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- μ238ΜαρτυρῶI give witness… — what I will now compel him to give witness about".
- λ467Ληρεῖςyou are babbling… are chattering. Aristophanes [writes]: "what on earth are you babbling about? It's as if you've fallen off a donkey!" They also say: "off the top of your head." And elsewhere: "you are babbling babble". …
- κ1628Κίναδοςbeast, monster… beast! You ask me where he is?" Ajax says [this] about Odysseus.
- μ294ΜαυρίκιοςMaurikios, Mauricius, MauriceEmperor of [the] Romans. "They say about Maurice that he was generous about the magnificence of speeches, and quite brilliantly honoured those who strove in that best of the fields of study. It is …
- κ1322Κενόνvoid, wasteland[Meaning a place] empty of people. Sophocles [says] about Oedipus: "but if you are to rule this land, just as you control [sc. it now], better to be lord of men than of a …
- λ832Λυμαντικόςdestroyer… is damaging. Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] lumantiko/s ["destructive"].
- κ2026Κόναβοςdin… with a din, at her frothy chin." The saying [is] about a Laconian woman.
- μ274Μασχαλισθῆναιto put under the armpits, to mutilate… the first sacrificial extracts of the dead". [This is said] about Jason. Or, that those waging a civil war would mutilate the people killed, cutting off [the extremities] from every part of the body, …
- κ1276Κεκυφότεςbent-forward, stooping… the aorist participle] ku/yas ["he having stooped"]. Aristophanes is speaking about a beetle: "how the cursed [creature], having stooped, eats." Through the expression he is indicating its gluttony. For those humans and animals who …
- μ533Μέλονbeing of concern… a matter of care. Aristophanes [writes]: "being of no concern about me, so much as to find out any little jibe I might throw out while being crushed." "[...] that, although he was a …
- μ284Ματιολοιχόςsmall-licker[Meaning] one who is knavish about small things, and a glutton. For mátion (as is better accented) [is] something small. Or someone who eats little, since mation is what they call a minimum. Or …
- λ344Λευστήρstone-thrower, oppressor… is of being stoned to death. And Aelian [writes]: "to destroy that cause of evil and stone-thrower."
- μ184Μάργηςmad, furious… [sc. attested is] gastri/margos ["belly-mad"], [meaning] he who is mad about his belly.
- κ1252Κεκομψευμένοςingenious… masculine nominative singular, of the verb komyeu/w, "I make nice/quibble about/refine". This verb has in the middle/passive the meaning "be smart, be ingenious", referring to people (with a middle sense), and "made neatly" of …
- λ583Λιπαρήςimportunate, persistent… [1] Aelian fr. 64c Domingo-Forasté (part of fr. 61 Hercher), about an Epicurean philosopher; for another part see under the next entry, lambda 584. [2] Quotation unidentifiable.
- κ1756Κλεισθένην ὁρῶI see Kleisthenes, I see Clisthenes… This man would always shave. So [the phrase] is said about those who always shave. He was [the son] of Sibyrtios; and he did this to look young always. Straton used to do the …
- κ1372Κεράςmixed[1] Attested only here (from the passage about to be quoted); cf. LSJ s.v. kera/s, B. [2] Callimachus, Hecale fr. 246 Pfeiffer; see already under kappa 1289. [3] From the scholia to this passage.
- μ183Μαργαίνειrages… perhaps unlikely to underlie Hesychius) is Gregory of Nazianzus, Poems about himself (Carmina de se ipso) PG 37.1315.12. For related words see mu 184, mu 186.
- κ1119Κατωφρυῶσθαιto be furnished with eyebrows; to frown, to be stern… e)pi/ or the accusative for the thing to be stern about. However, it does take the genitive (cf. kappa 1102) in its first appearance: Acta Andreae 50 (C2 CE). Note also John of Damascus, …
- μ751Μέταιτοςmendicant… only in their prepositional prefix: begging to share something, begging about something, begging towards something.
- λ447Λήμηblear, rheum, sleep-crust… minds", namely ancient foolishness is confusing your minds; a saying about the dim-sighted. And sleep-crust is a congealed tear, which damages the eyes by resting on them. So [the passage] means having blinded minds, …
- μ556Μέμβλωκεhas come… Cf. mu 555. [2] Callimachus, Hecale fr. 304 Pfeiffer: "and about their head there was set a new round hat having come from Haemonia [alphaiota 204], a defence against the midday heat." The gloss …
- κ1575Κίβδηλονcounterfeit, adulterated… [taken] from history. "Croesus, not budging from the counterfeit reports about him, and cherishing and sheltering and protecting his ancestral kingdom." "So slaves are a counterfeit evil, as became apparent in [the case of] …
- κ1431Κεστρεύςmullet, kestreus… and the scholia to Oppian, Halieutica 1.156, 2.642; Hesychius kappa2401 about ke/faloi says, "some kinds of kestreu/s are so called."
- μ371Μεγαλόφρωνgreat-minded, high-minded… Someone characterised as great-spirited is explicitly supposed to be indifferent about riches in Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1124a, and there is no other allusion to this meaning on record.
- μ448ΜελάμπουςMelampous, Melampus… connected -- by ga/r, not de/ -- with the remark about Melampus and Polles.)
- κ1353Κεραμεύεινto potter… in its entirety from the scholia to Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 253, about Kephalos: "he potters with bowls badly -- though with the city well and nicely" (or more idiomatically, "That he, as excellent a statesman …
- κ1813Κλίσιαoutbuildngs, sheds… headword is taken to refer to shepherds' huts: "and all about it ran the sheds in which ate, and sat, and slept the servants that were bondsmen". The definition appearing here originates in Moeris' …
- μ325Μαιμάσσειis eager, quivers… occurrence is in Jeremiah 4:19 LXX. LSJ s.v. expresses uncertainty about the verb's meaning in that passage, and whether it does mean the same as maima/w. If it does, the verse reads "my soul …
- λ839Λυμεώνdestroyer… a prize] for the Achaeans, or he who is my destroyer." Ajax says [this].