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ε420Ἐκκεχιλωμένηνgrassed-over… similar glosses, but in the nominative, occur in previous lexica: Pausanias the Atticist epsilon23 Erbse; Hesychius epsilon1438 Latte). See further, next note. The word is unattested outside lexicography. cf. chi 303. [1] Hesychius has …Matched in noteshighshort
α4101Ἀρχὴ ΣκυρίαSkyrian empire, Scyrian empire… and other paroemiographers. [3] For Theseus and Lykomedes see e.g. Pausanias 1.17.6 and Plutarch, Theseus 35 (neither, however, mentioning L.'s wife). In the 470s BCE Kimon brought back from Skyros to Athens bones which …Matched in noteshighshort
α4444Αὖλιςtent; Aulis

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Ἐκκεχιλωμένην

grassed-over

[Meaning] falsified; or dried out. [sc. The verb is used] because grass grows on dry land; that is, a pasture. In effect, uncared-for.

Ἐκκεχιλωμένην· ἐψευσμένην· ἢ κεχερσωμένην. ὅτι ὁ χιλὸς ἐν χέρσῳ φύεται· τοῦτο δέ ἐστι χόρτος. οἷον ἐξημελημένην.

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… and where Iphigeneia was sacrificed. See generally e.g. Strabo 9.2.8, Pausanias 9.19.6, Stephanus of Byzantium s.v.

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αι66Αἴγλης ΧάριτεςAigle's Graces… and Helios...". Theodoridis notes there that the ultimate source is Pausanias 9.35.5, citing 'Antimachus' (alpha 2681, presumably). For the Graces, usually three in number, cf. chi 123, and generally OCD(4) s.v. 'Charites' (p.306). One …Matched in noteshighshort

αι180Αἴλινονailinon, dirge, dirge-like… in Aeschylus (Agamemnon 121) and Euripides (Orestes 1395). See also Pausanias 9.29.6-9, and lambda 570. [2] Greek Anthology 6.348.1-2 (Diodorus). The Suda mss actually omit the headword adjective from the quotation; Küster (Ludolf Küster, …Matched in noteshighshort

αι192Αἵματι κλαίεινto weep blood, to weep in blood… authentic one, appearing also in other lexica which stem from Pausanias the Atticist (alpha46); proverbial, besides, in Apostolius 1.63. The source of the (full) quotation, however, is indeterminable. [2] Also in Apostolius 1.63 (see …Matched in noteshighshort

γ21ΓαλάταιGauls, Galatai, Galatians… 279 BCE. See OCD(4) 249, s.v. "Brennus(2)", Livy 38.16.1-5, and Pausanias 10.19.5 - 23.14 (web address 1). [3] Literally "within the Gates" (Gates = 'Hot Gates', i.e. Thermopylae). This is the normal way for …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ698Διαπηνικίσαιto pull the wig over… (fr. 282 Kock, now 304 K.-A.), to whom the grammarian Pausanias and, post-Suda, Etymologicum Magnum 269.31 attribute this very rare verb. [1] Actually phnh/kh; see LSJ s.v. (web address 1) and pi 1529. [2] …Matched in noteshighshort

ε360ἙκαταῖοςHekataios, Hecataeus… entry at web address 1, with links to Herodotus and Pausanias. [1] 520-516 BCE. For this Dionysios see delta 1180. [2] This explanatory phrase is lacking, Adler reports in mss VM. [3] A chronological …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε651Ἐκτιλούμενοιtamed… the correct spelling -- in Hesychius (epsilon1721), and cf. also Pausanias the Atticist epsilon28 (nominative singulars), and, post-Suda, ps.-Zonaras and Etymologicum Magnum 324.51-52 (both dative plurals). The headword participle must be quoted from somewhere, …Matched in noteshighshort

ε879Ἑλκεσίπεπλοιrobe-dragging… cf. e(lkhsi/staxus with an eta in an oracle quoted by Pausanias (8.42.6, s.v.l.; also in Anthologia Graeca Appendix, Oracula 54.6).Matched in noteshighshort

ε3154Ἐς κόρακαςto the crows… in his commentary to Homer, Odyssey 13.408, attributes to a Pausanias (not the topographer but the Attic lexicographer: his fr.183 Schwabe) a somewhat different version of the same story. In that version the Boeotians, …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε3216Ἑστιατορεῖονfeasting-hall… grammarians. For the -o/rion form see e.g. Herodotus 4.35.4 (Ionic), Pausanias 5.15.12. [1] Strictly speaking a trape/zion should be a "little table" (diminutive of tra/peza, tau 906), but in late Greek the distinction disappears. …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3254Ἔσχατος Μυσῶν πλεῖνto sail last of the Mysians… in Photius, Lexicon epsilon2050, and is ascribed by Erbse to Pausanias the Atticist (epsilon58). Similar material -- especially similar in the account of Telephos -- appears in a scholium to Euripides, Rhesos 251, where …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε3718ΕὐρύβατοςEurybatos, Eurybatuscf. Pausanias the Atticist epsilon83; Lexica Segueriana 257.13; Hesychius epsilon7129; Harpokration s.v. *eu)ru/baton. "Eurybatos" was a popular by-word for "scoundrel" since at least the time of Demosthenes (On the Crown 18.24: web address 1) …Matched in noteshighmedium