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3784
Ἄργουσα
Argoura, Argousa
… name, all other sources (including Stephanus of Byzantium) agree, was
Argoura,
not the Suda's
Argousa
(or in one manuscript
Argousai).
For Euboia see generally epsilon 3382; for Chalkis see under chi 43 and chi …
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3782
Ἀργοναῦται
Argonauts
Those sailing in the ship
Argo.
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3785
Ἀργώ
Argo
… ship [of that name]. Also [sc. attested is the term]
Argonauts.
Also [sc attested is the phrase] th|=
*)argoi=
["on the
Argo"],
in the dative.
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3781
Ἀργόλαι
argolai, snakes
… type of snakes, which the Macedonian Alexander brought from Pelasgian
Argos
[Myth, Place] to Alexandria and threw into the river for the destruction of the cobras, when he moved the bones of the prophet …
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3783
Ἀργὸν ἔτος
year of no work, idle year, sabbatical year
… similar to [what happened] every seven days. [It is] also
a)rgo/s
for the feminine [gender]. Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "I will not say that [my wife] was idle; she did weave."
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3786
Ἀργῶς
idly, sluggishly, without working
Interpretation of a dream. 'To move idly makes paths miserable'.
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3772
Ἀργειφόντης
Argeiphontes, Argos-Slayer
Attested from Homer onwards. On the monster
Argos
[Myth, Place], see generally RE
Argos(19);
OCD(4) p.50, s.v. Argus.
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3766
Ἀργεία
Argeia
On
Argos
[Myth, Place], in the NE Peloponnese, see generally OCD(4) p.149, s.v.
'Argos(1)'
and Barrington Atlas map 58 grids D2-E2. Hera was the principal deity there: OCD(4) pp.149-50, s.v.
Argos,
cults'. The Argive …
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210
Δελφοί
Delphi, Delphoi
… pi 3137, pi 3138. [1] See e.g. Apollonius of Rhodes,
Argonautica
2.705-6. [2] The verb pu/qesqai (pi 3138) means "to decay". For this material cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 9.405, where the phrase …
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1263
Ἀλίφειρα
Alipheira, Aliphira
… often-contested region (cf. Pausanias 3.2.2-3, web address 3) between the
Argolid
(the region surrounding
Argos
[Myth, Place], cf. alpha 3766) to the north and Lakedaimonia (the region around Sparta, cf. lambda 49) to the …
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1189
Διοπομπεῖσθαι
to escort [evil] away
… Cratinus fr. 347 Kock = 392 K.-A.): "paroimi/a ti/s e)stin
*argolikh\
*le/rnh kakw=n, h(\n a)podiopompou/menoi e)/legon. ta\ ga\r a)pokaqa/rmata ei)s tou=to to\ xwri/on e)ne/ballon, "there is a common saying,
'Argolian
Lerne of ills' [= …
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ι
776
Ἴφιτος
Iphitos, Iphitus
… mythology, e.g.: (1) I. son of Naubolos; one of the
Argonauts
(and cf. Homer, Iliad 2.518). (2) I. son of Eurytos, the king of Oichalia. When Heracles was accused by Eurytus of having stolen …
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δ
1175
Διονύσιος
Dionysios, Dionysius
… Leather-worker. [He wrote] the Expedition of Dionysos and Athena, [and]
Argonauts
in 6 books. These works are in prose: Fables for Parmenon.
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1646
Δυσκλέα
in bad repute, disgraced
… by shortening [sc. of a long vowel]. "To come to
Argos
[Myth, Place] in bad repute." And [sc. the same is true of] a)kle/a ["without repute"], meaning without reputation. But the Attic [Greeks] lengthen …
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19
Ἀβαρνίς
Abarnis
… (74), and cf. more generally the scholia to Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica
1.932 (where the genitive case occurs), on which see further below. Abarnis lay on the southern shore of the Propontis (Sea of Marmara), …
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3419
Ἀπολλώνιος
Apollonios, Apollonius
… appears also on page 5 of his commentary on the
Argonautika:
Apollonios Rhodios,
Argonautika.
Trans. Peter Green. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. [1] Cf. sigma 412. [2] See generally kappa 227. [3] See …
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κ
1251
Κεκολουμένος
curtailed
… at"); epithets are boldly transferred. "Aelius, bold-handed, first man of
Argos
[Myth, Place], who wreathed his neck with gold-bound wreaths of war--curtailed by a limb-wasting illness, ran over in his mind the testimony of …
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4011
Ἁρποκρατίων
Harpokration, Harpocration
Of
Argos
[Myth, Place]. Platonic philosopher. Companion/confidant of a Caesar. He wrote a Commentary on Plato (24 books); Lexicon to Plato (2 books).
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45
Αἰγιεῖς οὔτε τρεῖς οὔτε τέσσαρες
Aigians (are) neither three nor four
… in reference to the excessively paltry. For the Aigians in
Argos
[Myth, Place], after they had beaten the Aitolians, asked the Pythia who were [the best of Greeks]. She responded to them: "Aigians [are] …
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δ
250
Δέρας
skin
… Jason took after coming through the Black Sea with the
Argonauts
into Colchis, and [sc. taking also] Medea the daughter of the king Aietes. This was not as is reported in poetry, but it …
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513
Διαβιασάμενος
having overcome by force
… force, by means of his earlier habits, he came from
Argos
[Myth, Place] to Megalopolis on the same day."
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53
Ἰάσων
Jason, Iason
Of
Argos
[Myth, Place]. Historian, younger than Plutarch of Chaeronea. Grammarian. He wrote On Greece in 4 books: this comprises (1) the ancient history of Greece, (2) events after the Persian wars, (3) events …
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591
Ἵπυς
Hipys, Hippys
… Sicily, 5 books, Chronologies [likewise] in 5 books; History of
Argos
[Myth, Place] in 3. This man was the first to write parodies and choliambics and other [such] things.
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636
Ἴσις
Isis
… [sc. also] called Io. She was snatched by Zeus from
Argos
[Myth, Place] and he, fearing Hera, changed her first into a white cow, then into a black one, and then into one that …
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1596
Κικίλιος
Kikilios, Kaikalos, Caecalus
of
Argos
[Myth, Place], epic poet. He wrote a Halieutica; [so] too [did] Numenius of Heraclea, Pancrates the Arcadian, Posidonius of Corinth, Oppian the Cicilian. And the following wrote [sc. on the same subject] …
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15
Ἀβάντειος
Abanteios, Abantius, Abantian
… fact almost certainly A. the son of Lynkeus, king of
Argos
[Myth, Place] after Danaos and father of the twins Akrisios and Proitos (Pausanias 2.16.2 (web address 1); Apollodorus, Library 2.2.1 (web address 2)). …
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311
Ἀγορῆθεν
from the agora
… 'from the agora' for his evening meal) and Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica
1.877.
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390
Ἄγχαυρος
near-morning
… "morning". The adjective a)/gxauros occurs (of "night") in Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica
4.111. [2] Homer, Odyssey 5.469.
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415
Ἀγχούροις
close-bordering
… very probably from its only occurrence outside lexicography: Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica
3.1386 (a)gxou/roisin), the scholia to which have the gloss "neighbours". [2] This etymology is accepted in LSJ s.v.
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446
Ἀδέψητον
untanned, undressed
… (cf. 142), of leather, though note that in Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica
4.1439, the present gloss and headword occur in reverse order.
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