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ν420ΝιρεύςNireusThree nouns that sounded identical in Byzantine Greek. They are already compared in Tryphon I, *peri\ tro/pwn p. 203 Spengel, and Herodian, Partitions p. 189, p. 263 Boissonade. Nireus is mentioned in Homer, Iliad …Matched in noteshighshort
μ1345Μωρούςfools… Corinthians 3:19 ("the wisdom of this world is foolishness for God").Matched in noteshighshort
κ2213Κωδείαpoppy-capsule… [sc. does so] and Aristophanes in Farmers [says]: 'and a good poppy capsule'." The texts, which have not otherwise survived, are Aristophanes fr. 117 Kock (114 K.-A.) and Hyperides fr. 253 Jensen.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1226Κεδνόςdiligent… ou)/pw ti kedno\n e)/sxon *)argei/wn pa/ra "I have gotten no good [nothing kednon] from the Greeks."Matched in noteshighshort
μ1339Μωρία διὰ Χριστόνfoolishness for Christ's sakeJohn Chrysostom, On the Incomprehensible Nature of God 2 line 71 Malingrey (= PG 48, 710bc). [1] Chrysostom uses the preposition kata/ here, dia/ (as in the present lemma) a little earlier.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1800Κλίβανοςoven… lit, or in a hearth or an oven, it is good, and it means childbirth. For a hearth and an oven are like a woman in that they take in things that are useful …Matched in noteshighshort
μ440Μεθύουσανdrenched, steeped… syntactical lexicon edited by Cramer (see Bibliography). There is no good classical precedent for this, other than Alexis fr. 301 Kock, now 304 Kassel-Austin: ou) mequ/w th\n fro/nhsin, "I do not thirst for knowledge".Matched in noteshighshort
κ1502Κῆλαarrows, arrow-shafts… to die thick and fast, and the shafts of the 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". …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1940Κόλιξcoarse-bread… "Arise and take in your hand for the man of God loaves of bread, and kollu/ria for his children"). The sense survives in Modern Greek koullou/ri "bagel". See also epsilon 2428. However, the sense …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2030Κόνδυλονknuckle… interpret it as "applying to those who ask for something good, and get back something evil", with Apostolius connecting it with the Cyclops.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1584Κιγκλίζειwags one's tail… from "wag" to "change constantly": "one should not 'wag' a good life, but be unwavering". The infinitive used, kigkli/zein, which is also the form cited by Herodian and Hesychius, may have led to Photius' …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1654Κινυρομένηwailing… 2) 'Hephaistos' became a regular synonym for fire. Furthermore, the god Hephaistos fathered Erichthonius, who in turn fathered Pandion I, King of Athens (Apollodorus, Library 3.14.6, web address 3). Pandion then fathered two daughters, …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2016Κόμπαροςpartner… into Modern Greek from Venetian compare as koumpa/ros, "compadre" (i.e. godparent of my child, Mediaeval English "godsib") (web address 1) (Kriaras, *leciko\ th=s mesaiwnikh/s e(llhnikh/s dhmw/dous grammatei/as s.v.) DuCagne's 1688 dictionary of vernacular Greek …Matched in noteshighshort
μ447Μελάμβωλοςblack-soiled… epigram, a sailor's dedication and prayer to an unnamed Egyptian goddess, see Gow and Page (vol. I, 310-313); (vol. II, 344-345); and further excerpts from this epigram at alpha 4223, epsilon 1499, kappa 1222, …Matched in noteshighshort
μ398Μέγηρονmost lovable (?)… megh/riton. The phrase megh/rita te/kna qea/wn "much contended-for children of goddesses" (Hesiod, Theogony 240) has the textual variant megh/rata te/kna qea/wn "most lovable children of goddesses" (LSJ s.v. megh/ritos, from e)rato/s); and megh/ratos is …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1787Κληρουχήσαντεςhaving divided by lot, having inherited land… somewhere: perhaps Plato, Critias 109C ("Now in other regions other gods had their allotments and ordered affairs") or Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 6.55.2.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1424Κερτομῶνtaunting… quoted from, Sophocles, Philoctetes 1235 (web address 1): "By the gods, is it to taunt me that you say these things?" See also kappa 1422, kappa 1423, which share glosses with this entry.Matched in noteshighshort
μ239ΜάρτυροιwitnessesEpic variant of ma/rtus (often referring to what the gods witness). The nominative plural headword ma/rturoi occurs five times in the Iliad (e.g. 1.338) and twice in the Odyssey; see also Hesiod, Shield 20. …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1626Κινάβραgoat-stench[1] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Plutus [Wealth] 293, i.e. the line before the one quoted as the headword to the next entry, kappa 1627 (q.v.). In the scholion the term 'dog-feed' is accented …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1838Κλώψthief… cf. sigma 95. On this epigram, a prayer to the goddess for property protection, see Gow and Page vol. I (191-192), vol. II (539-540), and further extracts at epsilon 2544 and nu 458.Matched in noteshighshort
ν232Νεώνητονnew-bought… adjective occurs in the cited masculine accusative singular: "May the gods destroy with evil the evil new-bought Paphlagonian, for his decisions" (web address 1). On Kleon (who is satirised as a Paphlagonian slave, but …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ1389Κέρδος αἰσχύνης ἄμεινονadvantage is better than dishonour… more that he can ward off the arrows [of the gods] from his soul?" The original's mata/|zwn, "doing vain, foolish things", is misconstrued as matai/wn "of vain, foolish ones", and as the start of …Matched in noteshighshort
λ674Λοπάςgriddle, hotplate… lambda399 Theodoridis has 'Theopompus' use lopa/s to mean, as transmitted, "goddess" (th\n qeo/n), but Meineke realised the need to emend there to th\n soro/n "funerary urn". [3] For other senses still, see LSJ: a …Matched in noteshighshort

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