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α3799Ἀργυροῦνof silver and of gold[1] The uncontracted Ionic words are contrasted with the contracted headwords. [2] Thucydides, not in book one, but the autobiographical 4.105.1 (web address 1). [3] Thucydides 2.55.1 (web address 2).Matched in noteshighshort
ε1016Ἔμπηςnevertheless[1] Attic retains the alpha which the Ionic dialect changes to eta. Epic uses the form with eta; tragedy and lyric poetry keep the alpha. [2] Sophocles, Ajax 122 (web address 1 below), with …Matched in noteshighshort
α556Ἀερέθονταιthey drive on… 3.108, where -- as regularly elsewhere -- the form is Ionic h)ere/qontai; cf. under pi 2605.

α3799

Ἀργυροῦν

of silver and of gold

[*)argu/reon "of silver"] and xru/seon ["of gold"] [are] Ionic [words], but xru/seion ["golden"] [is] a possessive adjective. Thucydides [in book] one [writes]: "he had the use of the golden mines". Just as he says…

Ἀργυροῦν καὶ Χρυσοῦν· τὸ δ' ἀργύρεον καὶ χρύσεον Ἰακὰ, τὸ δὲ χρύσειον κτητικόν. Θουκυδίδης αʹ· χρῆσίν τ' ἔχει τῶν χρυσείων μετάλλων. ὥσπερ καὶ ἀργύρεια λέγεται δευτέρᾳ. μέχρι…

rhetoric

rhetoric

2

2

meter and music1

meter and music1

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α580ἈζαλέηparchedSame entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. The headword is the epic/Ionic feminine nominative singular of a)zale/os (for which adjective see already alpha 579). For the gloss cf. the scholia to Homer, …Matched in noteshighshort

α589Ἀζηλόενgloomy… but the suffix seems arbitrary. (It should not be an Ionic form of the adjective a)zale/os [alpha 579, alpha 580], which has a short alpha.)Matched in noteshighshort

α658Ἀηνέςaenes, (?)never-ending… perhaps with a quantitative metathesis. Alternatively, it might be an Ionic form of a)ane/s cited by Hesychius alpha18 as meaning "not to be accomplished." At Hesychius alpha1513 itself, however, Latte cites 'Archil[ochus] fr. 38', …Matched in noteshighshort

α681ἌϊενbreathedOne might have supposed that this headword was the imperfect (third person singular) of a)i/w "I hear", and as such quoted from Homer, Iliad 11.463; but the gloss does not fit that. Instead, this …Matched in noteshighshort

α729ἈθηναίαςAthenaiai, Athenaeae, Athenian women… K.-A.). [7] Here Photius' entry is carelessly abbreviated. Read: 'and Ion says that...': FGrH 392 F11. (For Themistocles see generally theta 124, theta 125, theta 126. He had several daughters; the one in question …Matched in noteshighmedium

α875ἈκιδαλίαAkidalia, Acidalia… other lexica too (but with the headword name ending in Ionic -i/h). The phrase "hand of Akidalia" is preserved from Pindar (fr.244 Snell-Maehler): the nymph of the spring? In any event, the Akidalia spring …Matched in noteshighshort

α1203Ἀλίαthrong… the putative decree of Byzantium inserted into Demosthenes 18.90. In Ionic it is spelled a(li/h or h(li/h. See LSJ a(li/a (A).Matched in noteshighshort

α1221ἉλίηmarineEpic/Ionic feminine nominative of a(/lios (A): cf. alpha 1237. Ths gloss is that of the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 2.318, where the headword occurs (referring to a journey).Matched in noteshighshort

α1237ἍλιοςmarineSame or similar material in other lexica, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon, and in several Homeric scholia (e.g. to Iliad 4.26). [1] From a(/ls: LSJ s.v. a(/lios (A): entry at web address 1. [2] LSJ …Matched in noteshighshort

α1288ἈλκίφρωνAlkiphron, Alciphron… C2 or C3 CE (see OCD(4) s.v. Alciphron). [1] In Ionia, near Ephesus; the qualifier differentiates it from its several homonyms.Matched in noteshighshort

α1448ἈλφειόςAlpheios, Alpheus… northwest past Mount Lykaion (lambda 799), and empties into the Ionian Sea (Barrington Atlas map 58 grid A2) west of Olympia. [1] Homer, Iliad 5.545 (web address 1). Pylos (cf. pi 3167) is in …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1592Ἀμιθρῆσαιto calculateThe headword is an aorist active infinitive. [1] Callimachus, Hymn to Demeter 86, and Hecale fr.314. LSJ s.v. cite other instances of this epic/Ionic/poetic inversion of a)riqmw=.Matched in noteshighshort

α1757Ἀμφίπυρονaflame, flaming… 1); cf. for the headword Sophocles, Trachiniae 214, and Euripides, Ion 212.Matched in noteshighshort

α1868Ἀναζυγαῖςwithdrawals… 1448; Barrington Atlas map 54 grid C5) is the largest Ionian island off the western Greek coast. [3] Polybius fr. 103 Büttner-Wobst. Büttner-Wobst notes (pp. 528-529) that Valesius (Henri de Valois 1603-1676) attributed this …Matched in noteshighshort

α2058Ἀναρρύειdraws back the head… [3] The Apato(u)ria (OCD(4) pp.114-15) was celebrated by Athenians and Ionians in the month of Pyanepsion (October-November), during which youths who had come of age were admitted to the phratries. See alpha 2940. [4] …Matched in noteshighshort

α2203Ἀναισίμουused upIonic verb: see LSJ s.v. [1] The only other attestation of the headword -- an imperfect with aorist force -- occurs in Herodotus 1.185.4 (on the construction by Nitocris [nu 433a] of an embankment …Matched in noteshighshort

α2373Ἀνειλήθυιανhaving never given birth… LSJ s.v. a)neilei/quia [sic], and cf. epsiloniota 108. [1] Euripides, Ion 453 (web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort

α2419Ἀνηνείκαντοthey called to mindBesides here, the headword -- Ionic aorist middle of a)nafe/rw -- is attested only in Herodotus 8.32.1 and 8.36.2; however, in neither of those passages does it bear the meaning 'they called to mind' …Matched in noteshighshort

α2464Ἀνιηρέστεροςmore grievous, rather grievousMetrically convenient irregular comparative of a)nihro/s (Ionic for a)niaro/s). Homer, Odyssey 2.190 (see web address 1), with scholion.Matched in noteshighshort

α2688Ἀντίξοονadverse… given. [1] Herodotus 6.7 (of what the participants in the Ionian Revolt resolve not to do; the emphasis in pezo\n me\n strato\n mhde/na sulle/gein ktl is to fight at sea, not on land). See …Matched in noteshighshort

α2772Ἀνοίγειopens… clear, but a)noignu/ei is otherwise unattested.) [2] Herodotus 4.58, in Ionic dialect (web address 1 below). [3] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable (Adler suggests Aelian.) [4] Not identified …Matched in noteshighshort

α2805Ἀξιαπηγητότατα(things) most worthy of telling.Neuter plural superlative, Ionic form: see LSJ entry at web address 1. Used by Herodotus 1.17 (see at gamma 472) and 1.177, and surely quoted here from one of those passages.Matched in noteshighshort

α2823Ἀξιόχρεωνworthwhile… omicron for omega, a)cio/xreon for a)cio/xrewn, is proper to the Ionic dialect.Matched in noteshighshort

α3708Ἅπτεσθαιto touch… the middle-voice headword infinitive occurs. [2] But see e.g. Plato, Ion 535A (web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort

α3860Ἄρρητονaccursed… -- literally prayed against, and so accursed -- is the Ionic dialect version of a)rato/s [the SOL headword for the present entry is wrong in giving it double rho], and hence potentially confusable with …Matched in noteshighmedium

α4208Ἀσπαστοίwelcome, welcomed… quoted from somewhere but is not independently attested. [3] This (Ionic) word is Callimachus fr. 427 Schneider.Matched in noteshighshort

α4645Ἀφραστύεςfolliescf. generally alpha 4646. [1] The headword is an Ionic/poetic form for a)fradi/a. Here nominative plural, presumably extracted from the quotation given. [2] Callimachus, Hecale fr. 318 Pfeiffer. See also the scholia there.Matched in noteshighshort

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