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Διεσμιλευμένον
polished-off
… participle, see Greek Anthology 15.38 (Cometas), referring to books, and
Alexis
frs. 220-1 Kock (now combined as 223 Kassel-Austin): leptoi\ diesmileume/nai te fronti/des, "subtle, refinished [philosophical] theories". Genitive plural in Hesychius delta1663 (gloss leptologhqe/ntwn); …
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Διοσημεία
Zeus-omen, Zeus-sign
… qeou= o)rgh/) as referred to plagues and famines; Anna Comnena,
Alexiad
4, 2, 1; Arrian, Bithyniaca fr. 37, 4; scholia to Hesiod, Works and Days 661; scholia to Homer, Iliad 8 77a2. The word …
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1326
Δοκίδες
beams, meteors
… Aristotle, De mundo 392b4; Eusebius, Demonstratio evangelica 9.1.14; Anna Comnena,
Alexias
12.4.1. See also kappa 1996. The noun doki/s is also used in mathematical contexts, as one of the several names given to different …
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1499
Δραματουργήσας
having staged a drama, having fabricated
… metaphor for "staging" or manipulating political situations (e.g. Anna Comnena,
Alexias
1.12.9.7, although in a different form), or to wicked machinations in general, hence Hesychius' glossing (delta2312) of the infinitive of the verb as …
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1588
Δυσαλθές
hard to cure
… and gloss twice in Nicander, with corresponding scholia: Theriaca 187,
Alexipharmaca
157. An alternative lexicographical tradition (Hesychius delta2513, Photius delta792 Theodoridis) is couched in the masculine nominative singular. The adjective is rare before the …
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