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Ἀγάστορες
womb-mates
… occur in Lycophron, Alexandra 264 (genitive plural). [2] cf. Etymologicum
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6.20.
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176
Ἄγαυρος
wastrel
Similar entries in Hesychius and, especially, Etymologicum
Magnum
6.30-34 -- though there the headword is oxytone a)gauro/s. LSJ too (web address 1 below) gives it thus, and understands it as gau=ros [gamma 77, gamma …
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187
Ἀγελαῖος
ordinary
… previous sentence are paralleled in Etymologicum Gudianum 4.3 and Etymologicum
Magnum
7.41. [3] cf. alpha 189. [4] The reference is probably to Herodotus 2.93.1, where both i)xqu/es a)gelai=oi and the adverb a)gelhdo/n (alpha 191) …
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Ἀγελείη
Ageleie, Booty-driver
See already alpha 185. [1] Similarly glossed in the Etymologicum
Magnum
(where the same etymology is found) and Hesychius. [2] This epic epithet is confined to Athena. The etymology "leader of the host" is …
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202
Ἀγερωχία
haughtiness, manliness, nobility
… unidentifiable. [3] Either way, an etymological gloss (paralleled in Etymologicum
Magnum
7.47) on the adjective cognate with the headword; it assumes a link with the adverb a)/gan. [4] Same or similar glossing in other …
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213
Ἀγηγέρατο
they had gathered
… of mss GI. [1] This morphological Odyssey (paralleled in Etymologicum
Magnum
9.12) brings us back around to the form of the verb that stands as the headword for the entry.
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223
Ἀγήνωρ
manly, heroic
… OCD(4) s.v. (p.38), and under alpha 222). [3] = Etymologicum
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9.43.
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224
Ἀγηοχώς
having brought
… quoted from 3 Maccabees 5.45 LXX (a)geioxw/s there). [2] Etymologicum
Magnum
9.28, cf. Herodian *parekbolai\ tou= mega/lou r(h/matos 13.14 (also Choeroboscus and other lexica). Most of these perfect forms are attested, but apparently not …
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446
Ἀδέψητον
untanned, undressed
Etymologicum
Magnum
16.35 has a longer version of the same entry; Apollonius (Homeric Lexicon) and Hesychius the same headword but with different glossing. The headword itself, neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective, is doubtless …
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522
Ἀδρανία
powerless
… from somewhere; there are numerous possibilities. [2] Same in Etymologicum
Magnum
18.51 and elsewhere. [3] Greek Anthology 6.29.2 (Julian, prefect of Egypt). See another excerpt from this epigram at alpha 1235. [4] Greek Anthology …
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639
Ἀείρων
unspoken
… should in fact be neuter. Hesychius (alpha1311) and the Etymologicum
Magnum
(21.43) gloss a)/eiron (or a)/iron) with a)/rrhton as well as a)qw/peuton: this would suggest derivation from the root *wer- as in e)rw=. See …
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664
Ἀήτης
gale
… plural occurs. [2] The equivalent entry, post-Suda, in the Etymologicum
Magnum
(23.29-31) makes no such remark. Presumably what the Suda means is that a/w) is attested only in the imperfect a)/en: see LSJ s.v. …
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677
Ἀϊδρείη
ignorance
Same entry, post-Suda, in Etymologicum
Magnum
42.44-47, which goes on to quote Homer, Iliad 7.197-199. The headword -- connected with alpha 678, q.v. -- occurs in the mss of line 198 there (dative case); …
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761
Ἀθροίζω
I collect
Similar entries in Etymologicum
Magnum
26.1 and elsewhere. See also alpha 760. [1] Contraction of qro/os (see alpha 759). [2] "Noise, murmur" as of many voices. [3] Unattested. [4] The order of derivation should …
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839
Ἀκερσεκόμης
unshorn-haired
Likewise in Hesychius alpha2335 (and, post-Suda, Etymologicum
Magnum
46.25). From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 20.39, where the headword is applied to Apollo. Not cutting the hair would imply eternal youth; see generally LSJ …
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934
Ἀκοστήσας
grain-fed, having fed on grain
… scholia there. cf. alpha 935. [1] More intelligibly in Etymologicum
Magnum
51.14, where these two terms are simply equivalents. [2] i.e. through the loss of one syllable, a)kosth/sas (the headword) becoming a)kolasth/sas; but the …
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1040
Ἀκοίτης
bedfellow, husband
… entries in the Ambrosian Lexicon (857, 996); and cf. Etymologicum
Magnum
50.7-9. [2] (Quoted, in all probability, from its only appearance in Homer: Odyssey 10.7.) With long iota in the ending (from *-ins).
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1057
Ἀλαζών
boaster, imposter
… and alpha 1058. [1] cf. Hesychius s.v. and (post-Suda) Etymologicum
Magnum
55.42. The second synonym is in Photius and elsewhere. [2] Outside the Suda this compound is attested only in a fragment of the …
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1156
Ἀλείπης
Aleipes, Non-Lacking
More fully in Etymologicum
Magnum
60.48-50: "a spring in Ephesos, so called from its never providing too little or too much, whether in winter or summer. Methodios [sc. says this]". For Ephesos cf. epsilon …
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1196
Ἁλίπεδον
salt-flat
… order here. See also alpha 1240. Similar material in Etymologicum
Magnum
64.45-47. See also alpha 1240.
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Ἄλογοι ἐρανισταί
unaccounted-for club-members
… headword phrase in Dinarchus fr. LXIX.2 Conomis. See also Etymologicum
Magnum
70.31-33. On eranoi see generally epsilon 2892. [2] A phrase which includes another sense of the adjective (alogos) used in the headword phrase. …
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1394
Ἁλωρῆται
salt-watchers
… in entries in the Etymologicum Genuinum (alpha566) and the Etymologicum
Magnum
(74.28-30), where it is said to be Lycian.
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1396
Ἄλλως
otherwise
cf. Hesychius s.v., Etymologicum
Magnum
68.37, and a scholion on Aristophanes, Acharnians 114 (where the headword occurs: web address 1). cf. already alpha 1318, alpha 1395, and again alpha 1398. [1] Quotation unidentifiable. (The …
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1481
Ἀμαλλοδετήρ
sheaf-binder
… 18.553, where the headword occurs (see web address 1); Etymologicum
Magnum
76.44. For sheaves see already alpha 1463. For dra/gmata see delta 1490.
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1622
Ἁμορβός
attendant, shepherd
Same entry in ps.-Zonaras; similar one, post-Suda, in Etymologicum
Magnum
85.24. The headword is attested in Hellenistic and later poetry (Callimachus, Nicander, Oppian). Despite the etymology suggested here, the headword itself and several other …
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1784
Ἀμφόδοντα ζῷα
double-toothed creatures
… History of Animals. See also, for the first part, Etymologicum
Magnum
493.9-12, and cf. sigma 1595. [1] For this Aristotelian distinction cf. pi 1605.
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1788
Ἀμφότεροι
both
… That is, they make an indefinite noun definite; cf. Etymologicum
Magnum
314.53-54.
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2081
Ἀνάστατος
evicted, desolate
… references at Photius alpha1670-1671 Theodoridis. [2] Similarly, post-Suda, in Etymologicum
Magnum
100.9-10.
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2409
Ἀνήλατος
intractable, stubborn
Same entry, post-Suda, in Etymologicum
Magnum
106.45. For this adjective cf. under iota 471.
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2424
Ἀνὴρ ἀνδρὸς διαφέρει
one man differs from another.
… (See again, from "For..." onwards, at omicron 485.) Cn. Pompeius
Magnus
took over the command of the Mithridatic War from L. Licinius Lucullus in 67 BCE on the basis of the legislation proposed by …
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