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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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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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δ
1097
Δείκηλα
images, representations
… supposes the word to be derived from *Dii\ ei)/kelon "like
Zeus"
instead of from dei/knumi. Cf. Etymologicum Magnum 260.28.
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ε
1062
Ἐμοί τε ἐπιστολαί
I have letters
… one of mythology's Seven Against Thebes, boasted that not even
Zeus
could stop him scaling the city's walls -- whereupon he was destroyed by a thunderbolt. [2] The electronic text erroneously repeats qeou\s (singular …
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2744
Ἐπιφάνιος
Epiphanios, Epiphanius
… of Hypatia (upsilon 166). [1] This suggests that they were
born
into Christian families, but later were converted to paganism.
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ι
13
Ἰάκωβος
Iacobos, Jacob
… see generally under alpha 4173. [3] Pheidias: phi 246. [4]
Zeuxis:
zeta 38.
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δ
869
Διδυμαῖος
Didymaios, Didymaean, Twin
"A name of
Zeus
as worshipped at Didyma in Miletus jointly with Apollo": LSJ s.v. (web address 1) This epithet appears to have been at first attributed to Apollo, because of the double (di/dumos …
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368
Ἴνδακος
Indakos, Indacus
After the opening gloss, this material is Priscus fr.60
Bornmann,
now fr.79 Carolla. See also iota 370 (and epsilon 3827, epsilon 4014 and chi 200, which incorporate part of the present entry). On Indakos, …
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2391
Κρῆναι
to accomplish, to fulfill
… LSJ entry. On this epigram, a dedication by Trajan to
Zeus,
see Page (561-563) and its further extracts at epsilon 1586, kappa 454, lambda 609, and omicron 955. In the Parthian nation, 'Achaemenian' distinguished …
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297
Ἀγόνων χοῶν
[than] unfruitful drink-offerings
… and passive senses of the adjective ("not bearing" and "not
born"):
see LSJ entry at web address 1, and again at alpha 337. [2] Scholion on Gregory of Nazianzus (PG 36.378b), who does use …
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α
308
Ἀγοραῖος νοῦς
marketplace mind
… The same epithet is attested, elsewhere, of Artemis, Athena and
Zeus.
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3145
Ἀπηγόρευον
they were giving up on, they were renouncing
[1] Priscus fr. 1a
Bornmann,
still 1a Carolla; but with middle voice and no article: a)phgoreu/onto po/nw|; also fr. 5 Blockley (228-229) with the Suda's reading. The fragment's context is the seizure (434-441? CE) …
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3170
Ἀπηνής
harsh
… to Homer, Iliad 15.94, where the headword is used of
Zeus's
temperament. [2] Likewise, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (2452).
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3198
Ἀππιανός
Appianos, Appianus, Appian
Appian was
born
in Alexandria (Egypt) at the end of the first century AD, but later moved to Rome, where he became a Roman citizen and died in the 160s. He wrote -- in …
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70
Αἰγοφάγος
Goat-eater
Epithet of
Zeus,
Nicander fr. 99 (Etymologicum Magnum 27.51); of Hera at Sparta, Pausanias 3.15.9 (web address 1) and Hesychius alpha1737. J.G. Frazer on the Pausanias passage: 'whenever a deity is called the eater …
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263
Γιγαντιᾷ
acts the giant
… latter is used of Athena in ps.-Lucian. [4] Used of
Zeus
in Lucian.
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δ
210
Δελφοί
Delphi, Delphoi
… in retribution for the king's sheepdogs having killed his child,
born
by the Argive princess Psamathe. Vengeance then snatched babies from mothers in Argos until the Argive hero Coroebus killed her. Pausanias 1.43.7-8 (web …
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ε
1499
Ἐνυδροβίων
of aquatic (ones)
… means, by transference, any matched pair: see generally LSJ s.v.
zeu=gos,
II (web address 1). On this epigram, the seafarer Damis's dedication and prayer to an unnamed Egyptian goddess, see Gow and Page (vol. …
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2283
Ἐπιδαίσιος οἶκος
allotted house
… uses the headword phrase (in the accusative) at Hymn to
Zeus
59; similar entries in other lexica are derived from commentary on this verse.
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ε
2369
Ἐπικείμενα
lying on
… quotation (first attributed by Toup to Priscus: now his fr.68
Bornmann)
under pi 307. For the emperor Basiliscus see beta 164.
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ε
2409
Ἐπίκωμος
reveller
… No. Instead, reckoned to come from Priscus (pi 2301): fr.53
Bornmann.
(According to de Boor, Kuster thought that the name "Priskos" had been altered to "Prokopios". The attribution to Priscus is doubted by de …
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3706
Εὐρώπη
Europa, Europe
… of Phoenix [Author, Myth] (so Homer) or Agenor; impregnated by
Zeus
in the form of a bull, and bore Minos et al. See generally OCD(4) s.v. Europa. [2] See generally OCD(4) s.v. Europe. [3] …
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90
Ἰδαῖον
Idaean
… an addendum to iota 101.) In mythology, the birthplace of
Zeus.
cf. iota 92, iota 93, and see OCD(4) under Idaeus.
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ι
337
Ἱμάσσω
I flog, I will flog
… event, it is probably quoted from Homer, Iliad 15.17, where
Zeus
threatens to do this to Hera. For another form of this verb, see iota 335.
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465
Ἰωάννης
Ioannes, Joannes, John [the Lydian]
This is Joannes Laurentius Lydus,
born
c.490. (The TLG Canon unhelpfully lists him under 'Lydus'.) The list of his works given here omits what is arguably the most important one, On the Magistrates of …
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570
Ἱππομανές
hippomanes
"A small black fleshy substance on the forehead of a new-born foal, which, if procured before it was eaten off by the dam, was held to be a powerful fi/ltron, Aristotle History of Animals …
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ι
752
Ἰτύλος
Itulos, Itylus
… the eldest of them, she killed Itylus by mistake; whereupon
Zeus
transformed her into the Nightingale who, in early summer, nightly laments her murdered child" (Robert Graves, The Greek Myths 2.27).
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κ
1133
Καύκωνες
Kaukones, Caucones
… Bernhardy suggested ou)damh= ma\ *di/a "not at all glorious by
Zeus!"
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1832
Κλωθώ
Klotho, Clotho
… still earlier Cypselus chest. However, their genealogy as daughters of
Zeus
and Themis and personification in the trinity of Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos were the fruit of Hesiodic theology' (B.C. Dietrich in OCD(4) s.v. …
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2255
Κωμάσομαι
I will carouse
… kappa 2254, kappa 2258. [2] Greek Anthology 5.64.3-4 (Asclepiades); addressing
Zeus,
the poet asserts that even some very foul weather events will not thwart his erotic indulgences; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 47) …
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