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β490Βωμολόχοςaltar-ambusher… eunuch, was reconquering Italy. The passage describes the generosity and magnanimity of Narses. He here denies that he speaks and acts to importune the Lucanians, whom he addresses, with unrealistic promises merely for self-serving …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2147Κόσμοςcosmos, kosmos; order, ornament, decorum, universeSee also kappa 2148. [1] Likewise in Etymologicum Magnum 532.14. [2] John Philoponus, Commentary on Aristotle's de anima 7.11-27 Hayduck. Rather than "wittily" (a)stei/ws), Philoponus says "very divinely" (pa/nu qei/ws). The reference seems to …Matched in noteshighmedium
α104Ἄβυσσονabyss… frequently, it has the sense "brood over." [3] cf. Etymologicum Magnum 4.44. These are principal parts of the verb bu/w, which means "to stuff," followed by buso/s, which does not exist according to LSJ. …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3254Ἔσχατος Μυσῶν πλεῖνto sail last of the Mysians… are semantically similar. Very similar material appears, post-Suda, in Etymologicum Magnum 384.21-25; see Adler's apparatus for more comparanda. In this first effort e)/sxatos is derived from sxe/sis ('holding', 'checking'). [4] This opaque sentence seems …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2706ΚυνήειοςKyneeios, Cyneius, Kynneios, Cynneius… name to Kynnes (*ku/nnhs); cf. Lexica Segueriana 274.16 and Etymologicum Magnum 545.51, where both are mentioned as possibilities. This hero is named as progenitor for an aristocratic Athenian family, the Kynnidai, who are mentioned …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1093Δίκηςof justice… the translation here. For the gloss timwri/as ('vengeance') cf. Etymologicum Magnum 276.8. [2] Quotation (via the Excerpta Constantiniana, Adler supposes) unidentifiable. Poetry? The words seem to hint at an iambic rhythm, although it is …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2216Κῴδιονsmall fleece, small sheepskin rug (for sleeping on) or cloak (against rain)… without it, perhaps through the ancient explanation (found in Etymologicum Magnum 550.2ff.) that takes it as a sleeping mattress and associates it with kwdei/a, the poppy head (kappa 2213) used as an opiate, and …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1029Διθυραμβοδιδάσκαλοιdithyramb-directors… 1965, without text, identified as a dithyramb poet in Etymologicum Magnum 164.20, from Tzetzes on Lycophron, Alexandra 879 p.2846 Scheer; PC2 52; PMG fr.837; Campbell 198-203; Aristotle, Poetics 1455a6; RE 21.1659-61 'Polyidos 9'), and …Matched in noteshighmedium