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Ἄστρια
(?)knucklebones
[Meaning] astragaloi. "He took ten knucklebones as payment;" in
Callimachus.
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302
Ἀγορανομίας
market-supervisorship, market-supervisorships
… others from Lepreon a small town of the Peloponnese which
Callimachus
also mentions in the Hymns: "citadel of Kaukones, which is called Lepreion." Others still [sc. derive it] from mangy cattle, since the hides …
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495
Ἀδμωλία
uncertainty
[sc. A term for] ignorance in
Callimachus.
Also [sc. attested is the related adverb] a)dmwlei/, [meaning] without deceit. Also [sc. attested is the related verb] a)dmwlw=, [meaning] I take no heed [of].
clothing
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2
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2
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2
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2
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2
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2
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2
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2
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2
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2
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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Ἄκτια
Aktia, Actia
An ancient [sc. athletic] contest, as
Callimachus
makes clear in his [treatise] On contests.
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1146
Ἀλετρίβανος
pestle
… double-headed salt-grinder". Also [sc. attested is] a)letri/s, the miller-woman in
Callimachus.
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1592
Ἀμιθρῆσαι
to calculate
[Meaning] to measure, to figure, in
Callimachus.
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3071
Ἀπεστώ
absence
Just like Sappho. In
Callimachus
[it means] going abroad.
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3259
Ἀποβράσματα
chaff
[Meaning] husks [pitura] in
Callimachus.
"The corn-grinding girl sifted nothing base out of it."
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3622
Ἀπ' οὔατος ἄγγελος ἔλθοι
may the messenger go far from my ear
[sc. The phrase occurs] in
Callimachus.
That is, one of ill-boding, not worthy of not being heard.
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3750
Ἀράχνη
spider's web
… "all the weavers' things were a spider's web in weight".
Callimachus
[writes]: "a spider's-web work". Cratinus in Pytinê [writes]: "you are holding your stomach in the middle of spiders' webs." Pherecrates in Tyranny [writes]: …
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3981
Ἁρμοῖ που
just now
[Meaning] newly, lately. Thus
Callimachus
[sc. uses the phrase] somewhere in Hecale: "just now on that man too grew a delicate new beard."
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4208
Ἀσπαστοί
welcome, welcomed
[Meaning] glad [men], god-like [men]. But in
Callimachus
[one finds] a)spastu/s ["welcome"], [genitive] a)spastu/os, that is, a friendly greeting.
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4272
Ἄστυρον
little town, town
[Meaning a] city. "And a most swift messenger into town."
Callimachus
[sc. says this].
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4305
Ἄττα
father
… Page note (ibid.) that an attribution of the epigram to
Callimachus
is found in Diogenes Laertius 1.79 and only there. They observe that although the Anthologia Palatina (AP) makes no attribution for this epigram, …
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4105
Ἀρχίβιος
Archibius, Archibios
Son of Apollonius. Grammarian. [He wrote] an exegesis of
Callimachus'
epigrams.
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4259
Ἀστυάγης
Astyages
… On Metres; Onomatic Canons; and a commentary on the poet
Callimachus.
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Ἀβάλε
would that
… text of Homer, but there are other literary attestations including
Callimachus
fr. 619 Pfeiffer, and Greek Anthology 7.583.1 (Agathias Scholasticus). cf. generally alpha 14. [1] For more on ei)/qe see epsiloniota 55. [2] Apparently …
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128
Ἀγάλακτες
milkmates
… -- probably from its only attested instance outside lexica (etc.):
Callimachus,
Hymns 2.52. cf. generally gamma 17. [1] Same material in Eudemus, partially in other lexica.
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244
Ἀγκάσασθαι
to arm up
… 1), here in the aorist infinitive. From the scholia to
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 236 Pfeiffer, where the phrase li/qon a)gka/ssasqai (sic) occurs.
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248
Ἄγκος
glen
… web address 1; cf. alpha 245. [2] An approximation of
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 309 Pfeiffer (read possi\ d' a)nelqei=n, after Toup and Valckenaer; noted in Adler's addenda), with comment from the scholia there.
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633
Ἀείπλανα
ever-wandering [lips]
The headword is neuter plural, from the quotation given. [2]
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 310 Pfeiffer, with the glossing of the scholia thereto.
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636
Ἄειρεν
drew [out], removed
[1]
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 295 Pfeiffer (of animal dung), with scholion; cf. iota 550, phi 623.
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663
Ἀήσυρον
light-as-air
… in reference to ants in (?)Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 452-3.) [3]
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 311 Pfeiffer (where the editor prints a lacuna between adjective and noun).
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858
Ἀκή
Ake, Acre
… plural but names a plurality of authorities -- Nicanor and
Callimachus
-- who said this. [Harpocration's entry itself gives Demosthenes 52 as the principal citation for Ake. The toponym does not appear in the …
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860
Ἀκηδής
uncared-for, uncaring
… of Acragas, but confuses historical facts (see sigma 441; cf.
Callimachus
fr. 64 Pfeiffer). The allusion is to the desecration of the tomb of the poet Simonides of Ceos, who was buried at Acragas; …
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907
Ἄκμηνος
fasting
… (sic). Hesychius gives the noun as a)/kma meaning "fasting." [2]
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 312.
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1079
Ἄλαστε
inconsolable
… unidentifiable in this precise form, but Adler cites for comparison
Callimachus,
Hymn 5.87 (another vocative: te/knon a)/laste).
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1155
Ἄλειον
Aleion, Haleion
… Hesychius alpha2837, a(lei=on u(/dwr glossed as a)qroisto/n, kai\ sullekto/n. [3]
Callimachus,
Iambi fr. 196.
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1224
Ἄλλικα
allix, mantle
… found for the nominative). For chlamys see chi 333. [2]
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 253; quoted again at epsilon 1268. [3] The sense of i)diw=tai (iota 121) intended here, and apparently paralleled at pi 3125, …
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1297
Ἀλκτήρια λιμοῦ
famine's remedies
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 346 (fuller quotation at lambda 556), with scholion. cf. generally alpha 1296.
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