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ε2444Ἐπιλησμότατονmost forgetful, very forgetful… Suda as to which is considered the idiosyncratic form. [2] Alexis fr. 315 Kock, now 317 Kassel-Austin. [3] Cratinus fr. 410 Kock, now 451 K.-A. [4] Aristophanes, Clouds 789-90 (web address 1), with comments …Matched in noteshighshort
α2523Ἀνθρακιάcharcoals… and further excerpts at alpha 4456 and zeta 164. [3] Alexis fr. 134 Kock, now 139 K.-A.; cf. tau 1002.Matched in noteshighshort
α3250Ἀποβάτηςdismounter… Theophrastus on this. See also Kassel-Austin, PCG II p.34 (s.v. Alexis). "Dismounting" meant, in practice, vaulting from one horse to another: see LSJ.Matched in noteshighshort
ε2659Ἐπὶ τὰ Μανδροβόλουon Mandrobolos' property… [2] A ram, because, according to a scholiast on Nicander's Alexipharmaka, this was the creature that accidentally found the deposits. [3] Ephorus FGrH 70 F59b.Matched in noteshighshort
ε2449Ἐπιλλύζουσαwinking at… e)pilu/zw ('hiccup at'). A similarly-formed participle e)pillu/zwn occurs at Nicander, Alexipharmaca 81. As for e)pilli/zousa, it is attested outside lexicography only at Nicander, Theriaca 163 (in reference to a snake). Only the second gloss …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2682Κυμβίαvessels… kumbi/a appear among other things as items of luxury, e.g. Alexis fr. 328 Kock = 329 Kassel-Austin (in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 11.481F-482A [11.63 Kaibel]); Demosthenes 21.158 (web address 1); Lucian, Dialogues of the Dead 22.2, …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2791Κύτοςhollow… Seven against Thebes 495; to Oppian, Halieutica 1.334; to Nicander, Alexipharmaka 586; Athanasios, On the Psalms 27.557.22; Cyril of Alexandria, On the Psalms 69.1128.35. [3] Bernhardy deleted this part of the entry. It is …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1432Κεστρεῖςmullets… phrase is commonplace in comedy as a metaphor for starvelings: Alexis fr. 256 Kock (now 258 Kassel-Austin, Amipsias fr. 1 Kock (and K.-A.), Antiphanes fr. 138 Kock (136 K.-A.), Archippus fr. 12 Kock (and …Matched in noteshighshort
γ457Γρῖφοςriddle, conundrum… cites with evident pleasure many riddles from Greek comic playwrights (Alexis, Antiphanes, Diphilus, Eubulus) and elsewhere, and demonstrates the extraordinary literary and intellectual breadth required by this game. The griphos was included as one …Matched in noteshighshort