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χ485Χρημάτισιςoperation… Domingo-Forasté (186 Hercher); I have accepted Kuhn's emendation of pikrwde/staton ("most bitter-seeming?"; not in LSJ) to frikwde/staton ("most horrible"). [Note however [DW] that Hercher prints prepwde/staton, "most fitting" (ironic).]Matched in noteshighshort
χ171ΧαιριδεῖςChairideis[1] cf. ps.-Zonaras s.v. Chairis. [2] cf. pi 1302. [3] cf. chi 172. [4] Aristophanes, Peace 951-3 (web address 1); see also Acharnians 16 & 866 (web addresses 2 & 3) and Birds 858 …Matched in noteshighmedium
χ63Χαμάδιςgroundwards… Seven against Thebes 357. Commentary on these passages is the most probable source for most of the information in this entry. The headword and the supplementary lemma xama=ze are formed from the obsolescent xa/ma …

χ485

Χρημάτισις

operation

[Meaning a] collection of affairs. Aelian [writes]: "utterly corrupted by the sacrilege and the unholy operation, he took the most bitter and most horrible pay."

Χρημάτισις· χρημάτων συναγωγή. Αἰλιανός· ὁ δὲ τῆς θεοσυλίας τε καὶ ἀθέσμου χρηματίσεως διαφθαρεὶς τὸν μισθὸν ἠνέγκατο τοῦτον πικρότατόν τε καὶ πικρωδέστατον.

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χ86Χαράδραcharadra, ravine… poem reads a)i+o/ni (dative singular with original a preserved in most other dialects). See also kappa 1867, where part of this passage is quoted. On this epigram see Gow and Page vol. I (248-249); …Matched in noteshighshort

χ186Χελιδόνιον μέλοςswallow's song… [2] This verbal form is first found in late writers (Moschus 3.43, Babrius 65.4.: see iota 589). [3] Artemidorus 2.66.Matched in noteshighshort

χ270Χειρῶν νόμῳat close quartersThe idiom illustrated here -- literally, "by the custom of hands" -- is well-attested: see see LSJ s.v. no/mos, A.I.1.e (web address 1 below) and again s.v. xei/r, A.II.6.d. [1] Quotation (and individual) unidentifiable.Matched in noteshighshort

χ296Χιάζεινto play the Chian… reason regularly edited and amended in collections of his fragments, most recently in the Kassel-Austin edition (PCG vol. 3.2, fr. 930, with copious notes in Latin and textual variants), but under Dubia. See note …Matched in noteshighshort

χ504Χρησμόςoracle… or similar glosses in other lexica. [2] Scipio's words form most of a hexameter verse, here rendered as an iambic pentameter in deliberately archaic English. [3] The Romans destroyed Carthage (kappa 444, kappa 445) …Matched in noteshighmedium