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1255
Διωστῆρσιν
with poles running through rings
… delta2059, where one finds the first word of the gloss
without
the subsequent qualification. The headword is the dative plural of the rare masculine noun diwsth/r. The noun is attested as a surgical instrument, …
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1595
Δυσάντητον
hard to withstand
… origins are earlier, between the first and second centuries AD,
with
Plutarch, Lucian and others).
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1492
Δράκαυλος
drakaulos; living with a snake
… chorus of drummers or tympanum-beaters (usually of the kettledrum associated
with
the cults of Dionysus and the Great Mother, and beaten
with
the hand): Sophocles fr.643 TGF vol.4.460 (= 585 Nauck). But the etymology …
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952
Διερρυηκόσιν
[with lips] wide open
Aristophanes, Clouds 872-3 (web address 1),
with
explanation/paraphrase from the scholia there. Socrates, speaking to Strepsiades, is mocking Pheidippides' pronunciation of the word kre/maio in 870. (The actor playing Pheidippides would probably have pronounced …
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1550
Δρυπολεῖν
to go around (with) trees
… ("walks on mountains"; cf. omicron 544), and puri\ poliorkei= ("besieges
with
fire"). See also Eustathius' Commentary on the Odyssey (2.30.1): to\ cu/lois a(plw=s poliorkei=n h)\ to\ kakohqi/zesqai "simply to besiege
with
timbers, or to …
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1011
Διηνθισμένας
adorned with flowers, beflowered
… 35.777.2). If so it is figurative, referring to houses 'beflowered'
with
all kinds of stone.
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1054
Διιτρέφης πυτιναῖα ἔχων πτερά
Diitrephes with wicker-flask wings
Aristophanes, Birds 798-800 (web address 1),
with
comment from the scholia there. For Dieitrephes (sic) see Dunbar's note ad loc. See also delta 1053. [1] For these posts see generally iota 522 and esp. …
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1375
Δοξούμενοι
(they) credited with being, (they) having the character
… of Damascus, Iambic Canons 1.124. See also ps.-Zonaras s.v. docou/menoi
(with
the gloss doca/zontes, "supposing") and Verba in Scripturis de Christo s.v. docou/menoi
(with
the gloss kaqoptrizo/menoi, "mirroring").
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1664
Δυσξύμβολα
(things) hard to deal with
= Photius, Lexicon delta831; cf. Hesychius delta2616,
with
a masculine nominative version of the headword and a gloss that is similar in meaning, dusepi/gnwstos. Here the headword is neuter nominative/accusative plural (as is the …
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374
Δήετε
you will meet with
The epic verb dh/w is used in the present
with
a future sense. Same or similar entry in other lexica, and cf. also the scholia to two passages in Homer where the headword occurs: …
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1455
Δωρησάμενος χρήμασι μεγάλοις
having been presented with great sums of money
… middle voice of dwre/w is usually transitive -- present someone
with
something -- and indeed in this passage of Procopius the participle has an object in the accusative. The glossing verb dwrodoke/w is applied …
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1680
Δυσπάλαιστος
hard to wrestle with
… two different sources. The first one is also in Photius,
with
something similar in Hesychius delta2639 (the synonym is a)katagw/nistos); the second is also in Hesychius delta2641. [1] Euripides, Alcestis 889 and (neuter) Supplices …
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1024
Διηύθυνεν
was keeping [something] straight
… options show, the glossing verb can be made to fit
with
it,
without
resort to Toup's suggested emendation of e)kw/lusen to e)ko/lasen.
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94
Δαυίδ
David
… of Samuel and Kings (the primary sources of Davidic historiography)
within
the Nebi'im and their subcategorization as part of the Nebi'im Rishonim or Early (in the sense of Pre-Exilic) Prophets provided a lattice for …
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807
Δίαυλος
diaulos
The first paragraph of this entry
(with
the arguable exception of 'The contests are 8 etc.') comes from the scholia to Aristophanes, Birds 292, where the accusative case of the headword occurs. See also …
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1170
Διονύσιος ὁ Ἀρεωπαγίτης
Dionysios the Areiopagite, Dionysius the Areopagite
… been converted to the Christian faith by Paul's preaching, along
with
a woman called Damaris and others. Further evidence about his person is wanting. Down the ages a great number of theological writings were …
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95
Δαυίδ
David
… The foreigners were the Philistines. For the story of the
witch
of Endor, see 1 Sam. 28.3-25. [5] cf. Josephus Antiquities of the Jews 6.344-345, 347, and note 8 below. [6] cf. 1 Kingdoms …
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1029
Διθυραμβοδιδάσκαλοι
dithyramb-directors
… (web address 3; 414 BC). Their compositions were in competition
with
comedy as entertainment at Athens in the late fifth century and the fourth. Aristophanes uses this name for them (elsewhere diqurambo/poioi, kuklio/poioi) at …
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1355
Δομνῖνος
Domninos, Domninus
Domninus (c.415 - c.485) is known for his relations
with
Proclus and
with
the Neoplatonist school as well as for his mathematical and physical interests. According to a short notice from Proclus himself, he …
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1108
Δίκροτα
dikrota, two-banked
… the primary meaning of which is "double-beating". It is employed
with
reference to the human pulse in all of Galen's treatises on this matter, and also in Byzantine medical literature. However, the connection
with
…
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119
Δαίμων
god, demi-god, spirit, fortune, genius
… delta 118. [2] Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 6-7 (web address 1),
with
scholion. [3] Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 76 (web address 2),
with
scholion. [4] Homer, Odyssey 11.302. [5] Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 2.13; quoted again …
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1674
Δυσωπεῖσθαι
to look askance at
… and cf. delta 1675. [1] Hesychius s.v. records this verb
with
the meaning of u(fora=sqai and fobei=sqai. Harpocration s.v. duswpou=mai (see delta 1676) records the correspondence between duswpei=sqai and fobei=sqai. [2] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. …
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651
Διαμεμετρημένη ἡμέρα
measured-out day
… is, to the preceding material, which (as Harpokration shows) originates
with
Aeschines 2.126 (web address 1) and ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 67.3-4 (web address 2). [2] Isaeus fr. 40 Sauppe.
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1646
Δυσκλέα
in bad repute, disgraced
… shows that the original formula must have had duskleve/' *)/argos
with
a digamma and the final alpha elided. The Attic accusative dusklea=
with
long final alpha (as in Euripides, Hippolytus 405) is a contraction …
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1093
Δίκης
of justice
… would include a broken anapaest, par'a)ndrw=n - di/kas a substitution
with
dactyl in the second foot, which contains no anceps). But the quotation might have been altered in some way, as often in the …
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1205
Διοσημεία
Zeus-omen, Zeus-sign
… remarked (temere attribuit). [3] Aristophanes, Acharnians 171-173 (web address 1),
with
comment from the scholia there. A discussion is taking place in the Assembly about paying the wage the Thracian mercenaries are asking to …
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1640
Δυσθετήσας
dissatisfied
… p.752). Walbank (ibid.) suggests that the fragment could be correlated
with
Nabis's (202-201 BCE) plans to attack Messene (cf. mu 659 and Polybius 16.13.3 at web address 1). [2] This first gloss is also …
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571
Διακεκαυμένον
lit-up
… Acharnians 453-5 (dialogue between Dikaiopolis and Euripides: web address 1),
with
comment from the scholia there; cf. pi 1721, sigma 975, chi 458.
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1282
Διοίσειν
to bear through, to differ
… of diafe/rw (cf. delta 1280, delta 1281, delta 1283), glossed
with
the present infinitive -- a difference hard to reproduce in translation. [2] Quotation unidentifiable (but apparently an historical text, transmitted, in Adler's view, …
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843
Διὰ χρόνου
after a time
… as a medicinal plant. For the same lines (and scholion),
with
some modification, see already at beta 339, and cf. kappa 938. [1] Aristophanes writes blhxwni/an and the related gloss reads blh/xwn, as in …
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