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4096
Ἀρχὴ ἄνδρα δείκνυσιν
office exposes a man
… say that this a dictum of Solon's, though Aristotle and
Theophrastus
[says it is] Bias's.
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1211
Δίοσμος
smell-transmission
… the transporting faculty of things that can be smelled in
Theophrastus.
The sense organ is not the nose, but the mastoid apophysis of the brain.
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95
Ἀβρότονον
wormwood
Wormwood, or other Artemisia species; see e.g.
Theophrastus
Enquiry into Plants 6.7.3. (Also a woman's name in New Comedy.)
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208
Ἀγγείδιον
potlet
… the Ambrosian Lexicon. Not a common diminutive, but see e.g.
Theophrastus,
Enquiry into Plants 9.6.4. LSJ also notes an instance of this word meaning gall-bladder.
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416
Ἄγχουσα
alkanet, bugloss, rouge
… Besides what follows here (and in epsilon 3093) see e.g.
Theophrastus,
Enquiry into Plants 7.9.3. [1] This was also used as a facial cosmetic: see psi 108. [2] Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 928-9, telescoped (see web …
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2054
Ἀνάρπαστοι
non-initiates
… transmitted headword a)na/rpastoi, a nominative plural, does occur (in e.g.
Theophrastus,
De pietate fr. 3) but is nevertheless incorrect here. It should be a)norgi/astoi, which Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon gives as the headword to the …
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3165
Ἀπήνεια
discourtesy, rudeness
… The headword (a gloss at theta 355) occurs in e.g.
Theophrastus,
Characters 15.1 (in his definition of au)qa/deia: alpha 4422). From a)phnh/s (alpha 3170, and cf. alpha 3163, alpha 3164).
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3250
Ἀποβάτης
dismounter
… such an event was found only in Athens and Boiotia)
Theophrastus
on this. See also Kassel-Austin, PCG II p.34 (s.v. Alexis). "Dismounting" meant, in practice, vaulting from one horse to another: see LSJ.
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3610
Ἀποτραχύνεται
is hardened off
… lexica. The headword must be quoted from somewhere (probably not
Theophrastus,
History of Plants 6.4.2, where it is used literally).
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3807
Ἀρδήττης Ἀρδήττου
Ardettes, [genitive] Ardettou
… (now 103 Carey OCT). See also eta 215 (end. [3]
Theophrastus
fr. 17 Szegedy-Maszak (647 FHS&G).
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4101
Ἀρχὴ Σκυρία
Skyrian empire, Scyrian empire
… believed to be those of Theseus; cf. theta 367. [4]
Theophrastus
638 FHS&G (fr.131 Wimmer). For ostracism see omicron 716, omicron 717; as a formal procedure it dates back no earlier than the late …
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4298
Ἀσφόδελος
asphodel
… in famines during his own time, was barely edible. However,
Theophrastus,
who was less fussy than Galen, praised [in Enquiry into Plants 7.12-13] the utility of asphodel, saying that its stalk was edible when …
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4299
Ἀσφόδελος
asphodel
… Same material in Pausanias the Atticist and other lexica. [1]
Theophrastus,
Enquiry into Plants 7.13.4. [2] Hesiod, Works and Days 41 (web address 1). [2] Homer, Odyssey 11.538 (web address 2).
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4570
Ἀφαιρεῖν κροκύδας
to pluck off threads
… now part of 689 K.-A. For a better-known instance see
Theophrastus,
Characters 2.3 (the Flatterer does this, and plucking grey hairs out of the beard, to the object of his attentions); and cf. Valeria …
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115
Αἰθέριον ὕψος
etherial height
… one of them recurrent: a philosophical passage (variously credited to
Theophrastus,
Zeno and Posidonius) which includes the phrase ai( pro\s ai)qe/rion u(/yos u(perbolai (of mountains).
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664
Διαμυλλαίνῃ
you grimace
… unattested. [2] Aristophanes, Wasps 1315; said by Xanthias of one
Theophrastus.
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1203
Διὸς ἄνθος
Zeus' blossom, Zeus' flower
… several times -- as a single word, dio/sanqos -- in
Theophrastus,
Historia plantarum (Enquiry into Plants): 6.1.1, 6.6.2, 6.6.11, 6.8.3. The classification of it as a thorny plant (here and in Hesychius s.v.) is …
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1339
Δόλιχος
calavance; the long course
[1] Vigna sinensis;
Theophrastus,
Enquiry into Plants 8.3.2. [2] From the scholia to Sophocles, Electra 684, where dro/mon occurs; cf. delta 807, delta 1336, sigma 981.
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1615
Δυσέντευκτος
hard to deal with
… headword adjective is first attested in the fourth century BCE
(Theophrastus,
Characters 19.3); also used by Polybius, Josephus, Plutarch, Philo Judaeus, and Patristic writers.
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569
Ἐκπήγνυσθαι
to be frozen stiff
… independent occurrences of the transmitted headword verb e)kph/gnusqai (predominantly in
Theophrastus,
in reference to plants); almost certainly this is a mistake on the part of the Suda or its immediate source(s). In any event …
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181
Χέδροπας
legumes
… scholars have noted, is probably an error; suggested alternatives are
Theophrastus
and (cf. tau 944) Thugenides.
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456
Χρεμψιθέατρον
theater-cougher, theatre-cougher
… chi 455). For bad manners in the theatre see e.g.
Theophrastus,
Characters 11.3 and 14.4, and generally -- though not on the present topic -- Pickard-Cambridge/Gould/Lewis, The Dramatic Festivals of Athens 272-3.
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478
Χρήματα χρήματ' ἀνήρ
money money (is the) man
… is said to be attributed to Solon, though Aristotle and
Theophrastus
give it to Bias. [3] This proverb first appears at Callimachus, Epigrams 1.12 Pfeiffer, where a man, under the prompting of Pittacus, overhears …
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