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- α4483Αὐτοαπλότηςsimplicity itself"But in character the king/emperor was simplicity itself, and a certain muted reasonableness [was a feature of his character], and [he was] pliant and agreeable when it came to beneficences, and serious and intense …
- α4490Αὐτὸ δείξειwill show itselfA proverb. 'The deed' is left out.
- α4472Αὐτὴ κάμινος αὐτὸς εἵλκυσε καπνὸς ἢ τροχόςthe oven itself, the smoke itself or the wheel dragged on… Adler indicates no textual problems.) The first element does, of itself, constitute a proverbial saying: so Photius, explicitly, with a gloss very similar to the present one; also Hesychius, who has such a gloss …
- α4494Αὐτοκακὸν ἔοικε τῷδεhe seemed evil itself to him[Meaning] extremely and to the point of excess he seemed to him well-disposed.
- α4482ΑὐτόitselfThe philosophers used to call 'itself' anything that was said in its proper sense. By means of this 'itself' they also signified the abstract form, saying 'mankind itself' and 'opinion itself', that is, properly …
- α4492Αὐτόετεςwithin a year[Meaning] along with the year itself.
- α4600Ἁφήtouch… is also called 'feeling'. And [it can mean] the sense itself. Look under "five senses".
- α4474Αὐτῆμαρthat very day[Meaning] on the day itself.
- αι110Αἰθαλοκομπίαιςwith sooty boastingsFrom the scholia to Aristophanes, Knights 696 (which itself has yolokompi/ais: see psi 123).
- α4427Αὐθημερόνthat very day[Meaning] on the day itself.
- α423Ἀδακρυτίtearlessly… but is too common to identify. The glossing adverb is itself glossed at alpha 891.
- δ1694Δυσριγότεροςmore chilling, rather chilling… ps.-Zonaras, where both the comparative and the superlative of du/srigos (itself given) appear.
- α3403Ἀπολογοῦμαί σοιI defend myself to you… Plutarch, Themistocles 23) against you. Either way, the headword phrase itself illustrates the principle.
- δ792Διατορηθῆναιto be pierced through… palisade to be pierced through the earth underneath the enclosure itself." Thus "to be pierced through" means to be cut through, to be bored through.
- δ823ΔιαφημίζωI spread the news… appears to preface a lost glossing verb. The headword verb itself appears as a gloss in delta 598 and delta 978; see also delta 944.
- α159ἈγαπῴηνI would love; if you please… according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (338). The headword itself must be quoted from somewhere: perhaps Plato, Republic 473B (a passage quoted by Stobaeus). See also alpha 160 (and under alpha 150).
- ε1625Ἐξ ἐναντίαςfrom opposite… the idiom see generally LSJ s.v. e)na/ntios, II.2. The Suda itself has six other instances.
- α4617ἈφικνοῦμαιI arriveThe headword itself, a)fiknou=mai, does not take the genitive, but the verb appended -- e)fiknou=mai, aorist e)fiko/mhn -- can.
- ε1622Ἐξέμηνανthey drove mad… gloss derived from an unknown syntactic lexicon. The headword verb itself must be quoted from somewhere. (For the syntax cf. under epsilon 2961.) A similar gloss for a different form of the same verb …
- β546Βρόγχοςthroat… of the present entry's glosses -- rarer than the headword itself -- appears as headword (glossed by the second gloss). For 'throat' cf. also under pi 2412.
- δ568Διάθρυπτεsmash apart! break up! distribute!… LXX ('share your bread with the hungry'). For the verb itself see also delta 569 and delta 585 (gloss). [1] Adler reports, however, that ms T has the gloss 'split up', 'divide' (diame/rize).
- δ1700ΔυστραπελίαintransigenceThe (unglossed) headword itself is unattested in this precise form (dustrapelia) outside lexicography, but for dustrapeleia see e.g. Diodorus Siculus 4.11.6, 5.15.5. For the adjective see also delta 1701.
- β118ΒάρνηBarne… Ambrosian Lexicon. Its gloss, nevertheless, is not only obscure in itself (though cf. beta 111) but, surely, misplaced here. Cadesh Barnea (present-day Ein el Qudeirat, in NE Egypt) is mentioned in several books of …
- δ571Διακεκαυμένονlit-up[Meaning something] having fire within itself. Aristophanes [writes]: "Give me a little basket lit-up with a lamp." -- "What need, wretched man, do you have for this weaving?" -- "No need, but I still …
- δ749Διασήθεινto siftSame entry in Photius, though Theodoridis there obelizes the headword itself as corrupt; diash/qein does exist (see LSJ s.v.), but in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon the lemma which has these three glosses is diagra/fein "to …
- κ2351Κραυγὴ Σοδόμωνcry of Sodom… punishment, saying, 'the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah has propagated itself in my presence'.
- κ2668ΚυλίχνιονpotletThe headword, a diminutive of kuli/xnh (itself a diminutive of kappa 2665), occurs at Aristophanes, Knights 906 (web address 1) and the bulk of the entry is drawn from the scholia thereto.
- ε1618Ἐξέλιπε φυσητήρ ἐξέλιπε μόλιβδοςthe blower gave out (and) the lead gave out… burns together it evaporates and takes up the impurity into itself.
- ε723Ἐκφῦναιto grow out of… e)kgennhqh=nai ('to be born from') as the gloss. The headword itself, an aorist active infinitive, must be quoted from somewhere: Euripides (Phoenician Women 419, Bacchae 27), according to Latte, but there are numerous later …
- α4463Αὐτάγγελοςself-announcing, announcing what one has seen[Meaning] that which delivers announcements from itself. "For the oak herself will tell you, self-announcing"; for it has writings. And elsewhere: "he would have come from the king/emperor as an announcer of these things …