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391
Γοργόνες Τιθράσιαι
Tithrasian Gorgons
… Aristophanes, Frogs 477, where the headword phrase occurs, as TEIthrasian
gorgons.
The spelling is important, because Teithras was an Attic deme (and evidently one with prodigiously ugly women). Cf. tau 579 (where this fact …
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390
Γοργόνες
Gorgons
ps.-Nonnus, Scholia mythologica 4.76.32-35, on the mention of
Gorgons
in Gregory of Nazianzus' speech Against the emperor Julian (PG 35.653.11). cf. gamma 391, gamma 392, gamma 393, gamma 394, gamma 395. For Perseus see …
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2024
Ἐπεγράφου
you were enlisted under, you had (something) inscribed upon
… scholia focus on the literal level (Lamachos has had a
gorgon
inscribed on his shield), while the wordplay (cf. LSJ: web address 2) involves an sense of the verb e)pigra/fomai that in this case …
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Ἀρτίτομος
fresh from cutting
… first of these see Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.1515 (on the
Gorgon's
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400
Γοργύνη
gorgyne
… 391) that the women of the Attic deme Teithras were
gorgons
- that is, alarming, dangerous and ugly (tau 579).
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1576
Κίβησις
bag, pouch, wallet
… Hesiod, Shield 224: "the head of a dreadful monster, the
Gorgon,
covered the broad of his back, and a bag [chest?] of silver -- a marvel to see -- contained it". The Etymologicum Gudianum …
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