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- δ553Διαήσειwill drive through… di/eimi (from ei)=mi "go"), but this should be di/eisi; in Hesiod, Works and Days 514, dia/hsi is from dia/hmi "blow through" (web address 1).
- δ1629Δυσηλεγήςgrief-bringing, cruel, pain-inducing, ruthlessThe headword adjective occurs in Homer, Hesiod, and other early poets. (Later it is rare, generally referring to Homeric and Hesiodic passages; only Maximus Astrologus and Nonnus seem to use it in a original …
- δ1349Δόμεν ὅς κεν δῷ καὶ μὴ δόμεν ὅς κεν μὴ δῷto give [to] whoever gives and not to give [to] whoever does not giveHesiod, Works and Days 354 (web address 1), with scholion on this verse. Both do/men and the gloss do/menai are epic forms of the aorist active infinitive of di/dwmi (Smyth §760D, web address 2). …
- δ1683Δυσπέμφελονunpleasantly stormy… adjective is an epithet of the sea in Homer and Hesiod (see LSJ s.v.). It is here in the masculine accusative singular or neuter nominative/accusative singular, evidently quoted from somewhere; probably from Hesiod, Theogony …
- δ126Δαῖταςfeasts… 274, beta 527, and omicron 158. [3] Polybius 5.2.6, quoting Hesiod fr.206 Merkelbach-West (77 Rzach).
- δ1409Δότειραgiver… lexica. The unglossed headword is feminine of doth/r, as at Hesiod Works and Days 356 (web address 1, and cf. delta 1478).
- δ427ΔήμητραDemetra… the Ambrosian Lexicon. Demetra is a variant -- first in Hesiod, Theogony 454 -- of Demeter (delta 426): see LSJ s.v.
- δ350Δεινωποίterrible-visaged (ones)… plural headword is probably quoted from its only other attestation: Hesiod, Shield (Aspis) 250, describing the goddesses of doom.
- δ25Δακρυόενταshedding tears, weeping… be quoted from somewhere; extant possibilities begin with Homer and Hesiod.
- δ1558Δοιάtwo… the headword occurs (web address 1). Cf. delta 1562. [2] Hesiod, Works and Days 432 (web address 2).
- δ1093Δίκηςof justice… entry = Aelian fr. 28 Domingo-Forasté (25 Hercher). [4] cf. Hesiod, Works and Days 256 (web address 1). Aelian's words summarize the comparison between the just and unjust cities in Hesiod's text, which M.L. …
- δ356Δειπνολόχονdinner-trapping… similarly in other lexica. The headword adjective famously occurs in Hesiod, Works and Days 704 (of a bad wife): deipnolo/xhs, feminine genitive singular. Here in the lexica, however, it is masculine accusative singular (or, …
- δ1673Δυσώνυμοςill-named… generally LSJ s.v. Occurs not infrequently in early poets: Homer, Hesiod (Theogony 171), Sophocles, Euripides. (Less common thereafter, and no longer in poetry.) For the present gloss cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 6.255, …
- δ257Δέρκεινto glance… plural, and gloss, in Photius and elsewhere; perhaps quoted from Hesiod, Shield 169.
- δ1451Δῶρα θεοὺς πείθει καὶ αἰδοίους βασιλῆαςgifts sway gods and revered kingsHesiod fr.361 Merkelbach-West, preferring Plato's version of this hexameter line (Republic 390E: dw=ra qeou\s pei/qei, dw=r' ai)doi/ous basilh=as). The Suda's version with 'and' for the second 'gifts' occurs also in Apostolius 6.42; and see …
- δ946Διερήνwet… the adjective diero/s. It must be quoted from somewhere; perhaps Hesiod, Works and Days 460, but more probably (given this gloss) Callimachus, Hecale fr. 239. See also the scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 337. [2] …
- δ1627Δυσείμωνill-clad… first attested in a fragment of hexameter poetry attributed to Hesiod (fr. 372 Merkelbach-West, in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 3.116A [3.84 Kaibel]): "ill-clad fisherfolk" In Hesychius s.v. the (singular) headword is glossed with a)kth/mwn, "possession-less". Wearing …
- δ1478Δώςgiving[1] Hesiod, Works and Days 356 (web address 1); cf. delta 1409. (The headword is personified here.) Outside lexicography, the verbal noun dw/s occurs only in this passage, and only in the nominative; Chantraine …
- δ1439Δωδεκαδώρῳtwelve hand's-breadths in length… a dative is otherwise attested only in the scholia to Hesiod, Works and Days 426, where dekadw/rw| occurs and the ancient commentator protested that the proper proportions of waggon-manufacture exposed this as an error …
- δ1205ΔιοσημείαZeus-omen, Zeus-sign… 4, 2, 1; Arrian, Bithyniaca fr. 37, 4; scholia to Hesiod, Works and Days 661; scholia to Homer, Iliad 8 77a2. The word is very frequently used by George the Monk, Malalas, Nicephorus Gregoras. …
- δ1569ΔύμαςDymas… of Aigimios (Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Dymanes (240.12), quoting Ephorus; Hesiod fr.10(a).7; Alcman fr.19.8). [1] Homer, Iliad 3.184.
- δ1087Δίκελλαfork, mattock… occurs as a gloss for makella in scholia on Lucian, Hesiodus 7; and see mu 67.) [2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable. [3] See Lucian, Timon 8.