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1030
Ἀκρωτηριάζω
I amputate
… [1] Likewise Hesychius on the aorist participle a)krwthria/sas. [2] cf.
Pollux
1.12.
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222
Αἴνικος
Eunikos, Eunicus
… both here and in ps.-Zonaras, but it should be Eunikos
(Pollux
10.100; Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 13.567C (13.21 Kaibel), who mentions the play mentioned here -- see further, next note). See generally Kassel-Austin, PCG V pp. …
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312
Αἰρόπινον
airopinon
… or (neuter) noun, occurs in Aristophanes (fr. 480 Kock, in
Pollux
10.114). [1] ai)=ra: see alphaiota 278.
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549
Διάζομαι
I set up
… the scholia to Aristophanes, Birds 4 (web address 1), and
Pollux
7.32, where this phrase is used -- probably misleadingly (Dunbar ad loc.) -- in exegesis of the verb proforei=sqai. cf. pi 2925.
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1086
Δικαιωτήρια
houses of punishment, places of judgment
… in the underworld. Similarly in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon, Hesychius delta1804,
Pollux
8.25.
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1391
Δόρπεια
Dorpeia
[1] Likewise in Hesychius (delta2222) and
Pollux
6.102. [2] alpha 2058. [3] (kappa 2179.) Likewise -- i.e. the entry thus far -- in the scholia on Aristophanes, Peace 890, where a)na/rrusin occurs. [4] alpha …
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1657
Δυσμένεια
hostility, ill-will
[1] cf.
Pollux
(5.116), Hesychius, Photius, and other lexica. [2] cf. a scholion on Homer, Iliad 3.51 (where dusmene/sin occurs). [3] cf. delta 1656.
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1658
Δύσμηνις
wrathful
… 1659) is very rare outside grammars and lexica, but see
Pollux
1.39 (a 'wrathful god') and Greek Anthology 9.69.1.
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1710
Δυσφημία
ill-omened words, words of ill omen
[1] Mentioned by
Pollux
in a list of negative nouns; same gloss in ps.-Zonaras. For the opposite, see epsilon 3795. [2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
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1271
Ἐνετρύλλισε
whispered [in someone's ear]
… aorist indicative active, of the very rare e)ntrulli/zw (or e)ntruli/zw);
Pollux
9.109 connects it with quail-baiting.
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1308
Ἐνήλατα
rails
… extensive papyrus fragments (314.316 Radt) of Sophocles' satyr-play Trackers; cf.
Pollux
10.34.
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1670
Ἑξέτει
six-year
… is a difference of dialect, as the lexicographer implies here.
Pollux
1.54, discussing trie/ths/trieth/s, says that the paroxytone form means a three-year period of time, but the oxytone form is applied to three-year-old persons, …
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1784
Ἐξόδιοι νόμοι
exit nomes, finales
… 478. [1] Less explicit gloss in Hesychius epsilon3934; and cf.
Pollux
4.108. [2] Cratinus fr. 276 Kock (308 K.-A.).
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1978
Ἐπάρατοι
lovable (people)
… the reading is eparastoi, which Theodoridis on Photius s.v. (citing
Pollux
2.63 and 3.71) very plausibly claims as a corruption of eperastoi. If that is correct, as is assumed here, the two parts of …
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2691
Ἐπιτήθη
great-grandmother
… the headword is attested as meaning great-great-grandmother as well (Compare
Pollux
3.18, and LSJ s.v. at web address 1). Nauck (1963: 142 n.35) tentatively attributed some of this to Aristophanes of Byzantium, but see …
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2902
Ἐργαστῆρας
workmen
… an earlier instance in Xenophon (Oeconomicus 5.15), noted by both
Pollux
and Stobaeus. [2] Aelian fr. 262 Domingo-Forasté (264 Hercher). Adler agrees with Bernhardy in suspecting the reading ei)s au)to/n.
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3620
Εὐόφθαλμον
fine-eyed
[1] Neuter singular, glossed as in Photius; and cf.
Pollux
2.51. For the glossing term cf. already epsilon 3619. [2] Or "speciously". Antiphon fr. 60 Sauppe, from Harpokration s.v. eu)ofqa/lmws.
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3640
Εὐπάρυφα
finely-bordered
… the headword certainly might refer, but not exclusively (more ambiguously
Pollux
7.46.3). Unless Herodian (1.16.3) and Irenaios (1.7.2) are being pleonastic, the sense of the headword can be separate from purple-ness. See also alpha …
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330
Ἡμικάδιον
half-kados
… Ambrosian Lexicon. For the headword, a neuter noun, see also
Pollux
10.71 (citing the Atthidographer Philochorus). Both it and the kados itself (kappa 24) are measures of wine.
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