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μ60Μακεδνῆςtall, tapering… comment on Homer, Odyssey 7.106: "like the leaves of a tall/tapering poplar" (web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort
ε3992ἘχέπωλοςEchepolos, Echepolus… appears twice in Homer, Iliad: 4.458 (E. the son of Thalysios), 23.296 (E. the son of Anchises, who really does have them).Matched in noteshighshort
λ569ΛίνοςLinos, Linus[1] sc. than lambda 568. cf. Pausanias 9.29.9: "other tales are told by the Thebans, how that later than this Linus there was born another, a teacher of music called the son of Ismenias, …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2263ἘπιγένηςEpigenes[1] Lysias fr.93 Sauppe (35 Thalheim), now 104 Carey OCT; already under alpha 2043; see the note there.Matched in noteshighshort
ει67Εἰ καὶ λύκου ἐμνήσθηςif you even mentioned a wolf… Apostolius 6.50, etc.; and cf. Latin lupus in fabula; English 'talk of the devil'. Tosi (cited under alpha 378) no.1304.Matched in noteshighshort
λ154ΛαύρειονLaureion, Lauriumcf. the scholia to Aristophanes, Knights 362 ('mines') and Birds 1106 ('Laureotic owls'). In classical usage the word me/tallon would be a mine (see e.g. at mu 704) -- in this instance a silver-mine; …Matched in noteshighshort
ι639Ἰσθμικὴ πίτυςIsthmian pineAt the biennial Isthmian Games, held near Corinth; see iota 638, and generally OCD(4) s.v. The crowns awarded there were of dry celery during the classical period but of pine earlier (and again later). …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2299Ἐπιδικάζεταιclaims at law, sues for… lexica. It is quoted from Attic oratory: Lysias fr. 32 Thalheim (now 91 Carey OCT), from the Reply to Diogenes on behalf of Archestratus about a plot of land. cf. generally alpha 1764, epsilon …Matched in noteshighshort
κ534ΚαταδολεσχῶI weary by chattering… katadolesxei=s h(mw=n; "How then do you, poor as you are, talk so much nonsense and weary us with your chatter?" (reply to Theognis' assertion that poor people are unable to speak).Matched in noteshighshort
ε2662Ἐπιτάφιονfuneral… it were a noun. The quotation is drawn from Theophylact's tale of a badly wounded Roman soldier found after the Battle of Solachon (586); cf. alpha 141 and cross-references therein.Matched in noteshighshort
κ2355Κραιπαλᾶνto carouse… On Sesostris see generally sigma 268, sigma 867. This particular tale about him is loosely paralleled in Diodorus Siculus 1.58.2. In Theophylact's account, Theodore, envoy to the Avars (Thrace, autumn of 593), uses the …Matched in noteshighshort

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