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718
Διαπρήσει
accomplishes
Same entry, according
to
Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. The headword (which must be quoted from somewhere but is not independently attested) is an Ionic dialect form, regularly spelled with double sigma, corresponding
to
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4494
Αὐτοκακὸν ἔοικε τῷδε
he seemed evil itself to him
The headword phrase is taken
to
come from comedy: Comica adespota fr. 658 Kock, now 559 K.-A. The glossing comes from Phrynichus (Praeparatio sophistica fr. 279), but the final and nonsensical 'well-disposed' has strayed …
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635
Καταλύειν τὸν δῆμον
to undermine the people
"To
undermine the people", which can also bear the sense of
"to
destroy the democracy", was the generic crime which could justify an impeachment (eisangelia) in classical Athens (cf. epsiloniota 220, epsiloniota 221, epsiloniota …
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2901
Ἅπαντα γάρ τοι βρωτὰ πολιορκουμένοις
for all things are food to the besieged
… a line of hexameter iambic verse. [1] An oblique reference
to
cannibalism.
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δ
470
Δημόφιλος
Demophilos, Demophilus
Demophilos was patriarch of Constantinople from 370
to
380 (died 386). See biography from Henry Wace at web address 1; Socrates' Ecclesiastical History 4.14 at web address 2; Sozomen's Ecclesiastical History 6.13 at web …
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1205
Διοσημεία
Zeus-omen, Zeus-sign
… and –i/a a few lines afterwards. Adler’s apparatus attributes –ei/a
to
mss A (which bears -i/a as a correction) and FV; in the second occurrence, only FV read –ei/a. Adler has evidently chosen
to
…
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1510
Δράσομαι
I will accomplish for myself(?), I will sacrifice for myself(?), I will run away
… have '[used] with a genitive' (cf. Syntacticum Gudianum p.590). As
to
the headword itself, such a first person singular, middle/passive, is not otherwise attested. Forms of didra/skw 'run away' (and its compounds) would not …
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604
Ἐκρέαινεν
accomplished
Same entry, according
to
Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. But the headword is more properly e)krai/ainen, quoted from Homer, Iliad 5.508; see Hesychius s.v. Either way, it is out of alphabetical order here. For …
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β
236
Βέμβηξ
top
… word is onomatopoetic, from the humming sound of the spinning
top;
it can also designate a buzzing insect. A 'spinner' (stro/mbos) is mentioned as early as Homer, in a simile at Iliad 14.413 (see …
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3006
Ἐρριπτασμένον
tossed about, prostrated again and again
This unhappy entry tries and fails
to
explain the metaphor at Aristophanes, Lysistrata 26-27 (web address 1), quoted at the end; it follows the scholia on these lines. Lysistrata is in the process of …
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46
Ἠγερέεσθαι
to gather together
… Homeric gloss is paralleled in the Ambrosian Lexicon; it is
to
be found (according
to
Adler) in Ambrosianus 12 Sup. 50, and we also have it (headword only) in Laurentianus 59.16 fol.187r.
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α
3708
Ἅπτεσθαι
to touch
[1] Likewise in other lexica; from the scholia
to
Homer, Iliad 2.152, where the middle-voice headword infinitive occurs. [2] But see e.g. Plato, Ion 535A (web address 1).
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2198
Κούφη γῆ τοῦτον καλύπτοι
may light earth cover him, may the earth covering him be light
… Emperor Julian. In Modern Greek they say 'as ei/nai elafru/
to
xw/ma pou
ton
skepa/zei', with the same meaning. Manuscripts of the Suda have the subjunctive kalu/pth| or the indicative kalu/ptei; the editio princeps …
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695
Ἐκκυβεύειν
to gamble (everything) on dice
… 2591. The prefix ek- here implies that the gamble is
total,
e.g. life or death in battle. For this concept, common in Greek, of gambling all on battle, see the proverbs "Let the die …
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207
Ἄγευστος θοίνης
without a taste of the feast
… Photius (alpha156 and alpha157 Theodoridis), and can be traced back
to
-- but not beyond -- two lemmata in the epitome of Phrynichus, Praeparatio sophistica (18.8 and 18.25 de Borries). [1] This gloss does …
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1418
Ἕνωσις
union, unification
… in the context of a Stoicizing doxography. (I am indebted
to
Oliver Phillips for having drawn my attention
to
this passage.) For this conception of fate as linking individual objects, see also Aulus Gellius, …
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1229
Διώκειν
to prosecute, to pursue
… so\n mo/ron "his doom"; Thucydides 2.63 tima/s "honors". The reference
to
moral values or virtue (cf. Plato, Gorgias 480C
to\
a)gaqo\n kai\ kalo/n, 482E a)lh/qeian) is common in New Testament Greek (Romans 9.30 dikaiosu/nhn) …
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ι
471
Ἰώβ
Job
Attributed in Kuster's edition (Paris 1700)
to
the same source as alpha 425. [1] Job 1:19. [2] Job 42:13. [3] Job 2:7. [4] Job 2:12. [5] Job 41:1. [6] Job 44:10. [7] cf. kappa …
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4446
Αὖλος Ποστόμιος
Aulus Postumius
… an (unsuccessful) embassy of three that the consul Aemilius sent
to
Samothrace
to
negotiate the surrender of Perseus, king of Macedonia (Livy 45.4.7). The following year, Aulus assumed custody over the defeated Perseus and …
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2736
Ἐπιτυχοῦσιν
to just any people; to those who happen to be there; to people of no consequence; to those who happen to succeed
… the long development of the concept of tyche from success
to
mere accident (tau 1232, tau 1233, tau 1234, eta 286 and refs.). It may be used of someone accurately hitting a target (with …
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κ
1708
Κλαύδιος
Klaudios, Claudius
… was the fourth Roman emperor. He lived from 10 BCE
to
54 CE and reigned, following his nephew Gaius Caesar (gamma 11, gamma 12), from 40
to
54. His adopted son Nero (nu 254) …
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1392
Ἀλώπηξ τὸν βοῦν ἐλαύνει
a fox drives the ox
[1] So
too
in Photius, Lexicon alpha1089 Theodoridis, and cf. Diogenianus 1.75;
Tosi
(cited under alpha 378) no.1886. [2] A line of iambic verse, apparently oracular. (Adler cites Astrampsychus, ed. Opsopoeus in Oraculis metricis …
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2310
Ἀνέρριπτον
I was tossing in the air, they were tossing in the air
… verbs a)narri/ptw and a)nalamba/nw are quite different in basic meanings:
"toss
in the air" versus "pick up from the ground," but may both be used of "undertaking" missions that are risky or dangerous, such …
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4525
Αὐτός τι νῦν δρῶν εἶτα τοὺς θεοὺς κάλει
do something now (and) then call upon the gods
… Euripides fr. 432 Nauck (which has dai/monas, not the Suda's
tou\s
qeou/s). Cf. "God helps those who help themselves."
Tosi
(cited under alpha 378) no.1290.
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β
218
Βέβηλος τόπος
profane place
Similar material in other lexica, and cf. also the scholia
to
Sopocles, Oedipus at Colonus 10, where the dative plural of the headword adjective occurs. [1] Euripides fr. 648. [2] Orphica fr. 334 Kern. …
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296
Καμπύλα τόξα
curved bow
… As Adler notes, this entry closely resembles the scholion (A)
to
Homer, Iliad 21.502-3 (web address 1) attributed
to
Aristonicus. There the verb is me/mixe not sune/mice, while Erbse cites the Suda text as …
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3039
Ἀπερείδομαι τὸν πόκον
I put forward the fleece
… 2.642 (web address 1 below). [4] Quotation unidentifiable. (Adler notes
Toup's
suggestion that it might be Polybius.)
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1173
Ἀληθέστερα τῶν ἐπὶ Σάγρᾳ
truer things than those at Sagra
… clear that we are dealing with Lokroi (sic) in the
"toe"
of Italy. [3] cf. Zenobius 2.17.
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2557
Ἐπίσαλος
sea-tossed
… the citizens of Thracian Drizipera (Drizipara, Drousipara; near the modern-day
town
of Büyükkarıştıran in European Turkey; Barriongton Atlas map 52 grid B2), under a week-long siege by the Avars in 593; cf. de Boor …
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2549
Κοινὰ τὰ τῶν φίλων
the property of friends is common property
… = Photius, Lexicon kappa839. See also kappa 2550, and generally
Tosi
[cited under alpha 378] no.433. [1] Timaeus of Tauromenium [tau 602] FGrH 566 F13a. [2] Menander fr. 9 Kock (13 K.-A.). [3] Julian, …
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