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87
Δασύπους κρεῶν ἐπιθυμεῖ
a hare desires meat
cf. Diogenianus 4.12. For
hares
and
proverbs cf. delta 86.
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α
3842
Ἀρηΐλυκος
Arêilukos, Areilycus
[1] That of
a
Trojan warrior wounded by Patroclus in Homer, Iliad 16.308; see
also
next note. [2] Homer, Iliad 14.451: epic genitive singular of this name, for
A's
son Prothoenor.
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α
3824
Ἀρεοπαγίτης
Areopagite
[1] That is,
Areio-
as
well
as
this
Areo-.
(Either way, it meant
a
member of the
Are(i)opagos
Council/Court in
Athens.
See
alpha
3838.) [2] Macarius 2.30. [3] Macarius 2.31. [4] Plato Comicus fr. …
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α
3857
Ἀρητῖνοι
Aretinoi, Aretini, Aretinians, Arretines
Despite the single rho, this is presumably the ethnikon of
Arretion/Arretium
(present-day
Arezzo)
in Italy. See
also
alpha
3856.
Matched in notes
high
short
α
3821
Ἀρέθουσα
Arethousa, Arethusa
Same entry in ps.-Zonaras. See
already
at
alpha
1449. [1] This spring
actually
comes up on
a
small island off the southeast Sicilian coast, Ortygia, upon which the Old City of Syracuse was established …
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short
β
329
Βλέπειν γὰρ ἄντικρυς δόξεις μ' Ἄρη
for you will think that I look a downright Ares
The headword phrase quotes
Aristophanes,
Plutus [Wealth] 328 (web
address
1 below),
and
the gloss draws on the scholia there --
Ares
standing for martial prowess. The form of the gloss implies that the …
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short
α
3862
Ἄρητος
Arêtos, Aretus
That of two mythological figures:
a
son of Nestor,
and
a
son of Priam.
Matched in notes
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short
α
3837
Ἀρειμάνειος
battle-maddened
Adler
cites parallel entries in the
Ambrosian
Lexicon. [1] For the name cf.
alpha
3881
(and
Hesychius on
Areimanes
[sic]: "Hades,
amongst
Persians"). See generally LSJ s.v.
*)areimanh/s.
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short
α
3856
Ἀρήτιον
Aretion, Aretium
Arretium
(present-day
Arezzo),
in Etruria, is spelled
as
it is here --
Aretion
-- in the
account
of the nearby Battle of Lake Trasimene (217 BCE) in Zonaras. See
also
alpha
3857.
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short
α
3859
Ἀρητήσιον πεδίον
Aretesian plain
According
to Philochorus FGrH 328 F19 there was
a
place (topos) called
Aretesion
in
Attica,
so called because Theseus called down curses
(arai)
on his enemies there. However, Plutarch (Theseus 35), calls it the …
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short
α
628
Ἀειλογεῖς
you are always speaking; you are a chatterbox
[1] The headword --
a
phrase in translation,
a
single verb in the Greek -- is unattested outside lexicography; presumably quoted from somewhere. [2] Same material in Photius
and
elsewhere. [3] Demosthenes 19.2
and
…
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short
α
3858
Ἀρήσασθαι
to pray
Same entry in other lexica,
and
cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 6.115, where this
aorist
middle infinitive occurs; it is glossed with
a
prosaic equivalent.
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α
4438
Αὐλητοῦ βίον ζῇς
you are living a piper's life
Apostolius
4.33, etc. Clearly
a
particular variety of piper is (disparagingly) envisaged in this proverb; certainly not (e.g.) the kind who, from 586 BCE, won the prestigious solo piping competition
at
the Pythian Games …
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ε
2396
Ἐπὶ κνάφου ἕλκεις
you are dragging [me] on a carding-comb
cf. Hesychius s.v.;
Appendix
Proverbiorum 2.81. The ultimate source, mentioned there but not here (but cf. kappa 1854), is the episode in Herodotus 1.92.4 (cf. Plutarch, On the Malice of Herodotus 858E) of Croesus …
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short
α
1627
Ἀμοργοί πόλεως ὄλεθρος
squeezers [are] a city's ruin
LSJ entry
at
web
address
1; cf. mu 1247. [1] Cratinus fr. 214 Kock, now 221 Kassel-Austin. On Cratinus see generally OCD(4) s.v. (p.391),
and
kappa 2344. His Seriphians dealt with the
arrival
of …
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short
β
459
Βοῦς ἐν αὐλίῳ κάθῃ
you are an ox sitting in a courtyard
… Kock, now 34 K.-A. Same or similar entry in Hesychius
and
some of the paroemiographers. (The modern equivalent might be:
a
square peg in
a
round hole.) cf. beta 458 (end).
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short
α
3832
Ἀρετῶ
I am excellent, I pursue excellence
cf. generally
alpha
3830,
alpha
3831. LSJ entry
at
web
address
1. [1] Procopius, History of the Wars of Justinian 8.35.21 (web
address
2), on the Battle of Mons Lactarius (late 552 CE); cf. …
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short
α
3823
Ἀρεόβινδος
Areobindos, Ariobindus, Ariovindus
Again
under omicron 936
and
pi 2251. The Goth
Areobindos
(cf. his famous near-namesake
Ariovistus:
OCD(4) s.v., p.152) -- in full Flavius
Areobindus
Dagalaifus
Areobindus
-- was son-in-law of the shortlived western emperor Olybrius, …
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short
α
3847
Ἀρήνη
Arene
Near Lepreon in Elis. Mentioned by Pausanias 5.5.6; cf.
also
Stephanus of Byzantium s.v.
Arenai
(two cities of this name, one of them in Elis).
Matched in notes
high
short
δ
1227
Δίωκε ἀρετήν
pursue excellence
Same entry (but without 'excellence') in Hesychius delta2041
and
elsewhere;
and
cf. under delta 1229. For
arete
generally see
alpha
3830,
alpha
3831.
As
Latte on Hesychius suggests, the lemma might be related to …
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short
δ
849
Διαψεύδονται
they are cheated, they are deceived, they are disappointed
See Synt. Laur. (cf. tau 435, introduction to notes),
and
Anecdota
graeca (ed. Bekker, 1814/1965) 135.1. On the passive voice see LSJ, web
address
1. [1] For this sense of the verb for falling …
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short
α
3855
Ἀρήτη
Arete
That of
a
woman. Its middle vowel would commonly be epsilon, but this eta-version is
attested
in
Athens
and
elsewhere;
and
in fact the subject of the present entry is surely
A.
the daughter …
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short
α
3826
Ἆρες
Ares
The unglossed headword is the vocative of the name of
Ares,
god of war: see generally
alpha
3852. The contrasting word given in the "gloss" is the second person singular,
aorist
active
imperative, of …
Matched in notes
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short
α
3820
Ἀρεάδνη
Areadne
That of
a
woman. More usually spelled
Ari-:
see
alpha
3865.
Matched in notes
high
short
δ
158
Δεδοξοποιημένον
with a reputation for judgment
An
abridged
version of Polybius 18.15.16 -- from the end of his celebrated digression on treachery (18.13-15). Besides the
abridgement,
this version does not, when quoting the relevant extract, repeat the headword participle dedocopoihme/non …
Matched in notes
high
short
α
1250
Ἁλίσκει
you are captured, you are caught, you stand convicted
Same or similar entry in other lexica; references
at
Photius
alpha966
Theodoridis. The primary headword + gloss
are
ambiguous
per se,
as
they could be either third person singular
active
or second person singular …
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short
α
3846
Ἀρημένος
worn-out
Same or similar entry in other lexica,
and
see
also
the scholia to Homer, Iliad 18.435, where the headword (see next note)
appears.
(Also
twice in the Odyssey.) [1] The headword is
a
perfect …
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short
ε
1803
Ἐξ ὄξους δίκη
a lawsuit (prepared) from vinegar
Presented here
as
a
single sentence: in fact
an
exchange of retorts (between Bdelykleon
and
his father Philokleon) in
Aristophanes,
Wasps 1366-7 (not
Adler's
'1396'): see web
address
1. (The two verses
are
separated …
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short
ε
1122
Ἐναπομόργνυνται
they are imparted
… extant instance outside lexica occurs in one of the Letters
attributed
to Dionysius the
Areopagite.)
More generally for this verb see e.g. Iamblichus, On mysteries 5.3 (quoted by Stobaeus 3.3.26), of
a
colour; John …
Matched in notes
high
short
α
4306
Ἀτταγᾶς νουμηνίῳ
a partridge (joins) a woodcock
The headword phrase is
attested
in two syntactical forms: either,
as
here, the second noun is in the dative (with
a
singular verb either implicit,
as
here, or explicit) or else both
are
nominative …
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