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- χ325Χθιζοίyesterday's men… or similarly in other lexica. (For the pejorative sense of 'yesterday', see already chi 324.) The headword, a nominative plural, must be quoted from somewhere; probably Job 8:9 LXX. [2] See e.g. Aristophanes, Frogs …
- ε1297Ἕνηold… [the participle] e)/xwn [in the idiom] lhrei=s e)/xwn ['keep on talking nonsense', where 'talking nonsense' alone would suffice]. See generally LSJ s.v. e)/xw, B.III.2.
- η12ἨάριζονI was springing, they were springing… see Georgius Choeroboscus, de spiritibus 199.31: 'h)a/rizon, meaning they were talking about spring.' Here, therefore, is a fourth meaning to add to the three in LSJ.
- ν117ΝέαρχοςNearchos, Nearchus… incompetent summary of Arrian, Anabasis 6.2.3. Arrian begins there by talking about the Cretan-born Nearchos, whom Alexander did appoint his admiral in 326 BCE (see generally OCD4 Nearchus); but the helmsman who pretended to …
- κ504Καταγλωττίσματαtongued-downs… neuter noun in -ma, from the verb for tonguing or talking down (kappa 503), or using too many rare words. It should therefore be used for concrete things such as plasters put in place …
- δ1370Δοξάσαιto suppose… fr.118). [2] An approximation of Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 911-913 (Jocasta talking to the magistrates of Thebes); it contains not the headword verb but the related noun. [3] Stoic doctrine: an approximation of Diogenes Laertius …
- η62Ἡ γλῶττα τῷ κήρυκι τούτων τέμνεταιthe tongue of these is cut for the herald… [Hermes] of these tidings'; that is what really Cario means, talking to Hermes. The scholion mentioned above reports and analyses both senses, but the Suda’s compiler only reports one. [1] Despite this gloss, reflected …