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1664
Δυσξύμβολα
(things) hard to deal with
… word in this form prior to the Suda are in
Pollux
5.150 and Artemidorus 4.56 (although LSJ reports a variant reading for this word, duscu/mblhta). In all the attestations of the word, the only …
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200
Δελέαστρα
bait-traps
… quoted here, very probably from Nicophon fr. 4 Kock/K.-A. (cf.
Pollux
10.156). cf. generally delta 197, delta 197, delta 198, delta 199.
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549
Διάζομαι
I set up
… the scholia to Aristophanes, Birds 4 (web address 1), and
Pollux
7.32, where this phrase is used -- probably misleadingly (Dunbar ad loc.) -- in exegesis of the verb proforei=sqai. cf. pi 2925.
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799
Διατοιχεῖ
rolls side-to-side
… 51 Kock, now 50 K.-A.), is preferred by Phrynichus and
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over a)natoixei=; see LSJ s.v. (web address 1). For the toichoi, literally walls, of a boat cf. e.g. Homer, Odyssey 12.420 and see …
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961
Διεσμιλευμένον
polished-off
… Hesychius delta1663 (gloss leptologhqe/ntwn); adverb id. delta1664 (gloss h)kribwme/nws); and
Pollux
6.150. See also the scholia to Lucian, Bis accusatus 34, applying the headword to stylistic elegance: to\n *)attikismo/n fhsi kai\ to\ th=s le/cews …
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964
Διεσπλεκωμένῃ
her who has been fucked
… 1722). It can also be written pl- or spekl-; cf.
Pollux
5.93. For the violent vulgarity of the term (reflected in translation here) see J. Henderson, The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 154 #214. …
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1013
Διῆρες πλοῖον
double boat, double vessel
One with two banks of oars; cf. generally
Pollux
1.82, and delta 1016.
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1077
Δικαιούμενος
being judged, being sentenced
… lemma and the first gloss; and cf. Hesychius delta1800 (=
Pollux
8.25). The lemma converts to the masculine nominative singular a present passive participle which appears in Plato, Laws 934B, in the accusative (those …
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1086
Δικαιωτήρια
houses of punishment, places of judgment
… in the underworld. Similarly in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon, Hesychius delta1804,
Pollux
8.25.
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1108
Δίκροτα
dikrota, two-banked
… meaning "double", as a substantive usually indicates a ship: cf.
Pollux
1.82. *di/kroton is commonly referred to as a synonym of dih/rhs; see Arrian, Anabasis 6.5.2; Strabo 16.4.23 di/krota kai\ trih/reis kai\ fash/lous; Hesychius …
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1126
Διμοιρίτης
double-pay soldier, half-file commander
… 452, 4; John of Damascus De haeresibus 77.1.) [2] See
Pollux
9.62. A scholiast on Gregory of Nazianzus, Funebrem orationem in patrem (PG 35.992.6) ap. Montfaucon, Diarium Italicum, p. 214, giving a short account …
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1205
Διοσημεία
Zeus-omen, Zeus-sign
… a bad omen rested with the presiding magistrate(s). According to
Pollux
8.24 the e)chghtai\ were appointed to the interpretation of signs and used to give instruction about the will of gods. [9] The information …
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1209
Διόσκουροι
Dioscuri, Dioskouroi
… under 2 homonyms: see kappa 469 (Castor) and pi 1951
(Pollux/Polydeukes).
[2] Aelian fr. 64h Domingo-Forasté (part of 61 Hercher).
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1263
Διποδία
two-step; two-footer
… is a verb cognate with the present headword. See also
Pollux
4.101; Hesychius delta1952. [2] The speaker is a Spartan; "Asanians" represents Laconian dialect. See generally LSJ s.v. Asana (web address 2).
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1391
Δόρπεια
Dorpeia
[1] Likewise in Hesychius (delta2222) and
Pollux
6.102. [2] alpha 2058. [3] (kappa 2179.) Likewise -- i.e. the entry thus far -- in the scholia on Aristophanes, Peace 890, where a)na/rrusin occurs. [4] alpha …
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1560
Δοῖδυξ
pestle
… Peace 295 derive the word from a(/las tri/bein "grind salt".
Pollux
1.245 mentions the a)letri/banos among implements used by peasants. For 'pestle' doi/duc see Peace 288, 295; a scholion ascribes to Crates of Mallos …
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1592
Δυσανασχέτως
with displeasure
… used in the second century CE by philologists (Diodorus Dyscolus,
Pollux)
and in scholia to various authors. [1] An approximation of Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 7.15.11 (through Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti 226.17-18), on the Avar khan's …
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1656
Δυσμεναίνω
I bear ill-will
… other examples in LSJ s.v. cf. generally delta 1657 (and
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5.115).
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1657
Δυσμένεια
hostility, ill-will
[1] cf.
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(5.116), Hesychius, Photius, and other lexica. [2] cf. a scholion on Homer, Iliad 3.51 (where dusmene/sin occurs). [3] cf. delta 1656.
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1658
Δύσμηνις
wrathful
… 1659) is very rare outside grammars and lexica, but see
Pollux
1.39 (a 'wrathful god') and Greek Anthology 9.69.1.
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1666
Δύσοδος
(a road) hard to pass
… only here. Perhaps an error for du/sodos o(/dos, as in
Pollux
3.96 (with the same meaning). [2] From traxu/s, an adjective used (besides other meanings) to emphasize geographic ruggedness or roughness. Thus it can …
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1671
Δύσοσμος
malodorous
… make the ground hard [sc. for dogs] to smell"; cf.
Pollux
5.12. Also in Hesychius s.v. (but with the neuter form instead of the masculine).
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1710
Δυσφημία
ill-omened words, words of ill omen
[1] Mentioned by
Pollux
in a list of negative nouns; same gloss in ps.-Zonaras. For the opposite, see epsilon 3795. [2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
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