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- α3687Ἀπριάτηνwithout purchase-money… to Homer, Iliad 1.99, where the headword adverb occurs (of returning Chryseis to her father).
- α3243Ἀπνευστίwithout breathing, without stopping for breath… e.g. Demosthenes 18.308 (a)pneustei/), referring to Aeschines stringing words together without a pause (web address 1); also Plato, Symposium 185D; etc.etc. See also alpha 1687, epsilon 1537, kappa 365, mu 1279, sigma 728.
- α2777Ἀνοιμωτίalaslessly, without moaningThe headword adverb literally means without cries of oimoi, the Greek equivalent of "alas" (see omicroniota 101, and cf. omicroniota 102. In the form a)noimwti/ it is attested only here and, according to Adler, …
- α2345Ἄνευ ξύλου μὴ βαδίζωνnot walking without a stick… may not on some occasion be stripped, when drunk, walking without a stick"), with scholion. [2] Something has gone wrong here. At kappa 1723 it is suggested that the "Kleomenes" in question was in …
- α4625Ἀφῖχθαιto have come to, to have returned… deponent verb a)fikne/omai, "come to", also having the sense of "return". See web address 1 below for a link to the LSJ entry.
- α2027Ἀναπόδοτοςnot to be returned… type of "giving" (do/sis), one which requires no gift in return. See LSJ entry for the headword at web address 1.
- α495Ἀδμωλίαuncertainty… 1 below). [2] Some other lexica have the reading doulei/as: "without slavery."
- α870Ἀκηρυκτείunheralded"Without a flag of truce" is the LSJ translation of this adverb, which reflects modern practices. Having no flags (in this context at any rate) the ancients demarcated states of peace and war by …
- α2477Ἀνίπτοις ποσίνwith unwashed feet[1] Similarly ('without any care') in other lexica; references in Photius alpha2007 Theodoridis. [2] See e.g. Lucian, Pseudologista 4. [3] Zenobius 1.95, etc.; Tosi (cited under alpha 378) no.651, with lavish parallels. [4] Homer, …
- δ376Δηθάκιςmostly… or similarly in other lexica. This adverb and its variant without the final sigma were much used by Nicander and Oppian.
- α3313Ἄποθενaway, far from… of Justinian 1.22.9 (web address 1), again at alpha 3664; returning from Byzantion (cf. beta 588) in early 532 CE, Rufinus (cf. PLRE II s.v. Rufinus(13)), envoy from Justinian (iota 446), encounters the Persian …
- α3700Ἀπρόσκοποςunstumbling, offence-free; unseeing, unexploredWithout a gloss it is impossible to determine the sense(s) of the headword, for which see LSJ s.v. A ('not stumbling [cf. under alpha 3706], void of offence, ... free from harm') and B …
- κ2147Κόσμοςcosmos, kosmos; order, ornament, decorum, universe… be to Plotinus, Enneads 3.4.2, where the verb is dendrwqh=nai without the prefix. [3] The phrase 'in Scripture', though placed last, should possibly be understood with 'means four things'. Immediate source (if any) unidentifiable. …
- α910Ἄκμονοςanvil, battering-ram, eagle, pestle, thunderbolt, wolfSame entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. Without a gloss it is impossible to say which of the several meanings of the noun a)/kmwn -- here in the genitive singular, evidently quoted …
- α4637Ἀφόρητονunbearable… be quoted from somewhere -- but instances are numerous, and without a context we cannot say whether it is being used literally or figuratively.
- α4693Ἄχιakhi, achi… where the noun a)/xi "reed-grass" (of Egyptian origin) is used without the article. Alternatively [DW] this headword is a mis-spelling or variant spelling of alpha 867, q.v.
- α1785Ἀμφορεαφόρουςamphora-bearers, amphora-carriers… [1] Menander fr. 431 Kock, 364 K.-Th., 326 K.-A. On "return", apophora, see LSJ s.v. [2] Aristophanes fr. 299 Kock, now 310 K.-A. [3] Eupolis fr. 187 Kock, now 200 K.-A.-- here textually garbled. …
- α1920Ἀνακρουόμεθαwe strike up… also in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. Theodoridis on Photius s.v. notes (without adopting) Reizenstein's attractive suggestion that it should actually be subjunctive a)nakrouw/meqa (Plato, Philebus 13D).
- α4502Αὐτοκράτοραautocrat, fully-empowered… lexica), its accusative singular must be quoted from somewhere, but without a context one cannot tell whether we are in the realm of constitutional law or power-politics. (The glossing term as well as the …
- α911Ἄκνηστιςchine, small (of the back)… 10.161) and Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon. The word is also found without the initial alpha. (Its earliest appearance, in Homer [above], can accommodate either reading: kat' a)/knhstin or kata\ knh=stin.)
- α3516Ἀποσαφοῦντεςmaking clear… Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 132 Zintzen (80 Asmus); again, without the name of Isidore, at epsilon 3779.
- α672ἈΐδηςAides… underworld occurs as Aides (Doric Aidas) and Aidoneus, with or without contraction. (In Attic there is a rough breathing; cf. alpha 467.) [1] The second of these dative forms occurs at Homer, Iliad 5.190.
- α2981Ἀπέδοξενit seemed good not, it was resolved notSame entry in Photius and elsewhere, though there without the intrusive pw=s before the ou)k; the gloss should read 'Meaning: it did not seem good'. The headword must be quoted from somewhere: there are …
- β470Βούτομονsedge, butomus… grows on riverbanks and in marshy areas; but Dunbar 420, without mention of this, equates it with Butomus umbellatus, the sharp-edged leaves of which can indeed "cut oxen" (the literal meaning of boutomos) on …
- γ406ΓοτθοίGothsAdler prints this nominative plural headword without a gloss, while noting that one manuscript (F) has one, 'name of a people'; comparably, she reports, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. For the Goths see generally OCD(4) …
- β323Βλάσφημοςblasphemer… LSJ s.v. [1] Appian, Basilica fr. 7 (preserved only here, without context).
- χ293Χηρωσταίcollateral relatives, distant kinsmen… and divide among themselves the property of one who dies without heirs (xh=ros)'.
- α1324Ἀλοκίζεινto trace a furrow… of wax on it enabled him to indicate, in trials without fixed penalty, whether he favoured the one proposed by the plaintiff (long line) or the defendant (short line). See MacDowell (below) 244 with …
- δ231Δεξιὸν εἰς ὑπόδημα ἀριστερὸν εἰς ποδονίπτρανright (foot) into a sandal (but) left into a foot-bathProverbial -- with this explanation, but without 'Aristophanes' -- in Zenobius 3.36; see generally Tosi [cited under alpha 378] no.1625. A hexameter line, with hiatus between u(po/dhma and a)ristero/n. The 'Aristophanes' in question here …
- α1808Ἀναβλυστωνῆσαιto gush forth… makes no obvious sense. Theodoridis on Photius (Lexicon alpha1414) lists, without adopting, three suggested emendations, one of them pai/zontes.