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ε
2120
Ἐπειδὴ τὸν οἶνον ἠξίους πιεῖν
since you saw fit to drink the wine you should drink the dregs too
… [Wealth] 1084-5 (web address 1). The original begins e)peidh\ kai\
to\n
oi)=non, and the first word of the main clause was originally sunekpote/' (for sunekpote/a). The Suda's sunekpot' works well metrically (sunekpote/' e)sti/ requires …
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α
425
Ἀδάμ
Adam
… out of 117 in the printed edition -- is a
tour
de force of polemic by an unidentifiable scholar quite outside the type of neutral reticence which characterises most of the contributors
to
the …
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α
4494
Αὐτοκακὸν ἔοικε τῷδε
women
women
87
87
trade and manufacture
85
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85
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83
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83
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73
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6
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epsiloniota
1
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1
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eta
1
Η
eta
1
he seemed evil itself to him
The headword phrase is taken
to
come from comedy: Comica adespota fr. 658 Kock, now 559 K.-A. The glossing comes from Phrynichus (Praeparatio sophistica fr. 279), but the final and nonsensical 'well-disposed' has strayed …
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ε
3154
Ἐς κόρακας
to the crows
See also epsilon 3155, and generally
Tosi
(cited under alpha 378) no.771. [1] Eustathius, in his commentary
to
Homer, Odyssey 13.408, attributes
to
a Pausanias (not the
topographer
but the Attic lexicographer: his fr.183 …
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α
3668
Ἀπώλεσας τὸν οἶνον ἐπιχέας ὕδωρ
you ruined the wine by pouring in water
cf. Diogenianus 2.32 and other paroemiographers;
Tosi
(cited under alpha 378) no.2205. [1] On Aristias of Phleious (C5 BCE) see generally OCD(4) s.v. (p.154); this is his fr. 4 Nauck. On the Peripatetic philosopher …
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α
207
Ἄγευστος θοίνης
without a taste of the feast
… Photius (alpha156 and alpha157 Theodoridis), and can be traced back
to
-- but not beyond -- two lemmata in the epitome of Phrynichus, Praeparatio sophistica (18.8 and 18.25 de Borries). [1] This gloss does …
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ε
3241
Ἔσφηλε
toppled
… verb which can have both intransitive ('fall') and transitive ('cause
to
fall') meanings; see LSJ s.v.; the latter, underlined by the supplementary gloss, is what is illustrated here; cf. sigma 1716. The headword might …
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α
3412
Ἀπολωλεκώς
having destroyed
Similar material, according
to
Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (2731-2). [1] The aorist participle a)pole/sas, masculine nominative singular, is here used
to
gloss the same form -- evidently quoted from somewhere (there are numerous …
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ε
2709
Ἐπιτολμῆσαι
to make a daring attack on
… also under epsilon 2759.) Kuster suggested emending the nominative singular
toiou=tos
to
the accusative plural
toiou/tous,
which would render the second part as "and he flatters them, being merchants of such a sort.". Adler …
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χ
190
Χελώνη
tortoise
… chi 195. [2] This paragraph is derived from the scholia
to
Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 179 (web address 1), where Lais (lambda 40) is mentioned. See also Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 13.589A-B (13.55 Kaibel). The wooden
'tortoises'
…
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γ
466
Γρύξαι
to growl, to grumble, to grunt, to murmur, to mutter
… (already at gamma 462), especially common in comedy, literally means
'to
make a sound like gru' (gamma 461). cf. also gamma 464.
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ε
1614
Ἐξελέγχειν
to expose utterly, to put to the test
… [2] Quotation (also in ps.-Zonaras) unidentifiable. (Adler suggests Aelian.) For
"tortures(?)"
cf. generally beta 137, beta 139.
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ε
1621
Ἐξεμεῖν
to throw up, to vomit forth
… given. [1] An unmetrical approximation of Aristophanes, Frogs 11 (Dionysos
to
Xanthias: web address 1), with comments derived from the scholia thereto; cf. mu 538.
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α
783
Ἀκάκιος
Akakios, Acacius
… 2.19. [3] Valesius (Henri de Valois 1603-1676) attributed this entry
to
Malchus (on Theodore the Reader 167); now accepted as Malchus fr.2b Cresci. [4] beta 164.
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ε
3215
Ἑστιᾶν
to feast
… in the entry is its present middle/passive infinitive. [1] From
"to
feed..." up
to
this point the entry = Synagoge epsilon869; Photius, Lexicon epsilon2024. The initial syntactical information is added from a syntactical lexicon, …
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ε
2060
Ἐπεξιέναι
to go out from, to implement, to traverse
This entry is
totally
absent in mss F V, and ms A has it only up
to
the first period. [1] Adler cites as a source for the Syntactical appendix
to
the Lexicon Gudianum, …
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β
532
Βρενθύεσθαι
to be haughty, to take umbrage
… (106-107), on the Persian envoy Mebod (cf. alpha 3098), heading
to
Byzantion in late 567.
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ε
2640
Ἐπιστρέφεται
attends to
… e)pistre/fw. It must be quoted from somewhere but it far
too
common for the source
to
be identifiable. For related words see epsilon 2639, epsilon 2641, epsilon 2642, epsilon 2643. See also note 3 …
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α
1731
Ἀμφίθετον φιάλην
set-about bowl, set-about phiale
… ancient commentators could not agree whether the adjective meant able
to
stand on both ends or with a handle on each side: see Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 11.500F-501D (11.103 Kaibel), and summarily in LSJ s.v. For …
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α
217
Ἀγῆλαι
to celebrate, to glorify
… 589. A Homeric "epigram" is also called ei)resiw/nh and designed
to
accompany the procession (omicron 251 [note 35]). [2] Eupolis fr. 119 Kock, now 131 K.-A. (using, in fact, a compound of the headword …
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γ
482
Γυμνῆται
light-armed [troops]
… headword is in the nominative plural (a form that is
about
to
be repeated). The word literally means 'one who goes nude'. [2] This first sentence is omitted by mss FV (so Adler) and …
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κ
2488
Κρωβύλος
top-knot
… address 1), where the golden cicada is a pin used
to
fasten the
top-knot;
both pin and
top-knot
are part of what Thucydides describes as an old-fashioned style of personal adornment. Contrast epsilon 1257. …
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ε
2090
Ἐπεσφάλακεν
was toppled
… e)pisfa/llw, as the translation of the headword assumes, would seem
to
be a soloecistic aorist passive. On the other hand, it could be a scribal lapse: a suspiciously similar set of definitions is given …
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α
4597
Ἀφείλετο
took away
… quoted from somewhere but both it and its variant are
too
common
to
track down.
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ε
2002
Ἐπαφώμενον
touching upon
… accusative or neuter nominative/accusative singular, of e)pafa/w. The participle used
to
gloss it is in the same form, but the form of the headword that appears in the quotation is masculine nominative singular. Thus …
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κ
2740
Κυπτάζειν
to lurk
… out of existence by modern editors; cf. sigma 1159; scholia
to
Aristophanes, Clouds 509 (see n.3), which seems
to
be the source for most of the information in this entry, apart from the first …
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αι
79
Αἰδεσία
Aidesia, Aedesia
… following Bekker in reading e(/ws for w(s, "until they began
to
study philosophy". [4] pi 2473. [5] alpha 1639.
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ε
876
Ἐλθεῖν
to come
[1] More literally,
"to
employ an unadorned frankness of speech", but this is not likely
to
be a definition of the headword; rather, a reference
to
the use of the simple verb without any …
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β
137
Βασανίζειν
to test
cf. generally beta 139. [1] From the scholia
to
Aristophanes, Frogs 616, quoted below. [2] Polybius fr. 26 Büttner-Wobst. Here the noun ba/sanos is being used, rather than the verb basani/zw of the headword. …
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ι
200
Ἱερώνυμος
Hieronymos, Hieronymus
… precisely: the first part, from "Some of the historians..." down
to
"...departed this life" is a rather loose version of Polybius 7.7.1-3; the rest is almost a verbatim copy. Hieronymos was tyrant in Syracuse …
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