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mythology4

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κ912Κατεγλωττισμένονtongued-down (?tongue-engaged); (sunk) under too many glosses (far-fetched).… of the names of such kisses in the Suda, Hesychius, Eustathius, Pausanias Atticista and Photius see the notes to mu 134. The rest of the entry illustrates the literary use of the term to …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ1871Κνῆστιςgrater, cheese-grater[1] The knh=stis is also called a knife in Eustathius, Commentary on the Iliad 11.150, 11.640; Herodian, Partitions p. 68 Boissonade; the Etymologicum Magnum and Etymologicum Gudianum s.v. knh= turo/n; scholia to Euripides, Alcestis …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2482Κρότωνος ὑγιέστεροςsounder than a tick; sounder than Croton… health. The source of the Suda's other sentence is unknown. Eustathius, on the other hand, follows Strabo 6.1.12.31f. and argues (Commentary on Dionysius Periegetes 369.18-32, cf. Commentary on the Odyssey 2.147.23-30) that the phrase …

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tongued-down (?tongue-engaged); (sunk) under too many glosses (far-fetched).

Aristophanes [writes]: "hairdresser and tongued-down". Meaning mixed with many glosses. A gloss is also a dictionary word. Properly a 'tongued-down' is the tongue-in kiss. And Philostratus [writes]: "But Apollonius…

Κατεγλωττισμένον· Ἀριστοφάνης· θηλυδριῶδες καὶ κατεγλωττισμένον. ἀντὶ τοῦ πολλαῖς γλώτταις μεμιγμένον. γλῶττα δέ ἐστι καὶ ἡ λέξις. κυρίως δὲ κατεγλωττισμένον ἐστὶ τὸ ἔγγλωττον…

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κ2Καββαλίςkabbalis… suggests that the lexicographer has this sense in mind; cf. Eustathius, Commentary on the Odyssey 1.42.31 Stallbaum.Matched in noteshighshort

κ47Καθεκάστην Καθέκασταevery single… "every single Sunday". For other instances of the adverb see Eustathius, ad Il. 2.87-90 tw=n k. ginome/nwn, ad Od. 20.149 e(/na k. komi/zein "to bring one after another", ad Od. 22.444 ta\ k. xrh/sima …Matched in noteshighshort

κ216ΚαλλιγόλαςCaligula… e)n stratope/dw| gennhqh=nai) when discussing Caligula’s birth in the camps. Eustathius (12th century) appears to adopt the story from Athenaeus in his commentary on Homer, Iliad (2.810). For Latin sources which Aelian may have …Matched in noteshighshort

κ287Καμμονίηendurance… names we know: Aristonicus ad locc.; Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon 94.29; Eustathius ad locc.; and cf. Hesychius kappa603.Matched in noteshighshort

κ581Κατακλῶθές τε βαρεῖαιand the stern Spinners… 1. The gloss comes from the scholia there. Heraclides and Eustathius discuss an alternative reading kataklw/qhsi barei=a with an aorist passive subjunctive. [2] Attested only here. [3] cf. generally epsiloniota 142, epsiloniota 143, epsiloniota …Matched in noteshighshort

κ634Καταλοφάδιαon-neck… cf. lambda 696, with lofa/dia only, comparably glossed. See also Eustathius' commentary on this verse.)Matched in noteshighshort

κ714ΚαταπληστεύωI gorge, I stuffAttested only (in active, as here, or middle) in lexicography. Eustathius has the uncompound plhsteu/esqai.Matched in noteshighshort

κ1105Κατώγειονunderground… into Modern Greek (katw/gi, katw/i). *)anw/geios does not appear before Eustathius (Commentary on the Iliad vol.2 p.301); it has likewise survived into Modern Greek (a)nw/gi, a)nw/i).Matched in noteshighshort

κ1195Καιρωστρίδεςloom-women… (as here) and kairwsti/des. Apparently quoted from Callimachus (fr.640): see Eustathius, Commentary on the Odyssey 1571.57; Hesychius kappa273; and a scholion on Homer, Odyssey 7.107 (ed. Dindorf). See also kappa 1193, kappa 1194.Matched in noteshighshort

κ1224ΚεδάζωI disperse… 15.328 (where the aorist passive participle occurs: web address 1). Eustathius comments on the verb in his Commentary on the Iliad. The present keda/zw is a grammarians' invention, first appearing in Herodian as a …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1243Κεκληγότεςhaving shouted… it shows up only in a couple of twelfth-century authors (Eustathius of Thessalonica, Commentary on the Odyssey 1.132.9; Eugene of Palermo 24.101).Matched in noteshighshort

κ1284Κελαινεφέςof the black clouds; black… D to Iliad 1.397 (cf. ad loc., schol. P.Köln inv.2281); Eustathius On the Odyssey 1.398.14ff.; Hesychius kappa2131 = Anecdota Oxoniensia 1.234.25; Etymologicum Magnum 501.44. Under this theory, a hypothetical *kelainonefh/s has lost an unaccented …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1407Κερκωπίζεινto play the ape… and other paroemiographers, e.g.: Diogenianus, Hesychius, the Lexica Segueriana, Photius, Eustathius, Gregorius (Patriarch Gregory II), Michael Apostolius. The Suda's infinitive, here, was once regarded as an unattributable fragment of Attic comedy: adespota fr. 1036 …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1418Κερωτήkairôtê, woven fabric… are both substantially unattested, they both involve weaving of fabric. Eustathius defines kai=ros explicitly as mi/twma (Commentary on the Iliad I p. 241, III p. 399; this corroborates kairwth/ and mitwth/ being synonyms.Matched in noteshighshort

κ1582Κιγκλίδαςlatticed gates… Aristophanes (see above), the etymology is also alluded to by Eustathius, Commentary to the Iliad III p. 420 van der Valk, deriving both dikli/s (the "double-folding" of the definition) and kigkli/s from klei/s.Matched in noteshighshort

κ1874Κνίζωνscratching… 6.25; cf. the scholia thereto). [2] Herodian the grammarian, in Eustathius' Commentary on the Odyssey 1745.64 and 1746.12. On hypothetical monosyllabic verbs, see phi 394 (Philoxenos of Alexandria). [3] Greek Anthology 6.238.3 (Apollonides), a …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1889ΚνυζῶI whimper… knu/w, which means 'scratch'." The derivation is also given in Eustathius, Commentary on the Odyssey II p.54 Stallbaum, Etymologicum Gudianum s.v. kluzw=sai. Why "fleabane" would offer a plausible etymology for either "whimper" or "darken/destroy" …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1891ΚνυζώσωI will darken… a metaphor from dogs, the unseemliness (a)prepe/s) of the eyes." Eustathius, Commentary on the Odyssey ad loc., has his own derivations of the verb. First he offers "I shall shrivel, I shall make unseemly …Matched in noteshighshort

κ2029Κονδυλίσαςhaving knuckled… 404. Outside this passage, the headword is extant only in Eustathius (referring to this mythological incident).Matched in noteshighshort

κ2055Κοππατίαςkoppa-branded… as kai\ to\ n. Other commentators are better informed, e.g. Eustathius, Commentary on the Iliad vol. 3 p. 1, calls san a Doric sigma. [3] The Suda mangles the scholia vetera: "the form of …Matched in noteshighmedium

κ2082Κορήσατεsweep out… Etymologicum Magnum has "sweep, make"; the scholiast ad loc. and Eustathius have "sweep"; Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon has "make pretty".Matched in noteshighshort

κ2357Κραιπάληcarousal, hangover… p. 163 Gaisford, the Etymologicum Gudianum, the Etymologicum Magnum, and Eustathius, Commentary on Iliad 1.200. [4] A more strained folk etymology, also from the scholia to Aristophanes, Plutus 298; cf. n.2 above.Matched in noteshighshort

κ2440ΚρίσσαKrissa, Krisa, Crisa… is used by the Suda and Hecataeus (fragment 115b in Eustathius) but the spelling Krisa is more common. A city variously deemed in Phokis or (Epiknemidian) Lokris in the valley below Delphi (modern central …Matched in noteshighshort

κ2483Κροτώνωνof ticks… phrase are genitive plural. See also kappa 2482, and cf. Eustathius’ note, Commentary on the Odyssey 2.147.23-30, on Homer’s kunoraisth/s ('dog-gouger': Odyssey 17.300) as a tick; perhaps the brown dog tick (rhiphicephalus sanguineus) rather …Matched in noteshighshort

κ2511Κτέαρchattel… the dative plural occurs); Hesychius kappa4290; Anecdota Graeca 433.8 Bachmann; Eustathius, Commentary on the Iliad 1.103. cf. generally kappa 2512.Matched in noteshighshort