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283
Ἀγνώμονες
unpardoning, hard-hearted
… [1] Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 86 (Oedipus is addressing the
Eumenides),
with glosses from the scholia there. See web address 1.
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1033
Ἀκταίνειν
to lift up, to raise
… usage of the verb in tragedy, noted there (see Aeschylus,
Eumenides
36 [web address 2], cited by Latte on Hesychius s.v., where the gloss is metewri/zein). See however Plato, Laws 672C (on the behaviour …
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2167
Ἀνδρηλατεῖν
to banish
… Republic 565E); similar (longer) one in Photius. See e.g. Aeschylus,
Eumenides
221, and generally LSJ s.v.
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Αἰανὴς κύκλος
dread circle
… on folk etymology. Fairly early examples occur, however, e.g. Aeschylus,
Eumenides
672. [1] Sophocles, Ajax 672 (text at web address 1), with Lloyd-Jones' translation from the Loeb edition. The Suda's glosses are derived from …
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319
Αἰσιμία
apportionment
… from the headword's appearance (in the dative plural) in Aeschylus,
Eumenides
996: e)n ai)simi/aisi plou/tou (web address 1).
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392
Βορβοροτάραξι
o muck-raker
… Knights 309 (web address 1 below), with scholion. [2] Aeschylus,
Eumenides
694-5 (web address 2 below); Zenobius 2.76. [3] From the dream-interpretations, in verse, attributed to Astrampsychus (alpha 4251); repeated at kappa 2060.
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1093
Δίκης
of justice
… see Homer, Odyssey 19.109ff.; further parallels are Aeschylus, Supplices 627-29,
Eumenides
937-87; Sophocles, Oedipus Rex 269-71. The notion is also to be seen in the accounts concerning the Golden Age; conversely, ancient writers very …
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Διώκειν
to prosecute
… "prosecutor/plaintiff" vs. o( feu/gwn as "defendant" (e.g. Herodotus 6.82; Aeschylus,
Eumenides
583) and o( diwko/menos (Antiphon 2.1.5; Xenophon, Apology 21); cf. also diw/kein tina\ peri\ qana/tou Xenophon, Hellenica 7.3.6; turanni/dos Herodotus 6.104. *diw/kw is …
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584
Ἔκπλυτον
washed-out
… figuratively of a miasma. (Nevertheless see already for this Aeschylus,
Eumenides
281.) [2] This additional gloss is lacking, Adler reports, in mss FVM. In ps.-Zonaras it is given as a)sqene/s ('weak') in place of …
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2914
Ἐραῖα
eraia, wool-decorated branch
… the eiresione or harvest-wreath. For the suppliant's branch see Aeschylus,
Eumenides
43, Suppliant Women 22. [web addresses 1 & 2] and for the eiresione, epsiloniota 184. According to Crates the Athenian, the eiresione was …
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3245
Ἐσχάραι πυρός
embers of fire
… have reversed the word-order. For e)sxa/rai puro/s exactly, see Aeschylus,
Eumenides
108 (dative singular), and Job 41:11 LXX. cf. epsilon 3246 (and in a quite different context epsilon 3244); more generally epsilon 3242, epsilon …
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1286
Κελαινός
black, murky, dark
… 1288), cf. kelaino/frwn, spoken by Orestes of his mother (Aeschylus,
Eumenides
459).
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2320
Κραναῶν
of the rugged ones, of the Kranaoi
… a mythical Kranaos as progenitor of Attica, as in Aeschylus,
Eumenides
1011, "Children of Kranaos". [2] Quotation unidentifiable. (But Nonnus, Dionysiaca 22.20, 45.308 has the formula "the rocky stone [kranah\ pe/trh] swelled, disgorging wine".) …
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