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α1933Ἀνάλγητοςunfeeling… not be quoted from somewhere. cf. generally alpha 1098. [1] Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 12-13 (web address 1 below), with scholion. [2] Same material in Photius and elsewhere. [3] Sophocles, Ajax 946-8 (web address 2 …Matched in noteshighmedium
α2363Ἀνέχειexalts… verb see also alpha 2361, alpha 2362, alpha 2364. [1] Sophocles, Ajax 211-212 (see web address 1), with comment from the scholia there. [2] Procopius, History of the Wars of Justinian 2.6.24 (web address …Matched in noteshighmedium
α1825Ἀναγκαία τράπεζαnecessary table, needy table… of the quotations given, sounds proverbial; cf. alpha 4543. [2] Sophocles, Ajax 485-6 (web address 1 below), with comment from the scholia there. [3] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 59 Habrich.

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Also [sc. attested is] dusana/lghtos ["hard-hearted"] in Sophocles: that is, hard to move, unfeeling, apathetic, unmerciful, stony. "For I should be hard-hearted not to have pity for such a supplication." Also [sc.…

Ἀνάλγητος. καὶ δυσανάλγητος παρὰ Σοφοκλεῖ· τουτέστι δυσμετάκλητος, ἀναλγὴς, ἀπαθὴς, ἀνηλεὴς, σκληρός. δυσανάλγητος γὰρ εἴην τοιάνδε μὴ κατοικτείρων ἕδραν. καὶ Ἀναλγήτως,…

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ε3850Ἔφεδροςreserve, in reserve… tau 7). [2] Aristophanes, Frogs 791-794 (web address 1). [3] Sophocles, Ajax 609-610 (web address 2), with material from the scholia there.Matched in noteshighmedium

α651Ἀηδών καὶ ἀηδοῦςnightingale, songstress… a nightingale with misshapen wings enfolding a tiny body'. [2] Sophocles, Ajax 629-634 (web address 1 below), with comment from the scholia there. [3] cf. omicron 828. [4] Sophocles, Electra 147-9 (web address 2, …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1912Ἀνακωχεύειrefrains… s.v. a)nokwxeu/w (sic). The ana- form, here, is Ionic. [1] Sophocles, Electra 732 (web address 1), with scholion; similar material in Photius, Hesychius and elsewhere. [2] cf. alpha 2238. [3] This rather poetic expression …Matched in noteshighmedium

α3816ἈραῖοςaccursedSee also alpha 3813, alpha 3817. [1] Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 644-645 (web address 1 below). [2] Sophocles, Trachiniae 1201-1202 (web address 2). [3] cf. alpha 3814, alpha 3836. (The headword itself is properispomenon: a)rai=os.) …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ1504Δραπέτης κλῆροςrunaway lot… in the (slightly abridged) quotation describing the courage of Ajax: Sophocles, Ajax 1285-87 (web address 1). Late sources (Apollodorus 2.8.4; Pausanias 4.3.3) tell of how Cresphontes (kappa 2377), Temenus and the sons of Aristodemus …Matched in noteshighmedium

ει142Εἱμαρμένηfate… lot for everyone from birth" from early astronomers on. [2] Sophocles, Ajax 753-4 (with comment from the scholia there); see already at epsilon 1067. The seer Calchas asks Teucer, in vain, to shut Ajax …Matched in noteshighmedium

χ477υνκνοων—Χρήματα χρήματ' ἀνήρ πενιχρὸς δ' οὐδέποτ' ἐσθλόςmoney money (is the) man but a pauper (is) never noble… see also pi 1450. This quotation and the one from Sophocles which follow seem to be tenuously connected with the rest of the entry. The only association is that they contain instances of the …Matched in noteshighmedium

α328Ἀγωνάρχαιcontest-judges[1] Sophocles, Ajax 572-3 (web address 1 below); again at lambda 839. [2] (Also in the paroemiographers, e.g. Apostolius 1.25.) Possibly Contest, the divine personification of the agon (cf. Pausanias 5.26.3), though the apparently …Matched in noteshighmedium

α383Ἀγυιαίhighways… In fact it is probably derived from a)/gw, lead. [2] Sophocles fr. 341 Nauck (= 370 Radt), from the Laocoon. [3] Pherecrates fr. 87 Kock, now 92 K.-A.Matched in noteshighmedium

α904Ἀκμήmoment, point, still… elsewhere. [1] Isocrates 2.33. [2] Hyperides fr. 116 Jensen. [3] Sophocles, Philoctetes 12-14 (web address 1 below), with scholion. [4] Greek Anthology 6.252.1, 3-4 (Antiphilus), on the gift of a quince, preserved in winter, …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1428Ἀλύεινto be beside oneself, to be overwhelmedSee also alpha 1427. [1] Homer, Odyssey 18.332. [2] Sophocles, Electra 135. [3] Agathias, Histories 1.10 (p.33 Niebuhr); again (slightly differently) at alpha 1575. His initial assault (553 CE, during the Gothic War of …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1676Ἀμύνασθαιto ward off, to requite, to repay… (web address 1 below). [2] Simonides fr. 229 Bergk. [3] Sophocles fr. 1004 Radt (908 Nauck). Adler, following Nauck, connects this reference to the appearance of the verb a)mu/nomai at Oedipus at Colonus 873 …Matched in noteshighmedium

α2337Ἄνετέ μ'let me be[1] Sophocles, Electra 229-232 (web address 1 below), followed here by comment from the scholia there. [2] This term, a)na/nomos, is attested only here and in the scholion which is the Suda's source, as …Matched in noteshighmedium

α2379Ἀνειμέναιlaid open, let loose… (Isaiah 35.3). [1] Same glossing in Photius and elsewhere. [2] Sophocles, Electra 516-517 (web address 1), with scholion. [3] Plato, Laws 761C (web address 2). [4] Perhaps Polybius (so Bernhardy). [5] Again at pi …Matched in noteshighmedium

α2786Ἀνύπαρκτονnon-existent… the singular anthropos, "man". See web address 1. [2] In Sophocles, Ajax 125-6 (on man as an empty shadow: see web address 2 and epsiloniota 46), the scholia on which have supplied the material …Matched in noteshighmedium

α2819Ἄξιος λαβεῖν ὁ μισθόςthe wage [is] worth taking… 1 below). [3] Homer, Iliad 12.63 (web address 2). [4] "Sophocles" is a mistake (also in the Synagoge); this is Euripides, Medea 319-320. See web address 3. [5] Zenobius 2.4. Phrynichus, Praeparatio sophistica fr. …Matched in noteshighmedium

α3750Ἀράχνηspider's web… 296. [4] Callias fr. 2 Kock, now 5 K.-A. [5] Sophocles fr. 264 (= fr. 286 Radt); cf. Lloyd-Jones, who translates in the Loeb edn. of the fragments, p. 133, "And everything is loaded …Matched in noteshighmedium

α3860Ἄρρητονaccursed… entry will turn: a)/rrhtos, literally unspoken, and so unspeakable. [2] Sophocles, Ajax 214 (web address 1 below), with scholion. [3] An approximation of Julian, Oration 7 (210d Hertlein); cf. pi 1029. [4] Quotation unidentifiable.Matched in noteshighmedium

α4211Ἀσπιδηφόροιshield-bearers… Aristophanes fr. 66 Kock (72 K.-A.), cf. Lysistrata 282. [8] Sophocles, Ajax 565-566 (web address 1 -- there is a textual alternative for "on that man"); cf. epsilon 2579.Matched in noteshighmedium

α4293Ἀσφαδάστῳunconvulsive… is extracted from the quotation given. cf. sigma 1706. [1] Sophocles, Ajax 832-4 (web address 1 below), with comment from the scholia there. See also alpha 4393.Matched in noteshighmedium

α4329Ἄτεγκτος ἄνθρωπος παρηγορήμασινa man impervious to exhortations… man'). For the adjective a)/tegktos see also alpha 4330. [2] Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 336 (web address 1 below). The two sentences which follow here are from the scholia to this line. [3] Dionysius of …Matched in noteshighmedium

α4378Ἄτρακτονarrow; spindle[1] Sophocles, Philoctetes 289-291 (web address 1 below); cf. nu 271. [2] Adler queried the attribution of this quotation to Procopius, and it is in fact unidentifiable. [3] Menander Protector fr. 31.1 Blockley (242-245); …Matched in noteshighmedium

β30Βάθραfoundations, pedestals, steps, benches… of this entry and kappa 269. [2] Quotation unidentifiable. [3] Sophocles, Ajax 135 (web address 1 below), with scholion.Matched in noteshighmedium

δ119Δαίμωνgod, demi-god, spirit, fortune, genius… Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 6-7 (web address 1), with scholion. [3] Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 76 (web address 2), with scholion. [4] Homer, Odyssey 11.302. [5] Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 2.13; quoted again in part at …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ1145ΔιογένηςDiogenes… Cyprus (cf. kappa 2738). [4] cf. alpha 1567, end. [5] Sophocles, Antigone 1175-77, elaborated at 1192-1243. The "likewise" (o(moi/ws) is odd.Matched in noteshighmedium

ε45Ἐγγαστρίμυθοςventriloquist… epsilon 3721. [1] cf. pi 3140; also tau 266. [2] Sophocles fr. 59 Radt. [3] Plato, Sophist 252C. [4] Aristophanes, Wasps 1019. MacDowell (see Bibliography) has a useful note there (p.264). [5] Philochorus FGrH …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε3015Ἑρκεῖος ΖεύςZeus Herkeios… Photius and, post-Suda, the Etymologicum Magnum; and epsilon 3017. [2] Sophocles, Ajax 108 and 110 (web address 1), with scholion. Modern editors emend to e(rkei/ou. [3] cf. epsilon 3016.Matched in noteshighmedium

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