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Κακόθρους
bad-mouthing
The headword adjective, a
Sophoclean
hapax legomenon (see next note) unattested elsewhere prior to the Byzantine period, is compound of kako/s and qro/os ("noise, report") with Attic contraction of oo to ou. [1]
Sophocles,
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1933
Ἀνάλγητος
unfeeling
… not be quoted from somewhere. cf. generally alpha 1098. [1]
Sophocles,
Oedipus Tyrannus 12-13 (web address 1 below), with scholion. [2] Same material in Photius and elsewhere. [3]
Sophocles,
Ajax 946-8 (web address 2 …
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2363
Ἀνέχει
exalts
science and technology
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9
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9
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9
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8
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8
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8
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8
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6
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4
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4
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4
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4
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3
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3
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3
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3
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3
meter and music
3
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2
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2
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2
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2
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2
athletics
2
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1
chronology
1
dreams
1
dreams
1
… verb see also alpha 2361, alpha 2362, alpha 2364. [1]
Sophocles,
Ajax 211-212 (see web address 1), with comment from the scholia there. [2] Procopius, History of the Wars of Justinian 2.6.24 (web address …
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4350
Ἄτη
destruction, Destruction
… [4] A Christian gloss here obtrudes. [5] An approximation of
Sophocles,
Electra 233-235 (web address 4); line 234, here the corrupt mh/thr w(s h(/tis pikth/, should be ma/thr w(sei/ tis pista/. [6]
Sophocles,
Ajax …
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1825
Ἀναγκαία τράπεζα
necessary table, needy table
… of the quotations given, sounds proverbial; cf. alpha 4543. [2]
Sophocles,
Ajax 485-6 (web address 1 below), with comment from the scholia there. [3] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 59 Habrich.
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651
Ἀηδών καὶ ἀηδοῦς
nightingale, songstress
… a nightingale with misshapen wings enfolding a tiny body'. [2]
Sophocles,
Ajax 629-634 (web address 1 below), with comment from the scholia there. [3] cf. omicron 828. [4]
Sophocles,
Electra 147-9 (web address 2, …
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1757
Ἀμφίπυρον
aflame, flaming
… quotation given (there are other instances: see next note). [1]
Sophocles,
Ajax 1404-6 (web address 1); cf. for the headword
Sophocles,
Trachiniae 214, and Euripides, Ion 212.
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2020
Ἀναμπλάκητοι
unerring
… purports to be extracted from the quotation given; in fact
Sophocles
wrote a)napla/khtoi. On the Keres cf. kappa 1530, kappa 1531. [1]
Sophocles,
Oedipus Tyrannus 471-472 (web address 1), with scholion.
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2133
Ἀναχαιτίζει
overthrows, upsets
… quoted from somewhere, and scholars assume that it occurs in
Sophocles,
named below. [2]
Sophocles
fr. 179 Radt.
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2206
Ἄναιτος
uninjured
Sophocles,
Oedipus at Colonus 785-6, with comment from the scholia there. The Suda's a)/naitos is the reading of the Laurentian manuscript of
Sophocles;
others have a)/natos (from a)/th); the latter is generally printed.
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3491
Ἄποπτος
out of sight
[1]
Sophocles,
Oedipus Tyrannus 760-2 (web address 1 below). [2] cf. alpha 3490. [3]
Sophocles,
Ajax 15-16 (Odysseus on the voice of Athena: web address 2).
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3816
Ἀραῖος
accursed
See also alpha 3813, alpha 3817. [1]
Sophocles,
Oedipus Tyrannus 644-645 (web address 1 below). [2]
Sophocles,
Trachiniae 1201-1202 (web address 2). [3] cf. alpha 3814, alpha 3836. (The headword itself is properispomenon: a)rai=os.) …
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477
υνκνοων—Χρήματα χρήματ' ἀνήρ πενιχρὸς δ' οὐδέποτ' ἐσθλός
money money (is the) man but a pauper (is) never noble
… see also pi 1450. This quotation and the one from
Sophocles
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328
Ἀγωνάρχαι
contest-judges
[1]
Sophocles,
Ajax 572-3 (web address 1 below); again at lambda 839. [2] (Also in the paroemiographers, e.g. Apostolius 1.25.) Possibly Contest, the divine personification of the agon (cf. Pausanias 5.26.3), though the apparently …
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519
Ἄδωρα
giftless [gifts], no-gift [gifts]
… a neuter plural, is extracted from the quotation given. [1]
Sophocles,
Ajax 665 (web address 1 below), with scholion. For a longer extract see epsilon 4028. [2] Aelian fr. 125d Domingo-Forasté (part of 122 …
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550
Ἄελπτον
beyond expectation, unexpected, unhoped-for
… quotation given, is neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective. [1]
Sophocles,
Ajax 648-649 (web address 1); quoted again, more fully, at pi 1281. [2] Same gloss in Apollonius the Sophist; cf. Hesychius. See also …
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632
Ἀεὶ παρθένους
eternal virgins, eternally virgins
… epsilon 3580, epsilon 3581, and generally OCD(4) s.v. (pp.535-6). [1]
Sophocles,
Ajax 835-837 (abridged: web address 1 below), with scholion.
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792
Ἀκάματα
untiring
Sophocles,
Electra 164-5 (web address 1 below), with scholion. The headword is an adjective used, at least in the opinion of this scholiast, adverbially. cf. generally alpha 790.
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904
Ἀκμή
moment, point, still
… elsewhere. [1] Isocrates 2.33. [2] Hyperides fr. 116 Jensen. [3]
Sophocles,
Philoctetes 12-14 (web address 1 below), with scholion. [4] Greek Anthology 6.252.1, 3-4 (Antiphilus), on the gift of a quince, preserved in winter, …
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1086
Ἀλλάχθητε
change
… person plural, aorist imperative), but from a compound verb. [1]
Sophocles
fr. 997 Radt.
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1116
Ἄλεκτρα καὶ ἄνυμφα
unmarried and unwedded
… the quotation given, is a pair of neuter plurals. [1]
Sophocles,
Electra 492, with scholion.
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1180
Ἀλλ' ἢ καλῶς ζῆν ἢ καλῶς τεθνηκέναι τὸν εὐγενῆ χρή πάντ' ἀκήκοας λόγον
But the well-born man should either live well or die well - end of story
Sophocles,
Ajax 479-480 (web address 1); again at epsilon 3393.
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1239
Ἀλιπαρῆ
miserable, unfit for a suppliant
… of this adjective, is extracted from the quotation given. [1]
Sophocles,
Electra 450-452, with scholion; cf. alpha 4709, zeta 131.
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1311
Ἀλόγιστα παροίσομεν
we will bear reason-baffling things
Sophocles,
Oedipus at Colonus 1675, with scholion. For "at the last" cf. pi 3172.
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1421
Ἅλοιτο
might spring
… a(/loito rather than a)/roito. On this epigram, an epitaph for
Sophocles,
see Gow and Page vol. I (252-253), vol. II (286), and its further extracts at alpha 145 and beta 453.
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1428
Ἀλύειν
to be beside oneself, to be overwhelmed
See also alpha 1427. [1] Homer, Odyssey 18.332. [2]
Sophocles,
Electra 135. [3] Agathias, Histories 1.10 (p.33 Niebuhr); again (slightly differently) at alpha 1575. His initial assault (553 CE, during the Gothic War of …
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1589
Ἄμμιγα
combined, confusedly
… like Greek Anthology 7.21 (cf. alpha 4677) an epitaph for
Sophocles,
was by implication attributed to Simias of Thebes in the Anthologia Palatina; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 178-179) and (vol. II, 514-515). …
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1666
Ἀμυγνόν
undefiled
[1]
Sophocles
fr. 1005 Pearson. See also alpha 1686 and alpha 1689.
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1676
Ἀμύνασθαι
to ward off, to requite, to repay
… (web address 1 below). [2] Simonides fr. 229 Bergk. [3]
Sophocles
fr. 1004 Radt (908 Nauck). Adler, following Nauck, connects this reference to the appearance of the verb a)mu/nomai at Oedipus at Colonus 873 …
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1689
Ἀμυχνόν
undefiled
cf. already alpha 1666, alpha 1686. [1]
Sophocles
fr. 1005 Radt.
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