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Δαξισμός
irritation
The headword noun, nominative case, purports to be generated by its genitive in the quotation given -- but see next note [1] A faulty approximation of a dream-scenario in Artemidorus 5.69: read nominative i(pta/menos …
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76
Δάσασθαι
to divide out, distribute
[1] The headword is aorist infinitive of date/omai. Same or similar glossing in other lexica, and cf. also the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 3.66 (where dassa/menoi occurs). [2] Herodotus 7.121.2, with the aorist participle …
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856
Διδαξάμενος
having [someone] taught
Same entry in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon, compiled at some time between the first and the fourth centuries CE. Similar one, later, in Photius, Lexicon delta520, though the glossing there is corrupted into tele/sas ti …
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1243
Διώνυμον
well-known
The headword is either masculine accusative singular or neuter nominative/accusative singular of the adjective diw/numos, for which see also delta 1244. There, as also here, the adjective is used in the second of the …
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1796
Ἐξομόργνυνται
they wipe off (from themselves)
The headword is third person plural present middle of e)como/rgnumi. It must be quoted from somewhere: same or similar glossing in other lexica, and cf. also the scholia to Plato, Laws 775D, where the …
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471
Χρή
it is necessary
[1] See the A scholia to Homer, Iliad 1.216 (web address 1), where the form xrh/ appears; see also Etymologicum Magnum 814.50. [2] Eupolis fr. 4 Kock, now 11 K.-A. [3] See chi 493 …
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1889
Ἐωνημένοι
having purchased
[1] The headword is the perfect middle participle, masculine nominative plural, of w)ne/omai. Same or similar glossing in other lexica; evidently quoted from somewhere (perhaps Plato, Republic 563B, though there are other possibilities). As …
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326
Ἀγώμενος
envying
Same material, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (344-345). The primary headword a)gw/menos, a participle in the middle voice, occurs in Hesiod, Theogony 619 (of Ouranos and his offspring). The entry is concerned …
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1799
Ἀναβαλλόμενος
deferring, postponing, putting off
After the grammatical point, the first and principal part of this entry differentiates between the present middle participle and the aorist middle participle (both of them masculine nominative singulars) of a)naba/llw (here bearing different …
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2000
Ἀναπεμπάζειν
to ponder, to calculate, to count over
Same entry in ps.-Zonaras; similar ones in Photius (s.v. a)napempa/zesqai) and Hesychius (s.v. a)napempa/zei and a)napempazo/menoi, on the second of which see below). [1] The Aeolic form for pe/nte "five" is pe/mpe -- both …
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3523
Ἀποσκευαζόμενος
discarding, discounting, disowning, jettisoning
[1] For this verb cf. generally alpha 3059. Its present participle (masculine nominative singular), here, must be quoted from somewhere; same or similar glossing in other lexica. [2] Quotation unidentifiable--but Alcibiades is evidently alpha …
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1640
Δυσθετήσας
dissatisfied
The headword (presumably extracted from the first quotation given) is the aorist active participle, masculine nominative singular, of dusqete/w. In fact this verb occurs almost exclusively in participle forms in all periods (mainly in …
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699
Ἐκκυκλεῖ
wheels out
cf. epsilon 132, epsilon 1612. [1] Same glossing in Hesychius and other lexica; evidently quoted from somewhere. [2] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 96, where Agathon is ou(kkuklou/menos.
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1375
Δοξούμενοι
(they) credited with being, (they) having the character
In ms M only, Adler reports. The unglossed headword is apparently the present participle, masculine nominative plural, of the verb doco/omai (found only in the passive in classical writers: see LSJ s.v. at web …
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94
Δαυίδ
David
Source (after the opening gloss): George the Monk, Chronicon 1.176.10-13, 178.4-11, 179.5-25. Some repetition at omicron 974, and cf. sigma 1035. For David see also delta 95, delta 96. [1] Judaism, as in the …
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1093
Δίκης
of justice
The headword is the genitive singular of the noun di/kh (delta 1089, delta 1090, etc.), evidently quoted from somewhere, although not from either of the quotations given; perhaps from commentary to Aristophanes, Clouds 764 …
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201
Ἀγέροπτος
unseen(?)
A problematic entry. The headword itself is a)ge/roptos in most Suda mss and also in Hesychius, but a)ge/ropos in ms T and also in ps.-Zonaras. (Both versions are otherwise unattested, and not in LSJ.) …
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2200
Ἀναίμονες
bloodless [ones]
… 116:996b. [5] The reference is to the author of the
Menologion
of Basil II, Symeon Metaphrastes, often identified as Symeon Logothete. The entry for Daniel's festival on Dec. 11 [PG 117:201] refers, however, to …
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14
Δαϊκταμένοις
to the war-dead, for the war-dead
Likewise in ps.-Zonaras. LSJ registers the word dai+kta/menos, -h, -on -- originally two words: dai+/ + kta/menos -- in Homer, Iliad 21.146 & 301. In both contexts it is genitive plural (part of the …
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1126
Διμοιρίτης
double-pay soldier, half-file commander
[1] See LSJ entry at web address 1. The explanation "half-file commander" offered by the military glossary of ms. Coislin. 347 (whose entries have been picked up from Aelian the Tactician, C2 AD) has …
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1607
Δυσδιόρθωτος
hard to be set right
Similarly, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (1142). The same entry is to be found in Hesychius delta2550, but with different glossing: dusxerw=s diwrqou/menos, mh\ diwrqou/menos. While the headword has its origin during …
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651
Ἐκτιλούμενοι
tamed
The Suda's headword e)ktilou/menoi is very probably a mistake for e)ktilw/menoi, i.e. perfect middle participle (masculine nominative plural) of ktilo/w. (Adler reports that e)ktileme/noi is the reading of mss IVM before correction.) Equivalent entry …
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1021
Ἐμπλασσόμενοι
striking out at
The headwords for this entry and epsilon 1022 have been transmitted as identical, but see n.1 below (and under epsilon 1022). [1] Present participle, nominative masculine plural, presumably extracted from the quotation which follows. …
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414
Χοροῖσι τῶν τραγῳδιῶν ἄχθεται
he is grieved at the choruses of the tragedians
Aristophanes, Birds 787-788 (web address 1: the Suda's e)kpeto/menos needs for metrical reasons to be e)kto/menos), immediately preceded by an explanation from the scholia to 787. The rephrasing and presentation of this quotation as …
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150
Ἀγαπᾶν
to love, to receive favorably, to be content with.
… expression meaning "please...". There are classical Attic instances in Plato
(Meno
75C) and Isocrates (Letters 6.6); and see generally LSJ s.v. a)gapa/w, III.1.
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875
Ἀκιδαλία
Akidalia, Acidalia
… long fragment of the Plokamides (Braids), by the hellenistic poet
Menophilus
of Damascus, preserved in Stobaeus 4.21a.7.
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1150
Ἀλευάδαι
Aleuadai, Aleuadae, Aleuads
… lexica, including Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. From the scholia to Plato,
Meno
70B, where the headword occurs. cf. under epsilon 3952 and sigma 438, and see generally OCD(4) p.55.
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1280
Ἀλκιβιάδης
Alcibiades, Alkibiades
451/0-404/3. See generally P.J. Rhodes in OCD(4) s.v. (pp.52-3). The present entry is attributed by Adler to the biographies of notable individuals by Hesychius of Miletus (C6 CE); and specifically, the section beginning 'This …
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1652
Ἀμπέχῃ
wearing
The SOL text wrongly shows the supplementary headword a)pe/xh|, not the primary one a)mpexo/menos. For the verb a)mpe/xw cf. eta 362. [1] The headword, which has the same glossing in other lexica and is …
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1767
Ἀμφίσκω
I surround
Same entry in ps.-Zonaras and, according to Adler, the Ambrosian Lexicon; Hescyhius has the nominative plural participle a)fi/skontes (presumably quoted from somewhere) glossed with e)nduo/menoi.
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