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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 …Matched in noteshighshort
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] …Matched in noteshighshort
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 …Matched in noteshighshort
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 …Matched in noteshighshort
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. …Matched in noteshighshort
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 …Matched in noteshighshort
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; …Matched in noteshighshort
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 …Matched in noteshighshort
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 …Matched in noteshighshort
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 …Matched in noteshighshort
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 …Matched in noteshighshort
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, …Matched in noteshighshort
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 …Matched in noteshighshort
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.Matched in noteshighshort
ν98Ναὶ μὰ τόνyes by the ...… comment from the scholia there; cf. scholion on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.669 (and sigma 1694). [2] Menander [the comic poet] fr. 740 Kock, 801 Koerte, now 884 K.-A. [3] Homer, Iliad 1.234; cf. mu …Matched in noteshighmedium
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 …Matched in noteshighshort
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. …Matched in noteshighshort
α15ἈβάντειοςAbanteios, Abantius, Abantian… fact almost certainly A. the son of Lynkeus, king of Argos [Myth, Place] after Danaos and father of the twins Akrisios and Proitos (Pausanias 2.16.2 (web address 1); Apollodorus, Library 2.2.1 (web address 2)). …Matched in noteshighshort
η102Ἦδοςdelight… sources as Herodian, Choeroboscus, and the scholia to Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica. See e.g. Herodian, De prosodia catholica 3.1537: 'disyllabic neuter words terminating with os and naturally beginning with a long [syllable] are pronounced with …Matched in noteshighshort
λ302Λέρνη θεατῶνLerna of spectators, Lerne of spectators… and, in parts, marshy place near the sea south of Argos [Myth, Place] (see web address 1: Pausanias 2.36.6-37.6). Thus another interpretation of the phrase might be 'quagmire of spectators', or 'cesspool of spectators' …Matched in noteshighshort
α3415ἈπολλωνιάςApollonias, Apollonis… I and brother of Attalos II. [2] Two brothers from Argos [Myth, Place], famous for devotion to their mother; their story is briefly told in kappa 2499.Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1504Δραπέτης κλῆροςrunaway lot… three lots to pop out of the hydria would assign Argos [Myth, Place], the second Laconia, the last Messenia. Cresphontes wanted Messenia, so he placed a lot of moist earth in the pot, knowing …Matched in noteshighmedium
μ274Μασχαλισθῆναιto put under the armpits, to mutilate… also alpha 3616, epsilon 928, mu 275. [1] Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.477, which reads ta/mne, "he cut off". [2] The entire entry is excerpted from the scholia to Sophocles, Electra 445, i.e. part of …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3019Ἑρκύνιοι δρυμοίHercynian forests (?Black Forest)… (epsilon5931). Hera shouts from a Hercynian cliff in Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.640; cf. scholiast ad loc. We might speculate that it is a borrowing from Celtic or Thracian for the very ancient mother-goddess whose …Matched in noteshighshort
αι250Αἰολομίτρηςagile with a waistband [or: having a multicoloured or twisted or flashing waistband]; having a multicoloured diadem… used of the baldric that carries a quiver (Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.156), or of a virgin's girdle (Gow 491, note 55) or a wrestler's (Greek Anthology 15.44), passing between the legs. But elsewhere it …Matched in noteshighshort
η88Ἤδηby this time… Porphyrius, Life of Pythagoras 45; the scholia to Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 56.Matched in noteshighmedium
ε928Ἐμασχαλίσθηwas armpitted… frr. 528, 623 (of Troilos, by Achilles) and Apollonios Rhodios, Argonautica 4.477 (of Apsyrtos son of Aietes, by Jason). The practice was evidently well enough known to fifth-century Athenians to need no explanation, but …Matched in noteshighshort
α1298Ἀλκυονίδες ἡμέραιAlcyon days, Halcyon days, kingfisher days… cry was taken as one of ill-omen (e.g. Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1085). [1] cf. the scholia to Aristophanes, Birds 250. [2] The halcyon days were associated with a habit of nesting and incubating for …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2706ΚυνήειοςKyneeios, Cyneius, Kynneios, Cynneius… established his cult and/or shrine. [3] Sokrates of Kos (or Argos [Myth, Place]), Surnames of the Gods fr. 16 FHG (4.499). How much Sokrates is responsible for --- (a) only what precedes, (b) only …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε2426ἘπικύδηςEpikydes, Epicydes… Hannibal. He accordingly selected Polykleitos of Kyrene and Philodemos of Argos [Myth, Place] for the purpose, and sent them into Italy, with a commission to discuss the subject of an alliance with the Carthaginians; …Matched in noteshighmedium

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