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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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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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2075
Κορείας
of maidenhead
… 1510, kappa 454. See further extracts from this epigram, on
Zeus's
seduction of Danae, at delta 57, epsilon 919, and rho 317.
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1584
Κιγκλίζει
wags one's tail
The verb kigkli/zw -- of which this is ostensibly the present indicative, third person singular (but see below) -- is derived from ki/gklos "dabchick" (kappa 1585), and literally means to act like the dabchick, …
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1438
Κευθμώνων
of hiding-places
… diple; and keuqmo/s was used unambiguously by Callimachus (Hymn to
Zeus
34: keuqmo/n) and Lycophron (Alexandra 317: keuqmw=|). Of course this only proves that Hellenistic scholarship had decided keuqmo/s existed as a separate noun.
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1502
Κῆλα
arrows, arrow-shafts
… god ranged everywhere", and the latter with Iliad 12.280 "when
Zeus
the counsellor moves himself to snow, exhibiting to men these arrows of his". (Those "arrows", as Aristonicus explains, are snow and rain.) The …
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1557
Κῆυξ
tern, sea-swallow; Keux, Ceyx
… halcyon birds because of their hybris in calling each other
Zeus
and Hera. (Mentioned in Hesiod, Shield 354, 472, 476; Hecataeus FGrH 1 F30; Callimachus, Aetia fr.75; Diodorus Siculus 4.36.5, 4.57.2; and the myth …
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1943
Κολοκτρυών
koloktryôn
… Declension of Nouns p. 724) and glossed by Hesychius kappa3367:
"born
from a maimed large rooster". All this is wasted ingenuity, however, because in Aristophanes the phrase to\n cou=qon i(ppalektruo/na (quoting Aeschylus fr. 134) …
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2182
Κουρῆτες
Kouretes, Curetes
… or Acarnanian tribe, not to the Cretan divinities who nursed
Zeus
(cf. kappa 2183); note, however, that Hesychius kappa3845 (*Kourh=tes), kappa3846 (*Kourh/tesi) and kappa3847 (*Kourh/twn) does consistently refer the term to Crete.
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