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- α3870Ἀρύβαλλοςaryballos, globular oil-flask, bag, purse[Attested] not only in Stesichorus and other Dorian [writers], but also [used by] Aristophanes in Knights: "then [the goddess seemed] to pour a libation on your head with an aryballos."
- κ48Καθελώνhaving overpowered… road"] meaning having done away with [someone] and killed [him]. Stesichorus and Sophocles also used the word in this way.
- κ2659ΚύλλαροςKyllaros, Cyllarus… named] from the [verb] ke/llein ['to impel']. The quick one. Stesichorus says that Hermes gave to the Dioskouroi "Firey and Snatchy, swift children of Flashfoot and [...] Kyllaros."
- ε2681Ἐπιτήδευμαoccupation, pursuit… occupation pirate; [he] who carried off Aeschylus the piper and Stesichorus the kitharode." Also "by occupation he was an orator, named Diopeithes". And elsewhere: "by occupation he was a merchant-shipper".
- α2871Ἀπᾴδειis out of tune… unworthy, being unsatisfactory. Also [sc. attested is the phrase], "but Stesichorus is not out of tune of [= with] them."
- ι345ἹμέραHimeraOn the north coast of Sicily, home of the poet Stesichorus (sigma 1095); OCD(4) s.v. See also iota 346 and iota 347, and under iota 349.
- χ249Χειροβρῶτιwith a hand-gnawing… [hand-]straps'; but Zenobius goes on to connect it specifically with Stesichorus' [sigma 1095] composition of his Funeral Games for Pelias.
- κ2108Κορωνίςpeak, end, crown… kappa1001 Theodoridis. [1] LSJ s.v. II.1 "wreath, garland", attributed to Stesichorus fr.29 and Hesychius s.v. korwni/des: "wreaths braided from violets; properly growths".
- ε128Ἐγκρίςhoney-cake… from Epicharmus; also, in any event, in Attic comedy (and Stesichorus).