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- κ228ΚαλλίμαχοςKallimachos, CallimachusFor this Callimachus 'Junior' (C3) see H. Lloyd-Jones and P.Parsons, Supplementum Hellenisticum (Berlin 1983) 144, fr.309. [1] kappa 227.
- ε139Ἐγκυτίto the skinSimilarly in other lexica. [1] Callimachus, Hecale fr. 281; cf. epsilon 1506. (Earlier in Archilochus.)
- κ2113ΚόροιβοςKoroibos, Coroebus… Lexicon kappa980 Theodoridis. [1] cf. Apostolius 10.3 (with 'counting'). [2] Callimachus, Fragmenta incertae sedis 587. [3] From beta 468.
- ε345ἙκάληHekale, Hecale… tribe IV Leontis) of which she was eponym. [2] On Callimachus' hexameter poem Hecale and in general see R.L. Hunter in OCD(4) s.v. Hecale. [3] In the myth the principal beneficiary of this hospitality …
- ι412ἸόλειαIoleia… Ioleia', a.k.a. Iole (iota 413), see e.g. Strabo 14.1.18 (quoting Callimachus).
- λ621Λιτότεροςmore frugal, rather frugal… -- of lito/s (lambda 620), evidently quoted from somewhere; perhaps Callimachus fr.384.
- μ177ΜαραθώνMarathon… Whitehead, The Demes of Attica (Princeton 1986) index s.v. [2] Callimachus, Hecale fr. 260 Pfeiffer. [3] Apparently a proverbial or quasi-proverbial phrase: see e.g. Plutarch, Flamininus 11.6. [4] Aristophanes, Acharnians 181 (web address 1); …
- κ1587ΚιδαλίηKidalie, Kidalia… a spring (as in a fragment of poetry attributed to Callimachus: fr.751 Pfeiffer, "I strayed from the Kidalian spring").
- ει112Εἰληδόνcontortedly, in coiled fashionAn adverb attested in Callimachus (Iambi fr. 191 line 28) and Greek Anthology 9.14.6. cf. generally epsiloniota 110, epsiloniota 116.
- κ1320ΚενθίππηKenthippeCallimachus, Hecale fr.279. According to Etymologicum Magnum 503.34-35, it was a 'place of Argos [Myth, Place]', named from Bellerophon having spurred on [kentei=n] Pegasus there.
- η550Ἠρώησενforced back… glossing can be relied on, it was used transitively; perhaps Callimachus, Hymn to Delos 133.
- λ588Λιπερνῆτιςpauper-woman, poor womanThe headword occurs in Callimachus, Hecale fr. 254 Pfeiffer. cf. generally lambda 589 (and see epsilon 3052 for 'shoot').
- ε800Ἔλλερα ἔργαevil worksThe headword phrase, neuter plural, stems from Callimachus, Hecale fr.283.1. Eustathius on Homer, Iliad 6.183 explains the adjective as a dialect form: e)/llera kata\ dia/lekton ta\ kaka/. For comparable glosses (e)xqra/, pole/mia, a)/dika) see …
- α4322ἈταρνεύςAtarneus… a citizen of Atarneus. So e.g. in the epigram of Callimachus quoted by Diogenes Laertius 1.80.
- κ1733Κλεωναίου χάρωνοςof a fearsome Kleonaian… in the genitive case, is taken to be quoted from Callimachus (Hecale fr. 339 Pfeiffer). For the Kleonaian (a.k.a. Nemean) lion, tackled by Herakles, see kappa 1732. "Fearsome", xa/rwn, is a more poetic adjective …
- κ888Κατ' αἶγας ἀγρίαςtowards wild goats… 'the sacred' (i.e. epilepsy). Latte ad loc. connects this with Callimachus, Aetia fr. 75. Proverbial in Apostolius 9.61 and other paroemiographers.
- ε1481Ἐντὸς ἑβδόμηςbefore (the) seventh… (Photius says the reason for it had been given in Callimachus' Aitia.) For the preposition e)nto/s in this sense see LSJ s.v. [1] sc. day of the month: explicit in Hesychius, Zenobius and Photius. …
- λ635Λογάδεςwhites of the eye… Myth], Etymologicum lambda92; Etymologicum Magnum 572.36 (citing a fragment of Callimachus); scholia to Nicander, Theriaca 292. [2] Greek Anthology 5.270.5-6 (Paul the Silentiary). Here 'hyacinth' is not the flower but the blue-white precious stone; …
- η476ἩρακλῆςHerakles, Heracles, Hercules… 477. [1] Quotation unidentifiable. (As Adler notes, once attributed to Callimachus but no longer.) The adjective a)e/rios suggests a relationship with air, whether "high in the air" or "wide as the air" (see LSJ …
- κ2239Κωλιάδος κεραμῆεςclays of Kolias… precise location disputed. See also kappa 1939, kappa 2240. [1] Callimachus, Hecale fr.341 with explanatory comment. For miltos see mu 1069, mu 1070, mu 1071. [2] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Lysistrata 2, where …
- λ309Λέσχηlounging, lounge; conversation… brave Spartans in Persian-War battles (web address 1). [3] From Callimachus' famous epitaph for the elegiac poet Heraclitus of Halicarnassus: Greek Anthology 7.80 (Diogenes Laertius 9.17), lines 2-5. On this epigram, see Gow and …