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Διωναία
Dionaia, Dionaea
… any rate in Homer, Iliad 5.370). For the epithet see
Theocritus,
Idylls 15.106; and on Dione see generally OCD(4) s.v. [2] e.g.
Theocritus,
Idylls 7.116.
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21
Δάκῃς
you would bite
… da/knw (cf. delta 22, epsilon 228); probably quoted here from
Theocritus,
Idylls 12.25 (web address 1). [1] Similarly in syntactical lexica.
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55
Δαμοίτης
Damoites, Damoetes
Ionic version of the name Damoitas (in
Theocritus
and elsewhere).
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569
Διαθρύπτεται
is smashed apart, is broken down, is enervated, gives himself/herself airs
… equivalence in other lexica, and cf. also the scholia to
Theocritus,
Idylls 6.15, from where the headword is quoted (web address 1).
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1205
Διοσημεία
Zeus-omen, Zeus-sign
… which explains the word: ei)s tri/thn h(me/ran). Cf. Antiphon 6.21;
Theocritus,
Idylls 18.14; Hesychius epsilon1116 and epsilon2996; epsilon 1292. The old adjective e(/nos (cf. Latin senex), normally with rough aspiration in Attic, meaning “belonging …
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1490
Δράγματα
handfuls of uncut corn, trusses
… 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 as …
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