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β513Βράβηλαsloes… a.k.a. damsons; see further below. [2] Theocritus, Idylls 7.146. [3] Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 2.49D-50B (2.33 Kaibel) -- citing the grammarian and commentator Seleucus Homericus of Alexandria (sigma 200), fr.42 FHG (but not adopted in FGrH …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε2750Ἐπιφορήματαdesserts, additional desserts… 1.133.2 (web address 1). The passage is quoted twice in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists: 4.144A and 14.641A [4.23 and 14.47 Kaibel]. In the latter context Athenaeus also preserves several quotations from Old Attic Comedy which use …Matched in noteshighshort
β535Βρέχεινto soak, to wet[1] cf. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.23A (1.41 Kaibel). [2] Quoted from somewhere, perhaps Lucian; cf. generally sigma 974, upsilon 179.Matched in noteshighshort
κ2682Κυμβίαvessels… refers to a type of drinking vessel. For descriptions, see: Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 11.488F [11.77 Kaibel]; Harpokration s.v. kumbi/on (= Photius, Lexicon kappa1199 Theodoridis), commenting on Demosthenes 21.158 (see further below); scholia to Lucian, Dialogues …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2597Κυβίοιςin cubes… sense of chunks of salt-fish (suitable for 'finger food') see Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 3.116E (3.85 Kaibel), dative as here; cf. 3.118B (= 3.87 Kaibel), accusative. In the glossing phrase, klados (kappa 1699) is used in …Matched in noteshighshort
α4481Αὐτίτηνhomemade… accusative case. [1] Teleclides fr. 9 Kock, now 10 K.-A. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.31E (1.57 Kaibel) says that another comic poet, Polyzelus, also uses the term in this way (fr. 1 Kock); and see also …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3833Εὐχυλότεροςjuicier, more juicy, rather juicy… is very probably quoted from its only other extant instance: Athenaeus, Deipnosphists 2.68F (2.78 Kaibel), himself quoting a phrase (from the early hellenistic medical writer Diphilos of Siphnos) about a melon, o( pe/pwn eu)xulo/teros …Matched in noteshighshort
ε718Ἔκφρωνwitless… Quotation unidentifiable in this precise form, but very like what Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 12.531F-532A (12.42 Kaibel), citing Theopompus (FGrH 115 F31), says about the Thracian king Kotys' (kappa 2173) deluded idea of "marrying" the goddess …Matched in noteshighshort
α431Ἀδαῖονunfired, Adaios, Adaeus… nicknamed Rooster. See principally Theopompus FGrH 115 F249 (quoted by Athenaeus), with N.G.L. Hammond & G.T. Griffith, A History of Macedonia 2 (Oxford 1979) 441. But for another possibility see under alpha 594.Matched in noteshighshort
α1731Ἀμφίθετον φιάληνset-about bowl, set-about phiale… both ends or with a handle on each side: see Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 11.500F-501D (11.103 Kaibel), and summarily in LSJ s.v. For the shallow phiale cf. phi 284.Matched in noteshighshort
ε2670Ἐπιτετράφαταιthey are entrusted… quotations of the Homeric line or, in the case of Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 4.134F (4.13 Kaibel), in a parody of Iliad 5.750 (web address 3), where the current (plural) verb is soloecistically employed with a …Matched in noteshighshort
χ190Χελώνηtortoise… address 1), where Lais (lambda 40) is mentioned. See also Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 13.589A-B (13.55 Kaibel). The wooden 'tortoises' have generally been envisaged as footstools: see e.g. LSJ s.v.Matched in noteshighmedium
ι525Ἱππάςcavalry… 779. [2] Four, rather (as is clear from e.g. ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 7.3). This error in Photius' source creates the need for a non-existent fifth class: see below [3] Meaning either farmers owning a …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2619Ἐπιστεφέας κρατῆραςcrowned craters, crowned mixing-vessels… words reversed. The comments here are an opaque paraphrase of Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.13D-E (1.23 Kaibel). [1] This is a partial quotation of the Homeric sympotic formula pa=sin e)parca/menoi depa/essin (e.g. Iliad 1.471): "making an …Matched in noteshighshort
ε874Ἑλίχρυσοςgold-twist, helichrysum… woven (like ivy) into crowns and garlands; cf. Pollux 6.106; Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 15.680E (15.27 Kaibel). The confusion might have arisen from the similarity of use and from passages such as Theocritus, Idylls 1.30 where …Matched in noteshighshort
α305ἈγοράσωI will go to market… one of the skolia (drinking songs) -- best preserved in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 15.695A-B [15.50 Kaibel] -- which commemorated the assassination of Hipparchos in 514 BCE. See generally M. Ostwald, Nomos and the Beginnings of …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2665Κύλιξcup, kylix… also alpha 3343. [3] A phrase unattested elsewhere, but cf. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.2A [1.3 Kaibel] for "cup-tending discussions" (e)pikuliki/wn lo/gwn). [4] Quotation unidentifiable. (Adler suggested Aelian.) [5] Greek Anthology 6.190.7-8 (Gaetulicus); see also sigma …Matched in noteshighshort
α122Ἀγαθοῦ Δαίμονοςof the Good Spirit… this genitive-case phrase occurs. See also alpha 966. [1] cf. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 15.675B-C (15.17 Kaibel), where the G.S. is equated, not necessarily correctly, with Dionysos. [2] cf. Hesychius s.v., and see generally J.D. Mikalson, …Matched in noteshighmedium
α1687Ἀμυστὶ πιεῖνto drink in one gulp… this entry in also in Photius (Lexicon alpha1278); see also Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 11.783D-E (11.25 Kaibel). [1] i.e. deriving a)musti/ from the verb mu/w, 'close one's mouth' with alpha privative. [2] See epsilon 1537. [3] …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2706ΚυνήειοςKyneeios, Cyneius, Kynneios, Cynneius… or 'tuna-shrine' or just about anything related to tuna; but Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 7.297E [7.50 Kaibel] describes a ritual for Poseidon, apparently at Halai, called the qunnai=on, which may be what is referred to here. …Matched in noteshighmedium