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- η50Ἥγημαpurpose… of the eagle (often quoted by the Church Fathers). Only Eustathius uses this term -- once -- without quoting Ezekiel (Commentarius in hexameron 724.23, on animals that can live in and out of water). …
- η46Ἠγερέεσθαιto gather together… the mss have that reading (also in Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon, Eustathius, and elsewhere); modern editions, though (e.g. Monro & Allen: web address 1), favour the Aristarchan/Aristonican h)gere/qesqai. This Homeric gloss is paralleled in the …
- η49ἨγηλάζωI guide, I lead… texts: e.g. the Synagoge (Lexica Segueriana alpha12.14); Photius, Lexicon alpha161; Eustathius, Commentaries on Homer's Odyssey 1.441. In a scholion to Herodotus 5.72 the sense of the verb is considered to be diw/kein, fugadeu/ein, e)pita/ttein, …
- η62Ἡ γλῶττα τῷ κήρυκι τούτων τέμνεταιthe tongue of these is cut for the herald… tongue of the sacrificial victims was dedicated to the god. Eustathius, for instance, in Commentaries on Homer's Odyssey 1.131, reports as a proverbial expression ta/mnete glw/ssas, literally, 'cut the tongues!', meaning make a sacrifice! …
- η283Ἦμαρday… [4] alphaiota 352. [5] epsilon 3829. [6] eta 151. [7] Eustathius I.154.38, citing Herodian's Symposium. Needless to say, there is no particular connection between the type of declension (neuter nouns in -os) and the …
- η286Ἤμβροτενmissed (the mark or goal)… or hitting the mark through its use in two proverbs. Eustathius describes them as follows. " 'You missed and did not hit' (h)/mbrotes oud’ e)/tuxes, Iliad 5.287) is proverbial for those who fail to …