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1699
Δυστοπώτατα
most strange, very strange
… context it was being used adverbially, the translation would be
"most/very
strangely".
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α
425
Ἀδάμ
Adam
… scholar quite outside the type of neutral reticence which characterises
most
of the contributors to the Suda (although Küster suggests a comparison with the entry on Job at iota 471). His self-styled "essay" (logos), …
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2500
Ἐπίορκον ἀνώμοσεν
swore a false oath
The headword phrase occurs in Homer, Iliad 10.332 (web address 1), except that Homer has e)pw/mosen ('swore to') instead of the otherwise unattested a)nw/mosen found here; a)pw/mosen, which would normally mean 'swore off' or …
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136
Ἀγαλματοφορούμενος
image-bearing, image-carrying, enshrined as an image
… sense, i.e. "enshrined". Adler and Theodoridis both cite De vita
Mosis
1.27; see also De mutatione nominum 21; and cf. De somnis 1.32, De vita
Mosis
2.11, 2.209.
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ε
2172
Ἐπηλυγασάμενος
overshading
… e)phluga/zw) appears in Plato, Lysis 207b (web address 1), although
most
mss of Plato (and hence
most
modern editions) have the orthographic alternative e)phlugisa/menos. The word is glossed here with active participles, though in …
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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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401
Ἀγχίμολον
approaching
… exemplifying what is said at LSJ s.v. a)gxi/molos: "ep[ic] word,
mostly
used in neut[er] as adv[erb]."
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αι
57
Αἰγίπλαγκτος
Aigiplanktos, Aegiplanctus, goat-wandered
… Agamemnon 303: web address 1) or specific. As the latter,
most
probably Geraneia (gamma 182) in the Megarid, central Greece: so e.g. Barrington Atlas Map 58 grid E1, cf. Directory p.876; J. Wiseman, The …
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αι
199
Αἰμιλιανός
Aemilianus, Aimilianos
Most
famously P.Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus (185/4-129 BC), born into the Aemilii but adopted into the Cornelii. See generally OCD(4) pp.381-2.
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β
108
Βάρδιστοι
slowmost (ones)
… dialectal form of the word used to gloss it, found
mostly
in poetry. The entry is out of alphabetical order.
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β
531
Βρέμει
roars
Same or similar entry in other lexica, and cf. a scholion on Homer, Iliad 4.425 (where the headword occurs). This verb is related to bro/mos (beta 548).
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β
581
Βοίδιον
calf
… T.) Not an internal cross-reference to other Suda entries, which
mostly
begin 'Look under...'; rather, a memo for further research. See generally Strabo 9.5.2,15,18,22.
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δ
751
Διάσημος
renowned
[1] Same glossing, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. (Hesychius glosses 'very/most glorious'.) [2] cf. under gamma 32.
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1180
Διονύσιος
Dionysios, Dionysius
… s.v. 'Dionysius(5) of Miletus', by Klaus Meister. The historicity of
most
of the works attributed to him here is controversial. Meister follows a more sceptical line than Adler (whose apparatus notes, and resists, attempts …
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ε
414
Ἐκκέλευστος
ordered-out
… contains two interesting textual issues: (1) Whereas the Suda and
most
mss of Synesius begin the relative clause o(\s a)\n mh\... ("who does not..."), a few mss of Synesius have o(\s d' a)\n mh\... …
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ε
569
Ἐκπήγνυσθαι
to be frozen stiff
… Ecloga nominum et verborum Atticorum epsilon151.8-10, sets out the matter
most
fully of all: "e)plh/gnusqai occurs only in Thucydides: '[sudden fear], as is apt to strike large armies, unaccountably, with astonishment'. You, though, say …
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ε
582
Ἐκπλήσει
will accomplish, will fulfill
… extant instances begin with Philo Judaeus, On the Life of
Moses
1.111.
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ε
858
Ἐλινιῶ
I dirge
… conjectured in Dosiadas' poem Altar (Greek Anthology 15.26.15): ai)lineu=nt[a], where
most
mss have e)ll-. Though the headword has been translated here as a present verb since that seems to be how the lexicographer understood …
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ε
887
Ἐλλόγιμος
noteworthy
… adjective can also mean well-lettered or cultured, as it does
most
other times it appears in the Suda (e.g. beta 150, gamma 451, nu 477, rho 32; cf. Hesychius epsilon2163), or eloquent (beta 32). …
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ε
1601
Ἐξέθορεν
leapt out
… nu-moveable at Iliad 21.539 and in tmesis at Iliad 7.182
(most
famously), 15.573 and Odyssey 10.207. See also epsilon 449.
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ε
2001
Ἐπαφίασιν Ἐπαφιᾶσι
they let go
… properispomenon in the latter. The latter is by far the
most
common form, though the former does occur in a handful of late texts apart from this one. The lexicographer is perhaps trying to …
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ε
2051
Ἐπεμήνατο
went crazy for
= Synagoge epsilon608 (Lexica Segueriana 227.17), Photius epsilon1417. The
most
prominent attestation of the headword is Homer, Iliad 6.160 (web address 1), describing the fixation of Anteia, wife of Proitos, for Bellerophon. A scholium …
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ε
2073
Ἐπερρόσαντο
they rushed toward
… with an omega (e)perrw/santo) is a word from hexameter poetry,
most
famously Homer, Iliad 1.529 (web address 1, and see at alpha 1538), in reference to the hair of Zeus as he nods in …
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ε
2212
Ἐπησθέντες
delighted in
… variant of e)fh/domai exhibiting psilosis characteristic of certain Greek dialects,
most
notably Ionic. Other psilotic forms of the same verb appear with analogous glosses in Hesychius epsilon4595 (aorist passive optative, third person plural) and …
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2335
Ἐπὶ θήρᾳ
out for a hunt
… 1.186) and several passages in Philo Judaeus (e.g. Life of
Moses
1.43).
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2442
Ἐπὶ Ληναίῳ
at Lenaion, at Lenaeum
… Lenaion is obscure and controversial, but on balance it is
most
likely to have been in the Agora: see Pickard-Cambridge/Gould/Lewis 37-40. cf. generally lambda 454, lambda 455, lambda 456, lambda 457, lambda 458.
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2712
Ἐπίττον
I was pitching-up
… was pitching-up underneath') and that is the reading adopted in
most
modern editions. [1] Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 1093 (web address 1), with comments derived from the scholia (see general note above). It is unclear …
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ε
3149
Ἐσκήνησαν
they tented
… a-contracts and o-contracts. Of these, the o-contract forms are the
most
common. The particular form of the headword is attested outside lexicography only in five passages of Xenophon, where it usually refers to military …
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ε
3181
Ἔσπασας
you drew
… present many options for the ending of the quotation, the
most
plausible of which reads the last word as e(w=n ('of one's/your own') rather than the Suda's e)w/n ('being'). This would render the following …
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3314
Ἐτιθηνήσατο
suckled
… tiqhne/w (cf. tau 574). It must be quoted from somewhere;
most
of the extant possibilities are in Christian writers (and figurative).
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