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2233
Κῶλα τοῦ ζεύγματος
arms of the bridge
… generated from the quotation given, where it is genitive. A
zeu=gma
(zeta 33), literally a binding, was a bridge or barrier across a waterway improvised by lashing together boats. For 'arms' cf. kappa 2231, …
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2523
Κτησίου Διός
Zeus Ktesios, Zeus Ctesius, Domestic Zeus
… also quoting Menander fr. 452 Koerte, now 410 K.-A. For
Zeus
Ktesios see already kappa 2522, and cf. zeta 40.
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δ
1205
Διοσημεία
Zeus-omen, Zeus-sign
… dia\ tou=to w)no/mastai, "[a manifestation of divine will is] when
Zeus,
or the sky, shows a sudden lightning: for this reason, that [phenomenon] is called dioshmi/a". Some natural phenomena, such as earthquakes, thunders and …
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δ
1216
Διοτρεφής
Zeus-fostered, Zeus-reared
… the river Scamander as fed by the rain, thus by
Zeus.
LSJ entry at web address 1.
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δ
497
Δί
to Zeus
The monosyllabic dative of
*zeu/s
occurs at Pindar, Olympian 13.106 (web address 1) and elsewhere (see LSJ s.v.). The iota is long, as being a contraction of two iotas. cf. delta 498.
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δ
1210
Διὸς κῴδιον
Zeus' ram-fleece
… meaning is "who should be propitiated", is mostly related to
Zeus,
but sometimes associated with others gods. The cult of
Zeus
Meilichios featured the offer of cakes or sacrificial animals and was especially celebrated …
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δ
1041
Δίιος ὀργὴ
Zeus's anger
… adjective *di/ios (cf. sigma 116), i.e. of or relating to
Zeus.
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δ
1124
Διμήτωρ
twice-born
… grape-clusters -- the god thus being considered as having been
born
once from the earth and again from the vine"), and generally LSJ s.v.
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ε
1148
<20Ἐν γεννητοῖς γυναίκων
among those born of women
… to you, there has not arisen a greater among those
born
of women than John"), Luke 7.28. It is then quoted frequently in patristic writers.
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κ
2017
Κομπίνα
horse-team, team of horses
… Loewe & Georg Goetz, Corpus glossariorum Latinorum: combino ~ conbino:
zeugnu/w,
zeugi/zw,
kata\ du/o
zeugi/zw;
combinatio ~ conbinatio:
zeu=cis
kata\ du/o). Trapp, Lexikon zur Byzantinischen Gräzität s.v. kombi/na: formation of horses charging (Constantine Porphyrogenitus, …
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κ
391
Καρῖνος
Karinos, Carinus
… Adler notes, Wölfflin and Casaubon proposed inserting eu)= before gegono/twn,
born
to the nobility, which emendation Blockley (p. 13) appears to accept; but cf. epsilon 133 and upsilon 15. [3] Eunapius fr.4 FHG (4.14); …
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δ
1189
Διοπομπεῖσθαι
to escort [evil] away
… properly, to send those who purify to [the shrine of]
Zeus
Prostropaios [= to whom one turns to obtain purification]". According to Etymologicum Magnum 125.33, which offers the etymology a)po\ tou= *dio\s kai\ tou= …
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537
Ἱππεῖς
cavalrymen, horsemen, knights
… defined here, and modern scholarship has debated whether the yoke
(zeugos)
in question implies an agriculural definition (someone who can afford to own a yoke of oxen) or a military one (a hoplite infantryman, …
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δ
1145
Διογένης
Diogenes
… readily suggest themselves, but the name must have been common:
"Zeus-born."
Adler identifies this entry as Aelian fr. 103 Hercher (= fr. 106 in the more recent Domingo-Forasté edition (Teubner 1994) of Aelian). [2] …
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δ
1228
Διώκειν
to prosecute
… katalamba/nein feu/gonta. [3] cf. Aristonicus in Schol. Homer, Iliad 8.439a
"[*zeu=s
... a(/rma kai\ i(/ppous] *ou)/lumpon de\ di/wke": o(/ti kuri/ws diw/kein le/getai, o(/tan profeu/gh| tis, nu=n de\ e)pi\ tou= sunto/nws e)lau/nontos;"(Zeus) rapidly drove (his …
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ε
3510
Εὔθυμος
Euthymos, Euthumos, Euthymus
… also spelled Theogenes and Theugenes (each meaning "He Who Is
Born
Of God[s]) -- won at Olympia in boxing (480 BCE) and in pankration (476). He is reported to have won twelve hundred crowns …
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κ
454
Κάσιον ὄρος
Kasian mountain
… s.v. Antioch(1)) in 114 CE. Trajan delivered the dedication at
Zeus's
temple on Mount Kasios and fortified it with spoils from the earlier victories over the Getae (Dacians; cf. delta 20 and OCD(4) s.v. …
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δ
1093
Δίκης
of justice
… as a girl sitting by the throne of her father
Zeus
is developed in Aeschylus' Aitnaiai (cf. fr. 530 Mette-282 Lloyd-Jones). See also Solon 4.15ff., where justice is silently observing human events both of …
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α
69
Ἀβραάμ
Abraham
… time of God's promise. [5] The Suda here omits Ishmael,
born
to Abraham by the Egyptian slave Hagar when he was 86 years old (Genesis 16:1-16). The Suda's omission tacitly acknowledges a covenantal and …
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ι
320
Ἴλιον
Ilion, Ilium, Troy
… a common source. Ganymede, in this myth, was kidnapped by
Zeus
(in exchange for the first of the famous Trojan breed of horses) to be his wine steward or, in later sources, his 'catamite' …
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ι
394
Ἰξίων
Ixion
… sinners" of Greek mythology; for his offense against Hera and
Zeus,
see especially Pindar, Pythian 2 (web address 1), and generally OCD(4) s.v. See also delta 430, iota 391, pi 1168, tau 613.
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α
2492
Ἀνθέμων
flowers
… Aristophanes, Acharnians 991-2 (web address 1), with scholion. [2] For
Zeuxis
see again zeta 38, and generally OCD(4) p.1591, s.v. s.v.
'Zeuxis(1)'.
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α
4397
Ἀτυζομένη
distraught
… and to "that bird mad with grief, the messenger of
Zeus,"
Electra likens herself to Philomela. In the Attic version of the myth, Philomela was raped by her brother-in-law Tereus, who cut out her …
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δ
752
Διάσια
Diasia
[1] i.e.
Zeus
Meilichios (cf. generally mu 847). On this festival see Robert Parker in OCD(4) s.v. (p.446). [2] This etymology is patently false, though a more correct one is difficult to specify. It …
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δ
1045
Διιπόλεια
Diipoleia, Ox-slaughter
… Untrue: they were two different festivals, in different months. [4]
Zeus
of the City. (NB
"Zeus"
becomes "Dii" in the dative case.)
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δ
1446
Δωδωναῖος
Dodonian
From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 16.233, where
Zeus
of Dodona is apostrophized. For the adjective see already delta 1445; and for Dodonian
Zeus
see also under lambda 121. Dodona (delta 1447) in Epeiros …
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ε
723
Ἐκφῦναι
to grow out of
… some mss of the Suda (FVM) use gennhqh=nai ('to be
born')
instead of e)kgennhqh=nai ('to be
born
from') as the gloss. The headword itself, an aorist active infinitive, must be quoted from somewhere: Euripides …
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η
252
Ἠλιτόμηνον
missing the [right] month
i.e. untimely
born;
cf. alpha 1261. Same or similar entry in other lexica, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon, and see also the scholia on Homer, Iliad 19.118, where this neuter participle occurs (web address 1): …
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κ
887
Καταιβάτης
Descending, Kataibates
The two could be the same, as the myth of
Zeus
and Semele (mother of Dionysos) shows. See OCD(4) s.v. Semele. For
Zeus
Kataibates see e.g. Aristophanes, Peace 42 (web address 1), and LSJ …
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κ
2161
Κοτίνου στεφάνῳ
with a wreath of wild olive
… olive, the ko/tinos, that stood southwest of the temple of
Zeus
in the Altis at Olympia was called the e)lai/a kalliste/fanos, the cultivated "Olive of the Beautiful Crown" (Pausanias 5.15.3). The Greek phrase does …
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