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χ303Χιλήfodder… 811.47. [1] Xenophon, Anabasis 4.5.25 (web address 1 below). [2] Herodotus 4.140.3 (web address 2). The text of Herodotus reads sfete/rhs for the Suda's e(te/rhs ("other"). [3] Quotation and context unidentifiable. [4] cf. Etymologicum …Matched in noteshighmedium
χ427Χώματα χοῦνto heap heapsLikewise in other lexica. [1] Herodotus 2.137.3 (work on raising embankments assigned as a punishment in Egypt: web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort
χ609Χυτόνheap, pileFrom glosses on Herodotus 7.37.1 (where the plural of the headword occurs: web address 1); cf. Hesychius. cf. chi 620. [1] For this see generally LSJ s.v. cesto/s, 2. (Here it might appear to …Matched in noteshighshort
χ491Χρήμηneed[1] The headword is the Ionic-dialect equivalent of the first of the glosses, i.e. xrei/a in LSJ's sense I. Besides the instance about to be given, see Archilochus fr. 130 West. [2] ps.-Herodotus, On …Matched in noteshighshort
χ475Χρῆμαthing, work, reality… in other words, paganism is dying out. [4] For example, Herodotus 1.32.Matched in noteshighshort
χ448Χῶροςspace, spotcf. chi 435. Same or similar entries in many other lexica and grammars, e.g. Lexica Segueriana 418.8, Etymologicum Genuinum, ps.-Herodian 152.Matched in noteshighshort
χ531ΧρόμιοςChromios, Chromius… the two Argive survivors of the "Battle of the Champions": Herodotus 1.82.4 (web address 1); omicron 86. The other, Alkanor, does not get his own entry.Matched in noteshighshort
χ253Χειρόκμηταhand-wrought [things]Neuter plural, evidently quoted from somewhere; cf. zeta 168, lambda 692. This entry = Etymologicum Magnum 810.45. See also ps.-Herodian and Hesychius.Matched in noteshighshort
χ503ΧρησμοδοτῶI give an oracular responseSee also Lexicon Ambrosianum 389 and 374, ps.-Herodian 151.Matched in noteshighshort
χ276Χηλήhoof[1] The headword (xhlh/) and the first gloss (o(plh/) both mean "hoof", although the headword has a wider range of meaning. [2] This portion of the entry = Lexicum Ambrosianum 221 (according to Adler), …Matched in noteshighshort
χ89Χαραδρεῶνοςof gullied ground, of ravined ground… masculine noun xaradre/wn; this particular form otherwise appears only in Herodianus the Grammarian's Partitiones 199.Matched in noteshighshort
χ424Χωλίαμβοςcholiamb, choliambiccf. ps.-Herodian 152. "Limping iambics": iambic trimeter with the next-to-last syllable long instead of short. Used in satirical or comic poems, notably by Hipponax (iota 588) and Babrius (beta 7). See LSJ at web …Matched in noteshighshort
χ91Χαραδροῦταιis being gullied… is not independently attested. The verb itself occurs first in Herodotus: see LSJ s.v. cf. generally chi 86, chi 87.Matched in noteshighshort
χ592Χοιράδεςreefs[1] From glosses on Herodotus 2.29.5, where this nominative plural headword occurs in reference to rocky obstructions in the Nile (web address 1). cf. generally omicron 1051, upsilon 698.Matched in noteshighshort
χ474Χρῆμαthing; matter… [2] Despite this helpful gloss, the quotation is unidentifiable. [3] Herodotus 7.188.3 (web address 2). [4] Aristophanes, Clouds 2 (web address 3); what follows in this entry is from the scholia to this line. …Matched in noteshighmedium
χ153ΧαιόςcrookSpecifically, a xaio/s is a shepherd's staff or crook. This entry = Lexicum Ambrosianum 75 (according to Adler), ps.-Herodian 149, ps.-Zonaras 1842. See also Etymologicum Magnum 807.46 and the scholia to Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica …Matched in noteshighshort
χ452Χραίνεινto staincf. other lexica and grammars, e.g. Hesychius s.v., ps.-Herodian 149; also the scholia to Euripides, Hecuba 366 (web address 1), where a form of the headword appears. (The present form perhaps comes from another …Matched in noteshighshort
χ435Χώραregion, territory[1] Likewise in ps.-Herodian 152, and cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 6.516 (where the phrase e)k xw/rhs occurs). [2] cf. the scholia to Thucydides 4.76.5 (though there the word Thuc. uses is chorion, …Matched in noteshighshort
χ226Χεῖμαwinter, winter weather, stormThis entry = ps.-Herodian 150; see also Hesychius, the Ambrosian Lexicon (according to Adler), and the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 11.189 (where the headword appears: web address 1 below). The headword comes from a …Matched in noteshighshort
χ233Χειμερινὸς καιρόςwintry season, wintry timeSame entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (142); and cf. ps.-Herodian 150. The headword phrase (for its adjective, see under kappa 2654) is probably quoted from the scholia to Hesiod, Theogony 148 …Matched in noteshighshort
χ327Χθόνια λουτράunderground baths… to the veneration of certain deceased relatives and dignitaries as heroes and chthonic (as opposed to Olympian) deities. See Burkert 190-207.Matched in noteshighshort
χ271ΧείρωνCheiron, CheironSimilarly, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (155-6). [1] Likewise in ps.-Herodian 150 (cf. 197) and ps.-Zonaras 1847. See chi 267 for the famous Ch(e)iron of myth. [2] The form xei/ronos is the …Matched in noteshighshort
χ335Χλαῖναpallium, chlaina[1] Similarly in other lexica and grammars, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon, Hesychius, and ps.-Herodian 149. [2] This information has already been given under chi 320.Matched in noteshighshort
χ272Χειρώσασθαιto master… not have it, and there are numerous other possibilities (from Herodotus and Thucydides onwards). [2] Aelian fr. 187 Domingo-Forasté (184 Hercher).Matched in noteshighshort
χ469ΧρείωI proclaim[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica (beginning with Hesychius); and cf. epsilon 470. [2] Similar comments in other lexica and grammars, inc. ps.-Herodian 151 (and ps.-Zonaras, which lacks the first, superfluous kai/). See …Matched in noteshighshort
χ252ΧειροήθηςsubmissiveThe headword, evidently quoted from somewhere, is the neuter nominative/accusative singular of the adjective xeiro/hqhs (literally "accustomed to the hand"), a compound of xei/r ("hand") and h)qa/s ("accustomed to"). [1] = Etymologicum Genuinum, Etymologicum …Matched in noteshighshort
χ308Χιλιῶν δραχμῶνof a thousand, of drachmas… the last syllable, but (according to LSJ s.v. A.3, citing Herodian) only when xi/liai was used as a feminine substantive meaning "a thousand drachmas" (see web address 1). From the scholia to Aristophanes, Acharnians …Matched in noteshighshort
χ483Χρηματισάμενοιhaving made a gain… must be quoted from somewhere else; extant possibilities begin with Herodotus (7.163) and Plato (Republic 330C). [2] See preceding note.Matched in noteshighshort
χ366Χοάσπειον ὕδωρChoaspeian water… question here, since the headword phrase is a reflection of Herodotus' statement (1.188: web address 1) that the Kings of Persia drink their water from no other river. [2] Not otherwise attested as such. …Matched in noteshighshort
χ430ΧωνεύωI cast a mouldCompare ps.-Herodian 152 and (according to Adler) Lexicum Ambrosianum 431 & 438. [1] LSJ s.v. registers xwneu/w as a contracted form of xoaneu/w. [2] For an instance see Polybius 34.10.12. [3] This form xwnnu/w …Matched in noteshighshort