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- λ150Λατύπηchips of stone; gypsum… I "the chips of stone in hewing", as used in Strabo 17.1.34, rather than the more common sense II, "gypsum, lime". (It is also how the term is used in tau 988.) The sense …
- κ1508<20Κηλήτηςhernia-sufferer… kh/lh, Attic ka/lh, "tumor, hernia": see LSJ s.v. Used in Strabo 17.3.4, Cassius Dio 73.2.3, Galen 10.988 Kühn. The entry is paralleled in Phrynichus, ps.-Herodian, and other lexica. Adler regards the entry, lacking in …
- μ665Μεσόγεωνinland, midland… cited first in the Attic accusative (which occurs in e.g. Strabo 12.8.17 and Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 1.120), then in the Koine nominative. See generally LSJ s.v. meso/gaios.
- ν267Νευράνcord of sinew… somewhere; classical instances include Aristotle, History of Animals 540a, and Strabo 2.5.22, 15.1.57, 16.4.10.
- κ1592Κιθαρόςflatfish; chest… Hippocrates), s.v. II "flatfish". The variant accentuation also appears in Strabo 17.2.4, referring to the fish. The Etymologicum Gudianum and the Etymologicum Magnum attempt to derive the meaning "chest" from the kithara (kappa 1590), …
- κ2114ΚορύβαντεςKorybants… as ecstatic male confraternities (web address 1), as discussed in Strabo 10.3.19-22.
- ν337ΝήριτονNeriton… citadel of the island of Leucas: see also Thucydides 3.7.4, Strabo 10.2.8, Stephanus of Byzantium s.v.
- κ2299ΚωρυκαῖοςKorykaian, man from Korykos… are the pirates and not just the informants is in Strabo 14.1, Stephanus of Byzantium (Ethnica p.4-2 Meineke), and Zenobius 4.75, who also cited the passage from Menander as a proverb. Zenobius' version is …