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- χ493Χρῆνit was necessary… 467 and chi 471. [2] See also epsilon 4042. [3] Synesius, Epistle 7.169C, to his sister Stratonike and her husband Theodore: see translation at web address 3.
- κ2141Κόσμειput in order… in paroemiographers; similar to Euripides Telephus fr. 723 Nauck. [3] Synesius Epistle 101, p. 239d Hercher. See the translation of A. Fitzgerald at web address 1.
- κ1996Κομῆταιcomets… to a man with long hair; cf. psi 72. [5] Synesius, Encomium on Baldness 22 Terzaghi. The distasteful word he will not utter could be perai/netai ("being buggered"), and appears as such at omicron …
- α2061Ἀνασεσυρμένηνexposed… of pulling up clothing and revealing what is underneath. [2] Synesius, Letter 67 (213C): see translation at web address 1. [3] Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 312 Zintzen (176 Asmus); cf. alpha 4462 (end), …
- α3535Ἀποσμιλεύουσιparing down… a scholium on Aristophanes, Frogs 819, where smileu/mata occurs. [3] Synesius, Letter 101 (p.240d Hercher); repeated more fully at pi 170, where it is clear that the verb is not third person plural, as …
- β403Βόστρυχοςlock… Ecclesiazusae 954-5 (web address 1 below); cf. delta 1361. [3] Synesius, Encomium on Baldness 21 (PG 66, 1204b); cf. omicron 515, which has "to say", and pi 1254.
- α2562Ἀνοργίαςun-ritedness… must be quoted from somewhere; there are extant possibilities in Synesius and elsewhere. [2] Aristophanes, Lysistrata 898 (web address 1), with scholion. Using the euphemistic language of cult (see Henderson [below] 179 with 174), …
- ε1062Ἐμοί τε ἐπιστολαίI have letters… Toup's attribution of it to either the emperor Julian or Synesius.) [1] A byword for superior pride, Capaneus, one of mythology's Seven Against Thebes, boasted that not even Zeus could stop him scaling the …
- κ169Κακὸς κακῶςevil evilly… of the same root. [1] Or, "in the last storm." Synesius, Letter 130, 265C (translation at web address 1). This letter is quoted also at epsilon 713 and upsilon 441. [2] Part of Aelian …
- κ2588Κυβελίοις[in] Kybelian [rites]; [in] Cybelian [rites]… Toup drew attention to the (unique) instance of *Kubelei/ois in Synesius, In Praise of Baldness PG 66.1204d. The words for Cybele, the Phrygian and Roman Great Mother (see kappa 2586), here have a short …
- α3105ἈπέχωI receive in full… below, though not necessarily; there are numerous other possibilities. [1] Synesius, Epistle 95 (233b). See translation at web address 1. [2] Greek Anthology 6.147.1 (Callimachus); a man's dedication on behalf of his wife who …
- δ1461ΔώριοςDorian… instead of the manuscripts' tu/xhs. [3] Apostolius 3.61. [4] From Synesius, Praise of Baldness 4, PG 66.1173c; cf. lambda 638.
- κ1438Κευθμώνωνof hiding-places… genitive plural (already under alpha 425) is first attested in Synesius (Hymns 1.624) and Origen (Selecta in Psalmos PG 12.1509). However it seems to have been a variant of keuqmw=n in Homer, Iliad 13.29: …
- ε3213ἙστιάδεςHestiades… awkwardly to the apparently unrelated note on the Hestiades. [3] Synesius, Dion 5.18-19 (PG 66.1128a). Read ou)d’ a)\n fai/hn.
- α2811Ἀξιόλογα βάρηnoteworthy weights… not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as Synesius, Letters 133.16 (with optative pe/mpoimen). See on this Theodoridis' Photius edition, vol.II p.XCVI. The same passage is quoted at alpha 2621. [2] Quotation …
- α4229Ἀστεμφέαunshaken… a support or prop for such a reed mesh. [4] Synesius, Dio (PG 66.1125c-d).
- ν163Νέμεσιςnemesis, Nemesis… on Horace's culpam poena premit comes and Greek parallels. [7] Synesius, Letter 95, p.235b Hercher, quoting Mesomedes (translation at web address 1); see under upsilon 559. On Mesomedes, see mu 668.
- ε2171Ἐπηλυγάζονταιthey are being obfuscated… Aelian fr. 246 Hercher, 244a Domingo-Forasté (cf. epsilon 1137). [4] Synesius, Encomium on Baldness 21.5 (PG 66.1204b), with minor textual divergences.
- δ1183Διονυσίων σκώμματαinsults of the Dionysia… if not, its origin is unidentifiable. [1] An approximation of Synesius, Dion 1.103 (PG 66.1117c), where Socrates and Zeno are specified as the targets; cf. beta 86. [2] From delta 1168, q.v. (This sentence …
- δ1126Διμοιρίτηςdouble-pay soldier, half-file commander… the pay, dimoiri/ths le/getai o( diplou=n misqo\n lamba/nwn, cf. above; Synesius, Insomn. 13 (p. 170). In Lucian, Iuppiter tragoedus 48, the word is applied to a sailor "among the sailors, the one who is …