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Χαλίμα
loose woman
Hesychius and
Pausanias
the Atticist give the word as xalima/s, with the plural xalima/des. It is cited as referring to the Bacchae in Aeschylus (fr. 448 Radt).
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Χαλκιδῖτις
copper-girl, penny-prostitute
… For the chalkous see chi 55. [2] Same explanation in
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the Atticist and elsewhere.
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46
Χαλκίοικος
Bronze-House, of the Bronze House; Chalkioikos
… 245; Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1299; Lycurgus 1.128, Polybius 4.22.8 and 4.35.2.
Pausanias
3.17.1-3 gives reasons for accepting the first of the three etymologies proffered here; he saw it himself, and reports that both the temple …
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Χαλκώδων
Chalkodon, Chalcodon
… Trojan War. Chalcodon himself was killed in Thebes by Amphitryon.
Pausanias
8.15.6 (web address 1), etc.
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88
Χαραδραῖος λέων
ravine lion
… was roaming Mt. Cithaeron at the behest of King Thespius.
Pausanias,
however, cites a rival tradition that has Alcathous killing the lion of Mt. Cithaeron (1.41.3).
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256
Χειρονομεῖν
to spar
… extracted from the quotation, is present infinitive of xeironome/w. [2]
Pausanias
6.10.3 (slightly abridged: see web address 1); cf. gamma 281.
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303
Χιλή
fodder
… ("uncared for") for e)chleimme/nhn here ("wiped out, erased"). See also
Pausanias
the Atticist fr.323, and Etymologicum Magnum 322.15.
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415
Χοροιτύπος
choral-beating, choral-dancing
… epic/poetic adjective, occurring in a fragment of Pindar quoted by
Pausanias
(3.25.2), as well as several times in Nonnus' Dionysiaca.
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568
Χρύσιππος
Chrysippus, Chrysippos
… Strabo (14.5.8; SVF II,2,32), Galen (Protrepticus 7; SVF II,3,2), and
Pausanias
(1.17.2; SVF 3,19) state that Chrysippus was born in Soloi, and Strabo adds that his parents emigrated from Soloi in Cyprus to Tarsus …
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