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3220
Ἁ πίτυς
the pine-tree
Entry lacking, Adler reports, in some of the manuscripts. [1]
Theocritus
(see next note) wrote in a Doric dialect: the feminine nominative singular of the definite article was a(, which the Suda glosses with …
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536
Ἁδύ
sweet
Theocritus,
Idylls 1.1 (quoted also at alpha 3220, tau 511, psi 98), with scholion; neuter singular.
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245
Ἄγκεσι
[in] forests
… not demonstrably so; there are other extant possibilities in e.g.
Theocritus
and Oppian. [1] For this glossing cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 18.321, where a)/gke' occurs. [2] Greek Anthology 6.186.4 (Diocles), dedications to …
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641
Ἀείτης
beloved youth
… LSJ under a)i/tas, the Doric form (as in Hesychius alpha2162);
Theocritus,
Idylls 12.14, etc.
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961
Ἀκράτιστα
breakfast
… former, is neuter plural of the adjective a)kra/tistos ("breakfast-less"; cf.
Theocritus
1.51); but either version is one letter away from what is probably the authentic headword, which can be found, with this same gloss, …
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1049
Ἅλα
salt
… 1). Apparently a proverbial expression for a minimal gift; compare
Theocritus,
Idylls 27.61.
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1421
Ἅλοιτο
might spring
… quotation given. but see next note. (Other possibilities in Xenophon,
Theocritus,
etc.) [1] A version (again at sigma 569) of Greek Anthology 7.36.1-2 which has the headword a(/loito rather than a)/roito. On this epigram, …
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1791
Ἀμφῶες
two-eared
… a neuter singular and a nominative plural, a)mfw=es (probably from
Theocritus,
Idylls 1.28 -- cf. Orion [Author, Myth] s.v. a)mfwreu/s) and a)mfwti/des. The genitive plural a)mfwti/dwn is presumably extracted from the proverb quoted, though …
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2375
Ἀνήλιπος
unshoed, barefoot
From the scholia to
Theocritus,
Idylls 4.56, where nh/lipos appears. See again alpha 2412.
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3724
Ἀπφά
appha, sib
… to Eustathius, amongst lovers as well as siblings. [2] See
Theocritus,
Idylls 15.14, with scholion. Eustathius explained the word as o( a)f' ou(= e)/fu, "he from whom one was born".
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3931
Ἀριστοτόκεια
bearing the best children
… web address 1); used at, and probably quoted here from,
Theocritus
(Idylls 24.73, vocative). Compare dusaristoto/keia at Homer, Iliad 18.54, where Thetis, mother of Achilles calls herself this (the prefix not questioning his excellence …
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4043
Ἄρτι μῦς πίττης γεύεται
finally the mouse is tasting pitch
… occurrence of this proverb is in [Demosthenes] 50.26; see also
Theocritus,
Idylls 14.51.
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4712
Ἄχραντον
immaculate
… entry in other lexica; and see also the scholia to
Theocritus,
Idylls 1.60, where the headword -- neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective -- occurs. The word becomes especially common in Christian writers.
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