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- ε1885Ἑωλοκρασίαleftover-mixture… entry in its entirety are: Photius, Lexicon pi2524 Theodoridis; Etymologicum Magnum 352.23-29; and Etymologicum Gudianum 577.3-8, with important differences to be noted below. [1] Up to this point the entry = Lexica Segueriana 246.2; …
- ε2691Ἐπιτήθηgreat-grandmother… Genuinum s.v. Also basically = Photius, Lexicon epsilon1756, and Etymologicum Magnum 366.11, though Photius gives the final part as follows th\n de\ e)pithqh\n, th=s tou= patro\s mhte/ra kai\ th=s mhtro\s mhte/ra (with the first …
- ε3901Ἐφημερίαephemerality= Synagoge epsilon1044; Photius, Lexicon epsilon2430; Etymologicum Genuinum; Etymologicum Magnum 403.14. Adler also cites the Ambrosian Lexicon (2700). [1] An opaque gloss; perhaps in the sense that mankind's patrimony is ephemerality? The extended version …
- ε3202Ἔσταιwill be… to entries in the Etymologicum Gudianum and, post-Suda, the Etymologicum Magnum). Compare also epsilon 3126. Only three forms for the epic third person singular, future, of ei)mi/ are cited here; the fourth would be …
- ε2498Ἐπὶ ξυροῦon a razor… 10.173 (web address 1), a passage cited by the Etymologicum Magnum in its entry on e)pi\ curou= (see n. 2 below). See also xi 162. [1] This gloss is shared by Hesychius epsilon5023, which …
- ε2428Ἐπικύλλωμαaftertwist… similar to later ones, in Etymologicum Gudianum 505.9 and Etymologicum Magnum 361.8. The headword appears in quite a different sense in Eustathius' commentary on Homer, Odyssey 8.311, where it stands as a synonym for …
- ε861Ἐλινύεινto rest… in mss VM; see also under kappa 2740. Compare Etymologicum Magnum 330.57, where again the transmitted strateu/ein has been emended to straggeu/ein; and see further, next note. [2] This phrase contains present participles in …
- ε3708Εὐρώςdanknesscf. Etymologicum Magnum 397.50-56; Etymologicum Gudianum 564.14-15; Etymologicum Parvum epsilon75. See also epsilon 3707 for a different gloss on the same headword; and for related words see epsilon 3711, epsilon 3712, and epsilon 3713. …
- ε1108Ἐναλίγκιοςlike, resembling… Same gloss in Hesychius epsilon2629, followed by e)oikw/s. See Etymologicum Magnum 337.20 and the scholia to Homer, Iliad 5.5.
- ε456Ἔκλαγξανthey made a sharp noise… (where it describes the sharp sound of arrows). cf. Etymologicum Magnum 516.30, and see Hesychius epsilon1469; a sound compared to the cry of an eagle, according to the additional Hesychian gloss a)etou= tro/pon e)bo/hsan. …
- ε2643Ἐπιστροφάδηνevery which way… Synagoge epsilon744; Photius, Lexicon epsilon1732; cf. Etymologicum Genuinum and Etymologicum Magnum 365.3-5. Less similarly Apollonius Sophistes, Homeric Lexicon 74.17; Hesychius epsilon5261. The headword is an adverb, initially Homeric, related to epsilon 2644 and epsilon …
- ε2418Ἐπικρεμαμένουhanging over… "They reckoned that everything could be endured because of the magnitude of the danger still hanging over them."
- ε1706Ἐξειστήκειhad altered… complexion had altered, to [that of someone] afraid of the magnitude of the army and the brilliance of their weapons."
- ε2270Ἐπίγραμμαepigram, inscriptioncf. Etymologicum Magnum 258.24 (the same point expressed in different words).
- ε3663Εὐπραξίαsuccess, doing well… father’s sins, to which the splendor of goods and the magnitude of actions also led him, for he was unable to set himself properly against them."
- ε3670Εὐπτέρωνof well-winged (ones)… The metaphor is from birds which are high up and magnificent; or honorable and well-born.
- ε3064Ἐρωήσαςforcing back… fr. 258 Pfeiffer, referring to the Marathonian Bull; cf. Etymologicum Magnum s.v. e)rwh/. [3] Homer, Iliad 1.303(= Odyssey 16.441; web address 2 and web address 3); cf. Hesychius and Etymologicum Gudianum s.v. e)rwh/sei and …
- ε318Ἔθειρlocks… headword -- also noted by Choeroboscus and in the Etymologicum Magnum, though nowhere independently attested -- appears to be an athematic variant of e)/qeira (epsilon 319).
- ε3615Εὐόργητοςgood-tempered… adjective and the glossing one are juxtaposed in (e.g.) Aristotle, Magna Moralia 1186a (noted by Theodoridis), and Plutarch, Moralia 413C. For the related adverb see epsilon 3616.
- ε3728ΕὐρύςwideSame entry, post-Suda, in the Etymologicum Magnum; and cf. already a scholion on Homer, Iliad 1.229, where the accusative case of the headword adjective occurs (describing the extent of the Greek army). For the …
- ε1461Ἔντερονintestine… is also offered in entries on e)/gkata ('innards') in Etymologicum Magnum 310.9 and Etymologicum Gudianum 394.19. [2] Another etymology, as if e)/nteron were a combination of words for 'within' (e)nto/s) and 'flow' (r(ei=n). Also …
- ε2547Ἐπίρρησιςrebuke, reproach= Orion [Author, Myth] 55.22; Etymologicum Magnum 363.44. Hesychius epsilon5122 has just the first of these glosses; and Latte there regards the headword itself as extracted from Archilochus (fr. 14: accusative case there). cf. …
- ε3445Εὐεστοῖwell-being… entry already in Hesychius -- and, post-Suda, in the Etymologicum Magnum --, though nominative singulars there (cf. epsilon 3446). The present entry's dative singular headword must be quoted from somewhere; extant possibilities include Aeschylus …
- ε3221Ἐς τί ἔτιto what point still… epsilon874; Photius, Lexicon epsilon2029; and amid other scholiastic information, Etymologicum Magnum 382.11.
- ε3359Εὐαγέςwell-broken… evidently quoted from somewhere but not independently attested. cf. Etymologicum Magnum 266.$: to\n sta/xun to\n eu)agh=, "the well-broken ear [of grain]."
- ε2257Ἐπιβύσαςhaving stopped up… also quoted in Photius s.v. kro/khn nh/qein le/gousin and Etymologicum Magnum s.vv. nh=ma, para/buston. [2] Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 379 (web address 2), with scholia; also quoted in Etymologicum Magnum s.v. e(kato/mbh; cf. Acharnians 463 …
- ε3063Ἐρωήforce, impulse, quick motion, rushSame entry in Apion, Hesychius, the Etymologicum Magnum, and (according to Adler) the Ambrosian Lexicon. The headword is probably quoted from Homer, Iliad 17.761 (web address 1), where the scholia have the present gloss. …
- ε2337Ἐπιθιγγάνειtouches upon= Lexica Segueriana 229.23 and Hesychius epsilon4806; cf. Etymologicum Magnum 450.11. The headword must be quoted from somewhere but is otherwise unattested; and attestations of all forms of the verb (cf. under epsilon 2782) …
- ε1177Ἐν δίκῃwith justice… 'in' justice. For the glossing cf. Hesychius epsilon2794 and Etymologicum Magnum 339.4. But according to a different interpretation reported by a scholion on Aristophanes, Wasps 421, e)n di/kh| (= e)n th=| di/kh|) means dika/zontes, …
- ε3084ἙρσήενταdewyMasculine accusative singular of e(rsh/eis; cf. Etymologicum Magnum 378.1. See also epsilon 3083. [1] Likewise in Photius, the Lexica Segueriana, and scholia on Homer, Iliad 14.348 and 24.419, where the headword occurs (web addresses …