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3782
Ἀργοναῦται
Argonauts
Those sailing in the ship
Argo.
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3785
Ἀργώ
Argo
… ship [of that name]. Also [sc. attested is the term]
Argonauts.
Also [sc attested is the phrase] th|=
*)argoi=
["on the
Argo"],
in the dative.
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3781
Ἀργόλαι
argolai, snakes
… type of snakes, which the Macedonian Alexander brought from Pelasgian
Argos
[Myth, Place] to Alexandria and threw into the river for the destruction of the cobras, when he moved the bones of the prophet …
dreams
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dreams
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mathematics
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mathematics
1
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3783
Ἀργὸν ἔτος
year of no work, idle year, sabbatical year
… similar to [what happened] every seven days. [It is] also
a)rgo/s
for the feminine [gender]. Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "I will not say that [my wife] was idle; she did weave."
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3786
Ἀργῶς
idly, sluggishly, without working
Interpretation of a dream. 'To move idly makes paths miserable'.
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3772
Ἀργειφόντης
Argeiphontes, Argos-Slayer
Attested from Homer onwards. On the monster
Argos
[Myth, Place], see generally RE
Argos(19);
OCD(4) p.50, s.v. Argus.
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3766
Ἀργεία
Argeia
On
Argos
[Myth, Place], in the NE Peloponnese, see generally OCD(4) p.149, s.v.
'Argos(1)'
and Barrington Atlas map 58 grids D2-E2. Hera was the principal deity there: OCD(4) pp.149-50, s.v.
Argos,
cults'. The Argive …
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1263
Ἀλίφειρα
Alipheira, Aliphira
… often-contested region (cf. Pausanias 3.2.2-3, web address 3) between the
Argolid
(the region surrounding
Argos
[Myth, Place], cf. alpha 3766) to the north and Lakedaimonia (the region around Sparta, cf. lambda 49) to the …
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1862
Ἀναδρομαί
retreats, returns
… Pyrrhus the king of the Epeirotes and his invasion into
Argos
[Myth, Place] and the expedition of Lysimachus through Thrace against Dromichaites the king of the Odryssians; also many other [situations] like these."
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4309
Ἀταλάντη
Atalante, Atalanta
… was friends, thanks to having been their shipmate on the
Argo;
and he seized Iolkos and killed the wife of Akastos.
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250
Δέρας
skin
… Jason took after coming through the Black Sea with the
Argonauts
into Colchis, and [sc. taking also] Medea the daughter of the king Aietes. This was not as is reported in poetry, but it …
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446
Ἀδέψητον
untanned, undressed
… (cf. 142), of leather, though note that in Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica
4.1439, the present gloss and headword occur in reverse order.
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826
Ἄκαινα
akaina
… other lexica, and cf. also the scholia to Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica
3.1323. See already under alpha 825. Dimensions in akainai are especially common in the technical treatises of Hero [Author, Myth](n), but see also …
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1340
Ἁλοσύδνης
sea-born
… which proffer the present gloss); of Nereids in Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica
4.1599. Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at Photius alpha1043 Theodoridis. May contain the root of hudor, "water."
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1577
Ἀμήρυτον
endless, interminable
… at Photius alpha1188 Theodoridis. From a scholion to Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica
2.221, where the neuter singular headword appears (describing old age).
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1674
Ἀμυμώνειος
Amymonian
… was the daughter of Danaus who went for water at
Argos
[Myth, Place], was rescued from a satyr, then seduced by Poseidon, who created a spring in commemoration and named it after her. See …
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1716
Ἀμφιδέδηεν
blazes around, burns around
… (LSJ entry at web address 1), see also Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica
4.397.
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1758
Ἀμφιρρῶγας
jagged, splintered
… quotation given, but is more probably quoted from Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica
1.995; see the scholia there. [1] Greek Anthology 6.109.3 (Antipater), a hunter's dedication to Pan; cf. Gow and Page vol. I (44-45), vol. …
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2499
Ἀνθ' Ἑρμίωνος
instead of Hermione
… the Babylonians of Aristophanes. [1] At the tip of the
Argolid:
epsilon 3043.
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2501
Ἄνθεια
Antheia
… entry derives from Harpokration s.v. [1] In the Peloponnese, near
Argos
[Myth, Place], according to Stephanus of Byzantium. [2] cf. alpha 2644 (and phi 457). On the hetaira Anteia see Konstantinos Kapparis, Apollodoros 'Against …
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2504
Ἄνθεια
Antheia, Flowery
At
Argos
[Myth, Place] (Pausanias 2.22.1) and Miletos: see LSJ s.v.
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2583
Ἀνωγή
command
… 2581). The first of its two occurrences in Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica
(1.1134) has generated the present entry; see the scholia thereto.
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3791
Ἀργυρίππη
Argyrippe
… common. Chief city of the Daunians and also known as
Argos
[Myth, Place] Hippium.
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4048
Ἀρτίτομος
fresh from cutting
… similarly elsewhere. For the first of these see Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica
4.1515 (on the Gorgon's head).
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4563
Ἀφάσσων
groping for
… a)fa/sswn, however, is quoted from somewhere else: either Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica
4.428, or Lycophron, Alexandra 114; the scholia to both passages gloss it as here.
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472
Βουτύπος
ox-butcher
From the scholia to Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica
2.91, where the headword occurs; also in other lexica.
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306
Δειελινόν
in the afternoon, in the evening
… 261.18. The headword form is perhaps extracted from Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica
1.452. [2] Another poetic form; perhaps extracted from Homer, Odyssey 17.606.
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377
Δῆθεν
indeed
… (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. …
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153
Χαιός
crook
… also Etymologicum Magnum 807.46 and the scholia to Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica
4.972 (where the headword appears: web address 1 below).
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