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495 entries for Sophocles

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χ535Χρόνου πόδαtime's foot… however, the word for 'foot' in the nominative case). [2] Sophocles, Electra 1292 (web address 3), with comments deriving from the scholia. The text of Sophocles has optative e)cei/rgoi for the Suda's e)cei/rgei and …Matched in noteshighshort
α170Ἀγάσματαobjects of wonderThe headword, a neuter plural, is printed as Sophocles fr. 971 Radt (885 Nauck edn.2), on the authority of this entry and Photius p.13, 28 Reitzenstein [now alpha131 Theodoridis] = Synagoge alpha95. Similar definitions …Matched in noteshighshort
α283Ἀγνώμονεςunpardoning, hard-hearted… headword, nominative plural, is extracted from the quotation given. [1] Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 86 (Oedipus is addressing the Eumenides), with glosses from the scholia there. See web address 1.Matched in noteshigh

χ535

Χρόνου πόδα

time's foot

[A phrase] from Euripides. Aristophanes [writes]: "'aither, Zeus's bedchamber' or 'time's foot'". Meaning Euripides says these things. And elsewhere: "since for you the story might preclude an opportunity of time."…

Χρόνου πόδα· ἀπὸ Εὐριπίδου. Ἀριστοφάνης· αἰθέρα Διὸς δωμάτιον ἢ χρόνου πόδα. ἀντὶ τοῦ Εὐριπίδου τοῦ ταῦτα λέγοντος. καὶ αὖθις· χρόνου γὰρ ἄν σοι καιρὸν ἐξείργει λόγος. Σοφοκλῆς.…

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α328Ἀγωνάρχαιcontest-judges[1] Sophocles, Ajax 572-3 (web address 1 below); again at lambda 839. [2] (Also in the paroemiographers, e.g. Apostolius 1.25.) Possibly Contest, the divine personification of the agon (cf. Pausanias 5.26.3), though the apparently …Matched in noteshighmedium

α383Ἀγυιαίhighways… In fact it is probably derived from a)/gw, lead. [2] Sophocles fr. 341 Nauck (= 370 Radt), from the Laocoon. [3] Pherecrates fr. 87 Kock, now 92 K.-A.Matched in noteshighmedium

α395ἈγχιάλειαAnchialeia… is feminine in the Greek, no doubt presupposing 'city'. [3] Sophocles, Ajax 134-135. [4] Greek Anthology 7.4.1-2 (Paul the Silentiary), an epitaph for Homer, buried according to legend on the island of Ios (Barrington …Matched in noteshighshort

α519Ἄδωραgiftless [gifts], no-gift [gifts]… a neuter plural, is extracted from the quotation given. [1] Sophocles, Ajax 665 (web address 1 below), with scholion. For a longer extract see epsilon 4028. [2] Aelian fr. 125d Domingo-Forasté (part of 122 …Matched in noteshighshort

α550Ἄελπτονbeyond expectation, unexpected, unhoped-for… quotation given, is neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective. [1] Sophocles, Ajax 648-649 (web address 1); quoted again, more fully, at pi 1281. [2] Same gloss in Apollonius the Sophist; cf. Hesychius. See also …Matched in noteshighshort

α606Ἀείalways… alpha 607. [1] Homer, Iliad 13.517 (web address 1). [2] Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1583-1584 (web address 2), with comment from the scholia there.Matched in noteshighshort

α632Ἀεὶ παρθένουςeternal virgins, eternally virgins… epsilon 3580, epsilon 3581, and generally OCD(4) s.v. (pp.535-6). [1] Sophocles, Ajax 835-837 (abridged: web address 1 below), with scholion.Matched in noteshighshort

α792ἈκάματαuntiringSophocles, Electra 164-5 (web address 1 below), with scholion. The headword is an adjective used, at least in the opinion of this scholiast, adverbially. cf. generally alpha 790.Matched in noteshighshort

α904Ἀκμήmoment, point, still… elsewhere. [1] Isocrates 2.33. [2] Hyperides fr. 116 Jensen. [3] Sophocles, Philoctetes 12-14 (web address 1 below), with scholion. [4] Greek Anthology 6.252.1, 3-4 (Antiphilus), on the gift of a quince, preserved in winter, …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1086Ἀλλάχθητεchange… person plural, aorist imperative), but from a compound verb. [1] Sophocles fr. 997 Radt.Matched in noteshighshort

α1116Ἄλεκτρα καὶ ἄνυμφαunmarried and unwedded… the quotation given, is a pair of neuter plurals. [1] Sophocles, Electra 492, with scholion.Matched in noteshighshort

α1180Ἀλλ' ἢ καλῶς ζῆν ἢ καλῶς τεθνηκέναι τὸν εὐγενῆ χρή πάντ' ἀκήκοας λόγονBut the well-born man should either live well or die well - end of storySophocles, Ajax 479-480 (web address 1); again at epsilon 3393.Matched in noteshighshort

α1239Ἀλιπαρῆmiserable, unfit for a suppliant… of this adjective, is extracted from the quotation given. [1] Sophocles, Electra 450-452, with scholion; cf. alpha 4709, zeta 131.Matched in noteshighshort

α1311Ἀλόγιστα παροίσομενwe will bear reason-baffling thingsSophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1675, with scholion. For "at the last" cf. pi 3172.Matched in noteshighshort

α1421Ἅλοιτοmight spring… a(/loito rather than a)/roito. On this epigram, an epitaph for Sophocles, see Gow and Page vol. I (252-253), vol. II (286), and its further extracts at alpha 145 and beta 453.Matched in noteshighshort

α1428Ἀλύεινto be beside oneself, to be overwhelmedSee also alpha 1427. [1] Homer, Odyssey 18.332. [2] Sophocles, Electra 135. [3] Agathias, Histories 1.10 (p.33 Niebuhr); again (slightly differently) at alpha 1575. His initial assault (553 CE, during the Gothic War of …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1589Ἄμμιγαcombined, confusedly… like Greek Anthology 7.21 (cf. alpha 4677) an epitaph for Sophocles, was by implication attributed to Simias of Thebes in the Anthologia Palatina; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 178-179) and (vol. II, 514-515). …Matched in noteshighshort

α1611Ἀμνηστεῖfails to recallSophocles, Electra 482-3 (web address 1: the chorus is singing to Electra and Chrysothemis about their father, Agamemnon), with scholion. Editors have preferred Doric a)mnastei= there. cf. generally alpha 1612.Matched in noteshighshort

α1666Ἀμυγνόνundefiled[1] Sophocles fr. 1005 Pearson. See also alpha 1686 and alpha 1689.Matched in noteshighshort

α1676Ἀμύνασθαιto ward off, to requite, to repay… (web address 1 below). [2] Simonides fr. 229 Bergk. [3] Sophocles fr. 1004 Radt (908 Nauck). Adler, following Nauck, connects this reference to the appearance of the verb a)mu/nomai at Oedipus at Colonus 873 …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1689Ἀμυχνόνundefiledcf. already alpha 1666, alpha 1686. [1] Sophocles fr. 1005 Radt.Matched in noteshighshort

α1695Ἀμφήμερονquotidian… adjective a)mfhmerino\n (after the headword a)mfh/meron); cf. epsilon 3904. [2] Sophocles fr. 507 Pearson.Matched in noteshighshort

α1753Ἀμφιπλήξdouble-edgedSophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 417-8 (web address 1), with scholion. See also delta 342.Matched in noteshighshort

α1795Ἄναup… 18.178 (web address 1). Same material in other lexica. [2] Sophocles, Ajax 194 (web address 2), with scholion; cf. epsilon 265. [3] Example in Homer, Iliad 3.351 (of Zeus): web address 3.Matched in noteshighshort

α2046Ἀναρίθμητοςcountless, boundless… (though not necessarily) extracted from the first quotation given. [1] Sophocles, Ajax 646-7 (web address 1). The passage is quoted again, more fully, at pi 1281. [2] Again, perhaps (though not necessarily) extracted from …Matched in noteshighshort

α2337Ἄνετέ μ'let me be[1] Sophocles, Electra 229-232 (web address 1 below), followed here by comment from the scholia there. [2] This term, a)na/nomos, is attested only here and in the scholion which is the Suda's source, as …Matched in noteshighmedium

α2351Ἀνέφελονnot to be veiled… quotation given, is masculine accusative singular of this adjective. [1] Sophocles, Electra 1246-50 (web address 1), with scholion.Matched in noteshighshort

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