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Anne Mahoney6
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α1594Ἅμιλλαcontest… [1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica and several Euripidean scholia; references at Photius alpha1201 Theodoridis. (Latte on Hesychius s.v. makes the Euripides connection explicit by citing e.g. Hecuba 226.) [2] Aelian fr. …Matched in noteshighshort
α1188Ἀλλήλωνeach otherMeaning themselves. Thus Euripides [sc. uses the word]. And Thucydides [writes]: "there some even tasted each other". Meaning [ate] themselves.Matched in translationhighshort
α2154ἈνδραποδίζωI enslave, I reduce to slavery… slave-dealers and faithless men. Clearly from Jason, who enslaved Medea. Euripides [writes]: "many were present, but [the] Thessalians [were] faithless". The term slave-dealer [comes] from trading men, that is, selling [them]; he who is …

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Ἅμιλλα

contest

[Meaning] competition, rivalry, equalization. "And once, when these two boys were contending with each other, they stripped off for a contest of javelin-throwing, but then their enthusiasm got the better of them; and…

Ἅμιλλα· ἀνταγώνισμα, φιλονεικία, ἐξίσωσις. καί ποτε ἀγῶνα ἐπιτελοῦντες τούτω τὼ μειρακίω, ἐς ἅμιλλαν ἀκοντίσεως ἀποδυσαμένω, εἶτα μέντοι τῆς σπουδῆς θερμότερον ὑπεπλήσθησαν· καί…

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α3909ἈρίστιπποςAristippos, Aristippus… the robe was brought to him, said some iambics of Euripides: "I would not put on feminine clothes, having been born male, and from a male line." Aristippos took it and said with a …Matched in translationhighmedium

α133Ἀγάλματαdelights, ornaments, statues… uses this term for the decoration on a tomb, and Euripides uses it for the adornments for corpses. Also something in which someone takes delight. Also [sc. a term for] image, wooden statue, delight, …Matched in translationhighmedium

α1367Ἄλοχοςspouse[Meaning] wife. From Euripides' Andromeda: "take me, o stranger, whether you want a serving woman or a spouse."Matched in translationhighshort

α1404Ἁλωτόνattainable, capturable… [meaning those who are] apprehendable, able to be subdued. And Euripides [writes]: "may I never be caught doing bad things."Matched in translationhighshort

α1796Ἀναβάδηνlifted up; propped up… propped up at home writing a tragedy." He is mocking Euripides as syllogistic and providing the opposite of whatever he says. Such as, "the tongue swore, the mind was unsworn." Such as [here]: he …Matched in translationhighmedium

α1842ἈναγυράσιοςAnagyrasian… [treatise] On Tragic Poets, comparing the Phoenix [Author, Myth] of Euripides to them.Matched in translationhighmedium

α2039Ἀνάπτυξιςunfolding… attested is] a)naptu/cw ["I will unfold"], meaning I will tell. Euripides [sc. uses the word].Matched in translationhighshort

α2082Ἀνάστατοιanastatoi… gods; but popana ["round-cakes"] [are different again]; and in Erechtheus Euripides called moon-cakes pelanoi: "and tell me, for you are sending from home a great pelanos, of these moon-cakes of a first fiery sprouting." …Matched in translationhighmedium

α2373Ἀνειλήθυιανhaving never given birth[Meaning her who is] childless. Euripides [sc. uses the word].Matched in translationhighshort

α2868Ἀπάγουcarry away, lead awayMeaning carry/lead away to him. Euripides [sc. uses the word]. Also [sc. attested is] a)pa/gw ["I carry/lead away"]: [used] with an accusative.Matched in translationhighshort

α3819Ἄραιτοmight lift, might raise[Meaning he/she/it] might take, might convey. Euripides [writes]: "there is no story so terrible to speak of, neither suffering nor god-sent disaster, whose weight the nature of man could not lift." And elsewhere: "[chariots …Matched in translationhighshort

α3959Ἀρκτεῦσαιto be a bear… to Artemis. For the virgins are called "being bears", as Euripides and Aristophanes show.Matched in translationhighshort

α4084ἈρχέλαοςArchelaos, Archelaus… Socrates as a pupil. Some assert that he also taught Euripides. He organized the study of natural philosophy, and he thought that the just and the base did not exist by nature, but by …Matched in translationhighmedium

α1046Ἀκύμοναcalm, wave-less… in the accusative singular, evidently quoted from somewhere -- perhaps Euripides, Iphigeneia in Tauris 1444. The secondary one, nominative, comes from Euripides, Andromache 158; see the scholia there, and cf. Latte on Hesychius s.v. …Matched in noteshighshort

α1654Ἀμπλάκημαfailure… other lexica. Latte on Hesychius s.v. considers it quoted from Euripides, Phoenician Women 23; it is certainly tragedic vocabulary. [2] Again, same equivalence in other lexica, including Photius. The noun in question has now …Matched in noteshighmedium

α4250Ἀστράγαλοςknucklebone, astragal… throws, some with colourful names, Stesichorus (4, 4, 1, 1), Euripides (6 x 4 + 4 x 4), basilicus (Suetonius, *Peri\ Paidi/wn 1.18-27, with Taillardat's notes, pp.155-60; Lamer 1946-60). The best known, Venus for …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1172Ἄληθεςtruly… "Truly, o child of the rustic goddess?" Aeschylus says to Euripides, "do you [call] me these things, o gossip-collector, and beggar-maker, and rag-stitcher?" But "truth" [is] the opposite of falsehood. "Truth is the leader …Matched in translationhighshort

α3756Ἀργαλέον φρονέοντα παρ' ἄφροσι πόλλ' ἀγορεύεινpainful for someone of sound mind to say many things to the senselessA saying of Euripides in Bacchae. Also [sc. attested is] a)rgale/on ["painful"], [meaning] difficult. It is said from a)/lgos ["pain"], a)lgale/on with a change of lambda into rho. Something difficult was called "work" [e)/rgon] …Matched in translationhighmedium

α3893ἈρίσταρχοςAristarkhos, Aristarchos, Aristarchus… prove us better men. This Aristarchus was a contemporary of Euripides; he was the first to establish the length of play which is still current. And he produced 70 dramas, won with 2, and …Matched in translationhighmedium

α4235Ἀστεῖοςurbane… man with a more/rather urbane act." Aristophanes says [this] about Euripides. Also [sc. attested is] a)stei/ous ["urbane men"], those speaking wittily, acting as citizens. [The verb] a)stei+/zesqai ["to speak wittily"] [is] more/rather euphemistic for …Matched in translationhighmedium

α4683ἈχαιόςAchaeus, Achaios… a bit. [His plays] were performed jointly with [those of] Euripides from the 83rd Olympiad.Matched in translationhighshort

α23Ἄβατονinaccessible… (where Latte confidently asserts that the headword is quoted from Euripides, Bacchae 10).Matched in noteshighshort

α49Ἀβίωτονunlivable… The possibilities are numerous. (Latte on Hesychius s.v. confidently asserts Euripides, Alcestis 242.) [2] Quotation unidentifiable -- but perhaps from Plutarch, who has several instances of the idiom a)biw/tws e)/xein. [3] For this word …Matched in noteshighshort

α63Ἀβουλίαill-advisedness… Hesychius alpha171, where Latte claims the headword as quoted from Euripides, Medea 882 (accusative case there).Matched in noteshighshort

α70Ἁβρὰ βαίνωνwalking delicately… quotation given, but is more likely to be quoted from Euripides, Trojan Women 820. (So Latte on Hesychius s.v. and more tentatively Theodoridis on Photius s.v.) [2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the …Matched in noteshighshort

α89Ἁβροσύνηsplendor… here seems to have been prompted by its occurrence in Euripides, Orestes 349 (so Latte on Hesychius s.v.); cf. the scholia there. cf. generally alpha 70, alpha 73, alpha 86, alpha 87, alpha 88. …Matched in noteshighshort

α130Ἀγάλλειglorifies, honours… quoted from somewhere. The possibilities include Pindar, Nemeans 5.43, and Euripides, Hercules 379. The verb is used especially of what one does to a deity: see LSJ (web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort

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