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- λ633Λίχνοςgluttonous… cf. Hesychius lambda1178. [3] Aelian fr. 46a Domingo-Forasté (43 Hercher). Pherekratte is probably a slip for the name of the goddess Pherephatte (Persephone); cf. pi 1560, where the same quotation occurs with the reading …
- α306Ἀγορᾶς ὥρανmarket's hour, market's time… kai/ and thereby sees in this entry two fragments of Pherekrates (cf. next note) -- this first one being "he came at dawn before the marketplace gets full". [2] Pherekrates fr. 29 Kock, now …
- κ2691Κύνα δέρειν δεδαρμένηνto flay flayed skinFrom the scholia to Aristophanes, Lysistrata 158: "As Pherekrates says [fr.179 Kock], to flay flayed skin" (see web address 1). The general import of the proverb (Apostolius 10.29), on the lines of flogging a …
- α788Ἀκαλήφηstinging nettle, sea-anemone… 2320. [1] Aristophanes fr. 560 Kock, now 572 K.-A. [2] Pherekrates fr. 24 Kock, now 29 K.-A. [3] Aristotle, History of Animals 487a25; Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 7.7.2.
- δ421Δήμαρχοιtribunes, demarchs, leaders of the people… generally D.Whitehead, The Demes of Attica (Princeton 1986) chap.5A. [3] Pherekrates fr. 171 Kock, now 182 K.-A.
- α729ἈθηναίαςAthenaiai, Athenaeae, Athenian women… elsewhere, though, the name is sometimes Megakleides] FHG 4.443. [2] Pherekrates fr. 34 Kock, now 39 K.-A. [3] Cantharus fr. 5 Kock (and K.-A). [4] Philemon fr. 66 Kock, now 69 K.-A. [5] That …
- α1687Ἀμυστὶ πιεῖνto drink in one gulp… one's mouth' with alpha privative. [2] See epsilon 1537. [3] Pherekrates fr. 202 Kock, now 217 K.-A. [4] Cassius Dio 72.18.2; again at kappa 2666, and cf. also zeta 88. [5] Because zh/seias is …
- α2131Ἀναχάσκειis gaping wide… the Suda) have an entry for a)/gxaske, attributing it to Pherekrates the comic poet (phi 212), and glossing it with a)na/xaske (imperative); perhaps the Suda has followed Photius in confusing two entries.