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ε3692Εὐριπίδη ΕὐριπίδιονEuripides little Euripides… Aristophanes, Acharnians 404, with comment from the scholia there. For Euripides see generally epsilon 3695. [2] Other instances of the 'wheedling diminutive' (Dover) in Aristophanes: Clouds 80, 132, 221-2, 746.Matched in noteshighshort
ε3691Εὐριπίδειον ἔποςEuripidean word… proper adjective is used in place of a genitive. For Euripides the tragedian, see generally epsilon 3695. [2] Euripides fr. 1086: "physician, heal thyself." Later proverbial: see Tosi (cited under alpha 378) no.1729. [3] …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3695ΕὐριπίδηςEuripides… in OCD(4) s.v. For a balanced and succinct investigation of Euripidean lore (with ample sourcing), see the Introduction (1-49) by David Kovacs in Euripides: Cyclops, Alcestis, Medea in the Loeb Classical Libarary. [1] Philochorus …

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Εὐριπίδη Εὐριπίδιον

Euripides little Euripides

Aristophanes [sc. writes this]. He is imitating a lover's voice. For lovers are in the habit of calling lovingly to their beloveds in diminutives.

Εὐριπίδη Εὐριπίδιον· Ἀριστοφάνης. ἐρωτικὴν μιμεῖται φωνήν. οἱ γὰρ ἐρῶντες εἰώθασι τοὺς ἐρωμένους ἐρωτικῶς δι' ὑποκορισμῶν καλεῖν.

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Kenneth Bumbaco3

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Alexandra Trachsel2

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Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝2

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Clayton Lehmann1

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D. Graham J. Shipley1

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Gabriel Bodard1

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James Vradelis1

Jeffery Murphy1

Jeffery Murphy1

Konstantinos Kopanias1

Konstantinos Kopanias1

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Kostas Zafeiris1

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Nicholas Wilshere1

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Sean M. Redmond1

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ε3693ΕὐριπίδηςEuripides[1] For the famous Euripides see epsilon 3695. The historicity of a nephew and namesake, also a tragedian (epsilon 3694), is generally accepted, but that individual cannot be equated with the subject of the …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1442Δωδεκαμήχανονtwelve-device, twelve-trick… on which see further below. cf. generally pi 253. [1] Euripides fr. 755. In his note on Aristophanes, Frogs 1327-8 (which refers to "the twelve-trickery of Kyrene"), Dover 357 inclines to a variant version …Matched in noteshighshort

α1594Ἅμιλλαcontest… [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. …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1227Δίωκε ἀρετήνpursue 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 …Matched in noteshighshort

ε750Ἐλατήρbroad-cake… and upsilon 118. For Alkman see generally alpha 1289. [3] Euripides, Trojan Women 1063 (web address 2). [4] From a scholion on Aristophanes, Knights 1181, where this genitive occurs (web address 3); Euripides fr. …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε3795Εὐφημίαgood speech… 3792. [1] Apparently a fragment of Iambic poetry. Ascribed to Euripides by Nauck (fr.1087), but to an unknown tragic poet by Snell (Tragica Adespota fr.562a). [2] Aelian fr. 265 Domingo-Forasté (267 Hercher); cf. epsilon …Matched in noteshighmedium

χ535Χρόνου πόδαtime's foot… two phrases has been identified as a (comic?) version of Euripides fr. 487 (from the Melanippe), ai)qe/r' oi)/khsin *dio/s ("aither, Zeus's dwelling"). The second is best-known for its appearance in Bacchae 889 (web address …Matched in noteshighshort

α1188Ἀλλήλωνeach other… Photius (Lexicon alpha998 Theodoridis) and elsewhere. [1] This refers to Euripides, Supplices 676, according to Theodoridis (following Naber). Adler had cited Euripides fr. 1124 Nauck, but that instance is dubious. [2] An approximation of …Matched in noteshighshort

α2154ἈνδραποδίζωI enslave, I reduce to slavery… theta 291, end. [4] This material (including the fragment of Euripides which follows) comes from the scholia on Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 521. [5] Euripides fr. 422. [6] This concluding gloss comes from the scholia …Matched in noteshighshort

α3909ἈρίστιπποςAristippos, Aristippus… Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes 3.204. [1] cf. already alpha 1359, end. [2] Euripides, Bacchae 836 (web address 1 below). The second trimeter, "having been born a male and from a male line", appears to be an …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε2807Ἐποποῖepopoi (in hoopoe-ese)… and the metamorphoses of the three into birds (used in Euripides' Helen in 414 BC to evoke the fate of Athens's sons in Syracuse). Procne's reply is introduced by the pipe of a well-known …Matched in noteshighlong

α133Ἀγάλματαdelights, ornaments, statues… Pindar, Nemean Odes 10.125 (67 Bowra): web address 2. [4] Euripides, Alcestis 613: web address 3. [5] Already at alpha 131. [6] Used as prizes for victors in competition. [7] Same material in Photius …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1367Ἄλοχοςspouse… Homer, Odyssey 1.36, where the headword occurs (accusative case). [2] Euripides fr.132 Nauck, quoted in an anecdote (about a male homosexual relationship) in Diogenes Laertius 4.29.Matched in noteshighshort

α1404Ἁλωτόνattainable, capturable… Dionysius of Halicarnassus in his study of that writer). [3] Euripides fr. 918 Nauck; cf. pi 40.Matched in noteshighshort

α1796Ἀναβάδηνlifted up; propped up… (web address 2 below), with scholion; cf. omicron 868. [3] Euripides, Hippolytus 612 (web address 3 below); cf. eta 63. [4] Homer, Iliad 1.3-4. See web address 4 below. [5] So too Photius, and …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1842ἈναγυράσιοςAnagyrasian… Rhodes (C3 BCE) fr. 32 Wehrli = 42A White. [7] Euripides' play is lost, but see Apollodorus 3.13.8: P. was blinded by his father Amyntor after Phthia, Amyntor's concubine, falsely accused him of having …Matched in noteshighmedium

α2039Ἀνάπτυξιςunfolding… entry appears also in Photius (alpha1623 and alpha1622 Theodoridis). [2] Euripides, Heracles 1256 (web address 1 below).Matched in noteshighshort

α2082Ἀνάστατοιanastatoi… more briefly, at alpha 1781. [5] cf. phi 507. [6] Euripides fr. 350; cf. sigma 204. [7] cf. beta 458 and epsilon 25.Matched in noteshighmedium

α2373Ἀνειλήθυιανhaving never given birth… See LSJ s.v. a)neilei/quia [sic], and cf. epsiloniota 108. [1] Euripides, Ion 453 (web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort

α2868Ἀπάγουcarry away, lead away[1] That is, the middle rather than the active imperative: Euripides fr. 1097. Likewise in Photius and elsewhere. [2] See already under alpha 2865 (and other entries).Matched in noteshighshort

α3819Ἄραιτοmight lift, might raise… the first quotation given. [1] Same glossing in Hesychius. [2] Euripides, Orestes 1-3 (web address 1 below). [3] Aristophanes, Frogs 1406 (web address 2), with scholion; cf. alpha 4703.Matched in noteshighshort

α3959Ἀρκτεῦσαιto be a bear… (from the lost speech On behalf of Phrynichus' daughter). [2] Euripides fr.767 Nauck; Aristophanes, Lysistrata 645 and fr. 370 Kock (386 Kassel-Austin).Matched in noteshighshort

α4084ἈρχέλαοςArchelaos, Archelaus… association of Archelaos, Anaxagoras, and/or Socrates with the education of Euripides, however, strains chronology perhaps too much. [4] Nothing of Archelaos' writings survive except one fragment, "coldness is the connection" (presumably which holds the …Matched in noteshighmedium

β218Βέβηλος τόποςprofane place… where the dative plural of the headword adjective occurs. [1] Euripides fr. 648. [2] Orphica fr. 334 Kern. [3] Likewise in Hesychius. Quoted from Psalm 9.26 LXX.Matched in noteshighshort

β458Βοῦς ἕβδομοςseventh ox… Kock (and K.-A.). (For Euthycles see generally epsilon 3507.) [3] Euripides fr. 350. [4] Achaeus fr. 23. (For Achaeus see generally alpha 4683.) [5] The adjective in this phrase should be enaulios ("courtyard"); cf. …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ181Δεκατεύεινto pay a tithe… Suda ought to have a separate entry for deka/th. [6] Euripides fr.5 Jouan and van Looy. [7] That is, both literally picked up by the father and thereby symbolically acknowledged by him. [8] Aristotle, …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ1680Δυσπάλαιστοςhard to wrestle with… is a)katagw/nistos); the second is also in Hesychius delta2641. [1] Euripides, Alcestis 889 and (neuter) Supplices 1118. See also (and also figurative) Aeschylus, Supplices 468 and Choephori 692. [2] Perhaps quoted from Pindar (Olympians …Matched in noteshighshort

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