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military affairs57
medicine54

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geography48
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gender and sexuality

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κ1786Κληρωτήριαallotment-machines… (dialogue between Blepyros and Praxagora), with explanatory comments paralleled in the scholia there. The passage describes a system for allocating jurors to Athenian courts, operative in the early fourth century (after bribery scandals at …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2299ΚωρυκαῖοςKorykaian, man from KorykosSame entry in Photius (Lexicon kappa1330 Theodoridis), deriving from Pausanias the Atticist (kappa60), and similarly elsewhere, including Hesychius kappa4882 (more succinct); see Theodoridis' references, and further below. For Korykos see Barrington Atlas map 65 …Matched in noteshighmedium

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Κληρωτήρια

allotment-machines

[Meaning] allotment authorities, allotment-urns. Aristophanes [writes]: "and what will you use the allotment-machines for?" -- "I'll take (an urn) down into the agora, and then standing by [sc. the statue of] Harmodius,…

Κληρωτήρια· αἱ κληρωτικαὶ ἀρχαί, αἱ κληρώτριδες. Ἀριστοφάνης· τὰ δὲ κληρωτήρια ποῖ τρέψεις; εἰς τὴν ἀγορὰν καταθήσω [κληρώτριδα]· κᾆτα στήσασα παρ' Ἁρμοδίῳ κληρώσω πάντας, ἕως ἂν…

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science and technology25

science and technology25

meter and music8

meter and music8

κ1429Κεστρᾶν τεμάχηmullets' slices

[1] Aristophanes, Clouds 339. The phrase includes the Doric genitive plural of ke/stra. The word ke/stra is also glossed in Hesychius kappa2382: "a defensive weapon; a hammer; and a kind of fish". Photius, Lexicon …

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κ867Κατάχει τοὔλαιον ἐν τῷ χαλκείῳpour the oil in the shield[1] Aristophanes, Acharnians 1128, with comment from the scholia there (see n. 3 below). The passage continues "I see [in the shield the image of] an old man who will be prosecuted for cowardice". …Matched in noteshighmedium

κ2279Κωνοφόροιpinecone-bearingThe headword, evidently quoted from somewhere (perhaps from the quotation below, but attested elsewhere only in Theophrastus, e.g. Enquiry into Plants 2.2.2, 3.9.4, and On the Causes of Plants 1.9.2), is nominative plural of …Matched in noteshighshort

λ157Λαφύξαςhaving gulped down[1] Likewise in other lexica, beginning with Hesychius lambda439; see the references at Photius lambda122 Theodoridis. The headword -- aorist participle, masculine nominative singular, of the verb lafu/ssw (cf. generally lambda 156, lambda 159) …Matched in noteshighshort

κ2116Κορυβαντιᾷcelebrates the Korybant rites, is in a frenzyOn the Korybantes see already kappa 2114, kappa 2115. The Phrygian ecstatic dances were used to refer to frenzy in general. [1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica; see the references at Photius kappa985 …Matched in noteshighshort

λ367Λεῖξαιlixae, camp-followers, sutlersThe headword lei=cai, otherwise unparalleled in Greek writers, is a straight transliteration of the Latin lixae. See generally Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary s.v., with references. [1] As the following excerpt outlines, the …Matched in noteshighmedium

μ157Μανόνloose, open-textured, rare, sparseThe headword, again mu 158, is neuter nominative/accusative singular of the adjective mano/s. (See also nu 44.) [1] Aristotle, Physics 216B and 217A, mentions that fire (pu=r) is mano/n, as do the attendant commentaries. …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1937Κολετρῶσιthey trample on[1] From the scholiast to Aristophanes Clouds 552 (cf. next note): "our forebears called 'striking the colon' koletrw=sin". [2] Aristophanes, Clouds 552 (on Hyperbolos: upsilon 245). [3] From the scholiast, and Hesychius kappa3328; Hesychius …Matched in noteshighshort

λ648Λογισμόςcalculation, account… 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. Kaldellis (23). See on this …Matched in noteshighmedium

κ2025Κομψόνelegant, subtle, pleasant… of this adjective, with same or similar glossing elsewhere (see the references at Photius, Lexicon kappa926 Theodoridis). These senses cluster around "elegant" as applied to rhetoric. [2] Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 3.8.1; cf. de Boor …Matched in noteshighmedium

κ1214Κέαταιthey lie, they lie downThe epic third person plural of kei=mai (perfect with present sense) is glossed with its Attic counterpart. Same entry already in Hesychius (kappa1958) and in a scholion on Homer, Iliad 11.659, where the headword …Matched in noteshighshort

κ2055Κοππατίαςkoppa-brandedFrom the scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 23, where the headword occurs in the accusative singular. (Accusative plural in line 438, on which see n. 5 below; and for fr. 42 see n. 6 below.) …Matched in noteshighmedium

κ1432Κεστρεῖςmullets[1] The "fasting mullet" (nh=stis kestreu/s) was so called because its stomach was always found empty (LSJ s.v. nh=stis II.2). The phrase is commonplace in comedy as a metaphor for starvelings: Alexis fr. 256 …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1347Κέπφοςstormy petrelLSJ considers this to be "perhaps" the stormy petrel, Thalassidroma pelagica. See also kappa 1348. [1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica (see the references at Photius kappa575 Theodoridis); ultimately from Aelius Dionysius, Attika …Matched in noteshighshort

λ447Λήμηblear, rheum, sleep-crust… Likewise or similarly in other lexica (and various scholia): see the references at Photius lambda268 Theodoridis. [2] Folk etymology appearing also in the Etymologicum Gudianum. [3] The passage is taken from the scholia to …Matched in noteshighmedium

κ1889ΚνυζῶI whimper… Herodian, De prosodia catholica p. 444-445 Lentz (citing Philoxenus fr.120 Theodoridis) "knuzw= is of both the first and the second conjugation [i.e. both regular and contracted]; its future is knuzh/sw, hence knuzhqmo/s like mukhqmo/s …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1301Κέληςdinghy, yacht[1] Aristophanes, Lysistrata 60 (but read o)/rqriai, "at dawn", for the Suda's "standing up"). [2] Of the two senses of ke/lhs, the "horse" meaning is prior, and kappa 1303, discussing the diminutive kelh/tion, admits …Matched in noteshighmedium

κ2017Κομπίναhorse-team, team of horses… lacking in mss FV; she indicates it as an interpolation. The unglossed headword comes from late Latin: cf. combino "I unite, I combine, I yoke together", and combinatio "joining two by two". According to …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1557Κῆυξtern, sea-swallow; Keux, Ceyx… variant of kh/c, which it defines as "a sea-bird, perh. the tern or sea-swallow". The particular form is post-classical, used in ps.-Apollodorus 1.52, Dionysius, Ixeuticon 2.18, Babrius 2.115, Philostratus the Elder 2.17.11, ps.-Lucian, Ocypus …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1870Κνηστιῶντες τὰς ἀκοάςwanting to scratch their hearing, having itchy earsThe verb knhstia/w is a variant of the desiderative knhsia/w (cf. kappa 1868), "I want to scratch". The metaphorical use given here, as "having itchy ears", must come (as Adler's note implies) from Julian, …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1995Κομήσῃςyou would grow your hair longThe headword is aorist subjunctive of koma/w, second person singular, from the first quotation given. For this verb, see also kappa 1980. [1] Aristophanes, Plutus [Wealth] 572 (web address 1); in context the phrase …Matched in noteshighmedium

κ1172Καινοπρεπέςnew-fangled, novelThe headword, neuter singular of this adjective, is presumably extracted from the quotation. [1] A tantalizing (late) quotation, from an unknown source and concerning an unidentifiable individual and context. Nor is it self-evident how …Matched in noteshighshort

κ2318Κράμβηcabbage[1] Folk etymology from the scholia to Aristophanes, Knights 539 (see below, at n.5); also in the Etymologicum Gudianum and Etymologicum Magnum; kora/mbh and kora/mblh are made up from ko/rh "pupil" and a)mblu/nw "make …Matched in noteshighmedium

κ2320Κραναῶνof the rugged ones, of the Kranaoi[1] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Birds 123, where the genitive plural headword appears (city of the rugged ones); cf. n.3 below. "Rugged" was used to refer to several cities, including Ithaca (in Homer) …Matched in noteshighshort

μ107Μαλθακόνgentle, soft, feeble, weak, luxuriant[1] Same or similar entry in other lexica: see the references at Photius mu68 Theodoridis. The headword (which must be quoted from somewhere) is either masculine accusative singular or neuter nominative/accusative singular of the …Matched in noteshighshort

κ2207Κόψιχοςblackbird, kopsychos… See also under kappa 1528, pi 3027, sigma 545. [2] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Birds 1081 (web address 2), explaining Aristophanes' phrase "he sticks their own feathers into the nostrils of blackbirds".Matched in noteshighshort

κ1518Κημὸν καταμηλῶνprobing down with a funnel[1] Aristophanes, Knights 1150. The noun khmo/s is properly a muzzle (kappa 1519), but here it refers to the funnel-shaped mouth of a voting urn: see kappa 1520 and LSJ s.v. II.2. [2] From …Matched in noteshighshort

κ2319Κραμβοτάτουloudest, quite loud, very loud[1] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Knights 539; see already under kappa 2318. Crates (kappa 2339) is the subject of the verse involved: "kneading most ingenious notions from a krambotaton mouth". See further, next …Matched in noteshighshort

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