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Βαβύλας
Babylas
… written here was babu/as, the reading of the headword in
Hesychius
beta16 (babu/as: bo/rboros, phlo/s (babyas: mire, clay). A similar entry, post-Suda, in Etymologicum Magnum 186.1 probably identifies this as a dialect word: baki/as …
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Βαβάκτης
reveller
… and Pan ( LSJ entry at web address 1). Compare
Hesychius
beta6, 9, 10 epsilon1287 (cf. Latte 1.501-2); Lexica Segueriana 223.31 Bekker; Photius, Lexicon beta5, 6, 8; Etymologicum Magnum 183.45. Its only appearance outside …
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21
Ἀβασάνιστος
untested
… part from Phrynichus (Praeparatio rhetorica fr. 39 de Borries); cf.
Hesychius
alpha89 and a cluster of related entries: alpha 2276,
Hesychius
alpha4899, Synagoge alpha589, Photius alpha1845. [1] *ba/sanos can mean both the touchstone itself …
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Ἀβής
stupid
… unsure of its meaning(s): besides the above, cf. a)nai/sxuntos 'shameless'
(Hesychius)
and a)no/sios 'unholy'
(Hesychius
and the Etymologicum Gudianum).
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371
Ἀγροῦ πυγή
rump of the country; fat of the land
… pugh/ version is otherwise standard: see Pausanias the Atticist alpha21;
Hesychius
alpha837; Photius, Lexicon alpha272 Theodoridis; Appendix Proverbiorum 1.4; Macarius Chrysocephalus 1.3. The phrase itself is taken to come from Old Attic Comedy: Archippus …
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Βαβάκινος
babakinos, bakinon
… in the Ambrosian Lexicon (19). A very similar one in
Hesychius
(beta4) presents this word as baba/kinon, i.e. either a neuter variant to the (presumably) masculine/feminine nominative singular of the Suda's headword, or the …
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Ἀαγές
unbroken, unbreakable
= Apollonius Sophistes, Lexicon Homericum 2.4. Likewise in
Hesychius
alpha7; Photius, Lexicon alpha4 Theodoridis; Etymologicum Gudianum 1.12. This form of the adjective is the neuter nominative/accusative singular, as at Homer, Odyssey 11.575 (web address …
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Ἀαδεῖν
to disturb
Same entry in other lexica: Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon (2.14),
Hesychius
alpha10, Photius alpha5 Theodoridis, and cf. Etymologicum Gudianum 1.15. The headword is otherwise unattested -- and the range of active and passive meanings suggests …
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4
Ἀάλιον
undisciplined
… Homeric Lexicon 2.14, and Photius, Lexicon alpha6 Theodoridis; cf. also
Hesychius
alpha17. The headword is unattested outside lexica and grammars (and attested there only in this neuter singular nominative/accusative form, presumably quoted from somewhere). …
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7
Ἀασάμην
I was addled
… is very similar to Apollonius Sophistes, Homeric Lexicon 1.19, and
Hesychius
alpha25.
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11
Ἀβάκησαν
they kept quiet
… Etymologicum Magnum 2.30-31. Compare also Apollonius Sophistes, Homeric Lexicon 2.16;
Hesychius
alpha54. The glosses offered here and elsewhere probably represent semantic extrapolation from the Homeric context: When Odysseus comes in disguise to Troy, Helen …
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Ἀβάλε
would that
… entry (see note 2), also Synagoge alpha1 (Lexica Segueriana 3.10),
Hesychius
(s.v. a)/ ba/le, alpha60) and Apollonius Sophistes, Homeric Lexicon 2.15. The word does not occur in the extant text of Homer, but there …
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17
Ἄβαπτος
untempered
… a)/stomos. Cyril's reading has been adopted in Latte's text of
Hesychius
and Theodoridis' of Photius. [2] Only in ms A (= Parisinus 2625). This superlative form of the headword is attested only here.
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Ἄβατον
inaccessible
… entry = Synagoge alpha5, and Photius, Lexicon alpha31 Theodoridis; cf.
Hesychius
alpha91 (where Latte confidently asserts that the headword is quoted from Euripides, Bacchae 10).
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25
Ἀβδέλυκτα
unhateful [things]
… 40), and very similar to Synagoge (Codex B) alpha12; cf.
Hesychius
alpha94. [1] cf. tau 659. [2] Aeschylus fr. 137 Nauck.
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27
Ἀβδιού
Abdiou, Obadiah
… *)abdiou "Obadiah's Vision"; the Hebrew name is indeclinable and accentless.
Hesychius
gives the name as oxytone, with the gloss e(rmhneu/etai dou=los e)comologhto/s "it is interpreted as acknowledged servant."
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Ἀβέβηλα
inviolable [places]
… Photius and constitutes the entire entry at Synagoge alpha6; cf.
Hesychius
alpha101, with neuter/accusative equivalents. Cyril of Alexandria uses the headword frequently in conjunction with kaqaro/s.
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31
Ἀβελτεροκόκκυξ
silly cuckoo
… see e.g. Aristophanes, Acharnians 598 (web address 1 below), and
Hesychius
s.v. ko/kkuges.
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49
Ἀβίωτον
unlivable
… evidently quoted from somewhere. The possibilities are numerous. (Latte on
Hesychius
s.v. confidently asserts Euripides, Alcestis 242.) [2] Quotation unidentifiable -- but perhaps from Plutarch, who has several instances of the idiom a)biw/tws e)/xein. …
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Ἀβουλία
ill-advisedness
… alpha47 Theodoridis); they add prope/teia "rashness". [2] Same glossing in
Hesychius
alpha171, where Latte claims the headword as quoted from Euripides, Medea 882 (accusative case there).
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69
Ἀβραάμ
Abraham
… apart from word order, one in Photius; cf. Synagoge alpha17,
Hesychius
alpha181.
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70
Ἁβρὰ βαίνων
walking delicately
… be quoted from Euripides, Trojan Women 820. (So Latte on
Hesychius
s.v. and more tentatively Theodoridis on Photius s.v.) [2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
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78
Ἄβρικτον
deaf
[1] Neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective; same glossing in
Hesychius
and, according to Adler, the Ambrosian Lexicon; evidently quoted from somewhere. LSJ defines the word as 'wakeful', from bri/zein "be sleepy"; see web …
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89
Ἁβροσύνη
splendor
… by its occurrence in Euripides, Orestes 349 (so Latte on
Hesychius
s.v.); cf. the scholia there. cf. generally alpha 70, alpha 73, alpha 86, alpha 87, alpha 88. For the glossing noun see also …
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90
Ἀβροτάζω
I miss (someone on the way)
… Apollonius the Sophist [Apollonius(11) in OCD(4)], Homeric Lexicon 3.1 (=
Hesychius
alpha205, and cf. Etymologicum Gudianum 3.25ff., Eustathius Commentary on Iliad 10.65), probably following Aristarchus, on Homer's plural.
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349
Ἄγρει
come now!
… 5.765, where the headword (imperative of a)gre/w) occurs; similarly in
Hesychius
alpha761.
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355
Ἀγρίδιον
little field
… of a)gro/s; see generally LSJ s.v. The equivalent entry in
Hesychius
does include glossing: kwma/rion, xwri/on.
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368
Ἀγρονόμοι
country-dwellers
… of Eudemus (4b.47 Niese), Synagoge (Codex B) alpha195, Photius alpha270.
Hesychius
alpha825 has the same headword and gloss in the genitive case. The source for the lemma is unknown, though its presence in Eudemus …
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374
Ἄγρωστις
wild grass
Same entry in
Hesychius
and elsewhere. LSJ s.v. distinguishes several species: Cynodon dactylon (dogs-tooth grass), Hordeum marinum, Parnassia palustris.
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1
Αἶ
ai, if
… Photius, Lexicon alpha501; cf. Apollonius Sophistes, Homeric Lexicon 13.19, and
Hesychius
alpha1652. [1] That is, ai(, pronounced like English "high", the nominative plural feminine form of the definite article and the relative pronoun. [2] …
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