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α73Ἁβραῖςdelicate… [half-beams] upon very delicate couches and mattresses adorned with some magnificent weaving."Matched in translationhighshort
α9Ἀάσχετοςirresistible… to gloss the neuter form of the headword at Etymologicum Magnum 1.32.Matched in noteshighshort
α11Ἀβάκησανthey kept quiet… to this entry are Photius, Lexicon alpha22 Theodoridis, and 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 …Matched in notes

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Ἁβραῖς

delicate

[Meaning] gentle, dainty. Aelian [writes]: "them placing [half-beams] upon very delicate couches and mattresses adorned with some magnificent weaving."

Ἁβραῖς· ἁπαλαῖς, τρυφεραῖς. Αἰλιανός· ἐπὶ κλίναις μάλα ἁβραῖς καὶ στρωμναῖς ὕφει τινὶ ὑπερηφάνῳ κεκοσμημέναις ἐπιθέντας.

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α19ἈβαρνίςAbarnis… Rhodius, Argonautica 1.932 (repeated in more legible form in Etymologicum Magnum 2.11-28) provides an etymological explanation of the origin of the name in Aphrodite's refusal (a)parnh/sasqai) to recognize her offspring Priapos, who was born …Matched in noteshighshort

α26ἌβδηραAbdera… 'the sea' is unintelligible. [2] Similarly glossed in the Etymologicum Magnum and the Lexicon Ambrosianum. An "Abderite" could also signify someone generically stupid: see LSJ s.v. *)abdhri/ths (web address 1 below). [3] These six …Matched in noteshighshort

α54Ἀβλεμέωςfecklessly, heedlessly… Kaibel); it refers there to intemperate drinking. See also Etymologicum Magnum 3.24 and other lexica.Matched in noteshighshort

α69ἈβραάμAbraham… 94, notes 1 and 14. [7] The Suda underscores the magnitude of the honor with a hyperbolic kat' before e)cai/reton. [8] The statement, rooted in a paternalistic-filial model that originates in Abraham and culminates …Matched in noteshighlong

αι2Αἶαearth… glossed with a more common equivalent; cf. Hesychius alpha1654, Etymologicum Magnum 27.8-10, and the scholia to Homer, Iliad 2.850, 13.4. See LSJ entry at web address 1.Matched in noteshighshort

β4Βαβάκτηςreveller… Lexica Segueriana 223.31 Bekker; Photius, Lexicon beta5, 6, 8; Etymologicum Magnum 183.45. Its only appearance outside lexicography is in the Doric vocative form baba/kta in a fragment of Cratinus (321 Kock, 22 Meineke, 359 …Matched in noteshighshort

β9ΒαβύλαςBabylas… phlo/s (babyas: mire, clay). A similar entry, post-Suda, in Etymologicum Magnum 186.1 probably identifies this as a dialect word: baki/as [babu/kas: ms M]: bo/rboros, phlo/s, u(po\ *taranti/nwn (bakias [or babykas]: mire, clay, in Tarantine …Matched in noteshighshort

ε5Ἐακότεςhaving let go… headword were it not for the rough breathing: cf. Etymologicum Magnum 107.3, Etymologicum Genuinum alpha165, Etymologicum Gudianum 144.Matched in noteshighshort

κ2Καββαλίςkabbalis… [2] Thus far the entry has a parallel in Etymologicum Magnum 482.18-20, though the headword there is ka/bbalis with the variant kaba/llhs and the glossing participle (for both) present-tense kataba/llwn. The noun kaba/llhs meant …Matched in noteshighshort