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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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1958
Ἀναμαχούμενον
avenging in battle, re-battling
Likewise in ps.-Zonaras. The headword (presumably extracted from the quotation given) is the future participle, masculine accusative singular, of the verb a)nama/xomai. Adler notes (but does not adopt) maxh/samenon rather than maxesa/menon as a …
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Ἀντικαταλλαττόμενος
changing, coming to an agreement
The unglossed headword is the present participle, masculine nominative singular, of the doubly compound verb a)ntikatalla/ttomai. It is quoted from Demosthenes 19.114 -- but oddly this Suda entry, including that very quotation, twice has …
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3443
Ἀπομορξάμενον
having wiped off
Same entry in other lexica -- doubtless from scholiastic comment on Aristophanes, Acharnians 696, where the headword participle appears (of a man wiping off sweat). The glossing participle is obelized by Theodoridis (on Photius, …
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4218
Ἀστάθμητον
uncertain
The unglossed headword is presumably extracted from the first quotation given. [1] Quotation unidentifiable, but Adler (apparatus) suggested Polybius. It may be an aphorism or proverbial saying, also reflected in Leo the Deacon (History …
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74
Γαυνάκας ἀμπεχόμενον
cloaked in mantles
Also in Photius, Lexicon gamma41. Adler suggests a comic fragment: see now Comica adespota fr. 495 K.-A. The participle is used in this way in the Christian writer Germanus, Narratio de haeresibus et synodis …
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240
Δέομος
constraint
Same entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. The form de/omos is otherwise unattested, but Hesychius has entries for de/hmos (delta422) and, apparently, deo/menos (delta651) with the same glossing. (LSJ prints the latter.)
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250
Δέρας
skin
Incompetently adapted from John of Antioch fr.15.3 FHG (5.548), now 26.3 Roberto; the original has 'Jason and his associates' (justifying the plural participle parageno/menoi which is retained here) and has them taking Medea and …
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1022
Ἐμπλασσόμενοι
hitting
The same headword, as transmitted, as epsilon 1021 (q.v.) -- but see n.2 below. [1] Present participle, masculine nominative plural, presumably extracted from the quotation given. [2] Aelian fr. 250d Domingo-Forasté. Adler's note reads: …
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198
Καλαμώμενος
stalk-binding, reaping
[1] Same or similar entry in other lexica; see the references at Photius kappa107 Theodoridis. The headword is the masculine nominative singular, present middle participle, of the verb kalama/w; see also kappa 194, kappa …
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306
Χιλιοστύς
chiliostys
For this entry (prefigured at kappa 274), after the initial gloss, cf. eta 634 and especially iota 374. The source of the material -- transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti -- …
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450
Χώσασθαι
to be grieved
Same entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (437); see also Hesychius, ps.-Zonaras 1866, Etymologicum Magnum 816.40, and the scholia to the participle xow/menos in Homer, Iliad 1.244 (see chi 434). The headword …
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