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- β520Βρασμὸς γῆςroiling of the earth… cf. also the gloss-less alpha 2104. For other kinds of earthquake, see epsilon 2391 and iota 212 (also gamma 468); for a related verb, beta 518.
- κ1618Κιμωλίαcimolite, Cimolian earth… Cimolus/Kimolos (kappa 1619). See also kappa 1744, kappa 2640. This earth, often used as fuller's earth, is a kind of clay of the montmorillonite group, also today called cimolite. It is a hydrated aluminum …
- ε656ἘκτιναγμὸςdisturbanceKinds of earthquake, from beta 520.
- γ468Γρυπάνιονwrinkling… [3] FGrH 326 F1; cf. epsilon 162. On kinds of earthquakes, see beta 520.
- ε1620Ἐξελοφίζετοused to be quarried out… from missing parts of the Excerpta of Constantine Porphyrogenitus.) The "earth" in question is presumably pozzolana, a precursor of cement, mined in the vicinity of Dikaiarcheia (= Puteoli) in Campania, delta 1061. For "earth-hills" …
- ε1259Ἐνέροιςthose below… 15.188, where the headword occur (as e)ne/roisin). [2] for e)/ra "earth" see epsilon 1643, epsilon 2887.
- α2104Ἀνατιναγμόςshaking-upA term associated with violent earth-movements: cf. beta 520, epsilon 656, tau 638.
- η512Ἠρίαbarrows, mounds… III.3 Conomis. cf. eta 511, eta 520. [1] On e)/ra "earth", see epsilon 1643, epsilon 2887, epsilon 2966.
- κ2289Κῶνοιcones… allusion appears to be to the shadows cast by the earth as a planet (i.e. night or an eclipse), although the precise wording is late in coming: Sophonias [13-14 c. CE], Paraphrase on Aristotle, …
- ε4074Ἑψῶνboiling… contracted form of the nominative plural masculine participle. On gold-bearing earth, see alpha 3792 and chi 571.
- κ2035Κονιόπουςdust-foot, sandal… kind of shoe Aristophanes meant; the digression on cutting/slaying the earth is etymological guesswork.
- χ63Χαμάδιςgroundwards… supplementary lemma xama=ze are formed from the obsolescent xa/ma ('ground', 'earth'), which survives primarily in compounds from the classical period and later and in the allative/illative/locative forms in epic mentioned in this entry. Both …
- χ322Χθαμαλάhumble [things]; flat [things]The headword adjective is related to obsolete *xama/ ("earth") and so its meaning can be literal or metaphorical; cf. Latin humilis from humus ("earth"). [1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica, and cf. the …
- ε2659Ἐπὶ τὰ Μανδροβόλουon Mandrobolos' property… History of Samos 800-188 BC (Oxford 1987) appendix 2; 'Samian Earth' seems to have been a kind of fuller's earth. [2] A ram, because, according to a scholiast on Nicander's Alexipharmaka, this was the …
- ει155Εἰν Ἀρίμοιςin (the) ArimeansHomer, Iliad 2.783. ('Earth groaned beneath them as it does for Zeus the Thunderer in his anger, when he lashes the ground above Typhoeus in the Arimean Mountains, where people say Typhoeus lies abed': …
- χ376Χοϊκόςmud, made of mud… equivalent of the Hebrew "Adam" (alpha 425) -- from adama, "earth" -- in a typological passage on Christ as Second Adam. Same entry, according to Adler, in Lexicum Ambrosianum 284; and cf. already Hesychius …
- ε2378Ἐπικίδναταιis spread over… applied to the water of a river flowing over the earth (web address 1), but see also 7.451 & 458. See also kappa 1589.
- κ1723ΚλεομένηςKleomenes, Cleomenes… to Alexandria, meeting his death in 219 after a failed plot against the Macedonian king of Egypt, Ptolemy IV Philopator, named here. [1] alpha 2345.
- χ233Χειμερινὸς καιρόςwintry season, wintry time… Hesiod, Theogony 148 (citing Chrysippus), on the three sons of Earth and Heaven: Kottos, Briareos and Gyges. Each is equated with a season of the year: Kottos with the angry heat of summer, Briareos …
- δ1124Διμήτωρtwice-born… thus being considered as having been born once from the earth and again from the vine"), and generally LSJ s.v.
- ε2917ἘρεβεινόςErebos-like, Erebus-like… was 'a place of nether darkness, forming a passage from Earth to Hades' (LSJ s.v.). The cognate adjective Erebos-like appears in the form e)rebenno/s, with Aeolic treatment of *-sn-, in Homer and Hesiod; the …
- ι212Ἰζηματίαςsubsidence-causingA technical adjectival term in Posidonius and elsewhere. On earthquakes generally, see also beta 520, epsilon 656, epsilon 2391.
- ε3901Ἐφημερίαephemerality… Odyssey 18.136-7, which might be translated as "The mind of earth-bound mortals is such as the day the father of gods and men brings to them." [2] This part of the entry = Hesychius …
- κ335Καπηλίςhuckstress, landlady… vine here hinges upon the fact that phlo/s means both "earth, mud" and "wine dregs, lees". [2] For the otherwise unattested e)/mpelos read e)/mphlos ("muddy").
- μ465Μελαίνῃdark, black… Homer it is used variously of emotions (fre/nes), ships, the earth, blood, water, and the sea; see Cunliffe 1963 s.v. This feminine dative singular is quoted from Homer, Iliad 1.300 (describing Achilles' ship: web …
- ε2731Ἐπιτρῖψαιto crush, to wear out… church is carried away by the rivers as the eroded earth.
- κ1286Κελαινόςblack, murky, dark… fobero/n or frikto/n) to dark, murky or ominous things: the earth, Hades, the depths of the sea, storm clouds (cf. kappa 1284), the river Danube (Lycophron, Alexandra 1336), waves, and blood (cf. kappa 1285), …
- ε2299Ἐπιδικάζεταιclaims at law, sues for… the Reply to Diogenes on behalf of Archestratus about a plot of land. cf. generally alpha 1764, epsilon 2298.
- β598Βυσσόνdepth; ocean's depth… 239, kro/kou bafa\s d' e)s pe/don xe/ousa , "Shedding to earth her saffron-dyed robe." (The usual meaning of bu/ssos is flax, and the linen made from it: cf. beta 596, and see generally LSJ …
- χ70Χαμαίλεονchamaileon… jaundice; see Pliny, Natural History 22.53. The name xamai/mhlon from "earth" (xamai/) and "apple" (mh=lon) -- compare the French pomme de terre, potato -- was probably applied because the plant gives off a faintly …