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13 entries for Eumenides

α2167Ἀνδρηλατεῖνto banish… Republic 565E); similar (longer) one in Photius. See e.g. Aeschylus, Eumenides 221, and generally LSJ s.v.Matched in noteshighshort
μ452Μελανείμονοςof a black-clad… Isis). The adjective occurs in the dative plural in Aeschylus, Eumenides 374.Matched in noteshighshort
αι319Αἰσιμίαapportionment… from the headword's appearance (in the dative plural) in Aeschylus, Eumenides 996: e)n ai)simi/aisi plou/tou (web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort
α283Ἀγνώμονεςunpardoning, hard-hearted… [1] Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 86 (Oedipus is addressing the Eumenides), with glosses from the scholia there. See web address 1.Matched in noteshighshort
ε3245Ἐσχάραι πυρόςembers of fire… have reversed the word-order. For e)sxa/rai puro/s exactly, see Aeschylus, Eumenides 108 (dative singular), and Job 41:11 LXX. cf. epsilon 3246 (and in a quite different context epsilon 3244); more generally epsilon 3242, epsilon …Matched in noteshighshort
α1033Ἀκταίνεινto lift up, to raise… usage of the verb in tragedy, noted there (see Aeschylus, Eumenides 36 [web address 2], cited by Latte on Hesychius s.v., where the gloss is metewri/zein). See however Plato, Laws 672C (on the behaviour …Matched in noteshighshort
ε584Ἔκπλυτονwashed-out… figuratively of a miasma. (Nevertheless see already for this Aeschylus, Eumenides 281.) [2] This additional gloss is lacking, Adler reports, in mss FVM. In ps.-Zonaras it is given as a)sqene/s ('weak') in place of …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1286Κελαινόςblack, murky, dark… 1288), cf. kelaino/frwn, spoken by Orestes of his mother (Aeschylus, Eumenides 459).Matched in noteshighshort
β392Βορβοροτάραξιo muck-raker… Knights 309 (web address 1 below), with scholion. [2] Aeschylus, Eumenides 694-5 (web address 2 below); Zenobius 2.76. [3] From the dream-interpretations, in verse, attributed to Astrampsychus (alpha 4251); repeated at kappa 2060.Matched in noteshighshort
κ2320Κραναῶνof the rugged ones, of the Kranaoi… a mythical Kranaos as progenitor of Attica, as in Aeschylus, Eumenides 1011, "Children of Kranaos". [2] Quotation unidentifiable. (But Nonnus, Dionysiaca 22.20, 45.308 has the formula "the rocky stone [kranah\ pe/trh] swelled, disgorging wine".) …Matched in noteshighshort
αι7Αἰανὴς κύκλοςdread circle… on folk etymology. Fairly early examples occur, however, e.g. Aeschylus, Eumenides 672. [1] Sophocles, Ajax 672 (text at web address 1), with Lloyd-Jones' translation from the Loeb edition. The Suda's glosses are derived from …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2914Ἐραῖαeraia, wool-decorated branch… the eiresione or harvest-wreath. For the suppliant's branch see Aeschylus, Eumenides 43, Suppliant Women 22. [web addresses 1 & 2] and for the eiresione, epsiloniota 184. According to Crates the Athenian, the eiresione was …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1228Διώκεινto prosecute… "prosecutor/plaintiff" vs. o( feu/gwn as "defendant" (e.g. Herodotus 6.82; Aeschylus, Eumenides 583) and o( diwko/menos (Antiphon 2.1.5; Xenophon, Apology 21); cf. also diw/kein tina\ peri\ qana/tou Xenophon, Hellenica 7.3.6; turanni/dos Herodotus 6.104. *diw/kw is …Matched in noteshighshort

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