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- κ150Κακίαvice, evil… For the Socratic antecedent of this position (i.e. that vices are proper to or belong to ignorance or, rather, they are ignorance) see Plato, Meno 77B-78B; Gorgias 460B-D, 488A; Protagoras 352C, 355A-358A, 360D, and …
- γ358Γνωτόςintimate… Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 58-64 (web address 1 below). These words are spoken by Oedipus himself, and they begin w)= pai=des oi)ktroi/ ("o piteous children"); so the Suda's w)= fi/l' *oi)di/pous is doubly unacceptable. Adopt …
- κ2654Κύκλοιzones, circles… XI.3 Conomis) and Menander (fr. 171 Koerte, now 150 Kassel-Austin) are cited for the usage.
- α2556Ἀνόνηταunprofitable [things]… adjective, is perhaps extracted from the quotation given, though there are numerous other instances (including the one -- Euripides, Hecuba 766 -- quoted by Photius, Lexicon alpha2033 Theodoridis). [1] Sophocles, Ajax 758-9 (web address …
- α2194Ἀνδρῶναmen's quarters, dining-hall… singular of this noun, must be quoted from somewhere; there are numerous possibilities. [2] Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 677 (web address 1).
- ε2477Ἐπιμήνιαmonthly offerings… of Harpok. this participle obviously demands correction to thuomena, "which are sacrificed".
- α3799Ἀργυροῦνof silver and of gold[1] The uncontracted Ionic words are contrasted with the contracted headwords. [2] Thucydides, not in book one, but the autobiographical 4.105.1 (web address 1). [3] Thucydides 2.55.1 (web address 2).
- κ2708Κυνίδιονdoggie… 619) as well as the headword kuni/dion (cf. mu 519) are neuter diminutives; hence the translation. Both are best attested in Attic comedy.
- κ2558Κοινόνcommon, ordinary… Cf. Acts of the Apostles 10.14, where koino/n and a)ka/qarton are linked. See also kappa 2564. [2] The passage is taken (with variations and omissions) from Simplicius, Commentary on Aristotle's Categories 26.11-15, and John …
- αι282Αἱρεθένchosen… It must be quoted from somewhere; the few extant instances are all post-classical.
- κ1509Κηλῖδαspot, stain… its long iota. It must be quoted from somewhere; there are numerous possibilities. This entry and kappa 1508 are lacking ms F, and Adler indicates them as interpolations.
- κ1474Κειμένουςlying… a great slough of ever-flowing dung, and in this [men] are lying, anyone who ever wronged his guest"), with over-explicit comment from the scholia there. (Lying in dung would indeed count as punishment, but …
- δ86Δασύπουςshaggy-foot, furry-foot… Diogenianus 7.57 and other paroemiographers. Compare generically pi 2875. For hares and proverbs see also delta 87.
- μ605Μενέμαχοιstaunch in battle.… masculine nominative plural and thus presumably quoted from somewhere; there are extant possibilities in Appian (Iberica 217) and Plutarch (Moralia 809A). (See also the masculine accusative singular in Constantinus Manasses, Compendium chronicum 2146). [1] …
- α2562Ἀνοργίαςun-ritednessThe first two parts of this entry are also in other lexica. The headword, which must be quoted from somewhere but is not independently attested, is either genitive singular or accusative plural of this …
- α2645Ἀντεῖπενs/he spoke againstPresumably quoted from somewhere (there are numerous possibilities).
- κ464ΚαστάνειονchestnutChestnuts are mentioned at omicron 541; and the term is connected with kappa 463.
- ε3911Ἐφιέμενοιcraving… The headword (which must be quoted from somewhere -- there are numerous possibilities) is masculine nominative plural of this participle; cf. epsilon 2435. For this equivalence cf. epsilon 3914, epsilon 3920, etc..
- α135Ἀγαλματοποιοίstatue-makers, sculptors… internal cross-reference to chi 266. [1] Or meaning these three are outstandingly precise (as, apparently, at chi 266). See web address 1, web address 2, and web address 3 for information on these three …
- α3137Ἄπειροι γῦπεςinexperienced vultures, innumerable vultures… other paroemiographers -- which however read a(/per oi( gu=pes, "(you are acting) just as the vultures." The Suda's a)/peiroi is a mistake. See generally Tosi (cited under alpha 378) no.768.
- α1620Ἀμολγόςmidnight… the opposite is the case: the hour at which animals are milked. The remaining two etymologies are fanciful. In fact, if the initial alpha and the inflectional ending are removed, it becomes apparent that …
- δ269Δεσμὰbonds… its meaning in the final clause (where reason and deeds are the new bonds).
- κ1885ΚνώσσωI slumber[1] Likewise or similarly elsewhere; and this headword and gloss are echoed, with participles, in kappa 1886. [2] An incompetent summary -- it is not Mithridates who dies but his general Isidoros -- of …
- ι533Ἱππεία φάτνηhorsemanship[1] Headword and gloss are nouns derived from i(ppeu/s or i(ppeu/w (iota 530, iota 532). [2] In these phrases the adjective i(/ppeios is used as the equivalent of a genitive; cf. iota 534, iota …
- α1095Ἀλγηδόνεςgriefs, pains, sufferings… plural of this noun, evidently quoted from somewhere; the possibilities are numerous.
- ε705Ἐκφανεστάταςmost manifest, very manifest… lost section of the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti). For 'things that are at hand' cf. alpha 4669.
- μ698ΜεταλαμβάνωI participate, I take a share inThese verbs are found as governing the genitive in Anecdota Oxoniensia, ed. J.A. Cramer, 4.297.12, and also by Adler in the Lexicon Syntacticon Gudianum. The first verb alone is also found by her in …
- α3823ἈρεόβινδοςAreobindos, Ariobindus, AriovindusAgain under omicron 936 and pi 2251. The Goth Areobindos (cf. his famous near-namesake Ariovistus: OCD(4) s.v., p.152) -- in full Flavius Areobindus Dagalaifus Areobindus -- was son-in-law of the shortlived western emperor Olybrius, …
- α3078Ἀπεσχεδιάζετοwas improvising… from somewhere. (Note: the translation above assumes that these imperfects are middle-voice; if they are passives, render "was being improvised" and "was being made ready".)
- μ1106ΜιξιονίδηςMixionides[1] Both names are unattested outside lexicography in this precise form, but Meixonides is found. [2] From the dream-interpretations, in verse, attributed to Astrampsychus (alpha 4251); again under pi 1250. (The connection between this …