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3881
Ἄριμα
Arima
… Byzantium s.v., noting that their location was disputed: Cilicia (so
Strabo
13.4.6), Syria, or even Italy. [2] Perhaps an ape-god, to judge from the etymology (cf.
Strabo
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1298
Ἀλκυονίδες ἡμέραι
Alcyon days, Halcyon days, kingfisher days
… nesting (Simonides). The Alcyon Sea was so named, according to
Strabo,
because this corner of the Gulf of Corinth is both a nesting place for the kingfisher and a stretch sheltered from the wind. …
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1608
Ἀμνειός
Amneios
… was, however, a river Amnias in Paphlagonia (N.Turkey), mentioned by
Strabo
12.3.40.
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533
Βρεντήσιον
Brentesion, Brundisium, Brindisi
OCD(4) p.253, under Brundisium. [1] Stephanus of Byzantium s.v., following
Strabo
6.3.6, is more exact: brention (sic) was their name for the head of a stag. (Stephanus also offers an alternative etymology, from Herakles …
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581
Βοίδιον
calf
… 'Look under...'; rather, a memo for further research. See generally
Strabo
9.5.2,15,18,22.
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25
Γαλεάγρα
weasel-trap, iron-maiden
… never weasels): e.g. Job 27:1 LXX; the Alexander Romance 3.18;
Strabo
6.2.6; Plutarch, Moralia 974D (and cf. Lexica Segueriana, Glossae rhetoricae 227.33, Photius gamma10, Etymologicum Magnum 220.27). More frequently the animal trapped and/or held …
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1114
Δικτυεύς
net-man
e.g.
Strabo
8.7.2. For nets see delta 1115. [1] Likewise, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (454). [2] This dative singular is presumably quoted from somewhere but attested only here.
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937
Ἔμβαρός εἰμι
I am weighty
… see also beta 122 and pi 1455. [1] So e.g.
Strabo
1.3.18. [2] Mounykhos is cross-referenced at mu 1289. [3] The name means 'Mister Weighty' (but apparently implying intellectual rather than bodily "weight"). [4] …
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1580
Κίγκαλος
dabchick
… of ill-omen". However, the word also means snakeskin (and, in
Strabo
3.2.6, hare), and there seems a strong possibility that two (or even more) proverbs have become conflated here. See also lambda 218. For …
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1592
Κιθαρός
flatfish; chest
… Hippocrates), s.v. II "flatfish". The variant accentuation also appears in
Strabo
17.2.4, referring to the fish. The Etymologicum Gudianum and the Etymologicum Magnum attempt to derive the meaning "chest" from the kithara (kappa 1590), …
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1955
Κολοφών
summit, top, colophon
… in other lexica; see the references at Photius kappa902 Theodoridis.
Strabo
14.1.28 (web address 1) proffers an explanation for its second part: the city of Kolophon in Asia Minor (cf. kappa 1956) had such …
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2482
Κρότωνος ὑγιέστερος
sounder than a tick; sounder than Croton
… other sentence is unknown. Eustathius, on the other hand, follows
Strabo
6.1.12.31f. and argues (Commentary on Dionysius Periegetes 369.18-32, cf. Commentary on the Odyssey 2.147.23-30) that the phrase refers to the proverbial athletic training …
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