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α788Ἀκαλήφηstinging nettle, sea-anemone… Kock, now 29 K.-A. [3] Aristotle, History of Animals 487a25; Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 7.7.2.Matched in noteshighmedium
α3927ἈριστόξενοςAristoxenos, Aristoxenus… Xenophilos of Khalkis, a student of Philolaos of Kroton. [2] Theophrastus 11 no. 13 FHS&G. [3] 336-333. [4] For whom see delta 1062. See also Dicaearchus 3 Mirhady. [5] The transmitted a)riqmou= has to …Matched in noteshighmedium
α4096Ἀρχὴ ἄνδρα δείκνυσινoffice exposes a man… Solon. The Aristotle reference is to Nicomachean Ethics 1130a1; for Theophrastus, fr.737 Fortenbaugh. On Bias of Priene see beta 270.

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Ἀκαλήφη

stinging nettle, sea-anemone

[Meaning a] nettle, both the terrestrial [kind] and the maritime [kind] which is like a mollusc shell. Aristophanes in Phoenician Women [writes]: "probably, of course, the first of all plants to grow were the rugged…

Ἀκαλήφη· κνίδη καὶ ἡ χερσαία καὶ ἡ θαλαττία, ἥτις ἐστὶ κογχυλίδιόν τι. Ἀριστοφάνης Φοινίσσαις· εἰκὸς δήπου πρῶτον ἁπάντων φύα φῦναι καὶ τὰς κραναὰς ἀκαλήφας. Φερεκράτης…

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α95ἈβρότονονwormwoodWormwood, or other Artemisia species; see e.g. Theophrastus Enquiry into Plants 6.7.3. (Also a woman's name in New Comedy.)Matched in noteshighshort

α208Ἀγγείδιονpotlet… the Ambrosian Lexicon. Not a common diminutive, but see e.g. Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 9.6.4. LSJ also notes an instance of this word meaning gall-bladder.Matched in noteshighshort

α416Ἄγχουσαalkanet, bugloss, rouge… Besides what follows here (and in epsilon 3093) see e.g. Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 7.9.3. [1] This was also used as a facial cosmetic: see psi 108. [2] Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 928-9, telescoped (see web …Matched in noteshighshort

α2054Ἀνάρπαστοιnon-initiates… transmitted headword a)na/rpastoi, a nominative plural, does occur (in e.g. Theophrastus, De pietate fr. 3) but is nevertheless incorrect here. It should be a)norgi/astoi, which Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon gives as the headword to the …Matched in noteshighshort

α3165Ἀπήνειαdiscourtesy, rudeness… The headword (a gloss at theta 355) occurs in e.g. Theophrastus, Characters 15.1 (in his definition of au)qa/deia: alpha 4422). From a)phnh/s (alpha 3170, and cf. alpha 3163, alpha 3164).Matched in noteshighshort

α3250Ἀποβάτηςdismounter… such an event was found only in Athens and Boiotia) Theophrastus on this. See also Kassel-Austin, PCG II p.34 (s.v. Alexis). "Dismounting" meant, in practice, vaulting from one horse to another: see LSJ.Matched in noteshighshort

α3610Ἀποτραχύνεταιis hardened off… lexica. The headword must be quoted from somewhere (probably not Theophrastus, History of Plants 6.4.2, where it is used literally).Matched in noteshighshort

α3807Ἀρδήττης ἈρδήττουArdettes, [genitive] Ardettou… (now 103 Carey OCT). See also eta 215 (end. [3] Theophrastus fr. 17 Szegedy-Maszak (647 FHS&G).Matched in noteshighshort

α4084ἈρχέλαοςArchelaos, Archelaus… was a mentor of Socrates is asserted by Aristoxenus and Theophrastus as well as by DL. The association of Archelaos, Anaxagoras, and/or Socrates with the education of Euripides, however, strains chronology perhaps too much. …Matched in noteshighmedium

α4101Ἀρχὴ ΣκυρίαSkyrian empire, Scyrian empire… believed to be those of Theseus; cf. theta 367. [4] Theophrastus 638 FHS&G (fr.131 Wimmer). For ostracism see omicron 716, omicron 717; as a formal procedure it dates back no earlier than the late …Matched in noteshighshort

α4298Ἀσφόδελοςasphodel… in famines during his own time, was barely edible. However, Theophrastus, who was less fussy than Galen, praised [in Enquiry into Plants 7.12-13] the utility of asphodel, saying that its stalk was edible when …Matched in noteshighshort

α4299Ἀσφόδελοςasphodel… Same material in Pausanias the Atticist and other lexica. [1] Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 7.13.4. [2] Hesiod, Works and Days 41 (web address 1). [2] Homer, Odyssey 11.538 (web address 2).Matched in noteshighshort

α4570Ἀφαιρεῖν κροκύδαςto pluck off threads… now part of 689 K.-A. For a better-known instance see Theophrastus, Characters 2.3 (the Flatterer does this, and plucking grey hairs out of the beard, to the object of his attentions); and cf. Valeria …Matched in noteshighshort