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1099
Ἀλγίστατον
most painful, very painful
… version, Adler suggests, of Aristophanes, Wasps '1116' (= 1117 in
most
modern editions), tou=to d' e)/st' a)/lgiston h(mi=n.
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485
Χρημάτισις
operation
… Domingo-Forasté (186 Hercher); I have accepted Kuhn's emendation of pikrwde/staton
("most
bitter-seeming?"; not in LSJ) to frikwde/staton
("most
horrible"). [Note however [DW] that Hercher prints prepwde/staton,
"most
fitting" (ironic).]
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4140
Ἀσέλγεια
licentiousness
… not from his Poikile Historia as transmitted. Domingo-Forasté reads lampro/tatos
"most
vigorous" instead of labro/tatos
"most
boisterous."
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3068
Ἀπέστησεν
removed
… verb ka/qhmai, I sit, sit still, remain). Schweighäuser's revision is
most
likely motivated by the evident tension between the core meanings of the verb kaqh=sto, which evoke a complacency on the part of the …
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4669
Ἀχαΐα
Akhaia, Achaia, Achaea
Most
of the first paragraph of the entry seems to be a quotation or a paraphrase of some account from the first few centuries CE (perhaps an epitome of Pausanias 7.16.1-10), but the source …
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1988
Ἀναξιμένης
Anaximenes
… of Anaximenes with the fall of Sardis. See on this
Mosshammer
(1976) 296, and further in
Mosshammer
(1979) 276-7 with n.5: 'That Anaximenes' floruit was associated with the fall of Sardis is confirmed, at …
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63
Χαμάδις
groundwards
… Seven against Thebes 357. Commentary on these passages is the
most
probable source for
most
of the information in this entry. The headword and the supplementary lemma xama=ze are formed from the obsolescent xa/ma …
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449
Ἄδερ
Hadad, Ader, Aderos
Most
of this entry is quoted directly from Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 8.200-204; see web address 1 below for the text on Perseus. Information about Hadad is also to be found in I Kings 11:14-23. …
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492
Ἄδμητος
Admetos, Admetus
… individuals of this name (Perseus Encyclopedia at web address 1);
most
notable is the husband of Alcestis, in Euripides' drama; see OCD(4) under Alcestis (p.51).
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574
Ἀετὸν κάνθαρος μαιεύσομαι
I a dung-beetle will hatch an eagle
… collections (e.g. Mantissa Proverbiorum 1.2). These entries stem in the
most
immediate sense from Aristophanes, Lysistrata 695 (ai)eto\n ti/ktona ka/nqaro/s se maieu/somai), but the Aesopic fable of the beetle avenging the loss of its …
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715
Ἀθέμιτον
lawless
… of this adjective are hard to see (a distinction between
"most
x" and "very x" is unlikely to be at issue). Probably, therefore, the point is that the stem of this adjective -- in …
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767
Ἄθυρμα
plaything
… it at rho 316. Page argues that the object was
most
likely a statue (ibid.). [5] Cratinus fr.145 Kock, now 152 K.-A.
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772
Ἀθύρωτον στόμα
doorless mouth
… 838 (where the mss offer both "gateless" and "doorless"; the
most
recent editor, K.J. Dover, prints the latter.)
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951
Ἀκραγαλίς
Akragalis
… Delphic Oracle (cf. generally kappa 1659). But in fact the
most
authentic name of this community, the precise location of which is unknown, appears to be Kragal(l)idai: see kappa 2349, and generally J. Oulhen …
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1119
Ἀλεξάνδρεια
Alexandreia, Alexandria
cf. alpha 1120. [1] No doubt the
most
famous city of this name (in Egypt) is meant, but there were many others. For some of the better-known ones see OCD(4) pp.60-61.
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1279
Ἄλκηστις
Alkestis, Alcestis
… prepared to die. First mentioned in Homer and Hesiod, but
most
fully depicted in Euripides' tragedy Alkestis (438 BCE).
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1364
Ἀλλόφωνος
foreign-speaking
cf. alpha 1322 (the glossing term there).
Most
instances of this compound derive from its occurrence in Ezechiel 3.6 LXX.
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2130
Ἀνάχαρσις
Anacharsis
… (p.77). Anacharsis is first mentioned in Herodotus (4.46 & 76-77).
Most
of the present entry's material is taken from Diogenes Laertius 1.101-105. (Some has already appeared under alpha 258.) [1] cf. gamma 360. [2] …
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2212
Ἀνεβόησεν οὐράνιον
cried out heaven-high
From the scholia on Aristophanes, Frogs 781, where 'heaven-high' occurs as an adverbial description of the underworld people's clamour -- o( dh=mos a)nebo/a (779) -- to stage a contest between Aeschylus and Euripides; cf. …
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2293
Ἀνεπιεικές
unseemly
… but the Suda's quotation of it is garbled in a
most
intriguing way. In place of Arrian's tosou/tou e)de/hsen, "lacked so much", "was so far from", the Suda has tosou/ton a)nede/hsen, using a)nade/w as …
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2429
Ἀνήρετο
sought, inquired
Likewise or similarly in other lexica, in the
most
similar of which the gloss is a)ne/balen rather than the Suda's a)ne/laben. It is not clear, even so, exactly where the meanings of headword and …
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2490
Ἀνθεμόκριτος
Anthemokritos, Anthemocritus
… Plutarch, Perikles 30. Following the lead of the ancient sources,
most
modern scholars date it to the 430s BCE, in the prelude to the Peloponnesian War. An alternative view holds is that it has …
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2658
Ἀντιγόνη
Antigone
[1]
Most
obviously that of one of the daughters of Oedipus, in mythology. See generally OCD(4) s.v. (pp.101-2). [2] Theoretically related to Antigone but in practice (cf. generally LSJ s.v., at web address 1, …
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2734
Ἀντιφάνης
Antiphanes
… son of Panaitios'. Either way, this can hardly be the
most
celebrated bearer of that name, P. the Stoic philosopher from Rhodes, c.185-109 (pi 183). Instead, vol.2 of the Lexicon of Greek Proper Names …
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2737
Ἀντιφερίζεις
you are measuring yourself against
… therefore better to follow the alternative line of explanation (as
most
modern editors have done) and accept "rim-full". The point (made at e.g. LSJ s.v.) is that the rim of a Greek cup was …
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2875
Ἀπάκτου
apaktou
… of its final two words occur in the manuscripts, and
most
editors have preferred dw=ma pa/ktou to this dw=m' a)pa/ktou.
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2888
Ἀπάμεια
Apameia, Apamea
… 1 each in modern Syria, Iraq and Iran. The 2
most
likely to be meant are the city on the site of Kelainai/Celaenae in Phrygia and the one also known as Pella, the landward …
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3446
Ἀπομυρίζω
I wipe off ointment
… militaribus 8.28 (aorist participle). In this instance, however, a)pomuri/zw is
most
probably a scribal error or other orthographical corruption of a)pomuouri/zw, which is itself a common, though incorrect, form of a)pomeiouri/zw, "I dull the …
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3638
Ἀποφθίμενον
having perished
… the dead to Hades, see chi 135. [2] Adler follows
most
of the mss in printing optative a)pofqi/seien, but Vaticanus 881 (T) has the infinitive, surely correctly. [3] Sophocles, Ajax 1026-1027 (web address 1 …
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3673
Ἀπ' ὤμοιϊν
from both shoulders
The headword phrase, frequent in Homer, uses an epic form of the genitive dual of w)=mos, "shoulder"; the gloss then has the standard genitive plural.
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