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- ι633Ἰσσικὸς κόλποςIssic gulf, gulf of Issos… extremity of the Mediterranean, where Cilicia met Syria. For Issos itself, site of a famous victory by Alexander the Great in 333 BCE, see iota 662.
- ι356Ἱμονιάwell-rope… long well-rope." But some [use the word for] the bucket itself: from i(ma/s ["leather thong"].
- ι754Ἴτυξityx… the term to be a variant of i)=duc, which is itself another name for the iktis (iota 281); so Herodian, citing Alexandros of Myndos (FGrH 25 -- but this putative fragment is ignored there).
- ι738ἸτέαItea, Eitea… the next derive from Harpokration s.v. Iteaios, which explicitly concerns itself with the deme Eitea in the tribe Akamantis; note, however, that there was also an Eitea in the tribe Antiochis. For bibliography see …
- ι573ἹππομένηςHippomenes… hunger, attacked the girl and ate her; and the horse itself later died. Subsequently the building was dug over and the spot named, from this [episode], horse's and girl's.
- ι538Ἱππεῖς λευκοθώρακεςwhite-corsleted horsemen… here, from Xenophon, Anabasis 1.8.9 (web address 1), is not itself glossed. [1] Julian, oration 7, 205D.
- ι765Ἰφιάλουiphialos, Iphialos… have an entry *)ifi/alos o( *)efia/lths, a fact which in itself would suggest that Iphialos is an alternative name for the mythological giant Ephialtes. If, however, Adler was right to print the present gloss …
- ι36Ἰανοκρήδεμνοςfine-veiled, with a fine veil… Same headword (with different glossing) in Hesychius iota60. The headword itself seems to come from Alcman (fr. 177 sub-fr. 1.1, but rough breathing there). LSJ s.v. notes that the prefix i)ano- could be a …
- ι675Ἴσῳ ζυγῷwith an equal yoke… though see next note [1] Julian, Oration 8.244C. The phrase itself is first attested (and with the same application) in Theocritus, Idylls 12.15 (and glossed in the scholia to as o(moi/ws).
- ι159Ἱερατικὴpriest-craft, religion… from somewhere among the causes within the cosmos, and concerns itself with these matters, of souls concerning immortality, because the same things are also stated in Egyptian philosophy; both of their innumerable diverse allotments …
- ι451ἸοφῶνIophon… the plays of Iophon goes back to the late C5 itself: see Aristophanes, Frogs 73-79.
- ι640Ἰσθμόςisthmus… comic term for the perineum in men (but the cunt itself in women) see J. Henderson, The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 137-8. [3] cf. delta 1048.
- ι764Ἶφιby force… scholia; see the references at Photius iota276 Theodoridis. The headword itself is taken to be quoted from Homer: see Iliad 1.38, 1.151, etc. [2] The suffix -fi seems to be an old instrumental ending, …