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κ1960Νησάωνof Kolonai['Of Kolonai'] and 'of islands'. Callimachus used [these forms] irregularly; for [*Kolwna/wn] is not derived from [feminine] kolw/nh, but from [masculine] o( kolwno/s.Matched in translationhighshort
α1037ἌκτιαAktia, ActiaAn ancient [sc. athletic] contest, as Callimachus makes clear in his [treatise] On contests.Matched in translationhighshort
δ340Δεινόνterrible… I desire to know the cause of your disability. And Callimachus [writes]: "Why do you awaken a sleeping tear"? Aristophanes [writes]: "it is terrible for the spirit of a man to be so unripe …

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Νησάων

of Kolonai

['Of Kolonai'] and 'of islands'. Callimachus used [these forms] irregularly; for [*Kolwna/wn] is not derived from [feminine] kolw/nh, but from [masculine] o( kolwno/s.

Κολωνάων καὶ Νησάων· παραλόγως ἐχρήσατο Καλλίμαχος· οὐ γὰρ παράγεται ἀπὸ κολώνης, ἀλλ' ἀπὸ τοῦ κολωνοῦ.

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δ1566Δύηmisery… misfortune. Hence also dou=los ["slave"], as being someone miserable [duhlo/s]. Callimachus [writes]: "[one would] ward off despised misery." [Meaning that] which nobody craves. In Fables: "because no one has seen his own misery."Matched in translationhighshort

ε1506Ἐν χρῷon skin, to skin… skin, very close, so as even to touch. But in Callimachus [sc. there occurs the adverb] e)gkuti/, meaning e)ggu/s ["near"], on the skin, near the skin. "But you were shorn close, child." And Agathias …Matched in translationhighshort

ε2389Ἐπικλινέςslanted[Meaning something] leaning into evil. "The scale is slanted." Callimachus [sc. writes this].Matched in translationhighshort

ει66Εἰκαίαrandom[Meaning] slight, by chance. Callimachus [writes]: "slight, from which the grinding-woman rubbed off not a little." That is, of which the miller-woman did not separate or even clean off the husks, i.e. bran. Meaning …Matched in translationhighshort

ι343Ἱμαῖον ᾆσμαwater-drawing song… milling. "And somewhere a certain water-carrying man raised a work-song": Callimachus in Hecale [sc. writes this].Matched in translationhighshort

ι550Ἴπνιαsoot… furnace [furnus]. Or the flammable materials suitable for the stove. Callimachus calls the dung of animals [i)/pnia]: "he/she took away together the rubbish and the ashes from the oven." Or i)pno/s, a cook-shop, or …Matched in translationhighshort

κ2260Κωμῆταιvillagers… [means] neighbors: for the neighborhood is called a village [kome]. Callimachus in Hecale [writes]: "for the villagers round about called her this." Babrius [writes]: "a certain villager had a wooden statue and loaded it …Matched in translationhighshort

α4305Ἄτταfather… Page note (ibid.) that an attribution of the epigram to Callimachus is found in Diogenes Laertius 1.79 and only there. They observe that although the Anthologia Palatina (AP) makes no attribution for this epigram, …Matched in noteshighshort

ε204ἜδεθλονfloorPerhaps from a gloss on Callimachus' Hecale (so Adler); cf. in any event (as she notes) Callimachus, Hymn to Apollo 72, and Aetia fr. 162. Probably first attested (in the plural) in Aeschylus, Agamemnon …Matched in noteshighshort

η399Ἤνοψgleaming[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica. [2] Callimachus, Hecale fr. 238.16; cf. epsilon 1180. [3] Callimachus, Hecale fr. 277.2; cf. generally pi 3234. [4] Attested in Homer and elsewhere.Matched in noteshighshort

κ1917Κοκκύαιforemothers… Nominative plural; also spelled koku/ai (as the meter requires in Callimachus: next note). [2] Callimachus, Hecale fr.340.Matched in noteshighshort

ι755Ἴτυςrim, loop[Meaning] perimeter of a shield. Xenophon [writes]: "but Callimachus, as he saw him going by, took hold of him by the [shield-]rim; and at this moment Aristonymus ran by them." And in the Epigrams: …Matched in translationhighshort

α3123Ἀπειλητῆρεςthreateners… Iliad 7.96, where the headword (nominative plural) occurs. Also in Callimachus and later poetry: LSJ entry at web address 1. [2] LSJ entry for a)peile/w (B) at web address 2. This present participle, masculine …Matched in noteshighshort

αι17ΑἰγαλέωςAigaleos… (480 BCE). It is mentioned in the genitive case in Callimachus, Hecale fr.238 (line 23), which was perhaps cited in this entry's missing conclusion. The regular Attic genitive singular is *ai)gale/w (as at mu …Matched in noteshighshort

αι126ΑἰθιοπεὺςEthiopian… fill the same metrical space as a dative plural *ai)qio/pessi. Callimachus uses the genitive singular as an adjective (referring to the source of the Nile) in his Hymn to Delos (4.208 Pfeiffer). cf. alphaiota …Matched in noteshighshort

γ46Γαμβρὸς ἘρεχθῆοςErechtheus' son-in-lawThe headword phrase is Callimachus fr.321 Pfeiffer, from the Hecale. For Erechtheus see epsilon 2943. [1] Or Boreas, the north wind: see beta 390.Matched in noteshighshort

δ946Διερήνwet… Works and Days 460, but more probably (given this gloss) Callimachus, Hecale fr. 239. See also the scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 337. [2] Nominative singular masculine. (If a quotation, perhaps from Homer, Odyssey 6.201.)Matched in noteshighshort

ε777Ἐλέγχομενwe reproach, we test… verb e)le/gxw, see also epsilon 778 and eta 197. [1] Callimachus, Hecale fr. 329 Pfeiffer, with scholion. See LSJ s.v. I. [2] Greek Anthology 6.250.7-8 (Antiphilus), quoted approximately; see LSJ s.v. II.2. On this …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1181Ἐνδόμυχοςhole-in-the-corner, lurking within… the quotation given, though there is an earlier instance in Callimachus, Hymn to Demeter 87 (on Erysichthon hiding away and gorging on food). [1] Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 28 Asmus, 59 Zintzen, 30B …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1268Ἐνέτῃσιbrooches… see the scholia there; also Hesychius and other lexica. [2] Callimachus, Hekale fr. 253; see already under alpha 1224.Matched in noteshighshort

ε2177Ἐπήλυσιςapproach, assault[1] See also epsilon 2176, epsilon 2178. [2] Callimachus, Hecale fr. 331, with scholion.Matched in noteshighshort

ε2283Ἐπιδαίσιος οἶκοςallotted houseCallimachus uses the headword phrase (in the accusative) at Hymn to Zeus 59; similar entries in other lexica are derived from commentary on this verse.Matched in noteshighshort

ε3534Εὐκείeukei… 'easily moved' -- which occurs in a papyrus fragment of Callimachus.)Matched in noteshighshort

ει49Εἰδυλίσαwise woman… see epsiloniota 21. If so, its source seems to be Callimachus, Hecale fr. 282 Pfeiffer.Matched in noteshighshort

η128Ἠέρος ὄγμοιfurrows of mist[1] The headword phrase is Callimachus, Hecale fr. 335. For o)/gmos, see also omicron 26, omega 10. [2] Greek Anthology 6.183.5-6 (Zosimus), a dedication to Pan by three brothers, a hunter, a fowler, and …Matched in noteshighshort

ι107Ἰδίεινto sweat… [3] Probably (as Latte on Hesychius iota176 asserts) quoted from Callimachus, Hecale fr. 304. [4] cf. iota 99.Matched in noteshighshort

ι330Ἰλυοῖσιlairs… given. Variant of ei)leo/s: cf. epsiloniota 110, iota 305. [2] Callimachus, Hecale fr. 336, with scholion.Matched in noteshighshort

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