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β513Βράβηλαsloes… Theocritus [writes]: "...shoots weighed down to the ground with sloes." Athenaeus in Book 2 of the Deipnosophists says that Seleucus uses the words 'plums' and 'sloes' and ba/drua. It has been said that they …Matched in translationhighmedium
χ190Χελώνηtortoise… address 1), where Lais (lambda 40) is mentioned. See also Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 13.589A-B (13.55 Kaibel). The wooden 'tortoises' have generally been envisaged as footstools: see e.g. LSJ s.v.Matched in noteshighmedium
α122Ἀγαθοῦ Δαίμονοςof the Good Spirit… this genitive-case phrase occurs. See also alpha 966. [1] cf. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 15.675B-C (15.17 Kaibel), where the G.S. is equated, not necessarily correctly, with Dionysos. [2] cf. Hesychius s.v., and see generally J.D. Mikalson, …Matched in noteshighmedium
α1687Ἀμυστὶ πιεῖνto drink in one gulp… this entry in also in Photius (Lexicon alpha1278); see also Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 11.783D-E (11.25 Kaibel). [1] i.e. deriving a)musti/ from the verb mu/w, 'close one's mouth' with alpha privative. [2] See epsilon 1537. [3] …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2706ΚυνήειοςKyneeios, Cyneius, Kynneios, Cynneius… or 'tuna-shrine' or just about anything related to tuna; but Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 7.297E [7.50 Kaibel] describes a ritual for Poseidon, apparently at Halai, called the qunnai=on, which may be what is referred to here. …Matched in noteshighmedium