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2815
Ἐπ' ὄριον Θασίων
to the Thasians' frontier
[Meaning] on top of the mountain of the Thasians.
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Ἀπαργμάτων ὡρίων καιριώτερον
more fitting than seasonable grave-offerings
The Theologian says [this] in his Yesterday on the bright day of lights. Meaning enagismata, ["offerings"] which they used to throw into tombs. But kairiw/teron [sc. also means] more necessary.
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37
Ἔβρασεν
tossed ashore
… the sea onto the land. "The sea churned up by
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351
Ἐκαραδόκησεν
watched with head outstretched
… up. From the Homeric [expression]: "and [the Great Bear] watches
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1791
Ἀμφῶες
two-eared
… nominative plural, a)mfw=es (probably from Theocritus, Idylls 1.28 -- cf.
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[Author, Myth] s.v. a)mfwreu/s) and a)mfwti/des. The genitive plural a)mfwti/dwn is presumably extracted from the proverb quoted, though the Suda's glossing seems uncomprehending. …
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1603
Δυσγάργαλις
skittish, ticklish
… gargali/zw, whose use was criticised by Phrynichus (Eclogae 68), in
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[Author, Myth] Grammaticus (fifth century AD), Etymologicum Magnum gamma41, quoting Philoxenus Grammaticus, we have: 'gaggali/zw [first person singular], I move to laughter', this …
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774
Ἔλεγος
elegy
… Likewise in other lexica, e.g. Didymus in the Etymologicum of
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[Author, Myth] 58.7; and cf. the scholia on Aristophanes, Birds 217; Proclus in Photius, Bibliotheca 319b8; a scholion on Dionysius Thrax (ed. Hilgard) …
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1125
Ἔναρα
spoils
… stems from the scholia to Homer, Iliad 10.528. See also
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[Author, Myth] 60.1; Etymologicum Magnum 337.46; scholia to Sophocles, Ajax 26.
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1781
Ἐξιχωρίζεσθαι
to remove the ichor, to remove the juice
… alpha 4711. [2] From Herodian, Symposium; quoted by the grammarian
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[Author, Myth] (tau151.17). See also tau 122, tau 124. For garum, see gamma 66.
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2547
Ἐπίρρησις
rebuke, reproach
=
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[Author, Myth] 55.22; Etymologicum Magnum 363.44. Hesychius epsilon5122 has just the first of these glosses; and Latte there regards the headword itself as extracted from Archilochus (fr. 14: accusative case there). cf. …
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3308
Ἔτης
townsman
… Etymologicum Magnum 386.44; cf. Choeroboscus 215.3, Et. Gud. 511.23; contrast
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[Author, Myth] 170.20. See also omega 260 and ps.-Zonaras s.v. e)/ths. Some of the lexicography may derive from commentary to Aeschylus fr. 281a.28 …
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3536
Εὔκηλος
at ease
… Sophocles, Electra 241 (web address 5). Also glossed in Hesychius,
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[Author, Myth], ps.-Zonaras and the Etymologicum Magnum; cf. Etymologicum Genuinum s.v. a(/ss' e)qe/lh|sqa and ps.-Zonaras s.v. e(/khlos. cf. generally epsilon 3535.
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302
Κανδήλα
candle, torch
cf. Etymologicum Gudianum 297.21,
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[Author, Myth] 178.99. Actually the word is a borrowing from Latin candela and occurs only in late Greek.
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731
Καταπροΐξεται
will escape unpunished
… of kappa 730), also in Etymologicum Magnum 689.1, partly from
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[Author, Myth] 133.24; cf. a scholion on Homer, Odyssey 17.352. Besides kappa 730, cf. also (for this verb) kappa 732. [1] The infinitive …
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1339
Κεντρηνεκέες
spurred-on
… frequently glossed, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon, Pausanias the Atticist, Hesychius,
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[Author, Myth], the Etymologicum Magnum, and scholiasts. The wording of the present gloss (for the corresponding nominative singular) is unique to the Suda.
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1891
Κνυζώσω
I will darken
… catholica p. 444 Lentz (citing Philoxenus fr. 120 Theodoridis) and
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[Author, Myth], Etymologicum s.v. knuzou=n. The Etymologicum Gudianum s.v. knuzhqmo/s goes further to a)xreiou=n "damage, disable". The Suda's "unseemly" may come from a …
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1894
Κοάλεμος
blockhead, dolt, dunce
… koei=n with a)lw/menos "wandering" (Suetonius, *peri\ blasfhmiw=n 7), a)/lema "vain"
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[Author, Myth]), e)lu/mata "plough stock" (ps.-Zonaras), and h)leo/s "crazed" (also in scholia ad loc.). [1] This parenthetic explanatory phrase, not in the scholia, …
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181
Χέδροπας
legumes
… Adler), Erotian 93.5 (= Aristophanes of Byzantium fr. 90 Nauck),
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[Author, Myth] 163.33. [3] Not extant in Thucydides. The name, as scholars have noted, is probably an error; suggested alternatives are Theophrastus and …
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293
Χηρωσταί
collateral relatives, distant kinsmen
… the gloss cf. the Homeric scholia; also the Etymologicum of
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[Author, Myth] 166.1 (whence derive entries in other lexica). LSJ s.v. (web address 3) translates and glosses thus: 'far-off kinsmen, who seize and …
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