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1442
Δωδεκαμήχανον
twelve-device, twelve-trick
… in intercourse. [The word also] comes from the Hypsipyle of
Euripides:
"above the twelve-crafted star". Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "twelve-trick whore", she who uses 12 positions, Kyrene by name.
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753
Διασκανδικίσεις
(don't) chervilize
[Meaning] don't be a coward, don't
Euripidize,
don't be dismissive. He is mocking
Euripides
as being the son of a lady greengrocer. For chervil [is] a type of tender vegetable. And elsewhere: "give me …
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α
1594
Ἅμιλλα
contest
… [1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica and several
Euripidean
scholia; references at Photius alpha1201 Theodoridis. (Latte on Hesychius s.v. makes the
Euripides
connection explicit by citing e.g. Hecuba 226.) [2] Aelian fr. …
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δ
1227
Δίωκε ἀρετήν
pursue excellence
… kai\ a)reth/n, feu=ge yo/gon "pursue glory and excellence, flee blame";
Euripides,
Ion 439-440 su/ [...] e)pei\ kratei=s a)reta\s di/wke (web address 3). Bernhardy's suggested correction of the entry to a)reta\s di/wke, rests on this …
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ε
750
Ἐλατήρ
broad-cake
… from lagaro/n ["hollow"]. And [sc. they are called] pe/lanoi in
Euripides.
Also [sc. attested is the genitive] e)lath=ros, [meaning] a kind of unleavened cake. But
Euripides
[refers to] pepta/ ["cookies"].
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χ
535
Χρόνου πόδα
time's foot
[A phrase] from
Euripides.
Aristophanes [writes]: "'aither, Zeus's bedchamber' or 'time's foot'". Meaning
Euripides
says these things. And elsewhere: "since for you the story might preclude an opportunity of time." Sophocles [sc. writes this]. …
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1188
Ἀλλήλων
each other
Meaning themselves. Thus
Euripides
[sc. uses the word]. And Thucydides [writes]: "there some even tasted each other". Meaning [ate] themselves.
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2154
Ἀνδραποδίζω
I enslave, I reduce to slavery
… slave-dealers and faithless men. Clearly from Jason, who enslaved Medea.
Euripides
[writes]: "many were present, but [the] Thessalians [were] faithless". The term slave-dealer [comes] from trading men, that is, selling [them]; he who is …
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3909
Ἀρίστιππος
Aristippos, Aristippus
… the robe was brought to him, said some iambics of
Euripides:
"I would not put on feminine clothes, having been born male, and from a male line." Aristippos took it and said with a …
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δ
400
Δηλίου κολυμβητοῦ
Delian diver
… diver", in reference to those who swim deep. For when
Euripides
gave Socrates a book by Heraclitus the Obscure,
[Euripides]
asked, "How does it seem?" and [Socrates] said, "What I have understood [is] excellent, …
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133
Ἀγάλματα
delights, ornaments, statues
… uses this term for the decoration on a tomb, and
Euripides
uses it for the adornments for corpses. Also something in which someone takes delight. Also [sc. a term for] image, wooden statue, delight, …
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1367
Ἄλοχος
spouse
[Meaning] wife. From
Euripides'
Andromeda: "take me, o stranger, whether you want a serving woman or a spouse."
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1404
Ἁλωτόν
attainable, capturable
… [meaning those who are] apprehendable, able to be subdued. And
Euripides
[writes]: "may I never be caught doing bad things."
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1796
Ἀναβάδην
lifted up; propped up
… propped up at home writing a tragedy." He is mocking
Euripides
as syllogistic and providing the opposite of whatever he says. Such as, "the tongue swore, the mind was unsworn." Such as [here]: he …
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1842
Ἀναγυράσιος
Anagyrasian
… [treatise] On Tragic Poets, comparing the Phoenix [Author, Myth] of
Euripides
to them.
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2039
Ἀνάπτυξις
unfolding
… attested is] a)naptu/cw ["I will unfold"], meaning I will tell.
Euripides
[sc. uses the word].
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2082
Ἀνάστατοι
anastatoi
… gods; but popana ["round-cakes"] [are different again]; and in Erechtheus
Euripides
called moon-cakes pelanoi: "and tell me, for you are sending from home a great pelanos, of these moon-cakes of a first fiery sprouting." …
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2373
Ἀνειλήθυιαν
having never given birth
[Meaning her who is] childless.
Euripides
[sc. uses the word].
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2868
Ἀπάγου
carry away, lead away
Meaning carry/lead away to him.
Euripides
[sc. uses the word]. Also [sc. attested is] a)pa/gw ["I carry/lead away"]: [used] with an accusative.
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3819
Ἄραιτο
might lift, might raise
[Meaning he/she/it] might take, might convey.
Euripides
[writes]: "there is no story so terrible to speak of, neither suffering nor god-sent disaster, whose weight the nature of man could not lift." And elsewhere: "[chariots …
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3959
Ἀρκτεῦσαι
to be a bear
… to Artemis. For the virgins are called "being bears", as
Euripides
and Aristophanes show.
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4084
Ἀρχέλαος
Archelaos, Archelaus
… Socrates as a pupil. Some assert that he also taught
Euripides.
He organized the study of natural philosophy, and he thought that the just and the base did not exist by nature, but by …
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218
Βέβηλος τόπος
profane place
… attested is] "profane man," he who is uninitiated and defiled.
Euripides
[writes]: "[it is] not right for the profane to touch the temple". Also: "I sing to those who are in the know, but …
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458
Βοῦς ἕβδομος
seventh ox
… they also used to call thus. It is [mentioned] in
Euripides
in Erechtheus and in Achaeus in Iris. The proverb is applied to those who are excessively unfeeling. Also [sc. attested is the proverbial …
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δ
181
Δεκατεύειν
to pay a tithe
… new-born and on that day they gave the children names.
Euripides
in Aigeus [writes]: "what mother on the tenth day after your birth named you?" Aristotle says that on the seventh day [after birth] …
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δ
1680
Δυσπάλαιστος
hard to wrestle with
[Meaning] hard to overcome.
Euripides
[uses it] this way. Also [sc. attested is the variant, and neuter] duspale/s, [meaning something] hard to take in hand, hard to overcome.
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9
Χαλάσω τὴν ἱερὰν ἄγκυραν
I will loose the holy anchor
… figuratively from ships, [meaning] safety. So Sophocles in Phaedra and
Euripides
in Hecuba [also use it]. [It is called] holy [meaning that it is] a large [anchor or] a good one. Diodorus [writes]: "with …
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174
Χαίρω
I delight, I rejoice
… phrase] "I rejoice in your coming." Oropicans speak this way.
Euripides
in Sisyphus [writes]: "I rejoice that you, best child of Alcmene ... and have destroyed the polluted man." Also [sc. attested is] xairou/menos …
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187
Χελιδόνων μουσεῖα
swallows' museums
… what follows: "where the swallow squawks around Thracian lands." And
Euripides
[writes]: "a mass of ivy was creeping up, a well-grown shoot, a swallows' museum."
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αι
245
Αἰόλαν
darkening, discolouring
… a long pastiche of a lament sung by Andromeda in
Euripides'
tragedy of that name (Andromeda fr. 7 Jouan-van Looy = 122 Nauck, 171a Mette; cf. scholia to Thesm. 1034, 1040). In Aristophanes it …
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