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1284
Κελαινεφές
of the black clouds; black
… the Odyssey 1.398.14ff.; Hesychius kappa2131 = Anecdota Oxoniensia 1.234.25; Etymologicum
Magnum
501.44. Under this theory, a hypothetical *kelainonefh/s has lost an unaccented syllable (Etym.Magn. 501.50ff.) through haplology or syllable-loss through dissimilation (Schwyzer, Gr.Gr. 1. …
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253
Αἰόλος
undulating, wavelike, advancing in a winding or rolling fashion, agile in turning side to side; multicoloured, discoloured, black or chestnut with white markings; easily moved, changeable, wily, quick-witted, liable to metamorphosis, disturbed in mind; whirling; self-generating in movement, ever-turning; lively, flashing, shimmering
… 286 col. 1.9; Liber 1; on Odyssey 20.27; cf. Etymologicum
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37.3 and the exceptional scholion B to Iliad 22.509, eu)/strofoi kai\ poiki/loi). He correctly took a)/ella from the same root of rolling or …
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α
839
Ἀκερσεκόμης
unshorn-haired
Likewise in Hesychius alpha2335 (and, post-Suda, Etymologicum
Magnum
46.25). From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 20.39, where the headword is applied to Apollo. Not cutting the hair would imply eternal youth; see generally LSJ …
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250
Αἰολομίτρης
agile with a waistband [or: having a multicoloured or twisted or flashing waistband]; having a multicoloured diadem
… because of which he moved easily', Etymologicum Genuinum alpha221, Etymologicum
Magnum
37.21, Etymologicum Symeonis 1.156.27). As with all uses of ai)o/los (alphaiota 253) and its compounds, it is impossible to decide among the possible …
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252
Αἴολος
Aeolus, Aiolos
… entry is supplemented in the Etymologica (Etymologicum Genuinum alpha222; Etymologicum
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37.4f., Etymologicum Symeonis 1.156) with the name of Aeolus Hippotades, that is, Homer’s ruler of the winds (Odyssey 10.1-79, esp. 10.2: web address …
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489
Βωμολόχος
altar-ambusher
… cited in the scholia on Plato, Republic 606C (and Etymologicum
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218.7). It would be derived from 'altar' and a verb for watching attested only in the Cypriot dialect by Hesychius and possibly in …
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490
Βωμολόχος
altar-ambusher
… eunuch, was reconquering Italy. The passage describes the generosity and
magnanimity
of Narses. He here denies that he speaks and acts to importune the Lucanians, whom he addresses, with unrealistic promises merely for self-serving …
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1029
Διθυραμβοδιδάσκαλοι
dithyramb-directors
… 1965, without text, identified as a dithyramb poet in Etymologicum
Magnum
164.20, from Tzetzes on Lycophron, Alexandra 879 p.2846 Scheer; PC2 52; PMG fr.837; Campbell 198-203; Aristotle, Poetics 1455a6; RE 21.1659-61 'Polyidos 9'), and …
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1503
Δραπέτης
runaway (slave)
… [1] The etymology here (also in Etymologicum Gudianum and Etymologicum
Magnum
286.46) is incomprehensible. The verb peteu/w must represent the Attic form petteu/w of pesseu/w 'gamble' (at board games), but this connection is implausible. …
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1505
Δραπετίνδα
runaway game
It is further defined, post-Suda, in Etymologicum
Magnum
286.48: "It is a form of the game called 'shut-eye' (mui+/nda, which might also mean the 'mouse game'). It is named from the fact that one …
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337
Ἑκάβη
Hekabe, Hecuba
… attributed to the grammarian Seleucus of Alexandria (sigma 200). Etymologicum
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319.35-37 stops at 'the Phrygians'. For Dymas, see delta 1569; for Priam, pi 2274. This etymology of Hekabe's name from heka- ('far distant': …
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1295
Ἔνη
the day after tomorrow, the second day after
… probably an error for h( triaka\s th=s selh/nhs at Etymologicum
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340.55f., 'the 30th. day of the month', i.e. the 29th., in a definition of e(/nh kai\ ne/a (cf. epsilon 1292, epsilon 1293, epsilon …
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Ἐφέσια γράμματα
Ephesian letters
… and Photius, Lexicon epsilon2403 (cf. 2405). See also, post-Suda, Etymologicum
Magnum
402.23 (Kallierges), the paroemiographer Apostolius (11.29), and Eustathius, Commentary on the Odyssey vol. 2.201 lines 43ff. The entry is primarily in reported speech, …
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1285
Κελαινόν
black, murky
… (cf. 9.6). See also Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon (97.27) and Etymologicum
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501.44; cf. Hesychius' odd melano/n at kappa2135 (linked with the Homeric passage by Latte but perhaps [RD] of the black ink in the …
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2216
Κῴδιον
small fleece, small sheepskin rug (for sleeping on) or cloak (against rain)
… without it, perhaps through the ancient explanation (found in Etymologicum
Magnum
550.2ff.) that takes it as a sleeping mattress and associates it with kwdei/a, the poppy head (kappa 2213) used as an opiate, and …
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2586
Κυβέλη
Kubele, Kybele, Cybele; Kubebe, The Great Mother of the Gods and Men
… devotee). Mother Cybele was more often known in Rome as
Magna
Deum Mater (Great Mother of the Gods) and hence today as 'The Great Mother'. Catullus' Attis (poem 63) describes with a certain horror …
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2594
Κυβήβη
Kubebe, Kybebe, Cybebe, Cybele, Great Mother
… Philologus 68, 1909, 118-151,169-204) installed in the temple of the
Magna
Deum Mater ('Great Mother of the Gods') on the Palatine, to which they attributed the victory over Hannibal.
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2772
Κύρμα
stroke of luck, windfall
… scholia ad loc.; Apollonius the Sophist, Lexicon Homericum 105.26; Etymologicum
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548.45; Hesychius kappa4692. The entry in the Suda, however, is virtually identical to the scholion to Aristophanes, Birds 430-31, where the word is …
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