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κ227ΚαλλίμαχοςCallimachus, Kallimachos, Kallimakhos… of Euphrates of Syracuse; his sister's son was the younger Callimachus, who wrote on islands in epic verse. He was so diligent that he wrote poems in every metre, and compiled very many works …Matched in translationhighmedium
ν98Ναὶ μὰ τόνyes by the ..."Yes by my shriveled hide", that is skin. Callimachus in Hecale [sc. uses this phrase. He goes on]: "yes by this tree, dry though it is." The ancients were not inclined to swear by …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ1052Κατηναρισμέναςhaving been slaughtered… the [verb] skuleuein could also be applied to irrational creatures? Callimachus [applies it] to the skin of a lion: "the skulos, becoming a covering for a man, a protection against snow and missiles".Matched in translationhighmedium
ι545ἹππίαςHippias… -- waiting for the Lacedaemonians, but with Miltiades and then Callimachus recommending that they go forth, the Athenians went out, themselves being nine thousand and having one thousand Plataeans [in support]. And they say …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε2898ἘρατοσθένηςEratosthenes… philosopher Ariston of Chios, the grammarian Lysanias of Cyrene, and Callimachus the poet. Ptolemy III summoned him from Athens, and he lived until Ptolemy V. Because he came second in every branch of learning …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ340Δεινόνterrible… I desire to know the cause of your disability. And Callimachus [writes]: "Why do you awaken a sleeping tear"? Aristophanes [writes]: "it is terrible for the spirit of a man to be so unripe …Matched in translationhighmedium
α3750Ἀράχνηspider's web… "all the weavers' things were a spider's web in weight". Callimachus [writes]: "a spider's-web work". Cratinus in Pytinê [writes]: "you are holding your stomach in the middle of spiders' webs." Pherecrates in Tyranny [writes]: …Matched in translationhighmedium
α302Ἀγορανομίαςmarket-supervisorship, market-supervisorships… others from Lepreon a small town of the Peloponnese which Callimachus also mentions in the Hymns: "citadel of Kaukones, which is called Lepreion." Others still [sc. derive it] from mangy cattle, since the hides …Matched in translationhighmedium
μ194ΜαριανόςMarianos, Marianus… [lines]; Paraphrase of Apollonius' Argonautica in iambics, 5608; Paraphrase of Callimachus' Hecale and hymns and Aitia and epigrams in iambics, 6810; Paraphrase of Aratus in iambics, 1140; Paraphrase of Nicander's Theriaca in iambics, 1370; …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ2647Κυκλίων τε χορῶν ᾀσματοκάμπαςand tune-benders of cyclic choruses.… he was severely beaten as one obscuring the muses". And Callimachus alludes to them, attacking them in this kind of way: "they introduced bastardly songs". Or he is hinting at the associates of Cinesias …Matched in translationhighmedium
μ1430Μύωψhorse-fly; goad, spur… kind of fly which irritates cattle. The word occurs in Callimachus in Hecale, "a horse-fly certain [with] cattle"; [meaning] a horse-fly scaring away and pursuing the cattle. Also called a mu/wy is the horse's …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ2240ΚωλιάςKolias, Colias… [sc. to eat it]. Hence the spot was named Kolias. Callimachus in Hecale also mentions [it].Matched in translationhighmedium
χ607Χύτλαbath, bath-water… 4 below); see also Hesychius chi836, Erotianus 137.9 Klein. [3] Callimachus, Hecale fr. 245 Pfeiffer. [4] Aristophanes, Wasps 1212-1213 (web address 1); cf. chi 612. [5] From the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 6.80 (web …Matched in noteshighmedium
α1657Ἀμπρεύοντεςhauling… participle, masculine nominative plural, of a)mpreu/w. Since it occurs in Callimachus, Hecale fr. 272 Pfeiffer, Adler plausibly suggests that the present material comes from scholia thereto. [2] Aristophanes, Lysistrata 289-90 (where it is actually …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε786Ἐλελεῦeleleu, war-cry… Achaeus [alpha 4683] fr. 37. [2] Or, "a shepherd's cry." Callimachus, Fragmenta incertae sedis 719 Pfeiffer. [3] So the mss of the Suda and of Aristophanes, but for metrical reasons the original probably had …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ309Λέσχηlounging, lounge; conversation… brave Spartans in Persian-War battles (web address 1). [3] From Callimachus' famous epitaph for the elegiac poet Heraclitus of Halicarnassus: Greek Anthology 7.80 (Diogenes Laertius 9.17), lines 2-5. On this epigram, see Gow and …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε1990Ἐπαύλιαsleepover… 1147. (This has no connection with what now follows.) [2] Callimachus, Hekale fr. 263, with scholion.Matched in noteshighmedium
ε2004ἘπαφρόδιτοςEpaphroditus, Epaphroditos… Faenius'). [7] Other sources mention commentaries on Homer, Hesiod and Callimachus, and a Lexeis.Matched in noteshighmedium
α3508Ἀπορρῶγαςprecipices… (Adler suggestes Eunapius); for its substance, however, cf. below. [3] Callimachus, Hecale fr. 309; see already alpha 1517. [4] Aristophanes, Lysistrata 808-811 (web address 1 below), followed by comment from the scholia there; cf. …Matched in noteshighmedium
α860Ἀκηδήςuncared-for, uncaring… of Acragas, but confuses historical facts (see sigma 441; cf. Callimachus fr. 64 Pfeiffer). The allusion is to the desecration of the tomb of the poet Simonides of Ceos, who was buried at Acragas; …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε861Ἐλινύεινto rest… part of] those idling or spending time. [3] Attributed to Callimachus' Hecale by Kapp (fr.128a), Pfeiffer (fr. 330) and Hollis (fr. 130), an attribution rejected by Schneider fr. an. 22, who suggests instead the …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1029Διθυραμβοδιδάσκαλοιdithyramb-directors… is a conversation of the philosopher Socrates with him. And Callimachus mentions him in his Choliambics, that he wrote many things.Matched in translationhighmedium
λ441Λῆμαwill… lh=mma: see LSJ s.v. [2] Quotation not identified by Adler: Callimachus, Hecale fr. 345 Pfeiffer. [3] Aristophanes, Clouds 457-8, with scholion. [4] Aristophanes, Knights 757, with scholion; cf. theta 419. [5] Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 458-60. …Matched in noteshighmedium