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Αἰξωνίδα τρίγλην
Aixonian mullet
… headword phrase, in the accusative case, comes from Attic comedy:
Cratinus
fr. 221 Kock, now 236 K.-A. For the Attic coastal deme Aixone see alphaiota 242.
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4
Βαβάκτης
reveller
… in the Doric vocative form baba/kta in a fragment of
Cratinus
(321 Kock, 22 Meineke, 359 Kassel/Austin), where it is an epithet of Pan. At Hesychius beta10 a possibly related word is identified as …
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β
64
Βαλανειομφάλους
acorn-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 …
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β
417
Βοῦθος περιφοιτᾷ
Bouthos is wandering around
[1]
Cratinus
fr. 245 Kock, now 262 K.-A.; Zenobius 2.66 and other paroemiographers. Other lexica assert that this Bouthos was an athlete. [2] cf. upsilon 100.
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459
Βοῦς ἐν αὐλίῳ κάθῃ
you are an ox sitting in a courtyard
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Cratinus
fr. 32 Kock, now 34 K.-A. Same or similar entry in Hesychius and some of the paroemiographers. (The modern equivalent might be: a square peg in a round hole.) cf. beta 458 …
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698
Διαπηνικίσαι
to pull the wig over
… of diaphniki/zw. It is presumably extracted from somewhere -- probably
Cratinus
(fr. 282 Kock, now 304 K.-A.), to whom the grammarian Pausanias and, post-Suda, Etymologicum Magnum 269.31 attribute this very rare verb. [1] Actually …
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947
Διερικνοῦντο
they were thoroughly twisting themselves
… third-person plural, imperfect indicative, of the verb diarrikno/omai. LSJ (citing
Cratinus
fr. 219 Kock, now 234 K.-A.) translate as "draw up and twist the body (of an unseemly kind of dance)" (web address 1). …
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δ
1189
Διοπομπεῖσθαι
to escort [evil] away
… lambda691 s. v. *le/rnh qeatw=n (The Lerne of the theaters,
Cratinus
fr. 347 Kock = 392 K.-A.): "paroimi/a ti/s e)stin *argolikh\ *le/rnh kakw=n, h(\n a)podiopompou/menoi e)/legon. ta\ ga\r a)pokaqa/rmata ei)s tou=to to\ xwri/on e)ne/ballon, …
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δ
1602
Δυσβράκανος
hard to deal with
… part of the gloss and related to the comic poet
Cratinus
(fr. 404 Kock, now 442 K.-A.). [2] Neuter plural; cf. beta 517, Hesychius beta1041, and Photius beta260.
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ε
11
Ἔαρος χρῄζει
is in want of spring
… swallow does not make a spring" (we would say "summer"),
Cratinus
fr. 33 Kock, now 35 K.-A., is quoted by Aristotle at Nicomachean Ethics 1098a16 (web address 2); cf. mu 1030, and see generally …
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η
199
Ἤλεκτρα
elektra, lyre-pegs
… 1), with scholion; cf. alpha 3977, tau 768, omega 276.
Cratinus
(kappa 2344) is being compared to a worn-out lyre. On the neuter noun h)/lektron, here in the plural (as in the Aristophanes passage), …
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η
306
Ἡμεροκαλλές
day-lily, hemerocallis, Martagon lily
Lilium Martagon: mentioned by e.g.
Cratinus
(fr. 98 Kock, now 105 K.-A.) and Theophrastus; also by medical writers.
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χ
116
Χαριξένη
Charixene
… lexica -- some of them preserving other material from comedy:
Cratinus
fr. 135 Kock (now 146 K.-A.), Theopompus fr. 50 Kock (now 51 K.-A.) -- bring out other points about the courtesan and musician …
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χ
495
Χρῇς
you need
[1] cf. already Hesychius s.v. The headword is quoted from
Cratinus.
[2] chi 471.
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