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χ44Χαλκιδῖτιςcopper-girl, penny-prostitute[Meaning] a whore in Josephus. [So called] from the cheapness of the coin given.Matched in translationhighshort
χ417ΧοσβίαςChosbia, CozbiSee phi 466, from Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 4.152-6 (web address 1); cf. also also zeta 14. The Suda has made a mistake about gender: in Josephus, Cozbi (introduced at 4.141) is a woman. [1] …Matched in noteshighshort
χ475Χρῆμαthing, work, reality[Meaning] use. Thucydides [sc. uses the word]. Josephus [writes]: "the sabbath was a day of leisure from all work, highly honored among the Jews." And elsewhere: "the reality of truth risks being quenched." And …Matched in translationhighshort
χ154ΧαιρέαςChaireas, Chaereas… from epsilon 1094 (which mentions someone of this name in Josephus), but a common enough name anyway, in fact and fiction.Matched in noteshighshort
χ67Χαμαίζηλοιground-seeking [ones]… headword, a nominative plural, is presumably quoted from somewhere; perhaps Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 3.9, though the glossing implies other contexts as well or instead. [1] See also Etymologicum Genuinum, and Etymologicum Magnum 806.24. The …Matched in noteshighshort
χ206Χερμαδίῳwith a stone… quoted from Oppian, Halieutica 1.172; see the scholia there. [4] Josephus, Jewish War 5.117 (web address 2 below).Matched in noteshighshort