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29 entries for Callimachus

ε139Ἐγκυτίto the skinMeaning close. So Callimachus [uses the word].Matched in translationhighshort
ε2389Ἐπικλινέςslanted[Meaning something] leaning into evil. "The scale is slanted." Callimachus [sc. writes this].Matched in translationhighshort
ε523Ἐκόησενheard[Meaning he/she/it] noticed. Ionic [sc. dialect]. In Callimachus.Matched in translationhighshort
ε204ἜδεθλονfloorPerhaps from a gloss on Callimachus' Hecale (so Adler); cf. in any event (as she notes) Callimachus, Hymn to Apollo 72, and Aetia fr. 162. Probably first attested (in the plural) in Aeschylus, Agamemnon …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3707Εὐρώςdankness[Meaning] a mouldering moistness. Callimachus [writes]: "sandals which the liquidy dankness rotted not."Matched in translationhighshort
ε345ἙκάληHekale, HecaleA proper name. [That of] the heroine in Callimachus, she who calls [kalou=sa] to herself [e(auth\n]. "For she kept an unlocked house."Matched in translationhighshort
ε3064Ἐρωήσαςforcing backMeaning [he] bringing down, busting. "Forcing back the destructive horn". Callimachus [sc. writes this]. Aalso, "[your dark blood] will flow about [my] spear". Homer [sc. writes this].Matched in translationhighshort
ε1506Ἐν χρῷon skin, to skin… skin, very close, so as even to touch. But in Callimachus [sc. there occurs the adverb] e)gkuti/, meaning e)ggu/s ["near"], on the skin, near the skin. "But you were shorn close, child." And Agathias …Matched in translationhighshort
ε3131Ἐσσήνmonarch[1] From scholia to Callimachus, Hymn to Zeus 1.66 ("monarch of gods" -- accusative case).Matched in noteshighshort
ε2177Ἐπήλυσιςapproach, assault[1] See also epsilon 2176, epsilon 2178. [2] Callimachus, Hecale fr. 331, with scholion.Matched in noteshighshort
ε3534Εὐκείeukei… 'easily moved' -- which occurs in a papyrus fragment of Callimachus.)Matched in noteshighshort
ε3542ΕὐκολίνηEukoline, EucolineThe headword occurs in (and is very probably quoted from) Callimachus, Iambi fr. 225 Pfeiffer: xai=r' *Eu)koli/nh, 'hail, Eukoline'. According to Etymologicum Magnum s.v. (also in the Additamenta in Etymologicum Gudianum s.v.), Callimachus uses …Matched in noteshighshort
ε874Ἑλίχρυσοςgold-twist, helichrysum… attribute the information in this entry to Saloustios' commentary on Callimachus' Hekale (the apparent source of the subsequent quotation). A different interpretation of the headword is provided by Hesychius epsilon2122. For ivy see kappa …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2283Ἐπιδαίσιος οἶκοςallotted houseCallimachus uses the headword phrase (in the accusative) at Hymn to Zeus 59; similar entries in other lexica are derived from commentary on this verse.Matched in noteshighshort
ε2898ἘρατοσθένηςEratosthenes… philosopher Ariston of Chios, the grammarian Lysanias of Cyrene, and Callimachus the poet. Ptolemy III summoned him from Athens, and he lived until Ptolemy V. Because he came second in every branch of learning …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε800Ἔλλερα ἔργαevil worksThe headword phrase, neuter plural, stems from Callimachus, Hecale fr.283.1. Eustathius on Homer, Iliad 6.183 explains the adjective as a dialect form: e)/llera kata\ dia/lekton ta\ kaka/. For comparable glosses (e)xqra/, pole/mia, a)/dika) see …Matched in noteshighshort
ε854Ἑλικώτατον ὕδωρmost swirling water, very swirling waterLikewise in ps.-Zonaras. The headword phrase is ascribed to Callimachus, Hecale fr.299.1 Pfeiffer (116.1 Hollis; 101a Kapp, 290 Schneider), and occurs in the context of a longer fragment where it is used to describe …Matched in noteshighshort
ε1268Ἐνέτῃσιbrooches… see the scholia there; also Hesychius and other lexica. [2] Callimachus, Hekale fr. 253; see already under alpha 1224.Matched in noteshighshort
ε1180Ἔνδιοςdaytime[1] cf. epsilon 1172. [2] Callimachus, Hecale fr. 238 (lines 15-16); cf. eta 399. [3] So again in Etymologicum Magnum 432.36.Matched in noteshighshort
ε1481Ἐντὸς ἑβδόμηςbefore (the) seventh… (Photius says the reason for it had been given in Callimachus' Aitia.) For the preposition e)nto/s in this sense see LSJ s.v. [1] sc. day of the month: explicit in Hesychius, Zenobius and Photius. …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2080Ἐπέσειενwas brandishing against… given, lacks the headword's nu ephelkustikon). [2] Source unknown, although Callimachus has been suggested (anonymous fr.25 Schneider; not accepted by Pfeiffer), as has Babrius or a Babrian imitator (Crusius, p. 216, with reference to …Matched in noteshighshort
ε1181Ἐνδόμυχοςhole-in-the-corner, lurking within… the quotation given, though there is an earlier instance in Callimachus, Hymn to Demeter 87 (on Erysichthon hiding away and gorging on food). [1] Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 28 Asmus, 59 Zintzen, 30B …Matched in noteshighshort
ε777Ἐλέγχομενwe reproach, we test… verb e)le/gxw, see also epsilon 778 and eta 197. [1] Callimachus, Hecale fr. 329 Pfeiffer, with scholion. See LSJ s.v. I. [2] Greek Anthology 6.250.7-8 (Antiphilus), quoted approximately; see LSJ s.v. II.2. On this …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2082Ἐπέσθωνeatin' upon… grammatical, and more poetical, th\n a(li/hn. [3] An abridgment of Callimachus, Epigram 47 Pfeiffer ( = Greek Anthology 6.301.1-3). The original has, more understandably, "great storms of debts", a nautical metaphor which the poet …Matched in noteshighshort
ε10Ἔαρspring, springtime; blood… mentioned. See also Hesychius (s.v. h)=ar) and other lexica. [3] Callimachus fr. 328 Pfeiffer, presumed to be from his Hecale; also at alpha 2801. According to LSJ, this meaning of the word is first …Matched in noteshighshort
ε786Ἐλελεῦeleleu, war-cry… Achaeus [alpha 4683] fr. 37. [2] Or, "a shepherd's cry." Callimachus, Fragmenta incertae sedis 719 Pfeiffer. [3] So the mss of the Suda and of Aristophanes, but for metrical reasons the original probably had …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε1990Ἐπαύλιαsleepover… 1147. (This has no connection with what now follows.) [2] Callimachus, Hekale fr. 263, with scholion.Matched in noteshighmedium
ε2004ἘπαφρόδιτοςEpaphroditus, Epaphroditos… Faenius'). [7] Other sources mention commentaries on Homer, Hesiod and Callimachus, and a Lexeis.Matched in noteshighmedium
ε861Ἐλινύεινto rest… part of] those idling or spending time. [3] Attributed to Callimachus' Hecale by Kapp (fr.128a), Pfeiffer (fr. 330) and Hollis (fr. 130), an attribution rejected by Schneider fr. an. 22, who suggests instead the …Matched in noteshighmedium

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