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κ2483Κροτώνωνof ticks… phrase are genitive plural. See also kappa 2482, and cf. Eustathius’ note, Commentary on the Odyssey 2.147.23-30, on Homer’s kunoraisth/s ('dog-gouger': Odyssey 17.300) as a tick; perhaps the brown dog tick (rhiphicephalus sanguineus) rather …Matched in noteshighshort
μ134Μανδαλωτόνbolted-shut… totally unclear in what way they apply to music (although Eustathius also uses 'hairdresser' for music, see note 1 below). The explanation "intricate and sweet," appropriate to music, may imply that they were contemporary …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2482Κρότωνος ὑγιέστεροςsounder than a tick; sounder than Croton… health. The source of the Suda's other sentence is unknown. Eustathius, on the other hand, follows Strabo 6.1.12.31f. and argues (Commentary on Dionysius Periegetes 369.18-32, cf. Commentary on the Odyssey 2.147.23-30) that the phrase …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3019Ἑρκύνιοι δρυμοίHercynian forests (?Black Forest)… Diodorus Siculus (5.21, 5.32), Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Roman Antiquities 14.1), Eustathius (Commentary on Dionysius the Periegete 298.16-45), and the Emperor Julian (Misopogon 30.5; Letters 25b.1,6 [cf. chi 473]; it is unclear why Adler nominates …Matched in noteshighshort
α2342Ἀνευάσαιto raise the cry Euoi!… to do this, or Philodamus in his Paean to Dionysus (Eustathius, Commentary on Dionysius Periegetes 566.35). The prefix ana- implies the beginning of the action that follows. The verb is found both in this …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3864Ἐφέσια γράμματαEphesian letters… post-Suda, Etymologicum Magnum 402.23 (Kallierges), the paroemiographer Apostolius (11.29), and Eustathius, Commentary on the Odyssey vol. 2.201 lines 43ff. The entry is primarily in reported speech, which appears in its correct context in Eustathius …Matched in noteshighshort
α4255Ἄστρια(?)knucklebones… for a)stri/a, the unattested nominative singular of a)stri/as, read by Eustathius in Suetonius (*peri\ paidi/wn 1.18, ed. Taillardat pp. 66, 155), or else is an error for a)/strias (the accusative plural of a)/stris), to …Matched in noteshighshort
α841Ἀκέσασθαι καὶ Ἀκέσαιto heal… 432 -- but this assertion, repeated there, makes little sense. Eustathius (1647.56) vigorously denies the relationship between the word for stitching and the word akestria for 'healer', and this entry perhaps reflects a confused …Matched in noteshighshort
κ912Κατεγλωττισμένονtongued-down (?tongue-engaged); (sunk) under too many glosses (far-fetched).… of the names of such kisses in the Suda, Hesychius, Eustathius, Pausanias Atticista and Photius see the notes to mu 134. The rest of the entry illustrates the literary use of the term to …Matched in noteshighmedium
α856Ἀκεῖσθαιto heal… 22.2; cf. alpha 851), but this was vigorously denied by Eustathius (1647.56), citing Aelius Dionysius. See alpha 851 for the important distinction between the masculine nouns for 'doctor' and 'tailor'. This verb has no …Matched in noteshighshort
αι64Αἴγληradiance; Aigle… [1] According to Lamer (1948) -- based on Hesychius and Eustathius, On the Iliad 823.28 -- this was a bad throw. For the names of other throws (beta 369) in gambling (kappa 2602), see …Matched in noteshighshort
αι253Αἰόλοςundulating, wavelike, advancing in a winding or rolling fashion, agile in turning side to side; multicoloured, discoloured, black or chestnut with white markings; easily moved, changeable, wily, quick-witted, liable to metamorphosis, disturbed in mind; whirling; self-generating in movement, ever-turning; lively, flashing, shimmering… but with poluki/nhton), and, with taxu/s for eu)ki/nhtos, Hesychius alpha2020, Eustathius on Odyssey 10.2 and many Homeric scholia (see Mette under *sx). Modern dictionaries such as LSJ assign these as the two primary meanings …Matched in noteshighshort
α1303Ἅλμη οὐκ ἔνεστ' αὐτῷthere is no salt in him; there is no sauce in him… by many modern sophisticated societies. This proverb also occurs in Eustathius's note to Odyssey 4.511 and in several of the late paroemiographers (e.g. Gregorius 1.25).Matched in noteshighshort
α831Ἀκέωνwordless(ly), in silence, speechless, (?)attentive(ly)… the verb of healing, so scholia to Iliad 4.22, Hesychius, Eustathius 1902.47, but properly rejected as inapplicable to almost all occurrences of the word); (3) 'meekly, gently, peaceably' (Boisacq, rejecting de Saussure and citing …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3787Εὐοῖ σαβοῖEuoi, Euoi, Saboi!… to a Phrygian or Thracian tribe (Stephanus of Byzantium s.v.; Eustathius, Commentary on Dionysius Periegetes 1069.5, also mentioning an Indian tribe of the name and the Arabian Sabai). Hippolytus, however, in his account of …Matched in noteshighshort
η286Ἤμβροτενmissed (the mark or goal)… or hitting the mark through its use in two proverbs. Eustathius describes them as follows. " 'You missed and did not hit' (h)/mbrotes oud’ e)/tuxes, Iliad 5.287) is proverbial for those who fail to …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2807Ἐποποῖepopoi (in hoopoe-ese)… shouts and 'mimic words' (bird cries and onomatopoeic words: cf. Eustathius on Homer, Iliad 11.251 = vol.3.230.12) from the extant plays of Aristophanes, meticulously ordered and unusually well preserved, throws light on e.g. the …Matched in noteshighlong
μ337ΜαιονίδαςMaionidas, Maeonides; Maion's son, Maeon's son… whom the Etruscans claimed descent and who are identified by Eustathius with the Dardanians (on the Trojan warrior Maeon at Iliad 4.394). Maeonides or Maeonius becomes a favorite name or adjective for Homer and …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1284Κελαινεφέςof the black clouds; black… D to Iliad 1.397 (cf. ad loc., schol. P.Köln inv.2281); Eustathius On the Odyssey 1.398.14ff.; Hesychius kappa2131 = Anecdota Oxoniensia 1.234.25; Etymologicum Magnum 501.44. Under this theory, a hypothetical *kelainonefh/s has lost an unaccented …Matched in noteshighshort
αι246Αἰόλλειturns, variegates… long and useful discussion at Zetemata cod. Vat. 284col.1-286col.1.9) and Eustathius (his scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 729ff.) were perhaps overly impressed by the similarity of this rare verb to a)/ella ('hurricane, tornado': alpha 545); …Matched in noteshighshort

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