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Λυσιμάχεια
Lysimakheia, Lysimacheia, Lysimachea
… generated the present entry -- was the one founded by
Lysimachos
(see OCD(4) s.v., and under alpha 1862, etc.) as capital for his Thrakian realm. This was on the site of Polis Agora (present-day …
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860
Λυσικράτης
Lysikrates, Lysicrates
… Birds 513: a bird "was standing and watching what bribe
Lysikrates
took" (web address 3). Commentators rightly point out that, with twenty years between the two plays, there can be no certainty that L. …
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863
Λύσιππος
Lysippos, Lysippus
Old Comedy; OCD(4) s.v.
Lysippus(1),
by W.G. Arnott. [1] Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 3.124D [3.98 Kaibel] and 8.344E [8.33]. [2] (The names of one or more plays have evidently been lost.) For the thyrsus see theta …
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γ
412
Γωνία
corner
… e)/sti gnh/sios of the Suda. In Harpokration the quotation from
(?)Lysias
begins with e)/sti de\ ka/myanti ("there is for one following the bends...") instead of the Suda's ka/myanti. The Suda may have transposed the …
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309
Χίλιοι διακόσιοι
Twelve Hundred
… from Harpokration s.v. [1] Isaeus fr. 74 Sauppe. The name
"Lysides"
is otherwise unattested in Athens. Though it is admitted into vol.II of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names (s.v. no.1), there must be …
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1046
Κατηκόντισε
shot down
… here it takes a genitive. The phrase 'the soul of
Lysias'
occurs -- in the genitive case, as here: th=s
*lusi/ou
yuxh=s -- in Dionysius of Halicarnassus,
Lysias
11, referring to the genius of …
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2095
Κορκορυγάς
rumblings
… wordplay is simple enough -- Peace will acquire the name
Lysimache,
Battle-stopper -- but it has the extra dimension of the fact that this was the name of Athens' venerable and longstanding priestess of …
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κ
1639
Κινησίας
Kinesias, Cinesias
… generic gloss, this entry savagely abridges Harpokration s.v. (generated by
Lysias
fr. 142 Sauppe, now 196 Carey OCT: two speeches In Reply to Kinesias). See further at phi 459. Kinesias, son of Meles (c.450-390); …
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ε
2452
Ἐπίλυσιν
response
[1] The headword is accusative case of the noun e)pi/lusis. The best-known instance -- Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 134: e)pi/lusin fo/bwn, e)pi/lusin di/dou -- means 'release' and so makes a bad fit with this …
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α
3959
Ἀρκτεῦσαι
to be a bear
… the middle - also used here - was intransitive. [1]
Lysias
fr. 249 Sauppe, now 303 Carey OCT (from the lost speech On behalf of Phrynichus' daughter). [2] Euripides fr.767 Nauck; Aristophanes,
Lysistrata
645 …
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κ
2263
Κωμῆτις
village-woman
… is "village, neighborhood" and kw=mos is "revel, carousal." [3] Aristophanes
Lysistrata
5 (see web address 2 below). The speaker is actually the woman
Lysistrata.
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χ
266
Χειρουργίας
of handiwork
… and its gloss, it also has figurative applications. [1] Aristophanes,
Lysistrata
673 (which has liparaou=s for the Suda's lipara=s: see web address 1 below), with glosses (the etymological one fanciful and incorrect) from the …
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1029
Διθυραμβοδιδάσκαλοι
dithyramb-directors
… 414 BC). (The frustrated young husband of this name in
Lysistrata
[829-953, 411 BC, cf. alphaiota 101] is probably not intended as a comment on the dithyrambic poet [see Henderson in his edition on …
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1466
Ἐντετριμμένη
painted, powdered, rubbed-in
… verb is suggestive of women's cosmetics: compare the plural at
Lysistrata
149, and see generally LSJ s.v. (The connection with the sieve is sustained by the fact that it too will have a covering …
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α
2813
Ἄξιον
proper; cheap
… be 'us'. (cf. n.4 below.) [3] cf. alpha 2814. [4]
Lysias
22.11 (web address 1). The Suda's "to you" should read "to us", a frequent manuscript confusion between two Greek words which differ by …
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δ
171
Δέκα
ten
Abridged from Harpokration s.v., who besides Isocrates and
Lysias
(below) cites Androtion FGrH 324 F10. [1] Isocrates 18.5. [2]
Lysias
fr. 79 Sauppe, now 88 Carey OCT.
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261
Δερμιστής
skin-eater
From Harpokration s.v. dermhsth/s. [1]
Lysias
fr. 104 Sauppe, now 122 Carey OCT. But NB, according to Harpokration,
Lysias
merely used the word, without explanation. It was Didymus, commenting on Sophokles (fr. 449 Radt), …
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ε
792
Ἐλεοκόπους
eleo-beaters, olive-tenders(?)
Abridged from Harpokration; see further below. [1]
Lysias
fr. 71 Sauppe (now 79 Carey OCT). Harpokration s.v. e)leoko/pwn (sic: genitive rather than the Suda's accusative) more cautiously says that
Lysias
might assign the word …
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2327
Ἐπιθέτους ἑορτάς
extra festivals
… phrase is accusative plural. [1] Isocrates 7.29. [2] Harpok. cites
Lysias
fr. 178 Sauppe (now 224 Carey OCT) for this. [3]
Lysias
fr. 116 Sauppe (now 158 Carey OCT). [4] Harpok. cites Demosthenes 34.38 …
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2508
Ἐπίπεμπτον
additional-fifth
Abridged from Harpokration, who besides
Lysias
(below) cites an unidentifiable passage of 'Plato' and quotes Aristophanes fr. 201 Kock (212 K-A). See already under epsilon 2286. [1]
Lysias
fr. 150 Sauppe (now 203 Carey …
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2724
Ἐπιτρέπειν τοῖς οἰκείοις
to entrust [the arbitration of a dispute] to one's friends
… Suda's headword phrase, which comes from Demosthenes). Besides Demosthenes and
Lysias,
below, Harpok. cites Menander's play Epitrepontes. [1] Demosthenes 27.1, with "arbitrators", diaithtai/, instead of "jurors", dikastai/. (The error postdates Harpok.) [2]
Lysias
fr. …
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225
Ἡλικία τῆς πόλεως
manhood of the city
… entry derives -- had cited 'Lycurgus' (fr. II.3 Conomis), but
'Lysias'
here (and in the epitome of Harpok.) must be accounted a deliberate variant, not a slip: see
Lysias
2.49 ('manhood' only: web address …
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17
Λαγίσκα
Lagiska, Lagisca
Abbreviated from Harpokration s.v., who besides citing
Lysias
-- see next note -- also quotes a fragment of the comic poet Strattis (fr. 3 Kock and K.-A.). [1]
Lysias
fr. 155 Sauppe, now 208 …
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α
135
Ἀγαλματοποιοί
statue-makers, sculptors
… for information on these three sculptors of the C5 and
(Lysippus)
C4 BC.
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α
499
Ἀδοκίμαστος
unscrutinized
Abbreviated from Harpokration s.v., commenting on
Lysias
fr.73 Sauppe (now 81 Carey OCT).
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α
560
Ἀέρκτον
unhedged
= Harpokration s.v. [1]
Lysias
7.28, of an olive-stump (web address 1).
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α
901
Ἀκμάζει
is flourishing, is in the prime
… s.v. The passages are both contextless: Hyperides fr. 122 Jensen;
Lysias
fr. 188 Sauppe, now 241 Carey (OCT).
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α
1439
Ἅλυσις
chain
For a(/lusis cf. alpha 1438, alpha 1440, and see LSJ at web address 1.
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α
1715
Ἀμφιδέας
anklets, chains
… changes the headword from nominative plural to accusative plural). [1]
Lysias
fr. 100 Sauppe, now 116 Carey (OCT). This is meaning 2 in LSJ (web address 1). See also alpha 1713 and alpha 1714.
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α
1822
Ἀνάγεσθαι
to put to sea
… (109-110). [2] The source now becomes Harpokration s.v., abbreviated. [3]
Lysias
fr. 62 Sauppe (now 69 Carey OCT); Dinarchus fr. 8 Conomis.
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