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α1684Ἄμυρις μαίνεταιAmyris is mad… entry parallels the one in Photius, Lexicon alpha1275. See also Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 12.520A-B (12.18 Kaibel). The date must be before 510 BCE, when Sybaris (in S Italy) was destroyed. On the episode see generally …Matched in noteshighmedium
α1687Ἀμυστὶ πιεῖνto drink in one gulp… this entry in also in Photius (Lexicon alpha1278); see also Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 11.783D-E (11.25 Kaibel). [1] i.e. deriving a)musti/ from the verb mu/w, 'close one's mouth' with alpha privative. [2] See epsilon 1537. [3] …Matched in noteshighmedium
α1731Ἀμφίθετον φιάληνset-about bowl, set-about phiale… both ends or with a handle on each side: see Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 11.500F-501D (11.103 Kaibel), and summarily in LSJ s.v. For the shallow phiale cf. phi 284.Matched in noteshigh

α1684

Ἄμυρις μαίνεται

Amyris is mad

The proverb refers to the man of sound mind. For a sacred envoy [theoros] had been sent to Delphi by [the] Sybarites concerning their good fortune, and the god had prophesied that there would be destruction on [the]…

Ἄμυρις μαίνεται· ἐπὶ τοῦ φρενήρους λέγεται ἡ παροιμία. θεωρὸς γὰρ ὑπὸ Συβαριτῶν πεμφθεὶς εἰς Δελφοὺς περὶ εὐδαιμονίας καὶ τοῦ θεοῦ χρήσαντος ἀπώλειαν Συβαριτῶν ἔσεσθαι τότε, ὅταν…

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α1812Ἀναβολήdeferral… and the lavish narrative in Aelian, Varia Historia 2.4; also Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 13.602B (13.78 Kaibel).Matched in noteshighshort

α1898Ἀνακεῖσθαιto be erected, to be set up[1] (Again at kappa 572.) See for this distinction Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.23C-D (1.42 Kaibel). [2] The conjunction could have been 'But ...', since this addendum effaces the distinction just made.Matched in noteshighshort

α1930Ἀναλαμβάνεινto gather up… Likewise in syntactical lexica. [2] Here begins material taken from Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.21B-D (1.38 Kaibel); it includes the quotations from Plato and Alexis. The opening verb is the impersonal e)/mele, not (as here) e)/melle. …Matched in noteshighmedium

α2018Ἀναπίπτεινto fall back… See also alpha 2019. The source for both entries is Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.23B (1.42 Kaibel). [1] Thucydides 1.70.5, of the Athenians (web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort

α2082Ἀνάστατοιanastatoi… [1] See generally alpha 3863; and for the point cf. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 3.114A (3.80 Kaibel). [2] A garbled version of Aristophanes fr. 202 Kock, now 211 Kassel-Austin. (It is even worse at chi 121, …Matched in noteshighmedium

α2443Ἄνηστιςunfasting… ou): "For you [are] not...". The passage is preserved by Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 2.47A (2.27 Kaibel), with explicit comment on the redundant a-. Compare in English (e.g.) flammable and inflammable. See also Olson B20.Matched in noteshighshort

α2501ἌνθειαAntheia… [3] For discussion of the spelling of the name compare Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 13.586E (13.51 Kaibel).Matched in noteshighshort

α2862Ἄπαγέ με εἰς τὰς λατομίαςtake me away into the quarries… to have spent some time in the stone quarries, for Athenaeus (Deipnosophists 1.6F = 1.11 Kaibel) records the story that he was sent there for seducing Dionysius' mistress. See also delta 1178, epsiloniota 291, …Matched in noteshighmedium

α3139ἈπείσομαιI will go away… Thasos [see eta 52, and under tau 599], quoted in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 15.698E (15.55 Kaibel). The forms of ei)/somai (and its compounds) are sometimes used in epic as future for ei)=mi "go," which itself …Matched in noteshighshort

α3210Ἀπινήςdirt-free, dirt-less… headword is effectively confined to lexica and grammars, but note Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 14.661D (14.81 Kaibel), where the ms reading poli/ths ... tis ou)k a)pinh/s is normally corrected (e.g. to Gulick's ou) tapeino/s).Matched in noteshighshort

α3336Ἀποκαρτερήσανταhaving killed oneself by abstinence… from somewhere (other than the quotations given below) -- probably Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 6.234A (6.24 Kaibel) [= part of Posidonius fr. 402 Theiler], on Gylippos (gamma 477) doing this after his conviction for embezzlement by …Matched in noteshighshort

α3455Ἀπόνιπτρονdirty water, washing water… where the phrase "water for hands" occurs; and see generally Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 9.408F (9.76 Kaibel), citing the learned Aristophanes of Byzantium.Matched in noteshighshort

α3636Ἀποφθεγγόμενοςspeaking plainly, uttering an apophthegm… headword participle must be quoted from somewhere. It occurs in Athenaeus, Galen, and Christian writers.Matched in noteshighshort

α3660Ἀποψώμενονwiping off… may be another matter, but cf. e.g. Aristophanes, Peace 1230; Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 13.578E (13.41 Kaibel) and 13.584C (13.47 Kaibel). In the present Aristophanes passage, using leaves rather than stones is presented as a surrender …Matched in noteshighshort

α3722Ἄπυρα σῖταfireless rations, unfired rations… in Nabataea, 312 BCE. [2] Diogenes Laertius 7.26. [3] From Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.31C-D (1.57 Kaibel), citing Alcman and Polybius; cf. generally alpha 1482.Matched in noteshighshort

α3891Ἄρισταbest… adjective, used adverbially. [2] For this proverb see also e.g. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 13.568DE (13.24 Kaibel). Its verb, (?)bowdlerised here in the Suda and in some of the paroemiographers to the meaningless u(fei=, should in …Matched in noteshighshort

α3928ἈριστόξενοςAristoxenus, AristoxenusAbridged from Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.7C (1.12 Kaibel). Aristoxenus of Cyrene was a hedonist philosopher, not to be confused with his namesake alpha 3297.Matched in noteshighshort

α3938ἈρίστυλοςAristylos, Aristylos… to give it a precise meaning. (See e.g. Machon ap. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 13.582D (13.45 Kaibel), where -- pace LSJ s.v. -- it refers not to fellatio but to incest.) The particular vice of Aristyllos …Matched in noteshighshort

α4002Ἁρπαστὸνhandball, snatchball… ancient ball-games in general see the compendium of material in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.14D-15C (1.25 Kaibel); and cf. alpha 1817, omicron 671, sigma 1719, sigma 1720.Matched in noteshighshort

α4297Ἀσφάραγονgullet… or similar material, variously, in other lexica; and see also Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 2.62E-F (2.62 Kaibel). [1] Accusative case(s); cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 22.328, where the headword occurs. See also sigma 1717. [2] …Matched in noteshighshort

α4402Ἀοιδόςbard… definitions, which are also in other lexica, the source becomes Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.14B-D and 1.16D (1.24 and 1.28 Kaibel). [1] delta 440. [2] Homer, Odyssey 8.248. [3] Homer, Odyssey 12.188.Matched in noteshighmedium

α4481Αὐτίτηνhomemade… accusative case. [1] Teleclides fr. 9 Kock, now 10 K.-A. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.31E (1.57 Kaibel) says that another comic poet, Polyzelus, also uses the term in this way (fr. 1 Kock); and see also …Matched in noteshighshort

α4659ἈφύαςAnchovies… which brings together various sources. The fullest of them -- Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 13.586 A-B (13.50 Kaibel) -- gives the names of these sisters as Stagonion and Anthis, and explains the nickname "Anchovy" (applied not …Matched in noteshighshort

αι6Αἰακίξaiakix, aeacix, aiakis, drinking-cupLikewise in ps.-Zonaras and, according to Adler, the Ambrosian Lexicon. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 11.782F (11.22 Kaibel) cites the hellenistic antiquarian writer Timachidas of Rhodes (tau 599) for what is probably an alternative form of the …Matched in noteshighshort

αι230Αἶνοςtale, story… nu 578. [3] From Clearchus (kappa 1714), On Riddles: see Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 10.452C-D (10.76 Kaibel). [4] Julian, Oration 7, 202A-B; again at mu 1389. For Hesiod see Works and Days 202-12, the tale of …Matched in noteshighmedium

αι250Αἰολομίτρηςagile with a waistband [or: having a multicoloured or twisted or flashing waistband]; having a multicoloured diadem… bibliography), points out that ai)olo- here probably means 'multicoloured', citing Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 12.536A (12.50 Kaibel) (= D(o)uris of Samos [OCD(4) p.480] fr. 31 Mette, FGrH 76 F14), on the mitre of Demetrius Poliorcetes, and …Matched in noteshighshort

β64Βαλανειομφάλουςacorn-bossed[1] Cratinus fr. 50 Kock, now 54 K.-A.; cf. generally Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 11.501D-F (11.104 Kaibel). [2] Burn the shells to heat the baths? cf. kappa 1308. [3] Outside lexicography this noun is attested only …Matched in noteshighshort

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