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κ483Καταβολήonset, wheeling-about… 168b Büttner-Wobst. Büttner-Wobst notes (536) that Casaubon attributed this fragment to Polybius. Büttner-Wobst also adopts (ibid.) an emendation of the fragment given by Schweighäuser, replacing katelqei=n, to come down, with kaqe/lkein, to draw to …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2564Ἐπισημήνασθαιto have signified, to have sanctioned, to have validated, to have remarked upon… notes (533) that Ursinus (Fulvio Orsini, 1529-1600) attributed this fragment to Polybius.Matched in noteshighshort
ε3590Εὐνηθένταςhaving been laid to sleep

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Καταβολή

onset, wheeling-about

[Meaning an] inaugurating action/operation. "From onset [sc. of manufacture], fifty ships to construct, and fifty to come down from the existing shipyards." Polybius [sc. writes this]. "The pirates, having beheld the…

Καταβολή· καινούργησις. ἐκ καταβολῆς πεντήκοντα ναῦς ναυπηγήσασθαι, πεντήκοντα δὲ ὑπαρχουσῶν κατελθεῖν ἐκ τῶν νεωρίων. Πολύβιος. οἱ δὲ πειραταὶ θεασάμενοι τὸν ἐπίπλουν τῶν…

medicine

medicine

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meter and music1

meter and music1

… instance outside lexicography. A Delphic oracle in hexameter verse, issued to the Macedonian king (C7 BCE) Perdiccas who had asked how he might strengthen his realm, told him to found a capital city 'where …

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κ824Κατὰ τὸ καρτερόνwith all [one's] might… unidentifiable. (Adler notes Bernhardy's view that it could be attributed to Eunapius.)Matched in noteshighshort

κ570Κατακαίνεινto kill… ms. A has katakai/ein, the present active infinitive of katakai/w, to burn.] [1] cf. Photius, Lexicon kappa271, s.v. katakanei=n (sic, i.e. the aorist infinitive, reckoned to be quoted from Xenophon). [2] Eunapius fr. 3 …Matched in noteshighshort

κ458ΚάσοςKasos, Casus… is inappropriate here. A personal name would be apt, though Toup's suggestion of Kossos was declared rash by Adler; perhaps Krassos (cf. omicron 354)? Hercher printed kle/os ("renown"). [1] Dog's tooth grass, a)/grwstis (cf. …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1714ἘξηγρόμηνI awakened, I woke up… e)cegei/rw, glossed with the corresponding imperfect (as in the scholia to Aristophanes: see below). [2] Aristophanes, Frogs 51 (web address 1); cf. kappa 914. What follows is from the scholia there. [3] The Athenian …Matched in noteshighmedium

κ1607Κιλίκιος τράγοςCilician billy-goat… D4) is on the Mediterranean coast, between Pamphylia (OCD(4) s.v.) to the west and Syria to the east; cf. LSJ s.v. *ki/lic. [2] Traditionally crafted in the region, a Cilician is also a robe …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1451Κεφαλισμόςmultiplication-table… precise sense, as translated here, see LSJ s.v. [1] Aristotle, Topics 163b25-8. [2] Alexander of Aphrodisias, Commentaries on Aristotle's Topics 586.3-8 Wallies (Heath, p. 93). The Suda's unconventional spelling of two hundred follows Alexander; …Matched in noteshighshort

κ481Καταβολήonset… (ibid.) that Valesius (Henri de Valois 1603-1676) attributed this fragment to Polybius.Matched in noteshighshort

χ108Χαριεστέρουςmore satisfactory… is bounded by Lydia (lambda 783) on the west, Bithynia to the north, by Pisidia (pi 1643) and Lycaonia (lambda 796) to the south, and by the Tuz Gölü (Salt Lake) to the east. …Matched in noteshighshort

κ391ΚαρῖνοςKarinos, Carinus… on a successful invasion of Persia, leaving Gaul for Carinus to defend. But Carus succumbed--according to diverse legends by a lightning strike, but probably from disease--in the summer of 283 (Dodgeon and Lieu, p. …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε2608Ἐπίστασιςattention, pause for reflection, observation… Büttner-Wobst. Büttner-Wobst notes (p. 533) that this fragment was attributed to Polybius by Ursinus (Fulvio Orsini, 1529-1600).Matched in noteshighshort

κ1980Κομᾷlets the hair grow long… which the Suda covers here. See also kappa 1995. [1] To this point the entry is the same as Synagoge kappa392, except that the latter glosses megalofronei=; cf. Photius, Lexicon kappa912 Theodoridis, Lexica Segueriana …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2488Ἐπίνειονnaval base, sea-port… same or similar glossing other lexica, and cf. the scholia to Thucydides 1.30.2. [2] The kata/bolos is indeed a naval station (cf. LSJ s.v., epsilon 2489 end). But here the Suda appears to gesture …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3575Εὐμάρειαconvenience, opportunity… Quotation not positively identifiable, but attributed by Valckenaer (Adler notes) to Polybius.Matched in noteshighshort

ε3574Εὐμάρειαconvenience… 3575, epsilon 3577, and LSJ s.v. [1] Glossed differently, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (2499). [2] Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.3.2 (web address 1). [3] The quotation (Greek Anthology 7.413.3-4) is from the …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1601Κικόνιος οἶνοςKikonian bird… omega spelling). The present entry quotes, unglossed, two phrases pertaining to things Kikonian. For the wine, Adler cited the Ambrosian Lexicon (897). See also Etymologicum Magnum 443.7-10 (s.v. Thasos), citing Homer on its excellence …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3572Εὐμάθειαreadiness in learningSame entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (2487). For this concept see e.g. Plato, Republic 490C and 494B, and under alpha 402 = mu 1155 = omicron 437.Matched in noteshighshort

ε3573Εὐμαρέηconvenience… rather than the eu)marei/h| preferred by modern editors. It appears to be a Byzantine form of eu)ma/reia (cf. Hesychius s.v. [epsilon6976], with similar glossing) or eu)marei/a, the latter with long final alpha. See epsilon …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3577Εὐμαρήςconvenient… epsilon 3574 gloss, epsilon 3576 and epsilon 3822. [2] Similar to the headword, but of foreign origin: 'an Asiatic shoe or slipper' (LSJ s.v. and already at epsilon 3574 end); in late Greek the …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1602Κῖκυςstrength, vigour… notes (but does not adopt) Aemilius Portus' emendation of a)sqenh/s to eu)sqenh/s "strong". [2] cf. Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon (99.27) and Etymologicum Magnum 513.34.Matched in noteshighshort