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β520Βρασμὸς γῆςroiling of the earth… cf. also the gloss-less alpha 2104. For other kinds of earthquake, see epsilon 2391 and iota 212 (also gamma 468); for a related verb, beta 518.Matched in noteshighshort
κ2198Κούφη γῆ τοῦτον καλύπτοιmay light earth cover him, may the earth covering him be light… has the optative kalu/ptoi. [1] Anaximander reportedly said that the earth was unsupported in space (mete/wros) and moved around the middle of the cosmos (Aristotle, On the heaven B 13.295b 10). But if this …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ1618Κιμωλίαcimolite, Cimolian earth… Cimolus/Kimolos (kappa 1619). See also kappa 1744, kappa 2640. This earth, often used as fuller's earth, is a kind of clay of the montmorillonite group, also today called cimolite. It is a hydrated aluminum …Matched in noteshighshort
ε656ἘκτιναγμὸςdisturbanceKinds of earthquake, from beta 520.Matched in noteshighshort
γ468Γρυπάνιονwrinkling… [3] FGrH 326 F1; cf. epsilon 162. On kinds of earthquakes, see beta 520.Matched in noteshighshort
ε1620Ἐξελοφίζετοused to be quarried out… from missing parts of the Excerpta of Constantine Porphyrogenitus.) The "earth" in question is presumably pozzolana, a precursor of cement, mined in the vicinity of Dikaiarcheia (= Puteoli) in Campania, delta 1061. For "earth-hills" …Matched in noteshighshort
ε1259Ἐνέροιςthose below… 15.188, where the headword occur (as e)ne/roisin). [2] for e)/ra "earth" see epsilon 1643, epsilon 2887.Matched in noteshighshort
α2104Ἀνατιναγμόςshaking-upA term associated with violent earth-movements: cf. beta 520, epsilon 656, tau 638.Matched in noteshighshort
η512Ἠρίαbarrows, mounds… III.3 Conomis. cf. eta 511, eta 520. [1] On e)/ra "earth", see epsilon 1643, epsilon 2887, epsilon 2966.Matched in noteshighshort
κ2289Κῶνοιcones… allusion appears to be to the shadows cast by the earth as a planet (i.e. night or an eclipse), although the precise wording is late in coming: Sophonias [13-14 c. CE], Paraphrase on Aristotle, …Matched in noteshighshort
ε4074Ἑψῶνboiling… contracted form of the nominative plural masculine participle. On gold-bearing earth, see alpha 3792 and chi 571.Matched in noteshighshort
κ2035Κονιόπουςdust-foot, sandal… kind of shoe Aristophanes meant; the digression on cutting/slaying the earth is etymological guesswork.Matched in noteshighshort
χ63Χαμάδιςgroundwards… supplementary lemma xama=ze are formed from the obsolescent xa/ma ('ground', 'earth'), which survives primarily in compounds from the classical period and later and in the allative/illative/locative forms in epic mentioned in this entry. Both …Matched in noteshighshort
χ322Χθαμαλάhumble [things]; flat [things]The headword adjective is related to obsolete *xama/ ("earth") and so its meaning can be literal or metaphorical; cf. Latin humilis from humus ("earth"). [1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica, and cf. the …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2659Ἐπὶ τὰ Μανδροβόλουon Mandrobolos' property… History of Samos 800-188 BC (Oxford 1987) appendix 2; 'Samian Earth' seems to have been a kind of fuller's earth. [2] A ram, because, according to a scholiast on Nicander's Alexipharmaka, this was the …Matched in noteshighshort
ει155Εἰν Ἀρίμοιςin (the) ArimeansHomer, Iliad 2.783. ('Earth groaned beneath them as it does for Zeus the Thunderer in his anger, when he lashes the ground above Typhoeus in the Arimean Mountains, where people say Typhoeus lies abed': …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1504Δραπέτης κλῆροςrunaway lot… Cresphontes wanted Messenia, so he placed a lot of moist earth in the pot, knowing it would never jump out of the hydria (either because it dissolved in water in the pot or because …Matched in noteshighmedium
χ376Χοϊκόςmud, made of mud… equivalent of the Hebrew "Adam" (alpha 425) -- from adama, "earth" -- in a typological passage on Christ as Second Adam. Same entry, according to Adler, in Lexicum Ambrosianum 284; and cf. already Hesychius …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2378Ἐπικίδναταιis spread over… applied to the water of a river flowing over the earth (web address 1), but see also 7.451 & 458. See also kappa 1589.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1723ΚλεομένηςKleomenes, Cleomenes… to Alexandria, meeting his death in 219 after a failed plot against the Macedonian king of Egypt, Ptolemy IV Philopator, named here. [1] alpha 2345.Matched in noteshighshort
κ2147Κόσμοςcosmos, kosmos; order, ornament, decorum, universe… "very divinely" (pa/nu qei/ws). The reference seems to be to Plotinus, Enneads 3.4.2, where the verb is dendrwqh=nai without the prefix. [3] The phrase 'in Scripture', though placed last, should possibly be understood with …Matched in noteshighmedium
χ233Χειμερινὸς καιρόςwintry season, wintry time… Hesiod, Theogony 148 (citing Chrysippus), on the three sons of Earth and Heaven: Kottos, Briareos and Gyges. Each is equated with a season of the year: Kottos with the angry heat of summer, Briareos …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1124Διμήτωρtwice-born… thus being considered as having been born once from the earth and again from the vine"), and generally LSJ s.v.Matched in noteshighshort
ε2917ἘρεβεινόςErebos-like, Erebus-like… was 'a place of nether darkness, forming a passage from Earth to Hades' (LSJ s.v.). The cognate adjective Erebos-like appears in the form e)rebenno/s, with Aeolic treatment of *-sn-, in Homer and Hesiod; the …Matched in noteshighshort
ι212Ἰζηματίαςsubsidence-causingA technical adjectival term in Posidonius and elsewhere. On earthquakes generally, see also beta 520, epsilon 656, epsilon 2391.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1093Δίκηςof justice… the idea that justice is rewarded by the fertility of earth see Homer, Odyssey 19.109ff.; further parallels are Aeschylus, Supplices 627-29, Eumenides 937-87; Sophocles, Oedipus Rex 269-71. The notion is also to be seen …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3901Ἐφημερίαephemerality… Odyssey 18.136-7, which might be translated as "The mind of earth-bound mortals is such as the day the father of gods and men brings to them." [2] This part of the entry = Hesychius …Matched in noteshighshort
κ335Καπηλίςhuckstress, landlady… vine here hinges upon the fact that phlo/s means both "earth, mud" and "wine dregs, lees". [2] For the otherwise unattested e)/mpelos read e)/mphlos ("muddy").Matched in noteshighshort
λ658Λόγοςdiscourse; language… [5] Aristophanes, Peace 146-147, with comment from the scholia there. "Plot" is the conventional translation of logos in dramatic contexts, i.e. the main story in the narrative or drama. [6] chi 569.Matched in noteshighmedium
μ465Μελαίνῃdark, black… Homer it is used variously of emotions (fre/nes), ships, the earth, blood, water, and the sea; see Cunliffe 1963 s.v. This feminine dative singular is quoted from Homer, Iliad 1.300 (describing Achilles' ship: web …Matched in noteshighshort

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