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2860
Ἐπρήσθη
was burned
… has the corresponding form of the compound e)mpi/mprhmi; rather, apparently,
Nicander,
Theriaca 403 (cf. the scholia there). [2] Aelian fr. 162 Domingo-Forasté (159 Hercher), quoted more fully at mu 349 (with yet another compound: …
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3904
Ἐφήμερος
ephemeral, for a day
… other lexica; cf. also Pollux 1.65. [2] cf. scholion on
Nicander,
Alexipharmaca 249 (Medea). [3] From alpha 1695. The adjectives a)mfh/meros and a)mfhmerino/s are synonymous with e)fh/meros. *)amfhmerino/s is a technical medical term referring …
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4009
Ἐχῖνος τὸν τόκον ἀναβάλλῃ
a hedgehog would postpone childbirth
… Diogenianus 4.91 and other paroemiographers. [2] From the scholia to
Nicander,
Theriaca 579. [3] Greek Anthology 6.45.1 (perhaps Leonidas of Tarentum), a grape-stealing hedgehog is caught and dedicated to Dionysus; cf. Gow and Page, …
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136
Εἰλυθμός
den, lair
… similar entry in other lexica, and cf. the scholia to
Nicander,
Theriaca 385, where the headword appears in the accusative case.
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404
Ἤνυστρον
fourth stomach
… cf. scholia on Aristophanes, Knights 356 (quoted below) and on
Nicander,
Theriaca 579. See also epsilon 1504, epsilon 4009, kappa 489. [2] Aristophanes, Knights 356 (web address 1).
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η
677
Ἠχήν
sound
… lexica. Accusative singulars, the headword one quoted from somewhere (probably
Nicander,
Alexipharmaka 304, where it appears, and where the scholia have the first of Suda's glosses; see also eta 684).
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ι
392
Ἰξιόεν
[made from] chameleon-thistle
Neuter singular of this adjective.
Nicander
mentions a potion of this kind (Alexipharmaca 279, with scholion), and the Suda entry surely stems from that passage.
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ι
577
Ἵππος
horse
… a connecting ga/r is missing) of a hexameter in Greek:
Nicander,
Theriaca 741 = Greek Anthology, epigrams 9.503b. For the same notion about horses and wasps, see Aelian, On the nature of animals 1.28. …
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κ
376
Καρήατος
head's, of a head
… virtually the same gloss in one of the scholia to
Nicander,
Alexipharmaca 133: karh/atos: kefalh=s. Before the Hellenistic poets, karh/atos occurs only once (Homer, Iliad 23.44: web address 1) but thereafter quite often as …
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1358
Κεράμειον
jar, pot
… as an illustration of adjectives (teu=xos kerameou=n gh/i+non xutrei=on xalkou=n);
Nicander,
Theriaca 80 (with scholia) teu=xos keramh/i+on.
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1499
Κηκάς
mischievous, abusive
… fr. 656 khka/di su\n glw/ssh| "with an abusive tongue", and
Nicander,
Alexipharmaca 185 piote/rhn o(/te bo/trun e)si/nato khka\s a)lw/phc "when the mischievous fox plundered the fat grapes". The noun khkasmo/s comes from Lycophron Alexandra …
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κ
1560
Κηφηῒς γῆ
Kephean land
… as a periphrasis for 'Ethiopia' (alphaiota 126, alphaiota 127) by
Nicander,
Alexipharmaka 100 (accusative case); cf. the scholia there. Similarly (adjective only), according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon; and more fully than the …
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1646
Κινώπετα
venomous creatures
… glossed in the Etymologicum Magnum and in a scholion on
Nicander,
Theriaca 27; cf. kappa 1881.
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κ
1682
Κισσύβιον
ivy-cup
… (11.53 Kaibel); the former attributed to Eumolpus, the later to
Nicander.
"Ivy-wood" is given in Apollonius as the correct kissi/nou (not the Suda's kissoui/nou), and Hesychius kappa2794 cites the gloss likewise, but the term …
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κ
1889
Κνυζῶ
I whimper
… Some derive it from ko/nuza 'fleabane', as in 'ground-seeking fleabane'
[Nicander,
Theriaca 70], becoming knuzw= like ko/ruza > koruzw= and r(i/za > r(izw=, which is improbable. It is better to say in agreement with …
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κ
2133
Κόρχορος
blue pimpernel
… on Aristophanes, Wasps 239a, 239b (web address 1); scholia on
Nicander,
Theriaca 626a; often in the variant ko/rkoros. Mangled in kappa 1404 as a reference to galleys (ke/rkouros). LSJ s.v. ko/rxoros suggests the equivalent …
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κ
2791
Κύτος
hollow
… Aeschylus, Seven against Thebes 495; to Oppian, Halieutica 1.334; to
Nicander,
Alexipharmaka 586; Athanasios, On the Psalms 27.557.22; Cyril of Alexandria, On the Psalms 69.1128.35. [3] Bernhardy deleted this part of the entry. It …
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λ
71
Λάκτιν
pestle
… a)litri/banos see alpha 1146. [2] Callimachus, Hecale fr.286, repeated by
Nicander,
Theriaca 109. (A modern reader might object that a pestle is not at all like a ladle.)
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175
Λαιδρός
brash, impudent
The headword adjective occurs in hellenistic poetry, e.g. Callimachus and
Nicander,
and it is similarly glossed in the scholia to the latter (Theriaca 689); see also Hesychius lambda123 and lambda124. (Both of these Hesychius …
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227
Λεαίνω
I smooth
… view of the Spartans, toning down Mardonius' speech); see also
Nicander,
Alexipharmaca 201, 624.
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