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18 entries for Eustathius

κ2082Κορήσατεsweep out… Etymologicum Magnum has "sweep, make"; the scholiast ad loc. and Eustathius have "sweep"; Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon has "make pretty".Matched in noteshighshort
κ1871Κνῆστιςgrater, cheese-grater[1] The knh=stis is also called a knife in Eustathius, Commentary on the Iliad 11.150, 11.640; Herodian, Partitions p. 68 Boissonade; the Etymologicum Magnum and Etymologicum Gudianum s.v. knh= turo/n; scholia to Euripides, Alcestis …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1224ΚεδάζωI disperse… 15.328 (where the aorist passive participle occurs: web address 1). Eustathius comments on the verb in his Commentary on the Iliad. The present keda/zw is a grammarians' invention, first appearing in Herodian as a …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1243Κεκληγότεςhaving shouted… it shows up only in a couple of twelfth-century authors (Eustathius of Thessalonica, Commentary on the Odyssey 1.132.9; Eugene of Palermo 24.101).Matched in noteshighshort
κ1582Κιγκλίδαςlatticed gates… Aristophanes (see above), the etymology is also alluded to by Eustathius, Commentary to the Iliad III p. 420 van der Valk, deriving both dikli/s (the "double-folding" of the definition) and kigkli/s from klei/s.Matched in noteshighshort
μ646Μεσάτμῳto a weaver's beam… least provides an etymology for the word ("middle 'anvil'?"); and Eustathius, Commentary on Odyssey 8.107, explicitly posits mesa/kmwn.Matched in noteshighshort
λ150Λατύπηchips of stone; gypsum… lambda411 gives "what has been chopped off a stone", and Eustathius, Commentary on Dionysius the Periegete 521, "the little stones that spring out in hewing". These definitions correspond to LSJ s.v. I "the chips …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1105Κατώγειονunderground… into Modern Greek (katw/gi, katw/i). *)anw/geios does not appear before Eustathius (Commentary on the Iliad vol.2 p.301); it has likewise survived into Modern Greek (a)nw/gi, a)nw/i).Matched in noteshighshort
κ2357Κραιπάληcarousal, hangover… p. 163 Gaisford, the Etymologicum Gudianum, the Etymologicum Magnum, and Eustathius, Commentary on Iliad 1.200. [4] A more strained folk etymology, also from the scholia to Aristophanes, Plutus 298; cf. n.2 above.Matched in noteshighshort
μ184Μάργηςmad, furious… it is not otherwise attested (and Tyrannion's fr.55 Haas, from Eustathius, speaks only of ma/rgos). [1] Same glossing (of margos) in other lexica, from Hesychius onwards: see the references at Photius mu108 Theodoridis. [2] …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1418Κερωτήkairôtê, woven fabric… are both substantially unattested, they both involve weaving of fabric. Eustathius defines kai=ros explicitly as mi/twma (Commentary on the Iliad I p. 241, III p. 399; this corroborates kairwth/ and mitwth/ being synonyms.Matched in noteshighshort
ν425ΝίσαιονNisaion, Nisaeum, Nisaia… Nisaion a plain of [= near] the Red Sea, while Eustathius of Thessalonica, Commentary on Dionysius' Description of the World 1017, refers to it as a plain in Media. [3] i.e. Stephanus of Byzantium, …Matched in noteshighmedium
ν427Νισσόμενοςgoing… ne/w in the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 4.701, and in Eustathius of Thessalonica, Commentary on the Odyssey 9.58. [5] The infinitive at the end of this last clause, taken from the margin of ms …Matched in noteshighshort
μ157Μανόνloose, open-textured, rare, sparse… given explicitly in ps.-Zonaras, the Etymologicum Gudianum s.v. mani/a, and Eustathius, Commentary on Iliad 23.602. [3] The entire definition up to here also occurs in Photius mu95 Theodoridis. In Photius, manna (mu 129, mu …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1891ΚνυζώσωI will darken… a metaphor from dogs, the unseemliness (a)prepe/s) of the eyes." Eustathius, Commentary on the Odyssey ad loc., has his own derivations of the verb. First he offers "I shall shrivel, I shall make unseemly …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1889ΚνυζῶI whimper… knu/w, which means 'scratch'." The derivation is also given in Eustathius, Commentary on the Odyssey II p.54 Stallbaum, Etymologicum Gudianum s.v. kluzw=sai. Why "fleabane" would offer a plausible etymology for either "whimper" or "darken/destroy" …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1407Κερκωπίζεινto play the ape… and other paroemiographers, e.g.: Diogenianus, Hesychius, the Lexica Segueriana, Photius, Eustathius, Gregorius (Patriarch Gregory II), Michael Apostolius. The Suda's infinitive, here, was once regarded as an unattributable fragment of Attic comedy: adespota fr. 1036 …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2055Κοππατίαςkoppa-branded… as kai\ to\ n. Other commentators are better informed, e.g. Eustathius, Commentary on the Iliad vol. 3 p. 1, calls san a Doric sigma. [3] The Suda mangles the scholia vetera: "the form of …Matched in noteshighmedium

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