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κ2233Κῶλα τοῦ ζεύγματοςarms 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, …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2017Κομπίναhorse-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, …Matched in noteshighshort
μ674ΜεσρέμMizraimA proper name. He [born] out of Ham; hence too Mizraim, [meaning] Egypt, which is now called Misr. And "quarters of Ham", [meaning] Egypt. See under Egypt.Matched in translationhighshort
κ1757ΚλεισθένηςKleisthenes, Clisthenes… how might it become a well-ordered polis, where a god born as a woman stands in full body armour -- and Kleisthenes [stands] with a weaver's shuttle?" For Kleisthenes was attacked as effeminate.Matched in translationhighshort
κ1584Κιγκλίζειwags one's tailThe 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, …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1943Κολοκτρυώνkoloktryôn… 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) …Matched in noteshighshort
μ308Μαχλῶντεςacting wantonly… power of this evil commingling reveals those who have been born that way, when they are men". For related words see mu 305, mu 306, mu 307.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1256Κεκότητοhad borne a grudge[Meaning he/she/it] was enraged. Also [sc. attested is] kekotho/tes ["they having begrudged"].Matched in headwordhighshort
κ2075Κορείαςof maidenhead[Meaning] of virginity. In the Epigrams: "[Zeus] cut through the knots of her untouched golden maidenhead."Matched in translationhighshort
κ2114ΚορύβαντεςKorybants… the Kouretes and the Korybantes are the same. They were Zeus' nurses and guards. Some say they [were] ten, others nine. They were the children of Rhea. And a Korybant [was] the same as …Matched in translationhighshort
μ236ΜαρτύρομαιI call to witness, I protest… we are not being unjust for the sake of Hospitable Zeus". "I call you to witness a swallow". Equivalent to I show [you one]. "Listen, my people; and I shall speak to you, Israel, …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ2090ΚορινθικόνCorinthian… tasted bitter, cornless poverty." On Corinth, see "Korinthos, son of Zeus".Matched in translationhighshort
κ2182ΚουρῆτεςKouretes, 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.Matched in noteshighshort
λ465Λῆξιςallotment, cessation… "on the cessation of that period (a cessation which, by Zeus, was hardly fortunate), he hurled himself like a lightning bolt onto the evils of the Egyptians, in Alexander's City and Rome." [Note] that …Matched in translationhighmedium
μ115Μᾶλλον μᾶλλονmore and moreMeaning ever more. Alexis in Atthis [writes]: "how Zeus casts clouds at first quietly, then more and more." Anaxilas in Hours [and] Alexis in Pezonike [sc. also use the phrase]. This 'more' is said …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ1557Κῆυξtern, 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 …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1786Κληρωτήριαallotment-machines… flour-market stoa." -- "To gorge themselves (kaptôsin)?" -- "No, by Zeus. Just to dine there.!" -- "So if someone's letter is not drawn, for them to dine under, do they then get drawn away …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ1502Κῆλαarrows, 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 …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1438Κευθμώνωνof 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.Matched in noteshighshort

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