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2450
Ἐπίλυκος
Epilykos, Epilycus
… to the C5/4). [1] A Cretan word meaning Youth. [2]
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 4.133B (4.10 Kaibel), 4.140A (4.17 Kaibel).
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2493
Ἐπίνικος
Epinikos, Epinicus
… connects with the material on Philemon in epsilon 2490. [2]
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 11.469A [11.35 Kaibel], 11.497A [11.97], 11.500F [11.102]; see also 10.432B-C [10.40] for his Mnesiptolemos)
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3762
Εὔσχημος
Euschemos
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 13.571E [13.29 Kaibel], as transmitted. No such writer of comedy is otherwise attested, however, and scholars have long accepted Casaubon's emendation of the name to Ephippos, epsilon 3929 (who is known to …
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2750
Ἐπιφορήματα
desserts, additional desserts
… 1.133.2 (web address 1). The passage is quoted twice in
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists: 4.144A and 14.641A [4.23 and 14.47 Kaibel]. In the latter context
Athenaeus
also preserves several quotations from Old Attic Comedy which use …
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131
Ἐγκρυφίας
ash-baked
… of Damascus, Homilia in sabbatum sanctum PG 96.624. See also
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 3.110B (3.74 Kaibel), who writes of o( par' *)Attikoi=s e)gkrufi/as, i.e. 'in Attic writers' (though Gulick in the Loeb edition renders the …
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141
Ἐγγλωττογάστωρ Ἐγγλωττογάστορες
tongue-belly
… the Supplement to 'Anon.ap.Ath.1.4d'. In effect this means that in
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 1.4D (1.1 Kaibel), the passing allusion to e)gxeiroga/stores is to be dissociated from the name of Cleanthes of Tarentum (a sympotic versifier …
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199
Ἐδέατρος
taster; seneschal, steward
… in Photius (Lexicon epsilon110); briefer one in Hesychius epsilon413. cf.
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 4.171B (4.71 Kaibel); also (e.g.) Phylarchus FGrH 81 F44.
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555
Ἐκ παντὸς ξύλου
out of every timber
… meaning that not every material is appropriate for good work.
Athenaeus
in Deipnosophists quotes twice (5.187D and 5.215C = 5.12 and 5.55 Kaibel) a similar proverb used by Demochares (delta 472) of unscrupulous politicians. …
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718
Ἔκφρων
witless
… Quotation unidentifiable in this precise form, but very like what
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 12.531F-532A (12.42 Kaibel), citing Theopompus (FGrH 115 F31), says about the Thracian king Kotys' (kappa 2173) deluded idea of "marrying" the goddess …
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780
Ἐλεδώνη
eledone
… Aelian fr. 146 Domingo-Forasté (143 Hercher); and cf. more generally
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 7.318E (7.107 Kaibel), citing Aristotle and Speusippus. [2] Hesiod, Works and Days 524; see under tau 308, and cf. tau 313.
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793
Ἔλεος
mercy
[1] Later also to\ e)/leos in the neuter. [2]
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 4.173A (4.73 Kaibel); cf. scholion on Homer, Iliad 9.215. [3] Aristophanes, Knights 152, with scholion. [4] Homer, Odyssey 14.432. [5] See eta 302.
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874
Ἑλίχρυσος
gold-twist, helichrysum
… woven (like ivy) into crowns and garlands; cf. Pollux 6.106;
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 15.680E (15.27 Kaibel). The confusion might have arisen from the similarity of use and from passages such as Theocritus, Idylls 1.30 where …
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1325
Ἔνηφι
on the day after tomorrow
… epsilon3025 correctly has "to the third [day]", ei)s tri/thn; likewise
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 3.100B [3.56 Kaibel] and a scholion to Aristophanes, Acharnians 172.
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1568
Ἐξάρχοντες
beginning
… Odyssey 4.19), where the phrase molph=s e)ca/rxontes was much quoted
(Athenaeus,
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, etc.etc.). [2] Quotation unidentifiable (though Adler tentatively suggested Nicolaus of Damascus; cf. omicron 172).
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1824
Ἔξω Γλαῦκε
away o Grey one
… 7.58. For the glaukos see the dossier of material in
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 7.295B-F (7.45-46 Kaibel).
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1870
Ἐξυπτιάζω
I turn on my back, I fall backwards
[1]
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 1.34B [1.61 Kaibel] (cf. 10.447A-B [10.67 Kaibel]), citing Aristotle (fr. 106 Rose) for this statement. On beer brewed from barley, see zeta 196.
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2405
Ἐπίκουρος
Epicurus, Epikouros
… 132 for the definition of pleasure). Like Plutarch and especially
Athenaeus,
Aelian essentially sees the Epicurean notion of pleasure as over-indulgence in food, and effeminacy. [1] On Epicurus' indifference to popular religion see also …
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2440
Ἐπὶ Λειψυδρίῳ μάχη
a battle at Leipsydrion
… brave struggle'. For the rest of the present material cf.
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 15.695E (15.50 Kaibel). [1] In Attica: pi 680, pi 681. [2] In the late sixth century BCE. For the Alkmaionids see generally …
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2570
Ἐπίσιτος
episitos
… e)pisi/tios [sic]; and cf. a scholion on Plato, Republic 420A;
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 6.246F [6.50 Kaibel]. cf. generally epsilon 2569.
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2619
Ἐπιστεφέας κρατῆρας
crowned craters, crowned mixing-vessels
… words reversed. The comments here are an opaque paraphrase of
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 1.13D-E (1.23 Kaibel). [1] This is a partial quotation of the Homeric sympotic formula pa=sin e)parca/menoi depa/essin (e.g. Iliad 1.471): "making an …
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2670
Ἐπιτετράφαται
they are entrusted
… quotations of the Homeric line or, in the case of
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 4.134F (4.13 Kaibel), in a parody of Iliad 5.750 (web address 3), where the current (plural) verb is soloecistically employed with a …
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2721
Ἐπιτραπεζώματα
table-dishes
… fr. 74 Kock = 76 K.-A. (genitive case there). See
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 4.170E and 14.641B [4.70 and 14.47 Kaibel].
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2851
Ἐπωφελές
helpful, useful
… from delta 359, where it is a description applied to
Athenaeus'
Deipnosophists.
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2903
Ἐργαστήριον
workshop
… of Hellenica 3.4.17), and it became quasi-proverbial; besides Polybius, witness
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 10.421B [10.18 Kaibel].
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3016
Ἑρκίτης
fence-man, enclosure-man
… the same glossing (according to Adler) in the Ambrosian Lexicon.
Athenaeus,
Deipnosphists 6.267C [6.93 Kaibel] cites the Macedonian grammarian Amerias for a different and fuller one: "herkitai is the name for slaves [sc. working] …
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3070
Ἔρως
love
… friendship" is Wachsmuth's conjecture, made following Diogenes Laertius 7.129 and
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 13.561C [13.12 Kaibel]. [7] This is Epicurus' view; see Diogenes Laertius 7.118. [8] Diogenes Laertius 7.130. [9] See generally LSJ s.v. e)/ros …
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3808
Εὐφραῖος
Euphraios, Euphraeus
… and alpha 775), Euphraios also served at Plato's behest (cf.
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 11.115 (Kaibel), web address 2) as advisor to the military leader Perdiccas of Macedonia (cf. pi 1040; OCD(4) s.v. Perdiccas(3); and Marrou, …
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3833
Εὐχυλότερος
juicier, more juicy, rather juicy
… is very probably quoted from its only other extant instance:
Athenaeus,
Deipnosphists 2.68F (2.78 Kaibel), himself quoting a phrase (from the early hellenistic medical writer Diphilos of Siphnos) about a melon, o( pe/pwn eu)xulo/teros …
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3908
Ἐφήσθη
exulted over [someone]
… identifiable via the TLG as Posidonius fr.101.10 Theiler ( =
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 8.333D [8.7 Kaibel]); see on this Theodoridis in his Photius edition, vol.II p.LXXV. [3] Source unknown; already quoted at epsilon 3894.
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