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κ2274Κώμυθαhay-bundle, sheaf… the accusative plural of the headword; cf. tau 747. The bundles of reed were fashioned into rafts, with which the invading Huns in 559 CE attempted to attack the southwest coast of the Thracian …Matched in noteshighshort
λ157Λαφύξαςhaving gulped down… Julian PG 35.661, Carmina quae spectant ad alios PG 37.1487), but the Lexicon on Gregory of Nazianzus glosses the word as "drawing off, using up" or "devouring". Hesychius may have been glossing an unknown …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1141Καυστειρός Καυτηρὸς

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Κώμυθα

hay-bundle, sheaf

[Meaning] package of grass. "And binding together their reeds with cords and yarns, they finished off many bundles". The nominative [is] kw/muqos.

Κώμυθα· δέσμην χόρτου. οἱ δὲ ξυνδήσαντες τοὺς καλάμους καλῳδίοις τε καὶ τολύπαις κώμυθας πολλὰς ἀπειργάσαντο. ἡ εὐθεῖα ὁ κώμυθος.

meter and music5

meter and music5

burning

… feminine genitive singular, used figuratively of battle. The masculine appears by analogy in late Epic: kausthroi=o (sic) in Oppian, Halieutica 2.509 (deriving kausthro/s from kausth/r). The grammarians spell the masculine adjective with ei, to …

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κ1243Κεκληγότεςhaving shouted… perfect participle of kla/zw (LSJ entry at web address 1) by the present of kra/zw. The Suda's headword is the regular masculine plural, but the form appears in antiquity only in the irregular forms …Matched in noteshighshort

κ2055Κοππατίαςkoppa-branded… C5 BCE (web address 1). San was barely known about by Byzantine times, so the lexicographer speculates it was a ligature of "s" and "n". The entire sentence is taken from the scholia vetera …Matched in noteshighmedium

λ465Λῆξιςallotment, cessation… and the Lexica Segueriana. The 1822 Porson edition of Photius (but not the 1998 Theodoridis) has "a portion" (h( meri/s) instead of "or portion" (h)\ meri/s). [2] Aelian fr. 240 Domingo-Forasté, 241 Hercher (xqoni/ois …Matched in noteshighmedium

κ2299ΚωρυκαῖοςKorykaian, man from Korykos… fr. 1 Meineke). de/mas "body" is corrupted from de/ mou "but [he hears] me". [3] Ephorus FGrH 70 F27. [4] As LSJ s.v. *kw/rukos explains it, "the inhabitants were infamous for spying out the …Matched in noteshighmedium

κ1247Κεκλόμενοςhaving commanded, commanding… of ke/lomai (LSJ entry at web address 2) is glossed by the present participle of the more familiar parakeleu/w (pi 359). For the verb ke/lomai, see also kappa 1290.Matched in noteshighshort

κ1172Καινοπρεπέςnew-fangled, novel… Appian have cognates). The passage uses "Thucydidean" shibboleths (e)s, qala/tths), but likewise that tells us little. "Dariuses" are not otherwise attested with a meaning which makes sense here; the word as transmitted may well …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1344ΚέντρωνrogueThe bulk of this entry parallels the scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 450; see further below [1] For "goad-strikers", see kappa 1342. The word ke/ntrwn (LSJ s.v. I) means "rogue" as "someone tortured (deservingly) with …Matched in noteshighmedium

κ1870Κνηστιῶντες τὰς ἀκοάςwanting to scratch their hearing, having itchy ears… "I want to scratch". The metaphorical use given here, as "having itchy ears", must come (as Adler's note implies) from Julian, Letter 111.67, though he uses a different form of the present participle: "There …Matched in noteshighshort

κ2187Κουρίξby the hair… cited here from Homer, Odyssey 22.188: "they dragged him in by the hair" (web address 1). The scholia thereto define it more clearly (after Aristarchus) as th=s ko/mhs e)pilabo/menoi "they grabbing the hair".Matched in noteshighshort

κ2025Κομψόνelegant, subtle, pleasant… trophies for his infamy." The misfortune was Bahram Chobin's defeat by the Byzantines; following his humiliation by Khosrau II (and not Khosrau's father, Hormizd IV), Bahram briefly overthrew Khosrau in 590. The "subtlety" of …Matched in noteshighmedium

κ867Κατάχει τοὔλαιον ἐν τῷ χαλκείῳpour the oil in the shield… ("bronze thing") primarily refers to cauldrons (so glossed in LSJ), but verse 1124 explicitly refers to a shield. Aristophanes' passage is a burlesque of augury through reflection, such as lecanomancy. The mention of being …Matched in noteshighmedium

λ447Λήμηblear, rheum, sleep-crust… while walking". See web address 1. [4] An obvious phrase, but one which does not seem to have been used elsewhere: the closest is Hippocrates, Prorrheticon 2.18 o)fqalmoi\ de\ lhmw=ntes, "bleary eyes overlap [in …Matched in noteshighmedium

κ2032Κονιωμένουςis being covered with dust… NB, is not the SOL's koniwme/nous (for which see below) but koniortou=tai -- is third person singular, present middle/passive, of the verb koniorto/w (for which cf. kappa 2037). Attested only here, it is evidently …Matched in noteshighshort

λ344Λευστήρstone-thrower, oppressor… definition reads the noun as passive, as LSJ s.v. notes, but otherwise is active both morphologically and in usage (LSJ s.v). The phrase "deserving of having stones cast" is used by Photius and others …Matched in noteshighshort

λ648Λογισμόςcalculation, account… in another sense see lambda 649. [1] Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as an approximation of Procopius, Secret History 5.4 (web address 1), on Belisarius in Italy (544-549); cf. …Matched in noteshighmedium

λ470Λῆροςdementia, delirium… age is due to an affection not of the soul but of its vehicle, as occurs in drunkenness or disease. Thus it is that in old age the activity of mind or intellectual apprehension …Matched in noteshighmedium

κ1410Κέρκωψkerkôps… antiquity (LSJ s.v. I). The sense "ape" turns up in Byzantine Greek, based on the fact that the Kekropes were man-monkeys. LSJ s.v. II cites only an instance in the astrological corpus published by …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1148Καφώρηςof a vixen, vixen's… given in LSJ s.v., being derived not from ke/rdos "profit", but kerdw/ "the wily one, the fox". (The two senses are nevertheless related: see kappa 1391 on kerdale/os.) The sense is unique to Babrius …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1208Καίοιτοmight lie, might be located… singular, present optative passive, of (ostensibly) the verb kai/w "I burn", and as such might have been extracted from (e.g.) Pausanias 1.30.2, on Athenian torch-relay races. However, the gloss is nonsensical for this verb, …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1513Κηλόνειονswipe, swing-beam… Grammar, the Etymologicum Gudianum and the Etymologicum Magnum. In ps.-Zonaras: "But khlo/neion is a crane: Spelled with a short (omicron) and a diphthong (ei). ... a piece of wood tilting backwards and forwards." The …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1629Κίναδοςbeast, monster… while others are high-spirited, friendly, and fawning, like the dog." But as a stereotype, it is fairly obvious, and it also occurs in Harpocration: see below. [4] "They claim that... call the fox kinadion" …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1786Κληρωτήριαallotment-machines… scandals at the end of the fifth), and later superseded by the even more complicated one described in ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 63-65. (For the best modern commentary on it, see D.M. MacDowell, The Law …Matched in noteshighmedium

κ1573Κιβδηλίαadulteration, dishonesty… of the folk etymology given in the scholia to Birds: "but also [note] that coins are called adulterated (ki/bdhla), because they are manifested by [the] Chians (*xi/wn dedhlh=sqai)". (sic, i.e. the Suda gets the …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1839Κλοιόςcollar… "The dog, an expert in all fierce hunts, was sculpted by Leukon, and dedicated by Alkimenes. Alkimenes could not find anything to fault. But when he saw...". See another quote from this epigram at …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1128Καττύειstitches together… was a Persian general (and later rebel) who fought the Byzantines during the reign of Maurice (see also kappa 2025). Ms V reads *)abraa\m: cf. eta 447. The context of the quote is the …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1332Κεντηνάριονcentenarium, hundred-pounds-weight… of Alexandria (1 CE?), On Measures 60.2, and frequently used by Byzantine authors, particularly Malalas and Procopius. Glossed in the Etymologicum Gudianum: "100 pounds; for the Romans call 100 centum". A centenarium is equal …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1418Κερωτήkairôtê, woven fabric… it as attested here and in the orthographic lexica edited by Ludwich (1905-1912) 198.12, both with that spelling. Compare generally kappa 1193, kappa 1195, and the adjective kairwto/s "well-woven?" in Callimachus fr.383 Pfeiffer (noted …Matched in noteshighshort

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