2361, alpha 2362, alpha 2364. [1] Sophocles, Ajax 211-212 (see web address 1), with comment from the scholia there. [2] Procopius, History of the Wars of Justinian 2.6.24 (web address …

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α4350Ἄτηdestruction, Destruction… [4] A Christian gloss here obtrudes. [5] An approximation of Sophocles, Electra 233-235 (web address 4); line 234, here the corrupt mh/thr w(s h(/tis pikth/, should be ma/thr w(sei/ tis pista/. [6] Sophocles, Ajax …Matched in noteshighshort

αι133Αἴθοποςfiery-looking… (alphaiota 138, and cf. alphaiota 132), is extracted from the Sophocles quotation about to be given (but see next note); the scholia there give both of the Suda's glosses. [2] Sophocles, Ajax 221-223 (web …Matched in noteshighshort

β210Βαιαίlittle (ones), scanty (ones)… one disregards Baiai/Baeae the Italian toponym). [2] i.e. "alone". [3] Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 750-751; spoken by Oedipus to Jocasta, concerning Laius. [4] Sophocles fr.39. [5] Sophocles, Ajax 292-94 (spoken by Tecmessa to the chorus, …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1668ΔύσοργοςcholericThe adjective *du/sorgos occurs three times in Sophocles (Trachiniae 1118 besides the two passages quoted here) but is quite rare in other writers. In Galen 16.326, to be du/sorgos is the consequence of an …Matched in noteshighshort

ε399Ἐκδίκουςavenging; lawless… be quoted from somewhere (perhaps, though not demonstrably, the first Sophocles passage below). For the adjective see already epsilon 398, and cf. also epsilon 400; and for the twin meanings of it see LSJ …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2637Ἐπίστωunderstand… is present imperative singular of e)pi/stamai; cf. epsilon 2636. [2] Sophocles, Trachiniae 182-3 (web address 1), with scholion [3] Sophocles, Philoctetes 1325-7 (web address 2). [4] Sophocles, Electra 616 (web address 3). [5] Aristophanes, …Matched in noteshighshort

α1825Ἀναγκαία τράπεζαnecessary table, needy table… of the quotations given, sounds proverbial; cf. alpha 4543. [2] Sophocles, Ajax 485-6 (web address 1 below), with comment from the scholia there. [3] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 59 Habrich.Matched in noteshighmedium

α428Ἀδάμαστοςunmastered… For 'unyoked' see alpha 604. [2] An abbreviated quotation of Sophocles, Ajax 450-52 (web address 1 below), with the glosses of the scholia there. Oddly, the Suda here substitutes the first of them, parqe/nos, …Matched in noteshighshort

α651Ἀηδών καὶ ἀηδοῦςnightingale, songstress… a nightingale with misshapen wings enfolding a tiny body'. [2] Sophocles, Ajax 629-634 (web address 1 below), with comment from the scholia there. [3] cf. omicron 828. [4] Sophocles, Electra 147-9 (web address 2, …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1757Ἀμφίπυρονaflame, flaming… quotation given (there are other instances: see next note). [1] Sophocles, Ajax 1404-6 (web address 1); cf. for the headword Sophocles, Trachiniae 214, and Euripides, Ion 212.Matched in noteshighshort

α1912Ἀνακωχεύειrefrains… s.v. a)nokwxeu/w (sic). The ana- form, here, is Ionic. [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 …Matched in noteshighmedium

α2020Ἀναμπλάκητοιunerring… purports to be extracted from the quotation given; in fact Sophocles wrote a)napla/khtoi. On the Keres cf. kappa 1530, kappa 1531. [1] Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 471-472 (web address 1), with scholion.Matched in noteshighshort

α2133Ἀναχαιτίζειoverthrows, upsets… quoted from somewhere, and scholars assume that it occurs in Sophocles, named below. [2] Sophocles fr. 179 Radt.Matched in noteshighshort

α2206ἌναιτοςuninjuredSophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 785-6, with comment from the scholia there. The Suda's a)/naitos is the reading of the Laurentian manuscript of Sophocles; others have a)/natos (from a)/th); the latter is generally printed.Matched in noteshighshort

α3491Ἄποπτοςout of sight[1] Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 760-2 (web address 1 below). [2] cf. alpha 3490. [3] Sophocles, Ajax 15-16 (Odysseus on the voice of Athena: web address 2).Matched in noteshighshort

α3816ἈραῖοςaccursedSee also alpha 3813, alpha 3817. [1] Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 644-645 (web address 1 below). [2] Sophocles, Trachiniae 1201-1202 (web address 2). [3] cf. alpha 3814, alpha 3836. (The headword itself is properispomenon: a)rai=os.) …Matched in noteshighmedium

αι95Αἰένυπνοςever-sleeping… and gloss occur only in reference to the passage of Sophocles cited. [1] Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1578 (web address 1), where the mss have ai)enu/pnon (as here), ai)e\n a)/upnon or ai)e\n e)/nupnon. The …Matched in noteshighshort

δ590Διάκονοςdeacon, messenger… 2155, alpha 2812, and delta 1330. [2] The manuscripts of Sophocles (see next note) have the singular: "he has died." [3] Sophocles, Philoctetes 497-499. [4] Likewise in syntactical lexica.Matched in noteshighshort

δ1492Δράκαυλοςdrakaulos; living with a snake… obelizes the tranmitted headword draukalos; similar one in Hesychius delta2305. Sophocles' (lost) play was named apparently from its chorus of drummers or tympanum-beaters (usually of the kettledrum associated with the cults of Dionysus and …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1504Δραπέτης κλῆροςrunaway lot… in the (slightly abridged) quotation describing the courage of Ajax: Sophocles, Ajax 1285-87 (web address 1). Late sources (Apollodorus 2.8.4; Pausanias 4.3.3) tell of how Cresphontes (kappa 2377), Temenus and the sons of Aristodemus …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε1027Ἔμπληκτοιcapricious, impulsive… plural of this adjective (cf. 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 …Matched in noteshighshort

χ477υνκνοων—Χρήματα χρήματ' ἀνήρ πενιχρὸς δ' οὐδέποτ' ἐσθλόςmoney money (is the) man but a pauper (is) never noble… see also pi 1450. This quotation and the one from Sophocles which follow seem to be tenuously connected with the rest of the entry. The only association is that they contain instances of the …Matched in noteshighmedium

χ535Χρόνου πόδαtime's foot… however, the word for 'foot' in the nominative case). [2] Sophocles, Electra 1292 (web address 3), with comments deriving from the scholia. The text of Sophocles has optative e)cei/rgoi for the Suda's e)cei/rgei and …Matched in noteshighshort

α170Ἀγάσματαobjects of wonderThe headword, a neuter plural, is printed as Sophocles fr. 971 Radt (885 Nauck edn.2), on the authority of this entry and Photius p.13, 28 Reitzenstein [now alpha131 Theodoridis] = Synagoge alpha95. Similar definitions …Matched in noteshighshort

α283Ἀγνώμονεςunpardoning, hard-hearted… headword, nominative plural, is extracted from the quotation given. [1] Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 86 (Oedipus is addressing the Eumenides), with glosses from the scholia there. See web address 1.Matched in noteshighshort

α328Ἀγωνάρχαιcontest-judges[1] Sophocles, Ajax 572-3 (web address 1 below); again at lambda 839. [2] (Also in the paroemiographers, e.g. Apostolius 1.25.) Possibly Contest, the divine personification of the agon (cf. Pausanias 5.26.3), though the apparently …Matched in noteshighmedium

α383Ἀγυιαίhighways… In fact it is probably derived from a)/gw, lead. [2] Sophocles fr. 341 Nauck (= 370 Radt), from the Laocoon. [3] Pherecrates fr. 87 Kock, now 92 K.-A.Matched in noteshighmedium

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