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43 entries for Pherecrates

ε1023Ἐμπλατειάσασαhand-slapping(?)… hands', a sense of the uncompound verb plateia/zw attested in Pherecrates fr. 224 Kock (now 258 K.-A.), but that is merely the first of three senses of it recognised by LSJ; for sense III, …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1609ΚιλίκωνKilikon… kappa 1607. [3] Same gloss in Photius, similar in Hesychius; Pherecrates fr. 166 Kock. (176 K.-A.) [4] cf. Zenobius 1.3. See also alpha 108.Matched in noteshighshort
γ493Γυμνῷ φυλακὴν ἐπιτάττειςyou are assigning guard-duty to a naked man[1] Hesychius gamma1004 assigns the phrase to the comic poet Pherecrates (fr. 144 Kock, now 154 K.-A.) in the first instance; cf. Zenobius 2.98. [2] Quotation unidentifiable; found also in a syntactical lexicon. [3] …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1900Κόγχηνcockle, mussel… the proverb quoted (see below), but more probably generated by Pherecrates fr. 143 Kock = 152 K.-A., (preserved by Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 11.481C = 11.62 Kaibel); cf. LSJ s.v. I.2, 'shell-full, a small measure of …Matched in noteshighshort
α3380Ἀπολεγόμενοςdeclining (an offer)… Photius alpha2551 Theodoridis, attributing a)pole/gomai (with a corresponding gloss) to Pherecrates (fr. 225 K.-A.) [2] Polybius fr. 16 Büttner-Wobst. Büttner-Wobst notes (p. 515) that the quotation is also found in the Lexicon Vindobonense. [3] …Matched in noteshighshort
μ454ΜελανιππίδηςMelanippides… (Campbell 91-111, fr. 291). He also introduced the 12-stringed cithara (Pherecrates fr.155 PCG vol. 7). M.L. West (Ancient Greek Music 357-58) and others regard him as the chief innovator of the "new music" and …Matched in noteshighshort
ι552Ἰπνόςoven… an entry generated by Lycurgus fr. 75 Conomis (and citing Pherecrates' comedy of this name); also Photius and Hesychius; cf. mu 10.Matched in noteshighshort
β486Βωμολοχεύεσθαιaltar-ambusherAbridged and adapted from Harpokration s.v., which quotes Pherecrates fr. 141 Kock (158 K-A) and cites Aristophanes fr. 166 Kock (171 K-A). For other entries on this word-family see beta 487, beta 488, beta …Matched in noteshighmedium
αι299Αἴρειν ἔξω πόδα πηλοῦto lift one's foot out of the mud… [2] Aristophanes, Peace 1; quoted already at alphaiota 280. [3] Pherecrates fr. 137 Kock (now 145 K.-A.); cf. phi 212. [4] Menander fr. 273 Kock (239 K.-Th., 209 K.-A.) & fr. 451 Kock (385 …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ589Διακόνιονdiakonion, flat-cakeSame entry in Photius, Lexicon delta344. The headword occurs in Pherecrates fr. 156 Kock (now 167 Kassel-Austin), preserved by Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 14.645A (14.53 Kaibel). [1] FGrH 270: Menecles of Barca, an historian of the …Matched in noteshighmedium
β488Βωμολοχεύσαιτο(if one) were to play the wit at the altar… the twelve-stringed cithara by Melanippides the younger (mu 454; cf. Pherecrates fr.155 PCG vol.7) and eleven-stringed by Timotheus (tau 620; cf. his Persians) allowed for octaves, a greater vocal range, chromatic coloring and, probably, …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1029Διθυραμβοδιδάσκαλοιdithyramb-directors… beta 488, kappa 2647, phi 761, delta 1650, chi 296; Pherecrates fr. 155 PCG vol. 7, Antiphanes fr. 207 PCG vol. 2, and the Bibliography below (esp. Anderson, Barker, Dunbar, Düring, West). d) self-conscious …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε2807Ἐποποῖepopoi (in hoopoe-ese)… a carrier pigeon (known in Athens by this time: cf. Pherecrates fr. 33 Kock (now 38 K.-A.), from the Graes, "Send off a pigeon announcing the message"), and the line imitates its excited cooing. …Matched in noteshighlong

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