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- δ1632Δυσήνυκτονhard to accomplish… Patristic texts. [1] See also the scholia to Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 502: a(nh/nutos: duskato/rqwtos.
- αι268ΑἴπειαAipeia… described as being 'near sandy Pylos' places them not in Argos [Myth, Place] (Hesychius) or Laconia (Steph.Byz.) but Messenia, in the SW Peloponnese. As to Aipeia itself, specifically, Strabo 8.4.5 noted identifications of it …
- ε2754Ἐπιφρασθείςobserving… earlier instance in Herodotus 4.200.2 (and two in Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica). [1] An abridgement of Arrian, Indica 27.8. The text of Arrian reads katalhpte/on ('should be taken under control') rather than katalhpte/a, but this …
- α1501Ἀμαρυγάςglimpses, glimmers… is accusative plural, quoted from somewhere -- probably Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.1018; cf. the scholia there. [1] Same or similar material in other lexica; references at Photius alpha1133 and alpha1130 Theodoridis. [2] Aristophanes, Birds …
- ε3004Ἐρίπναιcliffs, ravines… somewhere in that form, the source is perhaps Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.1247; note however that Hesychius epsilon5682 has the accusative plural, regarded by Latte as quoted from Euripides, Phoenician Women 1168. [The first glossing …
- χ21Χαλίκρητος ποτόςneat drink… also chi 26. [1] cf. the scholia to Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.473 (where the headword adjective occurs in the accusative case: web address 1). [2] Greek Anthology 5.294.6 (Agathias Scholasticus), stealing into his lover's …
- λ546ΛιμηράLimera… to the south of its better-known namesake Epidauros in the Argolid (epsilon 2278, epsilon 2279). Often the "Limera" suffix is used without explanation (e.g. Thucydides 4.58.2, 6.105.2; Pausanias 3.21.7, 3.23.6 & 10), but see …
- ε2216Ἐπητείαcourteousness (?)… outside lexicography, only in the dative plural at Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.1007 (web address 1). That attestation and the other lexicographical appearances of the word (e.g. Herodian, Partitiones 35.8; Etymologicum Gudianum 501.18; cf. Aristonicus …
- δ1630Δυσήνεμονbad-winded, very windy… 9.5. In general dush/nemos is attested first in Apollonius Rhodius (Argonautica 1.593) but not thereafter until the second century CE; Plutarch fr.82; Babrius, Mythiambi Aesopici 1.18 (both genitive singular). In the following centuries it …
- δ1546ΔρύοπεςDryopes… See Pherecydes FGrH 3 F19); Apollodorus 2.7.1; Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.1212ff.; Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 160ff.
- ε1586Ἔξαιτονchoice… = scholia to Homer, Iliad 12.320 and to Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.1004. See also the first part of Hesychius epsilon3522, and cf. (with different genders/cases) Apollonius Sophista, Homeric Lexicon 69.34; scholia to Homer, Odyssey …
- κ2603Κυδάζεταιis reviled… 1), quoted below; cf. also the scholia to Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1337, and Etymologicum Magnum 325.3. [1] So the transmitted text here, active voice, surely an error for loidorei=tai "is rebuked" (as in the …
- ε1475Ἐντομίδαιcastrated animals; insects… in other lexica. [2] cf. the scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.587 (where the phrase e)/ntoma mh/lwn, 'castrated rams', occurs); Etymologicum Magnum 345.27. And see also epsilon 1393. [3] Aristophanes of Byzantium, Epitome of …
- κ2724ΚυνοσουρίαKynosouria, Cynosuria, Dog's-tail… refers to the "Battle of the Champions" between Sparta and Argos [Myth, Place] in Kynouria, in the borderlands of the two poleis on the eastern coast of the Peloponnese (Herodotus 1.82, cf. Pausanias 2.38.5). …
- ε4064Ἕψιαpuns… other lexica, and cf. also the scholia to Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.459, where the related verb occurs. [1] The primary headword (which must be quoted from somewhere) is plural of a neuter noun connected …
- λ429Ληϊσθείςseized as plunder… participle is the feminine accusative singular lhi+sqei=san in Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.400; the masculine form which has generated the Photius/Suda entry is also to be seen in Hesychius lambda830 (lhi+sqe/ntos glossed klape/ntos, a)faireqe/ntos). [2] …
- κ1047Κατήλιφαroof-beam, ladder, upper storey… see e.g. Homer, Odyssey 2.424 (with scholion), 15.289; Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.563 and scholion; Lycophron, Alexandra 751 and scholion; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 36.407, 39.316, 45.142). In the Suda (mu 666) meso/dmh is defined as referring …
- κ2186Κουρίζουσα[she] being youthful… possibilities include Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 5, and Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.666. [2] The correspnding masculine nominative singular, again with the same or similar glossing elsewhere, including a scholion on Homer, Odyssey 22.185, from …
- μ329Μαιναλία ἔλαφοςMainalian hind… and is associated with wild animals (bears: Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.168; lynxes: Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 89), but the Suda is probably guessing in associating a particular connotation of impulsiveness with the region. …
- α851Ἀκέσταςhealers… synonyms for other words for 'doctor' and 'healing': Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.512 (and scholia thereto), Corpus Hippocraticum, De flatibus 1.8, Lycophron Alexandra 1050, some ecclesiastical writers, incl. St. Basil, and the poems of the …
- ι442Ἴουλοςdown [on the cheeks], vine-worm[1] cf. scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.972, and on Lycophron, Alexandra 23; and glosses in other lexica; see also iota 443. [2] Greek Anthology 6.198.1-3 (Antipater of Thessalonica), a young man's first shave; …
- ι52ἸάσωνJason, Iason… (iota 53) credits a historian and scholar called Jason of Argos [Myth, Place] with the authorship of 4 volumes about Greece, peri\ th=s *(Ella/dos. Jacoby in his commentary to FGrH 94 declines to equate …
- β237ΒενεβεντόςBeneventos, Beneventum, Benevento… another Beneventum near Verona.) On the other hand Argyrippe, a.k.a. Argos [Myth, Place] Hippium, was in Apulia, which is at least within striking distance of Calabria. This odd entry appears to be conflating information …
- ε1993Ἔπαυλιςencampment… 226.27, Etymologicum Magnum 353.57, and the scholia to Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.800. See also epsilon 1991. [2] Polybios fr. 145 Büttner-Wobst. Büttner-Wobst notes (145) that Casaubon attributed this fragment to Polybios and that Schweighäuser …
- ε1991Ἔπαυλιςencampment… cites Hesychius (presumably epsilon4260) and a scholium to Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.800. Both use a word similar to oi)ki/a ('dwelling') to gloss the headword (or a related word), but otherwise these sources have more …
- ε3996ἜχετοςEchetus, Echetos… King Echetus of Epirus see (besides Homer, below): Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.1092-1095; Hesychius s.v.; ps.-Nonnus, Scholia mythologica 4.48; Michael Apostolius s.v. *fala/ridos a)rxh\ kai\ *)exe/tou; and under beta 279 and tau 1187. [1] Homer, …
- κ758Καταρτύσωνintending to prepare… Solon 27.11; Sophocles, Antigone 478; Plato, Laws 808D; Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.392; Plutarch, Moralia 38D. [2] Homer, Odyssey 11.439 (web address 4). The context is Odysseus' conversation with Agamemnon in the Underworld. In place …
- α856Ἀκεῖσθαιto heal… active use is a learned Alexandrian back-formation by Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.765; cf. alpha 841. [1] From the scholia to Plato, Republic 364C, where the headword occurs. See also Photius s.v.
- κ2366Κρέκεινto strike… ("he/she/it strikes"). In her critical apparatus, Adler cites Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.909 with scholion, where the cognate form kregmw=| (masculine dative singular of kregmo/s, "sound of stringed instruments", cf. LSJ s.v.) occurs; cf. Etymologicum …
- δ377Δῆθενindeed… (below, in the bibliography). Cf. also scholia to Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.998, to Thucydides 1.92, and to Sophocles, Trachiniae 382. [2] Adler tentatively assigned this quotation to Appian, on no stated (or discernible) basis. …