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α312Ἀγορήνgathering, meetingSame or similar entry in other lexica; references at Photius alpha241 Theodoridis. The headword is the epic/Ionic form of agora, here in the accusative (extracted from Homer: Iliad 1.54, 1.305, etc.) cf. alpha 299, …Matched in noteshighshort
α313Ἀγορηταίassembly-menSame entry in other lexica; references at Photius alpha242 Theodoridis. The headword noun (LSJ entry at web address 1) occurs in Homer, where it is used of Nestor (see under alpha 299); but this …Matched in noteshighshort
α314Ἄγοςpollution, leaderThe opening material here is also in Photius and other lexica. [1] The second gloss here is a mistake (perhaps by confusion with the following entry, where the same word, a)gkw/n, is translated 'embrace'). …

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Ἀγορήν

gathering, meeting

[Meaning an] assembly.

Ἀγορήν· ἐκκλησίαν.

gender and sexuality1

gender and sexuality1

military affairs1

military affairs1

trade and manufacture1

trade and manufacture1

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α317Ἄγουσιν ἑορτὴν οἱ κλέπταιthe thieves are keeping festival.Longer entry in Photius (Lexicon alpha248 Theodoridis), where the source of the headword phrase is named as Cratinus (fr. 356 K.-A.). In just one of the paroemiographers (Arsenius 1.18a); and see generally Tosi (cited …Matched in noteshighshort

α319Ἀγωγεύςprosecutor, thong… [3] Same or similar material in other lexica; references at Photius alpha304 Theodoridis. The only instances of this dative outside lexica etc. occur in Xenophon, On Horsemanship 6.5 and 8.4.Matched in noteshighshort

α322ἈγώγιονfreightSame entry in other lexica; references at Photius alpha306 Theodoridis. [1] Xenophon, Cyropaedia 6.1.54.Matched in noteshighshort

α323Ἀγώγιμον καὶ Ἀγώγιμοςtransporting, transportable… adjective. Same or similar material in other lexica; references at Photius alpha308 and alpha309 Theodoridis. [1] This genitive plural is evidently quoted from somewhere. [2] Aelian fr. 195 Domingo-Forasté (192 Hercher).Matched in noteshighshort

α327Ἀγώνcontest, training, arena… (on which see next note), this material also occurs in Photius, Lexicon alpha316 Theodoridis. [1] The word used for 'competitions' here is the (accusative) plural of the headword itself. The Suda seems therefore to …Matched in noteshighshort

α330Ἀγωνίᾳin a competitionSame or similar entry in other lexica (references at Photius alpha312 Theodoridis), implying that a)gw/n would have been the more normal word to choose. [1] Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.3.15.Matched in noteshighshort

α339ἌγραAgraSame entry in Photius (Lexicon alpha249 Theodoridis), similar ones elsewhere. The toponym is more accurately, Agrae/Agrai: Pausanias 1.19.6. The "Lesser Mysteries" were celebrated there each spring.Matched in noteshighshort

α1002Ἀκροθίνιαspoils, akrothinia[1] Same or similar material in Photius and other lexica; and cf. the scholia to Euripides, Phoenissae 203, where the neuter plural headword occurs. [2] cf. Hesychius alpha2606. [3] Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1634Ἀμοχθείtoil-free… -- comes from the vocabulary of tragedy: see generally LSJ. Photius s.v. a)moxqi/ has the gloss a)/neu po/nou and attributes the adverb to (?)Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound (line 208).Matched in noteshighshort

α1639ἈμμωνιανόςAmmonianos, Ammonianus… [2] Homer, Iliad 2.58. [4] cf. [omicron 391] o)/nos lu/ras. Photius, Bibliotheca cod. 242, 339a: "it was this Ammonianus who happened to acquire an ass which (they say) often neglected its feed to listen …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1981ἈναξαγόραςAnaxagoras… first paragraph of the entry reproduces most of Harpocration (and Photius) s.v.; cf. nu 523. [2] Apparently quoted loosely from Philostratus, Life of Apollonius 1.2.22-26. See also kappa 2216 and note 9 there. [3] …Matched in noteshighmedium

α2187Ἀνδρόπαιςman-boySame entry in Photius; longer one in Hesychius, citing Sophocles fr. 619 Radt (of Troilus). The term is also applied to (e.g.) Parthenopaeus in Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 533. See also alpha 2706, and …Matched in noteshighshort

α2189Ἀνδροσάθωνman-pricked, man-rootSame entry in Photius (Lexicon alpha1770) and elsewhere. The headword is reckoned to come from Attic Comedy (Comica adespota fr. 932 Kock, now 486 Kassel-Austin). See again under alphaiota 88. The word was used …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2143Ἐπεισόδιονepisode, addition… see Heath (1989), index s.v. epeisodion. [1] Same glossing in Photius and elsewhere. [2] Eunapius fr.43.3 Blockley (fr.45 FHG); cf. delta 1498 (and alpha 4641), and, for Musonius in general, mu 1306. [3] Greek …Matched in noteshighshort

ι620ἸσαῖοςIsaeus, Isaios… Isaios(1); OCD4 Isaeus(1). The first paragraph here abridges Harpokration (and Photius) s.v. [1] See iota 652 (Isocrates). [2] See delta 454 (Demosthenes). [3] Demetrius Magnes (RE Demetrios[80]; NP Demetrios[57]; OCD4 Demetrius[16]) fr. 6b Mejer …Matched in noteshighmedium