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3087
Ἐροιάδα
Eroiadai, Eroeadae
… The truncated spelling of its name in the Suda headword,
Eroiada,
is a textual aberration.
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ε
3070
Ἔρως
love
… 143.30-144.3. [6] This is presumably again a Stoic issue. The
erotic
person, it is said, is so called in two senses: (i) the one who, in being excellent or good (spoudaios), is qualified in …
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3060
Ἐρόγευον
I was distributing alms, they were distributing alms
… and cf. LSJ Supplement: 'r(ogeu/w, pay in kind, fr. Latin
erogare').
It must be quoted from somewhere -- perhaps Constantine Porphyrogenitus, De cerimoniis aulae Byzantinae 807.17 (its only other attestation); if so it is …
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ε
924
Ἔλυτρον
case
… Lexica Segueriana 217.1) is perhaps a misreading (cf. Glossae in
Herodotum
1.52, on
Herodotus
1.185.4). Other lexica and grammars gloss this headword with "covering" (ka/lumma): ps.-Herodian 31 and (according to Adler) the unedited Lexicon …
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ε
2639
Ἐπιστρεφέως
intently
In
Herodotus
this adverb (from epsilon 2642) occurs at 1.30.3 -- Croesus asks e)pistrefe/ws why Solon considers Tellos (tau 284) so fortunate -- and LSJ's 'earnestly, vehemently' conveys the sense of it there. The …
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ε
3573
Εὐμαρέη
convenience
… derivative entry in ps.-Zonaras (908.223) and in the Glossae in
Herodotum
on
Herodotus
2.35.3 (n. 2 below) -- a passage where in fact many manuscripts have the dative singular eu)mare/h| rather than the eu)marei/h| …
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ε
2462
Ἐπιμέλεον
interesting, of interest
… presumably extracted from the quotation given (though the mss of
Herodotus
himself -- see next note -- have e)pimele/s twice). [2]
Herodotus
5.12.3 (web address 1), here abridged and slightly reworded.
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ε
2750
Ἐπιφορήματα
desserts, additional desserts
So Glosses on
Herodotus
1.37 (epsilon6), referring to the dative plural of this neuter noun in
Herodotus.
1.133.2 (web address 1). The passage is quoted twice in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists: 4.144A and 14.641A [4.23 and …
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ε
514
Ἔκνιζεν
was chafing, was scratching
… web address 1). It appears in this form twice in
Herodotus:
at 6.62.1 (glosses to which lie behind the present entry) and at 7.12.1, in both instances in this figurative sense. In the present …
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ε
360
Ἑκαταῖος
Hekataios, Hecataeus
… Perseus Encyclopedia entry at web address 1, with links to
Herodotus
and Pausanias. [1] 520-516 BCE. For this Dionysios see delta 1180. [2] This explanatory phrase is lacking, Adler reports in mss VM. [3] …
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ε
1495
Ἐντυγχάνειν
to encounter, to meet, to run into
… the two verbs, with particular reference to meeting a named
hero,
Orestes (web address 1).
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ε
1639
Ἐξέπλωσας
you have sailed out
Herodotus
3.155.3 (web address 1); King Darius is shocked at Zopyrus' self-mutilation. cf. epsilon 1638.
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ε
860
Ἐλινύειν
to rest
… see also epsilon 861. [1] Likewise among the glosses to
Herodotus
(1.23, on Hdt. 1.67.5, where the headword occurs (web address 1)). See also Etymologicum Magnum 330.49-52, where the gloss "to be still" is …
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ε
1957
Ἐπαναχθέντες
brought back
… perhaps quoted from an historiographical source: there are instances in
Herodotus,
Polybius, Diodorus and Appian -- and the gloss are aorist passive participles in the masculine nominative plural. Hesychius epsilon4180, earlier, had presented an …
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ε
2239
Ἐπιβολή
plan, project
… combat as the Heraclids first tried to enter the Peloponnese
(Herodotus
9.26). See RE 5.1913; Hesiod fr. 23a.31, 176.3 Merkelbach/West; Diodorus Siculus 4.58.3-5; etc. Pausanias saw the battle depicted on a stele at Tegea …
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ε
2622
Ἐπίστη
you know, you understand; stand on (?)
… (e)pi/sta| in poetic Doric, e)pi/sth| in Theognis, and e)pi/steai in
Herodotus).
[3] Seemingly an alternative interpretation of the headword as an imperative, with e)piti/qei intended as an analogous form rather than a substantive gloss.
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ε
2843
Ἐπώνυμοι
Eponyms
… Salaminian could be regarded as an intruder amongst native Athenian
heroes;
cf.
Herodotus
5.66.) [1] C. Theodoridis in his Photius edition (vol.II p.LXVII) points out that 'a hundred' (e(kato/n) does not appear in Ph's …
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3753
Εὐστομεῖν
to speak euphonious words
… 834 (where the imperative eu)sto/mei occurs: web address 1). [2]
Herodotus
2.171.1 (web address 2): the historian says that he could give a full account of the Mystery-ceremonies associated with the death of Osiris …
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ε
4074
Ἑψῶν
boiling
… Adler reports, in mss FV.) [2] According to LSJ s.v.,
Herodian
the Grammarian says that e(/yw (accent on the first syllable) is Attic, some forms from e(ye/w are doubtfully attested in
Herodotus
and Hippocrates, …
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ε
3510
Εὔθυμος
Euthymos, Euthumos, Euthymus
… Eustathius (1409 on Homer, Odyssey 1.185, copying Strabo) call the
hero
Polites. According to Strabo the shrine lay near the city of Temesa and was shaded by wild olive trees. The story in epsilon …
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ε
898
Ἐλῶν
driving
… So far the entry is equivalent to a gloss on
Herodotos
7.33 (see next note). Homer uses the same form (e)lw=n) as 1st/3rd imperfect indicative, and the scholium referred to by Adler for this …
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ε
904
Ἐλόχησεν
platooned
From a gloss on
Herodotus
1.103.1 (web address 1: on Cyaxares and the early Median army), also in Hesychius. In
Herodotus
the spelling is e)lo/xise, as from loxi/zw.
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ε
1290
Ἐνέχραυε
used to dash
[1] The context is
Herodotos
6.75.1, but the Suda's opening words of the quotation, to\ sw=ma, do not occur in the original (text at web address 1) and have evidently strayed in by repetition …
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ε
1417
Ἐννώσας
having thought
… aorist passive participle, again masculine nominative singular, of dianoe/w. [1]
Herodotus
1.68.3 (web address 1). [2] This gloss is identical to Glosses on
Herodotus,
epsilon12; cf. ps.-Zonaras epsilon752.19.
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ε
1462
Ἐντερόνεια
inner-timbering
… one, e)ntornei/a, possibly the parapet around a trireme's foredeck. [1]
Herodian,
De prosod. cathol. 3.1 273.29. [2] That is, the final alpha of the word. [3] Somehow this word, a more common word for …
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1608
Ἐξέκνισεν
scraped out
[1] In the mss of
Herodotos
(see next note) the word is spelled e)ce/knhsen. The spelling here is a homophonous lapse attested nowhere else, apart from the derivative entry of ps.-Zonaras 770. [2]
Herodotos
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ε
2355
Ἐπικάρσιον
angled, crosswise
… plural occurs (web address 1). [2] From a gloss on
Herodotus
7.36.1, where he does indeed use the word (of Xerxes spanning the Hellespont with a bridge of ships laid together thus: web address …
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ε
2432
Ἐπίλαμπος
revealed, caught
Likewise in ps.-Zonaras. From a gloss on
Herodotus
3.69.4 (web address 1), where e)pi/lamptos (the Ionic version of e)pi/lhptos) occurs, in the story of the true and false Smerdis: "Now do this, whenever he …
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ε
2514
Ἐπιπλέα
quite full
[1]
Herodotos
6.139.3 (web address 1). In the quotation the word appears in the Ionic accusative singular feminine form, whereas the headword is either neuter nominative/accusative plural or feminine nominative singular in the Attic …
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ε
2629
Ἐπίστιον
ship-shed, ship-slip
… LSJ s.v. This definition of it comes from glosses on
Herodotus
-- see next note -- and there is something similar in Hesychius (epsilon5253). [2] An abridgment of
Herodotus
5.72.1, where however epistia has …
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