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κ1514Κηλούμενοςbeing charmed[1] Taken from Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon s.v., and repeated in other lexica: see the references at Photius kappa663 Theodoridis, noting the nineteenth-century (Baiter-Sauppe, Naber) attribution of the headword participle to Plato, Menexenus 235A; see …Matched in noteshighshort
μ237Μαρτύρονταιthey call to witnessFrom Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon, via Photius (mu119 Theodoridis). The passage quoted is Plato, Republic 364D.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1997ΚόμμιgumCited more extensively in pi 928, Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon, and Pausanias the Atticist s.v. pe/lanoi, and attributed to Dionysius Thrax fr.51 Linke. Tree sap is frequently termed "tears", starting with Herodotus 2.96: "its sap …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1632Κινδυνεύειis in danger, is at risk[1] Definition as in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon; also in Photius kappa734 Theodoridis. Timaeus may have been glossing an instance like Plato, Apology 28B (kinduneu/eis nuni\ a)poqanei=n "you are now in danger of dying" as …Matched in noteshighshort
μ157Μανόνloose, open-textured, rare, sparse… attendant commentaries. [2] This definition, alongside "scarce", is given in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. mano/s does not occur in such a sense in Plato. (On the contrary, at Timaeus 75C Plato argues that a porous …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2120Κόρυζαsnot… notes it is Attic, and the term is glossed in Timaeus, Platonic Lexicon s.v. koruza=n. Hesychius glosses it, but also uses it as a gloss s.v. mu/ca, te/gea, te/nea, and the scholia on Plato, …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1868Κνησείονταwanting to scratch… (which actually provides its own gloss: a)fqo/nws e)/xonta tou= kna=sqai). Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon and Photius kappa822 Theodoridis provide knhsiw=nta with the present gloss, so the Suda has simply regularised Plato's verb.Matched in noteshighshort
μ477Μέλεοςidle, miserable… already the gloss in Homer, Iliad 23.795, Hesychius mu678, and Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. [2] i.e. Homer ("the Poet") uses the word to mean "idle" (LSJ s.v. me/leos I), e.g. at Iliad 16.336 (see the …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1207Καὶ τάχα ἴμενand we (will) go quickSame entry in Photius (Lexicon kappa76 Theodoridis), and already in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon, which correctly has future poreuso/meqa in the gloss. Both of the principal words in the headword phrase would have been obscure …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1795Κλητῆρεςsummoners, witnesses to summons[1] Gloss routinely used for klhth=res, from Timaeus (Platonic Lexicon s.v. lh/ceis) and Hesychius onwards. [2] Properly (LSJ s.v.) "witness who gave evidence that the legal summons had been served". [3] The entire paragraph …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2318Κράμβηcabbage… wine, from Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.34C-E (1.62 Kaibel). Athenaeus also cites Timaeus as reporting that the Sybarites ate cabbage before drinking, because it would make wine "dimmer", and adds support from Alexis and Eubulus (referring …Matched in noteshighmedium

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