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- δ1647Δυσκλεέςinfamous… 3 instances). For the antonym eu)klee/s, see epsilon 3537. [2] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 82 Habrich.
- κ1448ΚεφαλήνKephallenian, Cephallenian… of Animals 605b; Diodorus Siculus 15.36.5; Appian, Civil Wars 5.3.25, Iamblichus, de Vita Pythagorica 2.3. [2] More exactly, a large island off the west coast of Balkan Greece (between Leukas, Ithaca and Zakynthos); Barrington …
- κ2802Κυψέληcask… read o)ph/ ('opening') for the clearly erroneous o(plh/ ('hoof'). [2] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 15 Habrich.
- α4353Ἀτηρότατονmost baneful, very baneful… K.-A. [3] Aristophanes, Wasps 1299 (web address 1 below). [4] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr 111 Habrich.
- ε2225Ἐπιβάθραςplatform… comes from the first of the two quotations given. [2] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr.5 Habrich. [3] Polybius 16.29.2 (preserved here only). For Abydos see alpha 101.
- ε2632Ἐπιστολήletter, missive, order… on Sophocles, Ajax 781 and Oedipus at Colonus 1601. [2] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 95 Habrich. [3] Quotation unidentifiable (Adler suggests Aelian.)
- α1904Ἀνακλῖναιto push back, to turn back… 5.751, with scholion. [2] Herodotos [not Photius' 'Herodianos'!] 5.16.4. [3] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 26 Habrich.
- β443Βουλομένῳwishing… singular, is presumably extracted from the first quotation given. [1] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 102 Habrich. [2] Not Aristophanes but Sophocles: Philoctetes 94-95 (web address 1 below).
- ι729Ἰσχυρόνstrong… singular, probably extracted from the quotation which immediately follows. [2] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 107 Habrich. [3] Quotation unidentifiable.
- α2113Ἄναυδοςspeechless… address 1) [2] Sophocles, Ajax 715 (web address 2). [3] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr.62 Habrich.
- ε1122Ἐναπομόργνυνταιthey are imparted… Dionysius the Areopagite.) More generally for this verb see e.g. Iamblichus, On mysteries 5.3 (quoted by Stobaeus 3.3.26), of a colour; John Chrysostom, On virginity 71; Porphyry, Sententiae 29.12; Proclus, Eclogae fr.3.24; Stobaeus 1.49.55; …
- ε2325Ἐπιθέντεςdispatching… e)piti/qhmi (cf. epsilon 2693, again with the letter-sending sense). [1] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 45 Habrich. [2] Quotation (in which ms T has e)piqe/ntes rather than the e)pido/ntes preferred by Adler despite its lack of …
- λ130Λαρυγγίζεινto croak… Demosthenes 18.291 (web address 1), cited from Harpokration s.v. [2] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 20 Habrich; cf. alpha 4140.
- α1001Ἀκρόδρυαfruits… [2] As in the scholia to Plato, Critias 115B. [3] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 19 (ed. Habrich); more fully at sigma 673.
- α2270Ἀνενεγκώνhaving come round… given. [1] Quotation unidentifiable. [2] Again at epsilon 827. [3] Iamblichus fr. 83 Habrich.
- β26Βαθεῖα κόμηthick hair… first quotation given. For its adjective, cf. beta 27. [1] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr.17 Habrich; cf. theta 601. [2] Quotation unidentifiable; again (with the following one too) at lambda 155. [3] Quotation unidentifiable. Adler suggests …
- ε2224Ἐπιβάθραplatform… in the genitive case. Similar glosses in other lexica. [2] Iamblichus, Bablyoniaca fr.6 Habrich. [3] Polybius 16.29.1 (preserved here only).
- ε3353Εὐάew-aa… Cf. the baa-ing of a sheep at beta 250. [1] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr.10 Habrich.
- ε575Ἔκπλεαcomplete (ones)… in this full form, but perhaps a distant memory of Iamblichus, Life of Pythagoras 5.21: logisa/menos o(/ti eu)peiqh= e(/cei, ei) ta\ e)pith/deia e)/kplea/ tis au)tw=| a)merimnou=nti pare/xoi. [3] Aelian fr. 145 Domingo-Forasté (142 Hercher).
- ε2438Ἐπιλεξάμενοςhaving reckoned… Roman Antiquities 1.39.3. [2] Herodotus 5.30.3, speaking of Aristagoras. [3] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 53 Habrich.
- ει207Εἴρωνdissembler… again more briefly under eta 174 -- variously attributed to Iamblichus (Babyloniaca fr.31 Habrich) and to Damascius (fr.23 Asmus; rejected as Damascian by Adler but still fr.46 Zintzen).
- λ436Ληκύθιονflask, oil-flask… reports parallel entries in the Laurentian and Ambrosian lexica. [2] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 23 Habrich. [3] Aristophanes, Frogs 1198-1200 (web address 1), with scholion on 1203; cf. kappa 1861. Aeschylus ridicules the prologues of …
- λ170Λάχοςportion, lot[1] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 104 Habrich. [2] Fragment of dactylic fable, included in appendix to Crusius' edition of Babrius, p. 216. As to the glossing of 'portion' with 'part', Adler notes that Ruhnken adduced …
- κ2232Κῶλαlimbs… uses of this plural at kappa 2231, kappa 2233. [2] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 52 Habrich; cf. kappa 1282. [3] Greek Anthology 7.196.3-4 (Meleager [Author, Myth]), an invitation to a cicada to make music; cf. …
- κ1441Κεφάλαιονmain point, gist… Ochrid on Hebrews 8.1 (web address 1); PG 125.285d [2] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 19 Habrich; already at kappa 1414 and more fully at sigma 673. [3] From tau 690.
- ι736Ἰταμόςhasty, reckless… lexica. The headword is actually derived from ei)=mi "go." [2] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 98 Habrich; already quoted at alpha 916. [3] cf. epsilon 3095. [4] Superlative, neuter plural. Also in other lexica; evidently quoted …
- ε1567Ἐξάρτυσιςequipment… the artillery manual of Philo of Byzantium and later in Iamblichus, Life of Pythagoras 25.114; but it occurs again in Byzantine historians such as George Pachymeres and Theophanes the Confessor. For the equivalence with …
- α4621Ἄφιππα χωρίαhorseless places, places impossible for horses, unsuited for cavalry… beta 103, kappa 1128 note, and kappa 2025 note. [3] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 21 Habrich. [4] For another technical meaning of a)/fippoi, see iota 546.
- ε601Ἔκπυστα(matters) ascertained, (matters) of common knowledge… unidentifiable. (Adler's attribution to Aelian has no discernible basis.) [4] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 47 Habrich.
- α3816Ἀραῖοςaccursed… 3814, alpha 3836. (The headword itself is properispomenon: a)rai=os.) [4] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 24 Habrich.