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- χ325Χθιζοίyesterday's men… or similarly in other lexica. (For the pejorative sense of 'yesterday', see already chi 324.) The headword, a nominative plural, must be quoted from somewhere; probably Job 8:9 LXX. [2] See e.g. Aristophanes, Frogs …
- ε1297Ἕνηold… [the participle] e)/xwn [in the idiom] lhrei=s e)/xwn ['keep on talking nonsense', where 'talking nonsense' alone would suffice]. See generally LSJ s.v. e)/xw, B.III.2.
- η12ἨάριζονI was springing, they were springing… see Georgius Choeroboscus, de spiritibus 199.31: 'h)a/rizon, meaning they were talking about spring.' Here, therefore, is a fourth meaning to add to the three in LSJ.
- ε2766ἘπίχαρμοςEpicharmos, Epicharmus… appears to have argued that a debtor who borrowed money yesterday does not owe it today, since he is already a different man from the borrower; and that the man whom you invited yesterday …
- κ504Καταγλωττίσματαtongued-downs… neuter noun in -ma, from the verb for tonguing or talking down (kappa 503), or using too many rare words. It should therefore be used for concrete things such as plasters put in place …
- α1356Ἀλλ' οὐ λαχοῦσ' ἔπινες ἐν τῷ γράμματιso did you not drink in your letter once you had been allotted it?… with scholion. (The participle laxou=sa is feminine because Chremes is talking to, and about, a woman.)
- δ1370Δοξάσαιto suppose… fr.118). [2] An approximation of Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 911-913 (Jocasta talking to the magistrates of Thebes); it contains not the headword verb but the related noun. [3] Stoic doctrine: an approximation of Diogenes Laertius …
- χ5Χάλαζαhail, hailstorm… Life of Pythagoras (so Adler). [3] Aristophanes, Frogs 852 (Dionysus talking about Aeschylus), with comment from the scholia there. The negative ou)k is not in Aristophanes' text.
- η62Ἡ γλῶττα τῷ κήρυκι τούτων τέμνεταιthe tongue of these is cut for the herald… [Hermes] of these tidings'; that is what really Cario means, talking to Hermes. The scholion mentioned above reports and analyses both senses, but the Suda’s compiler only reports one. [1] Despite this gloss, reflected …
- δ1504Δραπέτης κλῆροςrunaway lot… was simply limp and soggy). Teucer, in Sophocles' play, is talking of the lots that the Greek heroes cast in a helmet at Homer, Iliad 7.175ff. (web address 2), to choose one to fight …
- ε3605ΕὔξενοςEuxenos, Euxenus… of Apollonius of Tyana 1.7 [1] cf. chi 163. On talking birds as pets, see OCD(4) s.v. "pets." [2] cf. mu 479.
- δ1187Διοπετέςheaven-sent… describes the episode as having taken place 'the day before yesterday' (xqe\s kai\ prw/hn).
- δ1214Διότιbecause… do not intervene yet. So "the universal" (katholou) Aristotle is talking about in this physical context is not the general notion or concept (see Posterior Analytics, 1.2; 2.19) but the concrete totality of our …