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μ237Μαρτύρονταιthey call to witness… provide testimony," [sc. the verb is in the middle voice]. Plato [in Book] 2 of Republic [writes]: "they call Homer to witness".Matched in translationhighshort
κ1868Κνησείονταwanting to scratch… desiderative is knhsia/w, occurring in the matching participle knhsiw=nta in Plato, Gorgias 494C (which actually provides its own gloss: a)fqo/nws e)/xonta tou= kna=sqai). Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon and Photius kappa822 Theodoridis provide knhsiw=nta with the …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1514Κηλούμενοςbeing charmed[1] Taken from Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon s.v., and repeated in other lexica: see the references at Photius kappa663 Theodoridis, noting the nineteenth-century (Baiter-Sauppe, Naber) attribution of the headword participle to Plato, Menexenus 235A; see …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1374Κερασβόλαhorn-struck, hard-shelled… plough strike and hit against ox horns. So when [sc. Plato] says "horn-struck", he means the uneducated and tough[-minded] and law-breakers.Matched in translationhighshort
μ531Μελίχλωροςhoney-yellowThe headword adjective is used in e.g. Plato, Republic 474E, and Theocritus, Idylls 10.27. Etymologicum Magnum 577.45 calls it 'the colour of fear'.'Matched in noteshighshort
κ2120Κόρυζαsnot… it is Attic, and the term is glossed in Timaeus, Platonic Lexicon s.v. koruza=n. Hesychius glosses it, but also uses it as a gloss s.v. mu/ca, te/gea, te/nea, and the scholia on Plato, Republic …Matched in noteshighshort
μ157Μανόνloose, open-textured, rare, sparse… commentaries. [2] This definition, alongside "scarce", is given in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. mano/s does not occur in such a sense in Plato. (On the contrary, at Timaeus 75C Plato argues that a porous skull …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2119Κόρυζαsnot… in Lexicon de Atticis Nominibus 100, and the scholia to Plato. Hesychius likewise glosses the participle in the nominative as memwrame/nos.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1575Κίβδηλονcounterfeit, adulterated… invalid, and forged. In the eleventh [book] of Laws [sc. Plato writes]: "let the slave take away for himself the counterfeit article." And the Pisidian [writes]: "in all cases of two ways to do …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ1787Κληρουχήσαντεςhaving divided by lot, having inherited land… the verb klhrouxe/w. It is evidently extracted from somewhere: perhaps Plato, Critias 109C ("Now in other regions other gods had their allotments and ordered affairs") or Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 6.55.2.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1092Κατορώρυκταιhas been buried… glossed with a more conventional perfect -- is quoted from Plato, Euthydemus 288E (web address 2).Matched in noteshighshort
κ1252Κεκομψευμένοςingenious… who are smart about politics". The latter is exemplified by Plato, Philebus 56C: kai/ tini prosagwgi/w| kekomyeume/nw|, "a certain ingeniously-made carpenter's square". The use, as the headword, of a participle obviously suggests that these …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1207Καὶ τάχα ἴμενand we (will) go quick… entry in Photius (Lexicon kappa76 Theodoridis), and already in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon, which correctly has future poreuso/meqa in the gloss. Both of the principal words in the headword phrase would have been obscure by …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2116Κορυβαντιᾷcelebrates the Korybant rites, is in a frenzy… p. 138 Coleman-Norton. [2] Quotation unidentifiable. (This verb, first in Plato, also occurs in sigma 1297.) [3] Masculine nominative singular of this present participle; cf. the plural forms korubantiw=ntes in Plato, Crito 54D, Ion …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1469Κεχωσμένοςheaped-up… in the masculine nominative singular, is perhaps cited here from Plato Comicus (fr. 183 Kock, now 199 K.-A., quoted in Plutarch's Themistocles). For other forms see e.g. Polybius 4.40.8 and later historiography (Diodorus Siculus, …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1527Κηπεύω Κηπεία ΚηπίονI gardenListing of related words; khpei/a, h( is "garden" in Plato, Laws 845D. (ps.-Zonaras construes the word as "gardening"). The diminutive khpi/on occurs e.g. in Polybius 6.17.2. Though this kind of spelling distinction is a …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1632Κινδυνεύειis in danger, is at risk[1] Definition as in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon; also in Photius kappa734 Theodoridis. Timaeus may have been glossing an instance like Plato, Apology 28B (kinduneu/eis nuni\ a)poqanei=n "you are now in danger of dying" as …Matched in noteshighshort
λ674Λοπάςgriddle, hotplate[1] Plato Comicus fr. 109 Kock (LSJ s.v. I.2), and Glossarium Italioticum 33 Kassel-Austin; but Plato distinguishes the lopa/s and the th/ganon (tau 466) as different kinds of frying pan: "and a lopa/s is …Matched in noteshighshort
λ833Λύματαlumata… Theodoridis connects it there to e)ne/xura lu/sima "redeemable pledges" in Plato, Laws 820E. (The word occurs in Photius near to where, alphabetically, lu/sima would occur, which might suggest it was originally a gloss on …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1249Κεκλωσμέναthings spun… allusion to the old metaphor of spun thread as fate. Plato (Laws 960C, web address 1) uses the aorist participle instead of this perfect participle with the same meaning, and Philostratus uses the same …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1471Κεχρησμῳδημένωνof the prophesied, of the divined… 68.781, 69.568). However, the locus classicus for the participle is Plato, Letters 323C, in the neuter plural nominative, matching the headword in Hesychius (above). The later lexicographers' genitive might be a corruption of Hesychius' …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1276Κεκυφότεςbent-forward, stooping… masculine nominative plural, of the verb ku/ptw; perhaps quoted from Plato, Republic 586A. (Hesychius kappa2119 glosses kekufo/ta with tapeinou=nta.) [1] Aristophanes, Peace 33, with material from the scholia there.Matched in noteshighshort
κ2114ΚορύβαντεςKorybants… (nearly identical to the preceding) comes from the scholia to Plato, Symposium 215E. The Kouretes and Korybantes are routinely conflated as ecstatic male confraternities (web address 1), as discussed in Strabo 10.3.19-22.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1208Καίοιτοmight lie, might be located… correct, its source might be e.g. Herodotus 1.67.3, Isaeus 6.32, Plato Republic 477A or Laws 841B, but there are numerous later possibilities. It remains uncertain why the gloss has the middle/passive form. The middle …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1505Κηληθμόςrapture… also in Himerius, Proclus, Pachymeres, and scholia on Pindar and Plato.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1855Κναφεύςcarder, fuller… Plutus [Wealth] 166. gna/yis is indeed "carding", as used in Plato, Politicus 282E. The derivation from "polish" and "bright" (already at gamma 329) is fantastical. [3] Also in gamma 328. [4] Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 415-417; …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ1997ΚόμμιgumCited more extensively in pi 928, Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon, and Pausanias the Atticist s.v. pe/lanoi, and attributed to Dionysius Thrax fr.51 Linke. Tree sap is frequently termed "tears", starting with Herodotus 2.96: "its sap …Matched in noteshighshort
μ477Μέλεοςidle, miserable… the gloss in Homer, Iliad 23.795, Hesychius mu678, and Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. [2] i.e. Homer ("the Poet") uses the word to mean "idle" (LSJ s.v. me/leos I), e.g. at Iliad 16.336 (see the scholia …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1795Κλητῆρεςsummoners, witnesses to summons[1] Gloss routinely used for klhth=res, from Timaeus (Platonic Lexicon s.v. lh/ceis) and Hesychius onwards. [2] Properly (LSJ s.v.) "witness who gave evidence that the legal summons had been served". [3] The entire paragraph …Matched in noteshighshort

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