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κ
2290
Κῷος πρὸς Χῖον
Coös against Chios, Coan against Chian
… or miscopying of the normal proverb as given by e.g.
Hesychius
kappa4861. The dice-throw Coös (the six of astragaloi or knucklebones; cf. alpha 4250) beats the throw Chios (the one-spot or ace), as
Hesychius
…
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2312
Κωχεύει
holds (?)
… incorrect reading for o)kwxeu/ei "holds" in Sophocles fr.327. ps.-Herodian and
Hesychius
kappa4904 gloss it as metewri/zei, fe/rei, koufi/zei "lifts up, carries, makes light".
Hesychius
kappa4905 quotes the Sophoclean fragment (from his Kamikioi), with the …
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κ
2539
Κοιλάς
hollow
… be a mistake. Küster suggested emending to pedi/on ("plain"), comparing
Hesychius
kappa3233 (and for other geographical uses of the term 'hollow' cf.
Hesychius
kappa3234, ps.-Herodian 74, kappa 2536, kappa 2537). Adler also cites the …
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28
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28
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24
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24
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23
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23
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22
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22
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13
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13
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9
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κ
2786
Κύτταρος
cell
… entry, kappa 2787. [1] cf. the scholia to Thesmophoriazusae 519;
Hesychius
kappa4747, epsilon7647. Here and throughout, the word used for acorn, ba/lanos, can also refer to the glans of the penis, and one is …
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λ
175
Λαιδρός
brash, impudent
… in the scholia to the latter (Theriaca 689); see also
Hesychius
lambda123 and lambda124. (Both of these
Hesychius
entries also associate the word with a)ristera/ or a)ristero/s, one of several terms meaning 'left'; cf. …
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χ
195
Χέλυς
chelus
… Greek Anthology. Compare the lexicographical entries of the word in
Hesychius,
ps.-Zonaras, and the Etymologicum Magnum; also
Hesychius
s.vv. xe/lion, xe/lun e)/n t’ a)lu/rois, xelu/nh. For the kithara cf. alpha 4073, beta 110, theta …
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21
Ἀβασάνιστος
untested
… part from Phrynichus (Praeparatio rhetorica fr. 39 de Borries); cf.
Hesychius
alpha89 and a cluster of related entries: alpha 2276,
Hesychius
alpha4899, Synagoge alpha589, Photius alpha1845. [1] *ba/sanos can mean both the touchstone itself …
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38
Ἀβής
stupid
… unsure of its meaning(s): besides the above, cf. a)nai/sxuntos 'shameless'
(Hesychius)
and a)no/sios 'unholy'
(Hesychius
and the Etymologicum Gudianum).
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201
Ἀγέροπτος
unseen(?)
… itself is a)ge/roptos in most Suda mss and also in
Hesychius,
but a)ge/ropos in ms T and also in ps.-Zonaras. (Both versions are otherwise unattested, and not in LSJ.) The glossing phrase is as …
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371
Ἀγροῦ πυγή
rump of the country; fat of the land
… pugh/ version is otherwise standard: see Pausanias the Atticist alpha21;
Hesychius
alpha837; Photius, Lexicon alpha272 Theodoridis; Appendix Proverbiorum 1.4; Macarius Chrysocephalus 1.3. The phrase itself is taken to come from Old Attic Comedy: Archippus …
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549
Ἀελπτέοντες
having no hope
… a)/elptos; occurs only in the participle. [1] Same glossing in
Hesychius
and Etym.Magn. 20.23. Latte in his
Hesychius
edition regards the participle as coming from the source that the Suda goes on to quote …
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550
Ἄελπτον
beyond expectation, unexpected, unhoped-for
… pi 1281. [2] Same gloss in Apollonius the Sophist; cf.
Hesychius.
See also alpha 551. [3] In
Hesychius,
as at pi 1281, this is the gloss for periskele/s.
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α
645
Ἀείφρουρος
always on watch, everlasting
Same entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon.
Hesychius
alpha1331 supplies the glossing that is lacking here: a)ei\ diame/nwn, a)eiqalh/s "always waiting, evergreen". The word is attested in Sophocles, Cratinus (quoted by
Hesychius,
…
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831
Ἀκέων
wordless(ly), in silence, speechless, (?)attentive(ly)
… root as the Greek verb of hearing, a)kou/w, a)keu/ei; threi=
Hesychius,
and analogies to Old Norse, Gothic and modern German [aufhören 'to listen and stop'], where the similar words for 'in silence' have lost …
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864
Ἀκήλητον
inexorable
[1] Similarly already in
Hesychius
alpha2370. The headword, masculine accusative singular of this adjective (as the Suda's second gloss, not in
Hesychius,
shows), is evidently quoted from somewhere; perhaps, though not demonstrably, the epigram …
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α
1113
Ἀλεκινός
(?)strong
The headword, variously alekinos and (in
Hesychius)
alikinos, is unattested outside lexicography. Latte on
Hesychius
s.v. marks it as corrupt and opines that it should be alkimos; cf. alpha 1285.
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α
2423
Ἀνῆπται
has been fastened up
Same entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon.
Hesychius
has a parallel one for a)nh/fqw (quoted from Homer, Odyssey 12.51 = 12.162). The Suda's a)nh=ptai -- also in
Hesychius
but with different glossing …
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2679
Ἀντίληψις
objection
… in Photius and elsewhere. The second part is also in
Hesychius;
see further below. [1] In the Greek a simple difference of preposition: a)nti/lhyis for e)pi/lhyis. [2] Plato, Phaedo 87A (web address 1 below). …
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α
2767
Ἄντρον
grotto
cf. alpha 2765, alpha 2766. [1] Same glossing in
Hesychius
and elsewhere. [2] Same glossing in other lexica. Latte on
Hesychius
s.v. takes the adjective (masculine accusative singular) to be quoted from the Septuagint …
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α
2929
Ἀπαρτίαν
chattels, household utensils, moveables
… quoted from somewhere, is in the accusative case. See also
Hesychius
alpha5817: a)parti/an: meta/basin, a)poskeuh/n, te/los, a)partismo/n. Latte in his edition of
Hesychius
suggests Numbers 31:18 LXX as a source. [2] Alexander of Aphrodisias, …
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3121
Ἀπειλή
threat
Same entry in
Hesychius
and, according to Adler, the Ambrosian Lexicon. Latte on
Hesychius
s.v. regards the headword as quoted from the Septuagint (Proverbs 19.12, etc.). cf. generally alpha 3122, alpha 3123.
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3211
Ἀπινύσσω
I lack understanding, I lie senseless
… which is cited in the adverbial form a)pinu/tws "unwisely" by
Hesychius
alpha6209 (in the phrase a)pinu/tws e)/xwn, his gloss on the participle a)pinu/sswn in Iliad 15.10). According to Chantraine (s.v. pe/pnumai), the forms with …
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3229
Ἀπλήξ
unstricken
Same entry in
Hesychius
and, according to Adler, the Ambrosian Lexicon. Latte on
Hesychius
s.v. regards the headword as extracted from Gregory of Nazianzus' poem De vita sua (line 732). LSJ entry at web …
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α
4206
Ἀσπασίως
gladly
[1] cf.
Hesychius,
and the scholia to Homer, Iliad 7.118 (where the headword appears: web address 1 below), and
Hesychius.
[2] Same glossing in the Synagoge (alpha999) and Photius (Lexicon alpha2986).
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253
Αἰόλος
undulating, wavelike, advancing in a winding or rolling fashion, agile in turning side to side; multicoloured, discoloured, black or chestnut with white markings; easily moved, changeable, wily, quick-witted, liable to metamorphosis, disturbed in mind; whirling; self-generating in movement, ever-turning; lively, flashing, shimmering
… given point. The first two definitions are also found in
Hesychius
(alpha2034) and the Synagoge le/cewn xrhsi/mwn (Anecdota Graeca, ed. Bekker, 1.356.21; ed. L. Bachmann 45.1; Photius, Lexicon alpha614, 52.19 Reitzenstein), scholia to Homer, …
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αι
268
Αἴπεια
Aipeia
… likely to have generated this Suda entry and its counterparts
(Hesychius
alpha2045; Ambrosian Lexicon 320, according to Adler; and Etymologicum Magnum 37.38), given its mention in Homer: at Iliad 9.152 (again 294) it is …
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β
3
Βαβάκινος
babakinos, bakinon
… in the Ambrosian Lexicon (19). A very similar one in
Hesychius
(beta4) presents this word as baba/kinon, i.e. either a neuter variant to the (presumably) masculine/feminine nominative singular of the Suda's headword, or the …
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β
25
Βαθάλη
Bathale
… in the Ambrosian Lexicon (191). But she omits to mention
Hesychius
s.v., more helpful because his two-part gloss is krh/nh ("a spring") and *)ameri/as. If the latter is to be construed as "of Ameria" …
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102
Βαρακηνίς
with prickles
… debased form of the dative plural barakinh=|sin which appears in
Hesychius
beta207, and is glossed there a)ka/nqais, sko/loyi, "with thorns, with spines." (Same glosses in ps.-Zonaras, to the headword baraki/nais.) Latte on
Hesychius
s.v. …
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γ
223
Γίγαρτον
grape-stone
… see gamma 265 on the plural of this neuter noun.
Hesychius
glosses the singular (as here) with the phrase th=s stafulh=s to\ e)/ndon, "the inside of the grape"; the Suda's e)/nduma looks like a …
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