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δ352Δεινοὶ πλέκειν τοι μηχανὰς ΑἰγύπτιοιEgyptians (are) clever at crafting machines[1] Zenobius 3.37. The headword 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 …Matched in noteshighshort
α1776Ἀμφίτρητονpierced-through… case). [2] Either the wife of Poseidon or the sea itself: see LSJ s.v.Matched in noteshighshort
α2459Ἀνιέρειοςvictimless (offering)[1] Same glossing in Photius and elsewhere. The headword itself is unattested outside lexicography. [2] LSJ s.v. cites instances from tragedy.Matched in noteshighshort
α2714Ἀντιπέτρου βήματοςrock-like base… your foot beyond that rock-like base". "Bronze" [is] the material itself; a "brazen" statue [is] the derivative adjective, like "gold" and "golden".Matched in translationhighshort
χ339Χλιδανόνluxuriant… from somewhere but is not independently attested. On the adjective itself, with early instances in lyric poetry (Sappho fr.60 Lobel-Page) and tragedy (Aeschylus, Persae 544), see generally LSJ s.v.Matched in noteshighshort
χ359Χνόαςnaves, hubs… hole of a wheel; and the hole of the wheel itself is so called [i.e. xno/h, "nave"]. It is pronounced with recessive accent; for disyllabic [nouns] ending in the vowel eta after omicron -- …Matched in translationhighshort
α2581Ἄνωγεcommands, has commanded… glossed with parakeleu/etai) indicates the latter ; and the headword itself is likely to be quoted from Homer (13 instances) or Aeschylus (2). cf. generally alpha 2583.Matched in noteshighshort
α4516Αὐτόπρεμνονuprooted, pulled up by the roots… has the masculine dative plural of the adjective; the headword itself is neuter nominative/accusative singular, evidently quoted from somewhere else. [2] Aristophanes, Frogs 903-4 (web address 1 below); see already alpha 1233; also epsilon …Matched in noteshighshort
α1012Ἀκρόνυξnightfall… Lexicon s.v. cites Sophocles (fr. 991c Radt) for the headword itself [1] From a)/kros ("high") and nu/c ("night"). [2] See alpha 1027.Matched in noteshighshort
α765Ἄθυμοςdejected, fainthearted… Thus the glossing here, o( leluphme/nos, indicates that the headword itself has been quoted from somewhere else; and in fact that gloss occurs in the scholia to Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 319, where masculine a)/qumos …Matched in noteshighshort
α3816Ἀραῖοςaccursed… address 2). [3] cf. alpha 3814, alpha 3836. (The headword itself is properispomenon: a)rai=os.) [4] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 24 Habrich.Matched in noteshighmedium