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- μ106Μάλισταcertainly, especiallyThucydides adopts [this word] in the sense of exactly.
- μ745Μεταχειρίζεινto handle, to manage[sc. active voice metaxeiri/zein] in place of [middle voice] metaxeiri/zesqai. Thucydides [in book] 4 [sc. exemplifies this].
- λ353ΛεῖαsmoothIn Thucydides [sc. this means] plain ones, in contrast to brocaded and embroidered ones.
- κ1367Κέρας κέρως κέρᾳhorn, wing[Nominative ke/ras], [genitive] ke/rws, [dative] ke/ra|. Thucydides [in book] 8 [writes]: "the left wing". In the same [book]: "and the Argives on their own wing." And [sc. it declines] in all [classical authors] thus.
- ν247Νεωτεροποιόςinnovator, revolutionary… Theodoridis. The headword first appears (in the nominative plural) in Thucydides 1.70.2 (web address 1).
- κ1303Κελήτιονdinghy, yachtFrom a scholion on Thucydides 1.53.1, where the headword (a diminutive) occurs. The primary meaning of ke/lhs (LSJ s.v. I) is "courser, riding horse", usually in apposition with i(/ppos as in the definition (e.g. …
- μ673ΜεσῶI am in the middle, I am midwayFrom the scholia to Thucydides 6.30.1, where the phrase qe/rous mesou=ntos occurs. [1] That is, an o/w-verb. [2] Euripides, Medea 60: web address 1.
- κ1469Κεχωσμένοςheaped-up… the verb xo/w is first attested in the infinitive in Thucydides (2.102.6), Xenophon (Cyropaedia 7.3.15), and Deilochus (FGrH 471 F5a). The corresponding participle, here in the masculine nominative singular, is perhaps cited here from …
- μ293Μαυλίαςknives… and Nicander. The gloss is cited from the scholia to Thucydides 1.6.1 (web address 1), as a Just-So reference to the early Hellenes wearing knives in their daily life. On the machaira, see mu …
- κ1154Κάχληκεςpebbles; gravel… gravel (LSJ s.v.) For this gloss cf. the scholia to Thucydides 4.26.1. [2] Quotation (possibly derived from Josephus) already at eta 501: see the note there. [3] Sense not attested elsewhere.
- λ429Ληϊσθείςseized as plunder… used, however: see LSJ s.v. The instance being glossed is Thucydides 1.4; see the scholia there. Aelius Dionysius is cited more closely in Photius lambda251 Theodoridis; the distinction is also invoked in lambda 474.
- κ1546Κηρύκειονherald's wand… not paralleled in other lexica, but see the scholia to Thucydides 1.53.1 (where the headword occurs). On the khru/keion = caduceus, associated with Hermes and modern medicine (by confusion with the single snake of …
- ν337ΝήριτονNeriton… was the citadel of the island of Leucas: see also Thucydides 3.7.4, Strabo 10.2.8, Stephanus of Byzantium s.v.
- κ1172Καινοπρεπέςnew-fangled, novel… (though Xenophon and, especially, Appian have cognates). The passage uses "Thucydidean" shibboleths (e)s, qala/tths), but likewise that tells us little. "Dariuses" are not otherwise attested with a meaning which makes sense here; the word …