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α3993ἈρωγήassistanceSame material (apart from the final 'useful') in two consecutive entries in Hesychius. [1] From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 4.408, where this feminine noun occurs (dative case). [2] From the scholia to Homer, …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1800Κλίβανοςoven… a woman in that they take in things that are useful for life. And the fire within them is divined as the woman being pregnant; for the woman then becomes hotter." [2] Grammatically, 'they' …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2319Κραμβοτάτουloudest, quite loud, very loud… mouth". See further, next note. [2] "Air-dried" is from Hesychius; "useful" is from the scholia, which still explain this as a pun from "cabbage", and is unlikely to display deep understanding of the text. …Matched in noteshighshort
χ1ΧαβρίαςKhabrias,Chabrias… defence of Boeotia in 378, during which he invented a useful method of defence against hoplites, the decisive naval victory over Sparta near Naxos in 376, and the extension of the Second Athenian Confederacy" …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1665Κιρρόνorange, orange-colored… to Galen, this kind of wine has a warming quality, useful for those who are chilled but harmful to those with fevers.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1621Δυσερμίαςof ill-luck… fortune is called eu)ermi/a, because Hermes is invoked for many useful things"); cf. epsilon 3442.Matched in noteshighshort
κ517Κατὰ δάκτυλονby a dactyl… occurs: Socrates tells Strepsiades that this is one of the useful skills he will learn in the musical part of the Thinkery's curriculum. See text at web address 1. [1] In the sense -- …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1618Κιμωλίαcimolite, Cimolian earth… high level absorptive power. These factors make the compound very useful as a detergent or soap and was often used as such through much of antiquity. [Note courtesy Carl Widstrand.] See Encyclopedia Brittanica entry …Matched in noteshighshort
δ843Διὰ χρόνουafter a time… several Greek authors in the medical field for its many useful qualities. In Hippocrates, first it is considered useful in gynaecologic aspects, but in De diaeta 54.36 he adds: *glh/xwn qermai/nei kai\ diaxwre/ei, “pennyroyal …Matched in noteshighmedium
α3049Ἀπεροῦνταseeking to avert… the Roman frontier, on the grounds that they might be useful future allies against the Goths; cf. Kaldellis (96). [3] Aristophanes, Lysistrata 164-5 (web address 3), with comment from the scholia there.Matched in noteshighshort
κ47Καθεκάστην Καθέκασταevery single… after another", ad Od. 22.444 ta\ k. xrh/sima "the things useful for every purpose". A few other hints about the usage of the cognate adjective kaqe/kastos, -h, -on appear in later Aristotelian commentators: cf. …Matched in noteshighshort
ε45Ἐγγαστρίμυθοςventriloquist… 252C. [4] Aristophanes, Wasps 1019. MacDowell (see Bibliography) has a useful note there (p.264). [5] Philochorus FGrH 328 F78. [6] For this episode see I Samuel 28 LXX. The present entry's allusion to it …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1062ΔικαίαρχοςDikaiarkhos, Dicaearchus… to instruments) is Theon of Smyrna, On the Mathematical Knowledge Useful for Reading Plato, 3.3. [5] This 'Life of Greece' was a history of world culture. [6] Dicaearchus 2 Mirhady.Matched in noteshighshort
α3745ἌρατοςAratus, Aratos… of the Phaenomena. [16] "Composition of Drugs" SH 98. [17] "Useful Things for Animals"? SH 94. The Suda is the only source for this work. Maass 248 read su/nqesin farma/kwn qhria/kwn e)pithdei/an "Useful Recipes …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε1469Ἐντευξόμενοςabout to meet, about to run into… as if I had hit a target. See A.W. Gomme's useful note on the meaning of e)/tuxe in his Historical Commentary on Thucydides, vol. 3, pp. 488-89.Matched in noteshighshort
α212Ἄγηawe, curse, charm; breaking… der homerischen Sprache §3d, p.4). See H.-J. Mette's brief but useful entry in Lexikon des frühgriechischen Epos I (fasc. 1, 1955) 62-63. It is, however, declined in later Greek as a first declension noun. …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2594ΚυβήβηKubebe, Kybebe, Cybebe, Cybele, Great Mother… sacred black stone (perhaps cubic, cf. the outdated but still useful attempt of R. Eisler to link these words with a pre-Semitic root surviving in the sacred Ka'aba at Mecca: Philologus 68, 1909, 118-151,169-204) …Matched in noteshighshort
γ456Γριπεύςfisherman, net-man… you, Eriounios, these gifts." This epithet for Hermes, translated "very useful" in antiquity, seems to refer to Hermes' role as an underworld god, guiding the dead (see epsilon 2998), and is thus appropriate to …Matched in noteshighshort
γ457Γρῖφοςriddle, conundrum… for a prize of forfeit." Athenaeus, in his lengthy and useful discussion of riddles at dinners and symposia (10.69-89 Kaibel = 448B-459C, cf. Epitome, ed. S.P. Peppink, 2.2.44-52), attributes this definition to Clearchus of …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3864Ἐφέσια γράμματαEphesian letters… full dossier of the primary sources. His article is very useful even if one dissents from the specific views its author holds and argues for, such as the Orphic origin/character of the grammata (and …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1284Κελαινεφέςof the black clouds; black… in Homer probably derives from different sources but becomes a useful tool in the poet’s craft. The word is used after Homer primarily in the Hesiodic Shield and the Homeric Hymns, often in the …Matched in noteshighshort
αι246Αἰόλλειturns, variegates… such as Porphyrius (on Odyssey 20.27ff., cf. his long and useful discussion at Zetemata cod. Vat. 284col.1-286col.1.9) and Eustathius (his scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 729ff.) were perhaps overly impressed by the similarity of this …Matched in noteshighshort
α2827Ἀξίωμαproposition… a comprehensive discussion of the Stoic axioma see the still useful remarks by Kneale & Kneale (1962) 144-15, and more recently Frede (1994).Matched in noteshighmedium
χ296Χιάζεινto play the Chian… different type of music. [2] West (see Bibliography) makes a useful distinction between modern chromatism (196ff.), the insertion of exharmonic semitones and other intervals as colors extraneous to the key or scale in which …Matched in noteshighshort

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