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1622
Ἁμορβός
attendant, shepherd
Same entry in ps.-Zonaras; similar one, post-Suda, in Etymologicum
Magnum
85.24. The headword is attested in Hellenistic and later poetry (Callimachus, Nicander, Oppian). Despite the etymology suggested here, the headword itself and several other …
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1784
Ἀμφόδοντα ζῷα
double-toothed creatures
… History of Animals. See also, for the first part, Etymologicum
Magnum
493.9-12, and cf. sigma 1595. [1] For this Aristotelian distinction cf. pi 1605.
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1788
Ἀμφότεροι
both
… That is, they make an indefinite noun definite; cf. Etymologicum
Magnum
314.53-54.
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α
2081
Ἀνάστατος
evicted, desolate
… references at Photius alpha1670-1671 Theodoridis. [2] Similarly, post-Suda, in Etymologicum
Magnum
100.9-10.
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2409
Ἀνήλατος
intractable, stubborn
Same entry, post-Suda, in Etymologicum
Magnum
106.45. For this adjective cf. under iota 471.
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2424
Ἀνὴρ ἀνδρὸς διαφέρει
one man differs from another.
… (See again, from "For..." onwards, at omicron 485.) Cn. Pompeius
Magnus
took over the command of the Mithridatic War from L. Licinius Lucullus in 67 BCE on the basis of the legislation proposed by …
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2858
Ἄωρτο
had been hung
… Homer, Iliad 3.272, where the headword occurs. [2] (cf. Etymologicum
Magnum
117.4.) The lexicographer seems to derive a)/wrto from o)/rnumi, "stir up, excite", as the words listed are forms of that verb: a conjectural …
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3014
Ἄπελος
ulcer
Same entry in ps.-Zonaras; similar one elsewhere, e.g. (post-Suda) Etymologicum
Magnum
331.5-6. The headword, a neuter noun, occurs in Callimachus (fr. 343).
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3211
Ἀπινύσσω
I lack understanding, I lie senseless
… initial, substantive gloss, the entry is paralleled (post-Suda) in Etymologicum
Magnum
122.32-40. The verb a)pinu/ssw occurs in Homer (Iliad 15.10, Odyssey 5.342, 6.258). It is a denominative from *a)pi/nutos, which is cited in the …
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3704
Ἀπρότων
gangsters
… seems to make sense in the context; cf. also Etymologicum
Magnum
s.v. a)bro/th, a)bro/twn; Etymologicum Genuinum s.v. a)bro/twn; Lexica Segueriana, Glossae rhetoricae s.v. a)bro/twn, Collectio verborum utilium s.v. a)pro/twn. [1] Dinarchus fr. VI.3 Conomis. …
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3839
Ἀρήγω
I aid
Epic/poetic verb. cf. Etymologicum
Magnum
141.5, Hesychius alpha7147 (glossing a)rh/gwn with bohqw=n), and already alpha 1108.
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3961
Ἄρκτος
bear
[1] Likewise, post-Suda, in Etymologicum
Magnum
144.18. The constellation (cf. under alpha 4239) is "ever-moving" because it does not set but remains above the horizon (in the relevant latitudes). [2] Abridged from Harpokration s.v., …
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3962
Ἄρκυς
hunting-net
[1] cf. Etymologicum
Magnum
144.9. [2] Likewise in other lexica. [3] Abridged from Harpokration s.v., who cites Lycurgus (fr.86 Conomis), Xenophon (On Hunting 2.3, etc.), and Cratinus (fr 79 Kock = 84 K.-A.).
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4173
Ἀσκληπιάδης
Asclepiades, Asklepiades
… formulation of this etymology can be found in the Etymologicum
Magnum,
s.v.: 'because he makes tough [askele] (i.e. harsh) diseases mild [epia]'. [4] pi 823. [5] Aelian fr. 92c Domingo-Forasté (part of 89 Hercher); …
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4469
Αὐτή
she, it
… alpha 2078, kappa 2761; also alpha 2079. [1] cf. Etymologicum
Magnum
173.7. [2] Psalm 117.24 LXX. [3] Luke 9.22. [4] George the Monk, Chronicon 1.312.9-22. The earliest annual Christian feast was March 25, thought …
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2
Αἶα
earth
… glossed with a more common equivalent; cf. Hesychius alpha1654, Etymologicum
Magnum
27.8-10, and the scholia to Homer, Iliad 2.850, 13.4. See LSJ entry at web address 1.
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18
Αἰγανέα
hunting-spear
… the scholia on Homer, Iliad 2.774, Hesychius s.v. ai)gane/as, Etymologicum
Magnum
28.30. For the dubious addition 'entirely of iron' (a single word in the Greek) cf. zeta 97. [2] Greek Anthology 6.57.3-4 (Paul the …
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70
Αἰγοφάγος
Goat-eater
Epithet of Zeus, Nicander fr. 99 (Etymologicum
Magnum
27.51); of Hera at Sparta, Pausanias 3.15.9 (web address 1) and Hesychius alpha1737. J.G. Frazer on the Pausanias passage: 'whenever a deity is called the eater …
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106
Αἰθάλη
soot
… Same or similar glossing in other lexica. [2] cf. Etymologicum
Magnum
33.21. [3] Quotation unidentifiable, but cf. delta 791, delta 792, kappa 2036, sigma 1023.
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140
Αἴθω
I blaze
Likewise in ps.-Herodian, the Etymologicum
Magnum
(33.19), and elsewhere. cf. alphaiota 119, alphaiota 131, alphaiota 135, alphaiota 139.
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239
Αἰξωνεύεσθαι
to be an Aixonian, to play the Aixonian
… the phrase "to be an Aixonian" occurs; Hesychius s.v.; Etymologicum
Magnum
36.57. [1] cf. alphaiota 240, alphaiota 241. [2] See alphaiota 242.
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250
Αἰολομίτρης
agile with a waistband [or: having a multicoloured or twisted or flashing waistband]; having a multicoloured diadem
… because of which he moved easily', Etymologicum Genuinum alpha221, Etymologicum
Magnum
37.21, Etymologicum Symeonis 1.156.27). As with all uses of ai)o/los (alphaiota 253) and its compounds, it is impossible to decide among the possible …
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252
Αἴολος
Aeolus, Aiolos
… entry is supplemented in the Etymologica (Etymologicum Genuinum alpha222; Etymologicum
Magnum
37.4f., Etymologicum Symeonis 1.156) with the name of Aeolus Hippotades, that is, Homer’s ruler of the winds (Odyssey 10.1-79, esp. 10.2: web address …
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255
Αἰών
aion, eon, age, marrow
… five meanings are found in the Etymologicum Genuinum, also Etymologicum
Magnum
41.15. They are as follows: (i) the life of a man, as at Homer, Iliad 5.685. (ii) a period of one thousand years. …
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268
Αἴπεια
Aipeia
… (Hesychius alpha2045; Ambrosian Lexicon 320, according to Adler; and Etymologicum
Magnum
37.38), given its mention in Homer: at Iliad 9.152 (again 294) it is one of the seven named ptoliethra given by Agamemenon to …
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4
Βαβάκτης
reveller
… Lexica Segueriana 223.31 Bekker; Photius, Lexicon beta5, 6, 8; Etymologicum
Magnum
183.45. Its only appearance outside lexicography is in the Doric vocative form baba/kta in a fragment of Cratinus (321 Kock, 22 Meineke, 359 …
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Βαβύλας
Babylas
… phlo/s (babyas: mire, clay). A similar entry, post-Suda, in Etymologicum
Magnum
186.1 probably identifies this as a dialect word: baki/as [babu/kas: ms M]: bo/rboros, phlo/s, u(po\ *taranti/nwn (bakias [or babykas]: mire, clay, in Tarantine …
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27
Βαθεῖαν αὔλακα
deep furrow
… in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon (and again, post-Suda, in the Etymologicum
Magnum).
The headword phrase, in the accusative case, is a version of baqei=an a)/loka in Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 593 (web address 1 below). …
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153
Βασίλειος
Basileios, royal
… three names ending in -eios are given here. Since Etymologicum
Magnum
s.v. talasi/a has the same three, presumably the number here is simply erroneous (so the C18 Suda editor L.Kuster). [2] For its change …
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194
Βαῦνος
furnace
… derivation of banausos from baunos is given in the Etymologicum
Magnum
187.38. [3] This extra observation is missing, Adler reports, from some manuscripts.
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