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Callimachus
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Δανά
dana, parched
[Meaning] dried timbers. The [syllable] da [is] long.
Callimachus
[writes]: "to split parched timbers." That is to chop [them].
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340
Δεινόν
terrible
… I desire to know the cause of your disability. And
Callimachus
[writes]: "Why do you awaken a sleeping tear"? Aristophanes [writes]: "it is terrible for the spirit of a man to be so unripe …
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1566
Δύη
misery
… misfortune. Hence also dou=los ["slave"], as being someone miserable [duhlo/s].
Callimachus
[writes]: "[one would] ward off despised misery." [Meaning that] which nobody craves. In Fables: "because no one has seen his own misery."
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1029
Διθυραμβοδιδάσκαλοι
dithyramb-directors
… is a conversation of the philosopher Socrates with him. And
Callimachus
mentions him in his Choliambics, that he wrote many things.
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42
Δαμάτειρα
tamer-woman
… forms of the masculine noun damantêr ["tamer"]. Attested in (e.g.)
Callimachus,
Hecale fr.267; Greek Anthology 11.403.
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164
Δέδοιμι
I might build
An incorrect quotation (and headword extracted therefrom) of
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 324; again under omicroniota 62. The correct reading de/moimi, first person singular optative of the rare verb de/mw 'I build', has been wrongly …
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347
Δεινουμένην
being trampled
… extracted from the quotation given; but see next note. [1]
Callimachus,
Hecale fr.255 (where however this participle, feminine accusative singular, is dinome/nhn, not deinoume/nhn).
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406
Δηλιάς
Dêlias
… Demeter here is unclear. [3] That of a nymph in
Callimachus,
Hymn 4 (line 323).
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946
Διερήν
wet
… Works and Days 460, but more probably (given this gloss)
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 239. See also the scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 337. [2] Nominative singular masculine. (If a quotation, perhaps from Homer, Odyssey 6.201.)
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1490
Δράγματα
handfuls of uncut corn, trusses
… quotation given, though there are numerous alternatives (in e.g. Homer,
Callimachus,
Theocritus and the Septuagint). Same headword but different glossing in Hesychius, Photius, and elsewhere. In any event the noun, from the same root …
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1546
Δρύοπες
Dryopes
… FGrH 3 F19); Apollodorus 2.7.1; Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.1212ff.;
Callimachus,
Hymn to Artemis 160ff.
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