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- λ569ΛίνοςLinos, Linus… are told by the Thebans, how that later than this Linus there was born another, a teacher of music called the son of Ismenias, and how Heracles while still a child killed him".
- λ570Λίνοςlinos, linus… follows Aristarchus’ interpretation of the verse.) Also see RE s.v. Linos (below); cf. lambda 568. [2] From glosses on Herodotus 2.79.2 (where the proper name Linos appears).
- λ571Λινοπτωμένηnet-watching… is the feminine nominative singular, present participle, of the verb linopta/omai. Its masculine counterpart linoptw/menos is the contested reading transmitted in Aristophanes, Peace 1178. The scholia there attribute to Aristotle the definition "those who …
- λ567Λινοπλῆγοςnet-shy… quoted from John Chrysostom (adversus Iudaeos 8.1 [PG 48.927]: de/doike linoplh=go/s tinos zw|/ou ou)de\n a)/meinon diakei/menos "he is afraid, in no better condition than some net-shy animal") is endorsed.
- μ843Μείλινον δόρυashen spearFrom Homer, Iliad 5.666 (web address 1). The noun appears there first, as the metre requires; and the adjective itself is me/linos in prose: see LSJ entry at web address 2 [me/linos (B)].
- ε935Ἐμβαλόνταhad directed… 404). Compare also Pausanias 9.29.9: Heracles kills his music teacher Linus the son of Ismenias; cf. lambda 568.
- αι181Αἴλινονmournful, plaintiveLikewise or similarly in other lexica. For the adjective ai)/linos see alphaiota 182, and generally LSJ s.v. Here it is either masculine accusative or more probably, as in alphaiota 180, neuter nominative. [1] For …
- ε858ἘλινιῶI dirgeAdler cites the unedited Ambrosian Lexicon (712) as a source for the entry, and it is taken over by ps.-Zonaras. The headword verb, otherwise unattested (and not in LSJ), is, as Chantraine suggests, evidently …
- ε859ἜλινοςvineAdler refers to the unedited Ambrosian Lexicon (551) as a comparandum. Apparently the headword is a variant of what is more commonly encountered as e(/linos, i.e. with a rough breathing. Perhaps quoted from Oppian, …
- δ1590Δυσανάγωγοςhard to convinceThis meaning of the adjective dusana/gwgos seems to be confined to writers of late antiquity and the Byzantine age. See e.g. John Chrysostom, Ad eos qui scandalizati sunt 7.1, where this term occurs together …
- α69ἈβραάμAbraham… the invention of the alphabet; Greek legend named Cadmus or Linus as the one who introduced the alphabet to Greece (gamma 416, kappa 21, kappa 22, lambda 568). See also phi 787. [10] The …