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α3207ἈπίκιοςApicius… fourth-century. The present entry's material, after the opening ethnikon, summarizes Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.7A-C (1.12 Kaibel). See also alpha 3213, alpha 3214. [1] So again at kappa 387 and kappa 1649. But manuscript M has …Matched in noteshighmedium
αι222ΑἴνικοςEunikos, Eunicus… and in ps.-Zonaras, but it should be Eunikos (Pollux 10.100; Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 13.567C (13.21 Kaibel), who mentions the play mentioned here -- see further, next note). See generally Kassel-Austin, PCG V pp. 278-279. [2] …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1152ΔιόδωροςDiodoros, Diodorus

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Ἀπίκιος

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A Roman, who had spent countless sums of money on his stomach, in Kintouri [a city] of Galatia eating many shrimp, for they are bigger than the largest of those in Smyrna and the lobsters in Alexandria. So when he heard…

Ἀπίκιος, Ῥωμαῖος, ἱκανὰς μυριάδας ἀργυρίου καταναλώσας ἐς τὴν γαστέρα, ἐν Κιντούροις τῆς Γαλατίας πολλὰς καρίδας ἐσθίων· μέγισται γάρ εἰσι τῶν ἐν Σμύρνῃ· καὶ τοὺς ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ…

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… 327. The same might have happened at epsilon 2493. [2] Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 10.431C (10.38 Kaibel). [3] Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 6.235D (6.27 Kaibel), 6.239A (6.36 Kaibel). ['12th' needs emendation, to 6th.]

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α1057Ἀλαζώνboaster, imposter… Archestratus of Gela (fr. 59.12 Brandt, nominative plural) preserved in Athenaeus. [3] So too in the Etymologicum Gudianum. [4] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 102, where the word occurs (web address 2).Matched in noteshighshort

α3139ἈπείσομαιI will go away… Thasos [see eta 52, and under tau 599], quoted in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 15.698E (15.55 Kaibel). The forms of ei)/somai (and its compounds) are sometimes used in epic as future for ei)=mi "go," which itself …Matched in noteshighshort

α3210Ἀπινήςdirt-free, dirt-less… headword is effectively confined to lexica and grammars, but note Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 14.661D (14.81 Kaibel), where the ms reading poli/ths ... tis ou)k a)pinh/s is normally corrected (e.g. to Gulick's ou) tapeino/s).Matched in noteshighshort

α4402Ἀοιδόςbard… definitions, which are also in other lexica, the source becomes Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.14B-D and 1.16D (1.24 and 1.28 Kaibel). [1] delta 440. [2] Homer, Odyssey 8.248. [3] Homer, Odyssey 12.188.Matched in noteshighmedium

β375Βομβυλιόςbumblebee, buzzing-insectLSJ entry at web address 1. [1] cf. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 11.784D (11.29 Kaibel) -- an addendum to the presentation of a bombylios as a Rhodian "gurgling" cup. [2] Again beta 376. [3] From Harpokration …Matched in noteshighshort

γ47Γαμέτηςbridegroom… this quotation with Polybius 20.8.5 -- a passage preserved by Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 10.439E-F (10.54 Kaibel) -- on Antiochus the Great and his young bride Euboea: after being defeated by the Romans e)/fugen ei)s *)/efeson …Matched in noteshighshort

δ67ΔάπτωI devour… delta 70.) Similarly in Hesychius s.v. darda/ptousin; and see also Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 8.363A (8.64 Kaibel). [2] Babrius 95.92 (of a lion); cf. pi 197. (The Athonite ms of Babrius, however, reads la/ptwn "lapping, licking.")Matched in noteshighshort

δ128Δαιτὸς ἐΐσηςof an equal banquet… alpha 4325, alpha 4326. [4] All this material comes from Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.12C-F (1.21 Kaibel); the last comment refers to a dispute over the correct reading at Homer, Iliad 1.4-5.Matched in noteshighmedium

δ1175ΔιονύσιοςDionysios, Dionysius… authors, but did not succeed' (Rusten) -- see also (e.g.) Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 12.515E (12.11 Kaibel). [3] Here nominative, but better (as in some of the mss) accusative. [4] Bernhardy reallocated the phrase 'for Parmenon' …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1282Διοίσεινto bear through, to differ… may perhaps be seen in Menander fr. 304 Koerte (in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 6.243A [6.42 Kaibel]), now 265 K.-A.: ... diafe/rei *xairefw=ntos ou)de\ gru=, "is not different in anything from Chaerephon, not even in the …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε131Ἐγκρυφίαςash-baked… of Damascus, Homilia in sabbatum sanctum PG 96.624. See also Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 3.110B (3.74 Kaibel), who writes of o( par' *)Attikoi=s e)gkrufi/as, i.e. 'in Attic writers' (though Gulick in the Loeb edition renders the …Matched in noteshighshort

ε141Ἐγγλωττογάστωρ Ἐγγλωττογάστορεςtongue-belly… the Supplement to 'Anon.ap.Ath.1.4d'. In effect this means that in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.4D (1.1 Kaibel), the passing allusion to e)gxeiroga/stores is to be dissociated from the name of Cleanthes of Tarentum (a sympotic versifier …Matched in noteshighshort

ε793Ἔλεοςmercy[1] Later also to\ e)/leos in the neuter. [2] Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 4.173A (4.73 Kaibel); cf. scholion on Homer, Iliad 9.215. [3] Aristophanes, Knights 152, with scholion. [4] Homer, Odyssey 14.432. [5] See eta 302.Matched in noteshighshort

ε1870ἘξυπτιάζωI turn on my back, I fall backwards[1] Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.34B [1.61 Kaibel] (cf. 10.447A-B [10.67 Kaibel]), citing Aristotle (fr. 106 Rose) for this statement. On beer brewed from barley, see zeta 196.Matched in noteshighshort

ε2570Ἐπίσιτοςepisitos… e)pisi/tios [sic]; and cf. a scholion on Plato, Republic 420A; Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 6.246F [6.50 Kaibel]. cf. generally epsilon 2569.Matched in noteshighshort

ε2721Ἐπιτραπεζώματαtable-dishes… fr. 74 Kock = 76 K.-A. (genitive case there). See Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 4.170E and 14.641B [4.70 and 14.47 Kaibel].Matched in noteshighshort

ε3016Ἑρκίτηςfence-man, enclosure-man… the same glossing (according to Adler) in the Ambrosian Lexicon. Athenaeus, Deipnosphists 6.267C [6.93 Kaibel] cites the Macedonian grammarian Amerias for a different and fuller one: "herkitai is the name for slaves [sc. working] …Matched in noteshighshort

ει243Εἰσεκώμασενburst in like a reveller… verb ei)skwma/zw. It must be quoted from somewhere -- perhaps Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 6.231E (6.19 Kaibel), on the spread of silver in Greece in the third quarter of the C4 BCE.Matched in noteshighshort

η113Ἡδυπαθήςluxurious… See e.g. Antiphanes fr. 91 Kock and Kassel-Austin (preserved in Athenaeus) on the Ionian stereotype.Matched in noteshighshort

η156Ἠθολόγοςcharacter-painter, mimic… Hesychius eta238; and for a specimen of the genre see Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.20A [1.35 Kaibel], on the performances of the famous ethologos Noemon.Matched in noteshighshort

η241Ἡλιοτρόπιονsundial[1] In e.g. Athenaeus, Plutarch, and a scholion on Aristophanes, Birds 998. See also sigma 613, omega 199. [2] From gamma 346.Matched in noteshighshort

η392ἩνίοχοςHeniochos, Heniochus… BCE; PCG 5.552ff. [2] For some of these titles see Athenaeus Deipnosophists 6.271A [6.100 Kaibel] (Busybody), 9.396D [9.54] (Polyeuktos), 9.408A [9.74] (Plover). At pi 1959 the names Heniochos (which means Charioteer: LGPN ii has …Matched in noteshighshort

κ891Καταιγίσαςhaving stormed upon (?)… perhaps a fragment of Alexis the comic poet reported by Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 8.338D-E (8.21 Kaibel), where the fish-loving Phayllos storms into the market to make his purchases. The glossing verb katasxi/zw therefore seems inappropriate. …Matched in noteshighshort

κ895Καταιονῶσιthey pour over… person singular, present indicative active, of kataiona/w. [2] Abbreviated from Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.24D-E (1.44 Kaibel).Matched in noteshighshort

κ1665Κιρρόνorange, orange-colored… neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective. [2] An approximation of Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.32D (1.59 Kaibel). According to Galen, this kind of wine has a warming quality, useful for those who are chilled but harmful …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1689ΚίτρονcitronA Latin loan-word. See generally Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 3.83A-85C (3.25-29 Kaibel), attributing to 'Pamphilus in the Glosses' the remark that Romans call kitron what Greeks call kitrion (Citrus medica; see LSJ s.v.).Matched in noteshighshort