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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
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
γ412Γωνίαcorner… query Lysianic authorship). [5] Aristophanes, Frogs 956 (web address 1); Euripides speaking. However, the introductory words "I showed them..." occur neither in Aristophanes nor in Harpokration, but are a paraphrase of the line of …

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Εὐφημία

good speech

"On account of good speech the divinity prefers Lakedaimon over all the altars of the Athenians and their temples and statues and hecatombs and the rest of the nonsense of those lazy people longing for a feast. Thus…

Εὐφημία. εὐφημίας χάριν προτιμᾷ τὴν Λακεδαίμονα τὸ θεῖον ἤπερ τῶν Ἀθηναίων βωμοὺς σύμπαντας καὶ νεὼς καὶ ἀγάλματα καὶ ἑκατόμβας καὶ τὸν λοιπὸν φλήναφον τῶν ῥᾳθυμούντων τε καὶ…

zoology

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α217Ἀγῆλαιto celebrate, to glorify… the aorist infinitive of the verb a)ga/llw, probably quoted from Euripides, Medea 1027; cf. the scholia there. See also alpha 218. [1] On the role of woolly wreaths in ancient ritual see LSJ (web …Matched in noteshighshort

α2903<20Ἁπανταχοῦeverywhere… the common pantaxou=. It is first attested (4 times) in Euripides: see LSJ s.v.Matched in noteshighshort

α4457Αὔρανbreeze… lexica. The headword is in the accusative case, quoted from Euripides, Orestes 1427; see the scholia there. [2] Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 1.3.13-1.4.1; cf. de Boor (46) and Whitby (24). In May 583, the Avar …Matched in noteshighshort

α4598Ἀφεῖνταιthey have been discharged… from the quotation given, though there are alternatives such as Euripides, Medea 1002. [1] An approximation of Greek Anthology 5.190.3 (which reads oi)/akes "helms" rather than the pronoun oi(). On Meleager [Author, Myth]'s epigram, …Matched in noteshighshort

α4610ἈφῖγμαιI have come… headword is quoted, according to Latte on Hesychius s.v., from Euripides, Trojan Women 58. (There are numerous other possibilities, however.) [2] Despite this phrase, this second part of the entry in its entirety is …Matched in noteshighshort

αι119Αἴθεινto set ablaze… Hesychius, where Latte regards the headword infinitive as extracted from Euripides, Rhesus 78. Other possibilities include line 823 of that play, and Sophocles, Philoctetes 1033. See also the next note. [2] A close approximation …Matched in noteshighshort

αι180Αἴλινονailinon, dirge, dirge-like… the headword occurs. Also attested in Aeschylus (Agamemnon 121) and Euripides (Orestes 1395). See also Pausanias 9.29.6-9, and lambda 570. [2] Greek Anthology 6.348.1-2 (Diodorus). The Suda mss actually omit the headword adjective from …Matched in noteshighshort

αι196Αἱματωπόςbloody-eyed… for the feminine accusative plural, perhaps quoted (Latte suggests) from Euripides, Orestes 256. See also e.g. Andromache 978, Phoenician Women 870, and elsewhere in tragedy. cf. alphaiota 210.Matched in noteshighshort

αι384Αἴφνηςsuddenly… rarer adverb than the glossing one. (For an instance see Euripides, Iphigeneia in Aulis 1581.) cf. alphaiota 385, epsilon 1549, epsilon 1550Matched in noteshighshort

δ571Διακεκαυμένονlit-upAristophanes, Acharnians 453-5 (dialogue between Dikaiopolis and Euripides: web address 1), with comment from the scholia there; cf. pi 1721, sigma 975, chi 458.Matched in noteshighshort

δ1698Δυστόπαστοςdifficult to guess… other lexica. The headword is reckoned to be quoted from Euripides, Trojan Women 885; see also id., Suppliant Women 138. [2] For this verb see tau 773.Matched in noteshighshort

ε712Ἐκφοράνcarrying-out… (Latte on Hesychius s.v. nevertheless regards it as quoted from Euripides, Alcestis 422.) See also epsilon 527, epsilon 2053, kappa 1490.Matched in noteshighshort

ε723Ἐκφῦναιto grow out of… itself, an aorist active infinitive, must be quoted from somewhere: Euripides (Phoenician Women 419, Bacchae 27), according to Latte, but there are numerous later possibilities.Matched in noteshighshort

ε726Ἐκφοιτᾷproceeds out… already in Hesychius epsilon1814, where Latte identifies the source as Euripides, Electra 320.Matched in noteshighshort

ε839Ἑλλήνιος στρατόςGrecian army, Grecian host… so earlier: see LSJ s.v., citing e.g. Athena Hellania in Euripides, Hippolytus 1121.Matched in noteshighshort

ε947Ἔμβολαbolts, rams… Lexica Segueriana 217.13 and Hesychius epsilon2302. Seemingly from glosses/scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women 114, where the neuter plural headword occurs. [2] i.e. bronze statues melted down and made into rams. Quotation attributed to Aelian …Matched in noteshighshort

ε948Ἐμβολάςincursions… glossing in other lexica, and cf. also the scholia to Euripides, Andromache 1130, from where, presumably, it is quoted.Matched in noteshighshort

ε1463Ἐντετευτλανωμένηςbeetified… Aristophanes, Acharnians 893-4 (web address 1), itself a parody of Euripides, Alcestis 367-8 (web address 2). The preceding comments are drawn verbatim from the scholia to the Aristophanes passage. Some editions of Aristophanes print …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1611Ἐξεκώμασενwent out revelling… singular, aorist indicative active, of e)kkwma/zw -- occurs only in Euripides, Andromache 603 (web address 1), and the specific pejorative meaning attached to it here is surely extrapolated from that context (where it refers …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1619Ἐξελίσσουσιthey turn out… quoted from somewhere; very probably, as Latte on Hesychius asserts, Euripides, Trojan Women 3 (where it has the nu-moveable: web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort

ε2073Ἐπερρόσαντοthey rushed toward… Third person plural, aorist, of e)pirroqe/w (very probably quoted from Euripides, who has three instances; cf. Hesychius epsilon5130). Perhaps the Suda or its source mistakenly believed this to be a form of the same …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2579ἘπισκήψωI will enjoin… only attested three times outside lexicography with the sense indicated: Euripides, Alkestis 365 (web address 1); Lucian, Kataplous (Cataplus) 8; and Libanius, Declamations 19.41. Commentary to the first or second of those passages, in …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2592Ἐπισμῇbesmears… is quite ambiguous. [4] Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 389; "this man" is Euripides. See web address 1.Matched in noteshighmedium

ε3254Ἔσχατος Μυσῶν πλεῖνto sail last of the Mysians… the account of Telephos -- appears in a scholium to Euripides, Rhesos 251, where Mysians are mentioned. The same scholium presents an extended version of the first explanation given here and ascribes it to …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε3477Εὐῆρεςeasily-fitted… tri-h/rhs ('trireme'), and a(lih/rhs ('sea-rowing', applied to an oar in Euripides, Hecuba 455 (web address 3)); cf. Chantraine, s.v. -h/rhs. For the gloss see epsiloniota 182.Matched in noteshighshort