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- α1250Ἁλίσκειyou are captured, you are caught, you stand convicted… references at Photius alpha966 Theodoridis. The primary headword + gloss are ambiguous per se, as they could be either third person singular active or second person singular middle/passive; however, as the active form would …
- α246Ἄγκεινθ' Ἡφαίστοιοare offered of Hephaistos… attributed to Pancrates) is quoted more accurately -- the offerings are *to* Hephaistos -- and in full. For the verb a)na/keimai, which can become a)gk- in poetry, see LSJ s.v.
- α3838Ἄρειος πάγοςAres' hill; Areiopagos, AreopagusSee generally OCD(4) p.146, s.v. Areopagus. [1] Literally "in them," but the name of the city is plural. [2] Hellanicus FGrH 4 F38. For the Attic hero Halirrhothios, son of Poseidon, see already alpha …
- α3410Ἀπολώλαμενwe have perished, we are done for… forms of a)po/llumi. (For the first, cf. omicron 189.) They are presumably quoted from somewhere specific (perhaps Xenophon, respectively Anabasis 6.6.23 and Hellenica 1.6.36, though there are numerous other possibilities). [2] See e.g. Polybius …
- α126Ἀγαθοὶ δ' ἀριδάκρυες ἄνδρεςtearful men are good… line of hexameter verse (complete with the particle d'); there are slight variants in (e.g.) the scholia to Homer, Iliad 1.349.
- α2676Ἀντικυρίας σοι δεῖyou are in need of hellebore… bowels. Possibly exousia can mean that; alternatively, read exouria ("you are in need of passing water").
- α3824ἈρεοπαγίτηςAreopagite[1] That is, Areio- as well as this Areo-. (Either way, it meant a member of the Are(i)opagos Council/Court in Athens. See alpha 3838.) [2] Macarius 2.30. [3] Macarius 2.31. [4] Plato Comicus fr. …
- α3857ἈρητῖνοιAretinoi, Aretini, Aretinians, Arretines… single rho, this is presumably the ethnikon of Arretion/Arretium (present-day Arezzo) in Italy. See also alpha 3856.
- α1627Ἀμοργοί πόλεως ὄλεθροςsqueezers [are] a city's ruin… Net-Draggers, apparently had much the same plot.) "Squeezers" or "drainers" are explained by Photius (Lexicon alpha1233) and Eustathius on the Iliad, p. 838.54, as men who inflict outrages on the common weal. [2] The …
- α3856ἈρήτιονAretion, AretiumArretium (present-day Arezzo), in Etruria, is spelled as it is here -- Aretion -- in the account of the nearby Battle of Lake Trasimene (217 BCE) in Zonaras. See also alpha 3857.
- α2416Ἀνημιωβολιαῖαhalf-obol-portionsAristophanes, Frogs 554 (a)n' h(mioboliai=a, portions of meat: web address 1), with comment from the scholia there. cf. theta 181, kappa 251. [1] Better dative plural: qeoi=s.
- α3837Ἀρειμάνειοςbattle-maddened… [1] For the name cf. alpha 3881 (and Hesychius on Areimanes [sic]: "Hades, amongst Persians"). See generally LSJ s.v. *)areimanh/s.
- α3831Ἀρετήarete, virtue, excellence… [4] The Older Stoics (Zeno, Cleanthes and Chrysippus). [5] These are the Stoics Panaetius and Posidonius (Diogenes Laertius 7.128). The orthodox Stoic thesis (as held by Zeno and Chrysippus) is that virtue is sufficient …
- α3830Ἀρετήarete, excellence, virtue… with Demetrius Chalcocondyles' editio princeps (1499), eu)frosu/nh|. Health and strength are non-intellectual virtues, so it does not make sense to say that health follows on imprudence; and, what is more, imprudence is a vice, …
- α3859Ἀρητήσιον πεδίονAretesian plain… Philochorus FGrH 328 F19 there was a place (topos) called Aretesion in Attica, so called because Theseus called down curses (arai) on his enemies there. However, Plutarch (Theseus 35), calls it the Araterion; and …
- α4372Ἄτολμοιundaring… is perhaps extracted from the first quotation given, though there are alternatives, e.g. Thucydides 8.96.5. [2] Babrius 25.3-4. [3] Richard Porson (1759-1808) would emend presbu/thn "old man" to presbu/teron "older." [4] Aelian fr. 99 …
- α2169Ἀνδριάντα γαργαλίζεινto tickle a statueRegistered in the form 'you are tickling ...' by Plutarch, Ekloge peri ton adunaton line 45, and Apostolius 2.84. For tickling cf. gamma 62, gamma 63, gamma 267.
- α3538ἈποσπάδαςslipsThis entry differentiates between two accusative plurals which are more similar in the Greek than they can be made to sound in translation: a)pospa/das and a)pospa/dontas. [1] Used especially for slips that have been …
- α3208Ἄπιμενwe shall go awayThe headword must be quoted from somewhere; there are numerous possibilities. The verb ei)=mi usually has present sense in Homer, but in Attic and Ionic it (and its compounds) came to be used with …
- α4068Ἀρρυτίδωτονunwrinkled… neuter singular, here, must be quoted from somewhere; extant possibilities are few and late. cf. generally rho 318.
- α3847ἈρήνηArene… Mentioned by Pausanias 5.5.6; cf. also Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Arenai (two cities of this name, one of them in Elis).
- α2120Ἀναφαιρέτουςnot to be taken away… the glossing verb) -- must be quoted from somewhere; there are extant possibilities in e.g. Diodorus Siculus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Philo Judaeus.
- α4380Ἀτραπιτόςpath, walk… Here in fact accusative plural, presumably quoted from somewhere; there are numerous possibilities.
- α1165Ἀλείφατι(with) anointment… in other lexica; it is evidently quoted from somewhere. (There are three instances in the early part of Homer, Iliad 24, and Latte on Hesychius s.v. regards the source as the first of them: …
- α3306Ἀποδυσπετεῖgives up… other lexica. The headword must be quoted from somewhere; there are instances in several Christian writers. [2] Polybius 33.17.2 (on those impatient to see the results of their medical treatment); cf. delta 1640.
- α901Ἀκμάζειis flourishing, is in the prime… other lexica. The headword must be quoted from somewhere; there are numerous possibilities. Cf. eta 176. [2] Abbreviated from Harpokration s.v. The passages are both contextless: Hyperides fr. 122 Jensen; Lysias fr. 188 Sauppe, …
- α4442Αὐλίκουροιaulikouroi, court-attendantsBoth these definitions are attested only in lexicography and both presuppose an etymological connection with au)lh/, court. For the kithara see generally kappa 1590. [1] Here in the accusative case, so evidently quoted from …
- α4209ἈσπαίροντεςconvulsingForms of this headword are found in Homer, Iliad 3.293 and Odyssey 12.254 (see web addresses 1 and 2). The gloss is from the scholia on the latter, a present participle in the masculine …
- α1888Ἀνακαλυπτήριαunveiling-presents… emendation, in Harpok., of the transmitted epaulaia). Harpok. adds "these are what we call qew/rhtra".
- α2556Ἀνόνηταunprofitable [things]… adjective, is perhaps extracted from the quotation given, though there are numerous other instances (including the one -- Euripides, Hecuba 766 -- quoted by Photius, Lexicon alpha2033 Theodoridis). [1] Sophocles, Ajax 758-9 (web address …