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1502
Κῆλα
arrows, arrow-shafts
Plural of a
Homeric
word (singular at kappa 1512), glossed with the Attic be/lh as early as Aristonicus, De signis Iliadis 11.584, 12.280. Apion, Fragmenta de glossis
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vol 74 p. 243 Ludwich glosses …
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1505
Κηληθμός
rapture
[1]
Homer,
Odyssey 11.334 [= 13.2] "they were all hushed in silence, and were held in rapture throughout the shadowy halls". Derived from khle/w "beguile", whose derivative noun khle/sths (kappa 1504) is likewise glossed …
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1813
Κλίσια
outbuildngs, sheds
Neuter plural(s). The
Homeric
(Odyssey 24.208) headword is taken to refer to shepherds' huts: "and all about it ran the sheds in which ate, and sat, and slept the servants that were bondsmen". The …
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2772
Κύρμα
stroke of luck, windfall
… Other glosses of the headword depend on its use at
Homer,
Iliad 5.488 for booty after the defeat of a city (web address 1): scholia ad loc.; Apollonius the Sophist, Lexicon
Homericum
105.26; Etymologicum …
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1284
Κελαινεφές
of the black clouds; black
The headword is neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective, an
Homeric
epithet. It was generally taken in antiquity, as here, to be a compound from the colour-adjective kelaino/s, 'black, murky' (see kappa 1286, kappa …
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758
Καταρτύσων
intending to prepare
… Laws 808D; Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.392; Plutarch, Moralia 38D. [2]
Homer,
Odyssey 11.439 (web address 4). The context is Odysseus' conversation with Agamemnon in the Underworld. In place of do/lon other manuscripts read either …
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2412
Κρῖ
barley
… kappa 2424. Similar glosses in some other lexica, including Apollonius'
Homeric
Lexicon. [1] For another (applied) sense of kriqh/ see kappa 2416. [1]
Homer,
Iliad 5.196, etc.
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2693
Κυνάμυια
dog-fly
Homer
uses the word as a term of abuse at Iliad 21.394 (Web address 1) and 21.421 (Web address 2) in reference to Athena and Aphrodite respectively. Cf. Aristonicus, De signis Iliadis on 21.394; …
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1133
Καύκωνες
Kaukones, Caucones
… all the other peoples of the entry are mentioned in
Homer,
Iliad 10.429 (web address 1). [2] Aelian fr. 280 Domingo-Forasté (282 Hercher). *di/ous is apparently interpreted as another ethnic name, although in
Homer
…
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1285
Κελαινόν
black, murky
[1] The definition comes from scholion D to
Homer,
Iliad 1.303 (cf. 9.6). See also Apollonius'
Homeric
Lexicon (97.27) and Etymologicum Magnum 501.44; cf. Hesychius' odd melano/n at kappa2135 (linked with the
Homeric
passage …
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2473
Κρόσσας
steps
… (always found in the plural: see LSJ s.v.) kro/ssai. From
Homer:
see next note. Same or similar entry in other lexica; see the references at Photius kappa1110 Theodoridis, and next note. [2] Ultimately from …
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287
Καμμονίη
endurance
… to katamonh/ ('endurance') that occurs twice in the accusative in
Homer's
Iliad: 22.257 (web address 1) and 23.661. Most occurrences of the word relate to commentary on those passages. The present entry takes one …
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289
Κάμμορος
ill-fated
… by syncope: Etymologicum Gudianum 297.6, Etymologicum Magnum 488.42; cf. Apollonius'
Homeric
Lexicon 95.7, and Hesychius kappa604. Found requently in the masculine vocative singular in
Homer's
Odyssey: e.g. 5.160 (web address 1), 11.216, etc. If …
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1256
Κεκότητο
had borne a grudge
… in the masculine nominative plural. It occurs four times in
Homer,
in the masculine dative singular, in the formula kekotho/ti qumw=|, "with angry heart". (Apollonius Rhodius also has an instance of the participle in …
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1329
Κένσαι
to spur on
The headword is quoted from
Homer,
Iliad 23.337. Verb form (from kente/w: kappa 1336) frequently glossed, including Hesychius kappa2222, the Lexicon Artis Grammaticae, the Etymologicum Magnum, and the
Homeric
scholia ad loc. The Suda's …
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1383
Κερδαλεόφρων
profit-minded, greedy, crafty
Same or similar entry in other lexica, including Apollonius'
Homeric
Lexicon (see the references at Photius kappa596 Theodoridis). and cf. the scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 1.149, where the vocative singular of the headword occurs. …
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1427
Κεστὸν ἱμάντα
embroidered girdle
… 1428. [1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica, including Apollonius'
Homeric
Lexicon; see the references at Photius kappa622 Theodoridis. This phrase in the accusative case is quoted from
Homer,
Iliad 14.214 (web address 1). …
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1438
Κευθμώνων
of hiding-places
… it seems to have been a variant of keuqmw=n in
Homer,
Iliad 13.29: a)/talle de\ kh/te' u(p' au)tou= / pa/ntoqen e)k keuqmw=n "and sea creatures came gamboling to him [Poseidon] out of their lairs, …
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1503
Κηλέῳ
in burning [fire]
With puri\, a
Homeric
formula, e.g. Iliad 8.235, 18.346, Odyssey 8.435. Glossed as kaustikw=| as early as Philoxenus fr.112* (1 BCE) and Apollonius'
Homeric
Lexicon s.v. khlei/w| (alternative form of the adjective). Also in …
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1698
Κλαγγηδόν
raucously, screech-fashion
The headword adverb occurs in
Homer,
Iliad 2.463, of flocking birds. (The noun klaggh/ is primarily used in
Homer
for the sound of geese: see kappa 1697.) Same glossing in the Synagoge and other …
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2161
Κοτίνου στεφάνῳ
with a wreath of wild olive
… poisons (The Wrath of Athena 158-159). Clay observes that the
Homeric
gods intervene in human space because of "their knowledge of the physis [nature] of things as exemplified by the herb, moly." As
Homer
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2169
Κοτυλήρυτον
copious, flowing by the cupful, flowing by the handful
[1] The headword adjective occurs in
Homer,
Iliad 23.34, referring to flowing blood. The definition appears in Apollonius'
Homeric
Lexicon (cf. Aristonicus, De signis Iliadis, and Hesychius kappa3817); see also LSJ. [2] Paraphrased from …
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2208
Κῶας
fleece
Homeric
form (e.g.
Homer,
Iliad 9.661). The gloss is particular to the Suda; Apollonius'
Homeric
Lexicon and Hesychius gloss it with the diminutive kw/dion, and although the form frequently features in grammatical discussion, its …
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2222
Κώεα
fleeces
Homeric
forms, with nominative singular kw=as (kappa 2208). The nominative plural given appears in
Homer,
Iliad 9.661, Odyssey 17.32, 20.3, 20.95, 23.180. The dative plural occurs (as kw/esin) in
Homer,
Odyssey 3.38, 20.142.
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2644
Κυκλήσωμεν
let us wheel
… appropriate for the probable source of this and other commentary:
Homer,
Iliad 7.332 (web address 1). Here we have the more common aorist subjunctive forms in omega, which would have been homophonous in late …
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393
Καρκαίρω
I quake, I shake
This paradigmatic entry is generated by
Homer,
Iliad 20.157, where a form of the headword verb (ka/rkaire) occurs. It is quoted in the entry to which readers are cross-referred here, though there ka/rkaire is …
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406
Καρρόον
down along the channel
… in Hesychius kappa889, and the Etymologicum Gudianum 300.36; cf. Apollonius'
Homeric
Lexicon 95.28. But only the Etymologicum Magnum 467.23 (s.v. i)e/nai) cites the one place the form ka\r r(o/on occurs:
Homer,
Iliad 12.33 (web …
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428
Καρτερός
mighty
[1] cf. Apollonius'
Homeric
Lexicon 95.12 (on
Homer,
Iliad 1.280: web address 1), Hesychius kappa899; and kappa 429. [2] Arrian, Parthica fr. 97. [3] Arrian, Parthica fr. 51. [4] Arrian, Parthica fr.97 again. (See …
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438
Καρφαλέον
parched
… where Theodoridis identifies the source of the primary headword as
Homer,
Iliad 13.409 (web address 1). He also makes it typographically clearer than does Adler here that the words which follow 'dry' are a …
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543
Καταείνυον
they were clothing
Same or similar entry in other lexica, including Apollonius'
Homeric
Lexicon, and cf. also the scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 23.135 (on the treatment of Patroclus' corpse), from where the headword is quoted. (Note however …
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