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δ500Διαβάλλεινto bring across, to cross, to mislead, to slander… deceive and to lead astray. Thucydides [in Book] 1 and Crates [sc. use the word]. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "to cross the sea", [meaning] to pass over it. "Thereupon he intended to …Matched in translationhighmedium
α4576Ἀφελέςsimple… a)felw=n pedi/wn ["of simple plains"] Aristophanes [writes as follows] about Crates: "who having flowed with a lot of praise used to gush across the simple plains, and sweep up from their places and bear …Matched in translationhighmedium
α1289ἈλκμάνAlkman, AlcmanA Laconian from Messoa; but according to Crates -- who is mistaken -- a Lydian out of Sardis; a lyric poet, son of Damas or Titaros. He was born in the 27th Olympiad, when …

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to bring across, to cross, to mislead, to slander

[Meaning] to deceive and to lead astray. Thucydides [in Book] 1 and Crates [sc. use the word]. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "to cross the sea", [meaning] to pass over it. "Thereupon he intended to cross the…

Διαβάλλειν· τὸ ἐξαπατᾶν καὶ παραλογίζεσθαι. Θουκυδίδης αʹ καὶ Κράτης. καὶ Διαβάλλειν τὸ πέλαγος, τὸ διεκπερᾶν. ἐντεῦθεν ἐνόει διαβάλλειν τὸ ἐν μέσῳ πέλαγος καὶ λῃστεύειν τὰς…

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αι237Αἲξ οὐρανίαheavenly goat… put a question to the vote and elect [sc. officials]. Cratinus [says that] just as the goat Amaltheia was Zeus' nurse, so too a heavenly goat was [the nurse of] those accepting bribes. But …Matched in translationhighmedium

α1129Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ ΜιλήσιοςAlexandros of Miletos, Alexander of Miletus… herself. He was a grammarian, one of the pupils of Crates. This man wrote innumerable books. Also On Rome (5 books), in which he says that there was a Hebrew woman Moso, and the …Matched in translationhighmedium

α1676Ἀμύνασθαιto ward off, to requite, to repay… attested is] a)mu/nainto ["they might requite"], [the same as] a)mu/naien. Cratinus in Pylaea [writes]: "[he] taught them and he reared them on public funds until they became youths, so that then they might requite …Matched in translationhighmedium

α1981ἈναξαγόραςAnaxagoras… was more a philosopher for beasts than for human beings. Crates of Thebes threw his property into the sea, doing something of no advantage either to beasts or to human beings.Matched in translationhighmedium

α2819Ἄξιος λαβεῖν ὁ μισθόςthe wage [is] worth taking… worthy, so that [one should] take it." It is in Cratinus. Homer was the first to use this figure: "for you shall be easier to slay, with that man dead." And elsewhere: "it is …Matched in translationhighmedium

α2877Ἀπαλλάξαςhaving put aside, having put off, having abandonedMeaning [he] having persuaded to leave. Cratinus and Demosthenes and others [sc. use the word]. [sc. The related aorist infinitive is] a)palla/cai. Also [sc. attested is the subjunctive] a)palla/cwmen, meaning let us dismiss. Xenophon …Matched in translationhighmedium

α3468Ἀποπάτημαturd, shit… "for what is that man? A turd [and] a fox." Cratinus in Runaway Slaves [writes]: "and when I found Kerkyon shitting on the vegetables this morning I throttled him." Also [sc. attested is the …Matched in translationhighmedium

α3561Ἀποστοματίζεινto recite, to dictate… Dispensations [writes]: "if you wish, I will say everything orally." Cratinus [uses] this the same as a)po\ glw/tths ["from the tongue"] in Laws: "but, by Zeus, I neither know my letters nor have experience …Matched in translationhighmedium

α3750Ἀράχνηspider's web… 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]: "so spiders' webs just as …Matched in translationhighmedium

α3892ἈρίσταρχοςAristarchus, Aristarchos, Aristarkhos… the grammarian, and had very many disagreements with the grammarian Crates of Pergamum in Pergamum. His pupils included about 40 grammarians. He died in Cyprus, killing himself by starvation, because he was suffering from …Matched in translationhighmedium

δ1504Δραπέτης κλῆροςrunaway lot… is] "in Drapetides" ["Runaway Women"] in the feminine form in Cratinus.Matched in translationhighmedium

χ471Χρήit is necessary… xrh=|s [means] you may need, and [sc. so does] de/h|. Cratinus in Laws [writes]: "for now indeed the laws of our men are at your service to do what ever is necessary." And xrei/h …Matched in translationhighmedium

α1671Ἀμύκλαιshoes… of a god. By night he cast himself into the craters of the fiery Etna, but his sandal was thrown back up. He was called Kolusanemas ["wind-restrainer"], because he banished the many winds which …Matched in translationhighmedium

α328Ἀγωνάρχαιcontest-judges… guarantee this. See further, next note. [3] Used in Plato, Cratylus 421D (where a scholiast cited Aristophanes fr. 321 Kock as an earlier attestation of it) and Laws 751D. Also in the paroemiographers, e.g. …Matched in noteshighmedium

α3745ἌρατοςAratus, Aratos… and 3, Diogenes Laertius 9.113. [30] SH 119. [31] Plato Cratylus 407D, Republic 535C; see the scholia there. [32] This addendum and the preceding one simply note words similar to the poet's name: see …Matched in noteshighmedium

α3962Ἄρκυςhunting-net… cites Lycurgus (fr.86 Conomis), Xenophon (On Hunting 2.3, etc.), and Cratinus (fr 79 Kock = 84 K.-A.).Matched in noteshighmedium

α4603Ἀφηλικέστεροςrather superannuated… in other lexica. It must be quoted from somewhere, perhaps Cratinus fr. 369 Kock = 385 K.-A. (a)fh/lika ge/ronta).Matched in noteshighmedium

δ1205ΔιοσημείαZeus-omen, Zeus-sign… Attic, meaning “belonging to last year” or generally “old” (Plato, Cratylus 409B) is attested only in a few instances, mostly in formal language, with reference to magistrates: cf. Aristotle, Politics 1322a12; idem, Athenaion Politeia …Matched in noteshighmedium

χ16Χαλεπὰ τὰ καλάexcellent things are difficult… 6.38 and other paroemiographers; scholia on Plato, Greater Hippias 304E, Cratylus 384A. See also pi 1658. [1] Pittakos: pi 1659. [2] Solon: sigma 776, sigma 777. (Here referring to his own weakness, presumably.) [3] …Matched in noteshighmedium