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κ1864ΚνηκίςwispDerived from knh=kos, "safflower". Hesychius kappa3102 glosses it as "safflower-like situation of the air; thin pelt, and thin wisp of cloud; a black spot [on the skin], and deer". See also, more generally, under …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1471Κεχρησμῳδημένωνof the prophesied, of the divined… kappa644 Theodoridis; similar one in the Synagoge and elsewhere, including Hesychius kappa2435 (neuter nominative plurals). The genitive plural participle glossed here is first attested in Cyril of Alexandria (4 times: Commentary on the Twelve …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1480Κειρίαswathing-band… it, this usage is late, found in papyri, Soranus, and Hesychius (although the instance of khrei/ais in Hesychius cited actually glosses keiri/ais in John 11:44, "grave clothes" -- a related sense conflated in LSJ, …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1574Κιβδηλιῶντεςlooking like adulterated [gold], looking jaundiced… the jaundiced and the starving have swollen feet?"). See also Hesychius kappa2597 and Photius, Lexicon kappa691 Theodoridis, both with the corresponding accusative; and cf. more generally Hesychius kappa2596 and Photius kappa690 (infinitives). Hesychius explains …Matched in noteshighshort
μ183Μαργαίνειrages… lexica (see the references at Photius mu107 Theodoridis), beginning with Hesychius mu260, and cf. also the scholia to Homer, Iliad 5.882, where the infinitive margai/nein occurs and is glossed with mai/nesqai. The only literary …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1333Κεντήματαpricks, punctures… The word is frequent in medical and veterinary authors; but Hesychius kappa2227 glosses this same form as "punishments", and Latte there attributes it to Sophron (fr. 143 Kaibel).Matched in noteshighshort
μ373Μεγαλώνυμονhaving a great nameSame or similar entry in other lexica, beginning with Hesychius mu481 (who has just the first of the three synonyms): see the references at Photius mu169 Theodoridis. The headword is either masculine accusative singular …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1937Κολετρῶσιthey trample on… 552 (on Hyperbolos: upsilon 245). [3] From the scholiast, and Hesychius kappa3328; Hesychius adds "[an activity] which is called koletra=n". In Photius kappa884 Theodoridis, "they tread, literally olives". This is probably the true origin …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2319Κραμβοτάτουloudest, quite loud, very loud… krambotaton mouth". See further, next note. [2] "Air-dried" is from Hesychius; "useful" is from the scholia, which still explain this as a pun from "cabbage", and is unlikely to display deep understanding of the …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2183Κουρήτων στόμαKouretes' mouth… (Mazarin ms.) 5.60, and Apostolius 9.95, as well as in Hesychius kappa3848. The present gloss is from Zenobius, though oi(=on "as in" appears there instead of oi( de\ "and others"; Hesychius uses the same …Matched in noteshighshort
λ355ΛειανέωI will smooth… scholia ad loc., as well as the Etymologicum Genuinum and Hesychius.Matched in noteshighshort
μ265Μάστιεscourge!… where it is applied to chariot horses. Same glossing in Hesychius mu357 and the Etymologicum Magnum.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1218Κεγχραμίδεςpips… in Theophrastus and medical authors. The singular is glossed in Hesychius kappa1963 as "the interior of the seed of a fig", but elsewhere Hesychius also uses the word to describe grains of wheat, suggesting …Matched in noteshighshort
μ646Μεσάτμῳto a weaver's beam… The word also appears in Pausanias the Atticist (mu13) and Hesychius (mu96) as me/sakmon, and Hesychius mentions as variants mesa/ktwn and mesa/krwn. The dative being glossed here is possibly mesa/kmw| in Nonnus, Dionysiaca 24.254. …Matched in noteshighshort
ν292Νεῖσθαιto swim… (as Adler suggests) be Homer, Odyssey 15.88 (web address 1). Hesychius nu250 gives the more usual gloss of "to go", poreu/esqai.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1545Κηρύκειονherald's wand… 1546. The present entry has the same definition as in Hesychius kappa2562, though Hesychius has the grammatically correct e)f' w(=|. This definition distinguishes the herald's wand (LSJ s.v. I) from the place he proclaims …Matched in noteshighshort
μ371Μεγαλόφρωνgreat-minded, high-minded[1] Likewise in Hesychius mu477, the Synagoge, Photius' Lexicon (mu168 Theodoridis) and elsewhere; Latte in his edition of Hesychius associates it with 4 Maccabees 6:5 LXX. Oddly, the remainder of the entry takes up …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1153Καχλάζειbubbles… Photius (kappa508 Theodoridis) and the Lexica Segueriana; different glossing in Hesychius (kappa1135, kappa1938) and scholia to Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, where the headword twice occurs (115, 761: web addresses 1 and 2).Matched in noteshighshort
λ208Λαῖφοςlaiphos… fai/nesqai "very much to be seen"); Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon and Hesychius as just "cloth" (with one ms of Hesychius adding "namely, sail"); and the Synagoge, Photius, and the Lexica Segueriana as just "outer-garment". The …Matched in noteshighshort
μ670Μεσορῶνbeing mid-boundary (?)… evidently quoted from somewhere, is given this same definition in Hesychius and other lexica: see the references at Photius mu304 Theodoridis.Matched in noteshighshort
λ368Λειξούραgluttony… lambda 367 (q.v.). The word is defined as "gift" in Hesychius. It is defined as "greed" in ps.-Zonaras, and occurs in Early Modern Greek in that meaning (Chronicle of the Tocci 10.9,; A. Guillou, …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1298Κελευτιόωνcontinually urging… in Homer, Iliad 13.125; cf. the scholia thereto (and e.g. Hesychius kappa2162, Etymologicum Magnum 502.16).Matched in noteshighshort
λ202Λαιστρόνlaistron… Orthography 27, and ps.-Zonaras s.v. laitro/n. Seemingly a corruption of Hesychius' la/iton (lambda163) -- glossed as a)rxei=on -- which in turn is an Atticisation of Herodotus 7.197.2 ('the Achaians call to\ prutanh/ion a lh/iton, …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1998Κομιάτωνfurlough, leave of absence… (from Latin commeātus) is given, with the same gloss, in Hesychius and elsewhere; see the references at Photius kappa911 Theodoridis.Matched in noteshighshort
μ410Μεθαρμοζόμενοςcorrecting oneself, adapting (?)The same entry is given in e.g. Hesychius (mu525) and Photius mu179 Theodoridis, where the editor (following Dobree) obelizes the transmitted headword meqarmozo/menos as an error for meqormizo/menos "changing anchorage". Thus the present entry …Matched in noteshighshort
ν248Νεώτεροςnewer, rather new, more new… the positive degree might be expected; and see also (e.g.) Hesychius nu433 s.v. new/teron.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1576Κίβησιςbag, pouch, wallet… sakkopa/qnion. But in other lexica, a sakkopa/qnion is a pouch (Hesychius s.v. xlido/s, ps.-Zonaras s.v. a)skoph/ra, Etymologicum Gudianum and Etymologicum Magnum s.v. ph/ra, alpha 4178). All other lexica glossing ki/bisis ~ ki/bhsis likewise hedge …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1246Κεκλιμένοςlying… For corresponding plurals see Homer, Iliad 15.740 with scholion, and Hesychius kappa2066.Matched in noteshighshort
κ2208Κῶαςfleece… gloss is particular to the Suda; Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon and Hesychius gloss it with the diminutive kw/dion, and although the form frequently features in grammatical discussion, its meaning is assumed. Contrasted with na/kos "goatskin" …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1231Κεκαδησόμεθαwe will have been concerned… web address 1), the Etymologicum Gudianum, the Etymologicum Magnum, and Hesychius kappa30.Matched in noteshighshort

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