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δ533Διαγραφὴ δίκηςcancellation of a lawsuitLikewise, variously, in other lexica. Nevertheless, this sense of diagrafh/ is not registered in LSJ (IV there, cancellation of a debt, comes closest), and this headword phrase as a whole is unattested in classical …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2787Ἐπλημμέλησανthey struck a false note, they were off-key… presumably extracted from the quotation given, is third person plural, aorist indicative active, of the verb plhmmele/w. It is probably extracted from the quotation given here (though other extant possibilities include four in the …Matched in noteshighshort

δ533

Διαγραφὴ δίκης

cancellation of a lawsuit

When the defendant [sc. in a trial in classical Athens] is acquitted of the charge, either by acquiescence of the prosecutor or by determination of a circumstance, and he is no longer being charged by anyone, [this] is…

Διαγραφὴ δίκης· ὅταν ἀπαλλαγῇ τοῦ ἐγκλήματος ὁ φεύγων, ἢ κατὰ συγχώρησιν τοῦ διώκοντος ἢ κατὰ διάγνωσιν τυχόντος, καὶ μηκέτι παρὰ μηδενὸς ἐγκαλῆται, διαγραφὴ δίκης λέγεται.

trade and manufacture93

trade and manufacture93

meter and music63

meter and music63

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ΕΙ epsiloniota

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α207Ἄγευστος θοίνηςwithout a taste of the feast

The headword phrase, illustrative of an idiom noted in LSJ s.v. a)/geustos, I -- is presumably quoted from somewhere. It features also in, besides other lexica, two adjacent entries in Photius (alpha156 and alpha157 …

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γ420Γραμματείουof a grammar-school… presumably extracted from the first quotation given. [1] Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 179 Zintzen (109 Asmus); cf. pi 1828. [2] grammatei=a here used in a different sense from the first quotation. [3] Quotation …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2708Ἐπιτολῆςof a raising= Synagoge epsilon766; Photius, Lexicon epsilon1766. Headword and glosses are genitive singulars. (The headword is presumably quoted from somewhere. Extant possibilities are numerous; and cf. under theta 205.) Similar, but largely in the nominative …Matched in noteshighshort

κ2543Κοίλου κρατῆροςof a hollow craterSophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1593 (web address 1), with comments from the scholia. The commentary derives from the fact that the original meaning of 'crater' (krath/r), literally 'mixer', was a large open-mouthed vessel in …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1598Ἐξεθεάτρισανthey made a spectacle of… [1] Polybius fr. 141 Büttner-Wobst. Büttner-Wobst notes (532) that Casaubon attributed this fragment to Polybius. Schweighäuser suspected (ibid.) that the context of the fragment is the 180 BCE embassy of Kallikrates of Leontion to …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1304Διχοτομία φάλαγγοςbisection of a phalanxAgain in the Onomasticon Tacticum at the end of the Suda (following psi). [1] The word occurs only here, and is surely an error for a)raro/s ('juncture'); cf. Aelian, Tactica 7.3. [2] Likewise in …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1485Ἐντραπεζίτιδοςof a table-sitter… epsilon221. The headword (evidently quoted from somewhere), which is not attested outside lexicography, belongs morphologically to a class of feminine nouns. The word used to gloss it could be feminine or masculine. Both are …Matched in noteshighshort

αι102Αἰεὶ δὲ γέροντι νέαν ποτιβάλλεο κούρηνalways offer a young girl to an old manSimilarly (and with a banal gloss) in Macarius 1.52. Dactylic verse.Matched in noteshighshort

δ1183Διονυσίων σκώμματαinsults of the DionysiaThe unglossed headword phrase is probably generated by a very similar one in the first quotation given; if not, its origin is unidentifiable. [1] An approximation of Synesius, Dion 1.103 (PG 66.1117c), where Socrates …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε2054Ἐπενεγκώνbringing a charge againstThe headword is the aorist active participle, masculine nominative singular, of the compound verb e)pife/rw. (For this sense of it see generally LSJ s.v., I.3.) It is perhaps extracted from the quotation given here, …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2500Ἐπίορκον ἀνώμοσενswore a false oathThe headword phrase occurs in Homer, Iliad 10.332 (web address 1), except that Homer has e)pw/mosen ('swore to') instead of the otherwise unattested a)nw/mosen found here; a)pw/mosen, which would normally mean 'swore off' or …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3150Ἐσκιμάλισενflipped offFrom the scholia to the Aristophanes passage quoted below. [1] Compare kappa 516, sigma 606, phi 152. [2] A regular practice in cockfighting today, intended to sharpen the fighting spirit of the birds. [3] …Matched in noteshighshort

κ2626ΚυΐσκωI produce offspringSame entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (1935); also in ps.-Herodian, Epimerismoi 73.15. This form, first person singular present indicative/subjunctive active, is attested only in lexicography and grammars. LSJ (web address 1) …Matched in noteshighshort

α214Ἀγηλατεῖνto drive out, to drive out a curse[1] The first two of these glossing infinitives are paralleled in Photius, Lexicon alpha162 Theodoridis, where the participle a)ghlatw=n (said to be extracted from the tragic poet Nicomachus) is glossed with diw/kwn and fugadeu/wn. …Matched in noteshighshort

δ764Δι' ἀσπιδέος πεδίοιοacross a shield plain… the headword phrase. The mss themselves, however, have dia\ spide/os (a 'vast' plain); and this is the version -- the one addressed here in the third interpretation given -- preferred by modern editors.Matched in noteshighshort

ε842ἙλληνοταμίαιHellenotamiai, Treasurers of GreeceSee also epsilon 841, epsilon 843. [1] King-regent of Sparta (pi 820). [2] The wording of this entry follows Thucydides 1.96.1-2 almost verbatim but diverges from it in this last sentence and so distorts …Matched in noteshighshort

α3433Ἀπόμακτρα σκυτάλωνscrapers of stricklesEvidently deriving from comment on Aristophanes fr.712 Kock (now 667 K.-A.): a)po/maktr' a)peskotw/mena, "scrapers darkened". Hesychius defines these "scrapers" as strickles, wooden implements for levelling off (sc. grain etc.) in measures, and this is …Matched in noteshighshort

αι137Αἴθ' ὄφελες θανεῖν ἢ πανύστατον ὀρχήσασθαιif only you had died or danced for the very last timeCallimachus, Hecale fr. 326, with scholion. (The third word of the original must be qane/ein for metrical reasons; and h)\ panu/staton is regarded as corrupt.) For 'if only you had' cf. alphaiota 136.Matched in noteshighshort

ε873Ἑλλιχθέντωνof those who have been pivoted, of those which have been pivotedBoth headword and gloss are aorist passive participles (masculine or neuter) in the genitive plural. The double lambda in the headword is a misspelling: the word regularly appears as e(lixqe/ntwn, and is a form …Matched in noteshighshort

α3277Ἀποδαρθεῖνto doze offSame or similar entry in other lexica. The headword is aorist active infinitive of a)podarqa/nw. [The gloss is aorist passive infinitive of a)pokoima/w, for which see also e.g. Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.4.26.] Perhaps quoted from …Matched in noteshighshort

κ2486Κρουσιδημῶνknocking off the publicFrom Aristophanes, Knights 859 (web address 1), with comments from the scholia; spoken by Demos himself in reference to Kleon (kappa 1731); cf. sigma 1304. cf. Hesychius kappa4233; Photius, Lexicon kappa1118 Theodoridis. [1] This …Matched in noteshighshort

ε570Ἐκπηδῶ σουI leap out of youLSJ offer examples of e)kphda/w with the genitive (see web address 1), but not when the genitive in question is personal, as here. cf. epsilon 451. [1] This explicitness is lacking, Adler reports, in …Matched in noteshighshort

αι37Αἰγιάζεινto talk of goats… ultimately Phrynichus, Praeparatio sophistica fr. 107, who glosses the verb as translated here (and adopted by LSJ). Since all ancient comment stems from a contextless line in Eupolis (see next note), other interpretations are …Matched in noteshighshort

α123Ἀγαθῶν ἀγαθίδεςskeins of good thingsThe wordplay of the headword phrase a)gaqw=n a)gaqi/des is hard to render in English. 'Bundles of bounties' might do. [1] (Same material in Photius.) Again at alpha 2601; and see also nu 77 and …Matched in noteshighshort

β109ΒάρβιοςBarbios, BarbiusAelian fr. 66 Hercher (69 Domingo-Forasté); cf. theta 167, theta 232, theta 523, kappa 2619. [1] Ostensibly the man's cognomen; it should probably be considered part of the headword rather than a gloss. Ulpian, …Matched in noteshighmedium

α3438Ἀπὸ μηχανῆςfrom a machinecf. Diogenianus 2.84 and other paroemiographers; also the scholia to Plato, Clitophon 470A (and other scholia). For the proverbiality of the phrase see also e.g. Demosthenes 40.59: "Timocrates alone, as if from a machine, …Matched in noteshighmedium

γ491Γυμνότερος Ἰαλέμουmore naked than a Ialemos… Zenobius 4.39, etc. For Ialemos, claimed by some to be a son of Kalliope (kappa 234), and another proverb involving him see iota 17. [2] Zenobius 2.95, etc.; cf. lambda 218, sigma 1694, tau …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1914Ἀνακωχῆςof cessationSee already alpha 1913, and again alpha 2576. [1] The headword, genitive singular of this feminine noun, has the same or similar glossing in other lexica. It is evidently quoted from somewhere (cf. anyway …Matched in noteshighshort

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