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Headword:
Ἄβατον
Adler number: alpha,23
Translated headword: inaccessible
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning something] sacred, unapproachable, desolate;[1] also an 'inaccessible' road, [meaning] impassable.
Greek Original:Ἄβατον: ἱερὸν, ἀπρόσιτον, ἔρημον: καὶ ὁδὸς ἄβατος, ἡ ἀπόρευτος.
Notes:
The headword is the neuter singular form of this adjective, which, as a substantive, can be used for the
adyton of a temple or shrine.
[1] Up to this point the entry =
Synagoge alpha5, and
Photius,
Lexicon alpha31 Theodoridis; cf.
Hesychius alpha91 (where Latte confidently asserts that the headword is quoted from
Euripides,
Bacchae 10).
Translated by: Anne Mahoney on 23 August 1998@16:21:29.
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Headword:
Ἀβδέλυκτα
Adler number: alpha,25
Translated headword: unhateful [things]
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] those which do not cause pollution, at which one would not feel disgust or hatred. The word [is] somewhat tragic.[1]
Aeschylus in
Myrmidons [writes]: "indeed, for I love them, they are unhateful to me."[2]
Ἀβδέλυκτα: τὰ μὴ μιαίνοντα, ἃ οὐκ ἄν τις βδελυχθείη καὶ δυσχεράνειε. τραγικωτέρα δὲ ἡ λέξις. Αἰσχύλος Μυρμιδόσι: καὶ μὴν, φιλῶ γὰρ, ἀβδέλυκτ' ἐμοὶ τάδε.
Notes:
The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is neuter plural of this adjective.
cf. generally (by way of opposites)
beta 197,
beta 198,
beta 199,
beta 200,
beta 201, etc.
=
Photius,
Lexicon alpha33 Theodoridis (
Phrynichus,
Praeparatio Sophistica fr. 40), and very similar to
Synagoge (Codex B) alpha12; cf.
Hesychius alpha94.
[1] cf.
tau 659.
[2]
Aeschylus fr. 137 Nauck.
Translated by: Anne Mahoney on 23 August 1998@16:23:12.
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Headword:
Ἀβίωτον
Adler number: alpha,49
Translated headword: unlivable
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning something] bad [and] annoying, painful.[1]
"He found it an unlivable situation if he could not control the city".[2]
Also [sc. attested is the masculine] ἀβίωτος , he who is not alive.[3]
Greek Original:Ἀβίωτον: κακὸν ἀηδὲς, ὀδυνηρόν. ὁ δὲ ἀβιώτως εἶχεν, εἰ μὴ κρατήσοι τῆς πόλεως. καὶ Ἀβίωτος, ὁ μὴ ζῶν.
Notes:
[1] Same material in other lexica; references at
Photius alpha39 Theodoridis. The headword -- shown by the glossing to be neuter nominative/accusative singular rather than masculine accusative singular -- is evidently quoted from somewhere. The possibilities are numerous. (Latte on
Hesychius s.v. confidently asserts
Euripides,
Alcestis 242.)
[2] Quotation unidentifiable -- but perhaps from
Plutarch, who has several instances of the idiom
ἀβιώτως ἔχειν .
[3] For this word see also
alpha 50.
Translated by: Anne Mahoney on 26 August 1998@19:01:02.
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Headword:
Ἀβουλία
Adler number: alpha,63
Translated headword: ill-advisedness
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] unrefinedness, foolishness.[1]
Also stupidity.[2]
Greek Original:Ἀβουλία: ἀπαιδευσία, ἄνοια. καὶ μωρία.
Notes:
[1] Same glossing in the
Synagoge and
Photius (
Lexicon alpha47 Theodoridis); they add
προπέτεια .
[2] Same glossing in
Hesychius alpha171, where Latte claims the headword as quoted from
Euripides,
Medea 882 (accusative case there).
Translated by: Anne Mahoney on 26 August 1998@19:23:23.
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Headword:
Ἀβούλως
Adler number: alpha,64
Translated headword: ill-advisedly
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] unthinkingly, ignorantly.[1]
A line [of verse]: "badly, ill-advisedly, unthinkingly, without reason."[2]
Greek Original:Ἀβούλως: ἀφρόνως, ἀμαθῶς. στίχος: κακῶς, ἀβούλως, ἀφρόνως, ἄνευ λόγου.
Notes:
[1] Same glossing in other lexica (references at
Photius alpha48 Theodoridis); and cf. generally
alpha 60,
alpha 63.
[2] An unidentifiable iambic trimeter, perhaps from tragedy.
Translated by: Anne Mahoney on 26 August 1998@19:24:02.
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Headword:
Ἁβρὰ
βαίνων
Adler number: alpha,70
Translated headword: walking delicately
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning someone] being conceited, being indolent.[1]
"Walking truly delicately, that fellow seemed to be holding his eyebrows up in the air."[2]
Greek Original:Ἁβρὰ βαίνων: θρυπτόμενος, βλακευόμενος. ἐκεῖνος ὄντως ἁβρὰ βαίνων ἐδόκει ἔχων τὰς ὀφρῦς ὑπερηρμένας ἄνω.
Notes:
See generally LSJ s.v.
ἁβρός (web address 1).
[1] The headword phrase has the same or similar glossing in other lexica; references at
Photius alpha49 Theodoridis. It could be extracted from the quotation given, but is more likely to be quoted from
Euripides,
Trojan Women 820. (So Latte on
Hesychius s.v. and more tentatively Theodoridis on
Photius s.v.)
[2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; tragedy
Translated by: Anne Mahoney on 26 August 1998@19:27:05.
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Headword:
Ἁβροσύνη
Adler number: alpha,89
Translated headword: splendor
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] brightness.
Greek Original:Ἁβροσύνη: φαιδρότης.
Notes:
The rare headword noun (also in other lexica, with the same gloss) is a poetic variant of
ἁβρότης ; see LSJ s.v. Though it is attested in
Sappho and elsewhere, its inclusion here seems to have been prompted by its occurrence in
Euripides,
Orestes 349 (so Latte on
Hesychius s.v.); cf. the
scholia there.
cf. generally
alpha 86,
alpha 87,
alpha 88. For the glossing noun see also the gloss at
pi 138.
Translated by: Anne Mahoney on 26 August 1998@19:40:49.
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Headword:
Ἀβρότη
Adler number: alpha,92
Translated headword: divine, holy
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. a term applied to] night.
Because it is deprived [a-] of people [brotoi].[1]
Greek Original:Ἀβρότη: ἡ νύξ. παρὰ τὸ ἐστερῆσθαι βροτῶν.
Notes:
The headword occurs as an adjective describing night in
Homer,
Iliad 14.78 (web address 1). It recurs at
Sophocles fr.269c 20 (of the darkness of death); and it is also a textual variant at (?)
Aeschylus,
Prometheus Bound 2 (applied to 'wilderness').
With the exception of this last instance (and contrary to the present entry), the word is best understood as a doublet for
ἄμβροτος , 'immortal' (
alpha 1540). See LSJ s.v. at web address 2.
[1] Addendum lacking, Adler reports, in mss AS.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; poetry; tragedy
Translated by: Anne Mahoney on 26 August 1998@19:42:56.
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Headword:
Ἁβροχίτων
Adler number: alpha,96
Translated headword: delicate-tunic'd
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning someone] wearing delicate things.
Greek Original:Ἁβροχίτων: τρυφερὰ φορῶν.
Note:
Same entry in other lexica; references at
Photius alpha60 Theodoridis. The headword adjective bears this meaning in e.g.
Greek Anthology 9.538; however, the word is first attested in
Aeschylus,
Persians 543, of beds (accusative plural: web address 1 below).
Web address 1
Keywords: clothing; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; poetry; tragedy
Translated by: Anne Mahoney on 26 August 1998@19:45:35.
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Headword:
Ἁβρύνεται
Adler number: alpha,99
Translated headword: puts on airs
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] adorns oneself, is conceited, is boastful.
Greek Original:Ἁβρύνεται: κοσμεῖται, θρύπτεται, καυχᾶται.
Note:
Same or similar entry in other lexica; references at
Photius alpha61 Theodoridis. This is comment, presumably, on one of the famous appearances of the headword in Attic tragedy:
Aeschylus,
Agamemnon 1205 (web address 1);
Sophocles,
Oedipus at Colonus 1339 (web address 2).
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; tragedy
Translated by: Anne Mahoney on 26 August 1998@19:48:03.
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Headword:
Ἀγάθαρχος
Adler number: alpha,109
Translated headword: Agatharkhos, Agatharchos, Agatharchus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proper name. He was an outstanding painter from nature, the son of Eudemos, of Samian stock.
Greek Original:Ἀγάθαρχος: ὄνομα κύριον. ἦν δὲ ζωγράφος ἐπιφανὴς, Εὐδήμου υἱὸς, τὸ δὲ γένος Σάμιος.
Notes:
After the initial gloss, this entry derives from Harpokration s.v., commenting on
Demosthenes 21.147 (web address 1).
The other primary sources on A. (translated in Pollitt, below) are
Plutarch,
Life of Pericles 13.2 (web address 2);
Plutarch,
Life of Alcibiades 16.4 (web address 3);
Vitruvius,
On Architecture 7, praef. 1l (web address 4).
According to tradition, A. was the first painter to make a theatrical
skene (for
Aeschylus).
OCD(4) s.v. (p.35)
J.J. Pollitt, The Art of Ancient Greece (Cambridge 1990) 145-6 (with 188)
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2,
Web address 3,
Web address 4
Keywords: art history; biography; definition; geography; rhetoric; science and technology; stagecraft; tragedy
Translated by: Elizabeth Vandiver on 1 October 1999@23:24:55.
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Headword:
Ἀγάθων
Adler number: alpha,124
Translated headword: Agathon
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proper name. He was a tragic poet; but he was slandered for effeminacy.
Aristophanes [writes]:[1] "Where is
Agathon?" -- "He's gone and left me." -- "Where on earth is the wretch?" -- "At a banquet of the blessed." This
Agathon was good by nature, "missed by his friends" and brilliant at the dinner table. They say also that the
Symposium of
Plato was set at a dinner party of his, with many philosophers introduced all together. A comic poet [sic] of the school of Socrates. He was lampooned in comedy for womanliness.
Ἀγάθων: ὄνομα κύριον. τραγικὸς δὲ ἦν: διεβέβλητο δὲ ἐπὶ μαλακίᾳ. Ἀριστοφάνης: Ἀγάθων δὲ ποῦ 'στιν; ἀπολιπών μ' οἴχεται. ποῖ γῆς ὁ τλήμων; ἐς μακάρων εὐωχίαν. οὗτος ὁ Ἀγάθων ἀγαθὸς ἦν τὸν τρόπον, ποθεινὸς τοῖς φίλοις καὶ τὴν τράπεζαν λαμπρός. φασὶ δὲ ὅτι καὶ Πλάτωνος Συμπόσιον ἐν ἑστιάσει αὐτοῦ γέγραπται, πολλῶν ἅμα φιλοσόφων παραχθέντων. κωμῳδιοποιὸς Σωκράτους διδασκαλείου. ἐκωμῳδεῖτο δὲ εἰς θηλύτητα.
Notes:
C5 BCE; OCD(4) s.v. (pp.37-7); TrGF 39. See also under
alpha 125.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Frogs 83-85 (web address 1), with scholion; dialogue between Herakles and Dionysos. The phrase "missed by his friends", which the lexicographer uses below, is from the same source.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; ethics; food; gender and sexuality; philosophy; poetry; tragedy; women
Translated by: William Hutton on 1 April 2001@00:48:08.
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Headword:
Ἀγαθώνιος
Adler number: alpha,125
Translated headword: Agathonios, Agathonius
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proper name.[1]
[The man] who was king of Tartessos.[2]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "
Agathon's pipe-playing": the soft and relaxed [kind]; alternatively that which is neither loose nor harsh, but temperate and very sweet.[3]
Ἀγαθώνιος: ὄνομα κύριον. ὃς ἐβασίλευσε τῆς Ταρτησσοῦ. καὶ Ἀγαθώνιος αὔλησις: ἡ μαλακὴ καὶ ἐκλελυμένη: ἢ ἡ μήτε χαλαρὰ, μήτε πικρὰ, ἀλλ' εὔκρατος καὶ ἡδίστη.
Notes:
[1]
Herodotus 1.163 gives it as Arganthonios (text at web address 1). See also
tau 137.
[2] In southern
Spain; probably the Biblical Tarshish. See generally
tau 137 and OCD(4) s.v. (p.1433).
[3]
Zenobius 1.2. On
Agathon (an Athenian poet of the late C5 BC) and his reputation for softness see
alpha 124; and on his aulos music, M.L. West,
Ancient Greek Music (Oxford 1992) 354-5.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; daily life; definition; ethics; geography; historiography; history; imagery; meter and music; proverbs; tragedy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 10 February 2001@09:33:27.
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Headword:
Ἀγακλειτός
Adler number: alpha,127
Translated headword: celebrated, very famous
Vetting Status: high
Translation: He who has an exceedingly fine reputation.[1] And [sc. attested is the feminine] αγακλειτη .[2]
Greek Original:Ἀγακλειτός: ὁ ἄγαν ἔνδοξος. καὶ Ἀγακλειτή.
Notes:
Epic & tragic adjective: LSJ entry at web address 1.
[1] Same glossing, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (130); see also
Hesychius s.v.
ἀγάκλειτοι , and the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 3.59.
[2]
Homer,
Iliad 18.45 (of the Nereid Galateia).
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics; mythology; tragedy
Translated by: William Hutton on 1 April 2001@01:00:32.
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Headword:
Ἀγάλλει
Adler number: alpha,130
Translated headword: glorifies, honours
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] makes, prepares, adorns.
Greek Original:Ἀγάλλει: ποιεῖ, σκευάζει, κοσμεῖ.
Notes:
=
Eudemus 2a.22 and
Synagoge (Codex B) alpha66; a longer one in
Photius,
Lexicon alpha86 Theodoridis, with two further glosses (
τιμᾳ̂ ,
προσεύχεται ).
The headword itself is third person singular, present indicative active, of
ἀγάλλω (cf. under
alpha 131), evidently quoted from somewhere. The possibilities include
Pindar,
Nemeans 5.43, and
Euripides,
Hercules 379.
The verb is used especially of what one does to a deity: see LSJ (web address 1).
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; poetry; religion; tragedy
Translated by: Elizabeth Vandiver on 21 November 1998@17:03:42.
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Headword:
Ἀγάλματα
Adler number: alpha,133
Translated headword: delights, ornaments, statues
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the likenesses of the gods, and anything that is decorative in some way.
Homer [writes]: "but it is stored away as a delight for the king."[1] And Hesiod calls a necklace an "ornament";[2] but
Pindar uses this term for the decoration on a tomb,[3] and
Euripides uses it for the adornments for corpses.[4]
Also something in which someone takes delight.[5]
Also [sc. a term for] image, wooden statue, delight, beauty, ornament, source of pride, palm leaves,[6] [human] statues, [honorific?] inscriptions.
Paintings and [human] statues are also called
agalmata.[7]
agalmation [is] the diminutive form.
Ἀγάλματα: τὰ τῶν θεῶν μιμήματα, καὶ πάντα τὰ κόσμου τινὸς μετέχοντα. Ὅμηρος: βασιλῆϊ δὲ κεῖται ἄγαλμα. καὶ Ἡσίοδος τὸν ὅρμον ἄγαλμα καλεῖ: Πίνδαρος δὲ τὴν ἐπὶ τάφου στήλην οὕτω καλεῖ, Εὐριπίδης τὸν ἐπὶ νεκροῖς κόσμον. καὶ ἐφ' ᾧ τις ἀγάλλεται. καὶ τὸ εἴδωλον, βρέτας, χάρμα, καλλονὴ, κόσμος, καύχημα, θαλλοὶ, ἀνδριάντες, ἐπιγραφαί. Ἀγάλματα δὲ καὶ τὰς γραφὰς καὶ τοὺς ἀνδριάντας λέγουσιν. Ἀγαλμάτιον δὲ ὑποκοριστικῶς.
Notes:
The (neuter) headword is the plural of
alpha 131 (and cf.
alpha 132). It is perhaps, though not necessarily, quoted from somewhere.
[1]
Homer,
Iliad 4.144 (web address 1), on an ivory cheek-piece for a horse.
[2] This fragment of Hesiod (142 Merkelbach-West, 233 Rzach) is not known from any other source. It may pertain to the story of Europa in the
Catalogue of Women.
[3]
Pindar,
Nemean Odes 10.125 (67 Bowra): web address 2.
[4]
Euripides,
Alcestis 613: web address 3.
[5] Already at
alpha 131.
[6] Used as prizes for victors in competition.
[7] Same material in
Photius (Lexicon alpha92 Theodoridis) and elsewhere; cf. Kassel-Austin, PCG II p.365 (on
Antiphanes fr.102).
Web address 1,
Web address 2,
Web address 3
Keywords: art history; athletics; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics; mythology; poetry; religion; trade and manufacture; tragedy
Translated by: William Hutton on 12 January 1999@12:39:04.
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Headword:
Ἄγανον
Adler number: alpha,145
Translated headword: firewood, broken; good, gentle
Vetting Status: high
Translation: With proparoxytone accent[1] [this means] wood that has been cut up.
Or brushwood and [wood that is] ready to be cut up.[2]
But some [sc. define it as wood] which is not chopped.
But with the oxytone[3] it means fine. Or good or kindly, though some [say] immortal. Whence also [comes the term] ἀγανοφροσύνη ["kindly-mindedness"].
Also [sc. attested is the verb] ἀγανοῦμεν ["we will make nice"],[4] meaning we will beautify.
And elsewhere: "however gentle you might pass into the Athenian book of death, you would always have your tresses well-garlanded."[5]
Greek Original:Ἄγανον: προπαροξυτόνως τὸ κατεαγὸς ξύλον. ἢ τὸ φρυγανῶδες καὶ ἕτοιμον πρὸς τὸ κατεαγῆναι. οἱ δὲ τὸ ἀπελέκητον. Ἀγανὸν δὲ ὀξυτόνως καλόν. ἢ ἀγαθὸν ἢ ἱλαρὸν, οἱ δὲ ἀθάνατον. ἔνθεν καὶ ἀγανοφροσύνη. καὶ Ἀγανοῦμεν, ἀντὶ τοῦ κοσμήσομεν. καὶ αὖθις: ὡς ἄν τοι ῥείῃ μὲν ἀγανὸς Ἀτθίδι δέλτῳ κηρὸς, ὑπὸ στεφάνοις δ' αἰὲν ἔχοις πλοκάμους.
Notes:
cf. generally
alpha 146,
alpha 147,
alpha 148,
alpha 149.
[1] i.e.
ἄγανος (here neuter).
[2] Addendum lacking in mss ASM.
[3] i.e.
ἀγανός (again, here neuter).
[4] Attested only here, but cf. the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Peace 398 (where
ἀγαλοῦμεν occurs).
[5]
Greek Anthology 7.36.5 (Erucius), on the tomb of
Sophocles; cf. Gow and Page (252-253),
alpha 1421,
beta 453, and
sigma 569.
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1968)
Keywords: botany; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; poetry; tragedy
Translated by: William Hutton on 28 March 2000@23:57:06.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 9 February 2001@11:07:52.
Jennifer Benedict (tags) on 26 March 2008@01:08:32.
David Whitehead (augmented n.4; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 27 March 2008@08:01:50.
David Whitehead (augmented notes; tweaks) on 23 December 2011@05:41:50.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.5, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keyword) on 25 October 2018@15:42:25.
Headword:
Ἄγγαροι
Adler number: alpha,165
Translated headword: messengers
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] those who carry letters in relays.[1] They are also [called] 'couriers' [
ἀστάνδαι ].[2] The words [are] Persian.
Aeschylus in
Agamemnon [writes]: "beacon sent beacon hither with relaying fire."[3] The word is also used for conveyors of freight and more generally of inanimate objects and slaves. Also [sc. attested is] the [verb]
ἀγγαροφορεῖν in reference to carrying burdens. And [the verb]
ἀγγαρεύεσθαι means what we now speak of as being impressed to carry burdens and labor of that sort.
Menander offers this example in the
Sikyonios: "someone arriving by sea puts in? He is labelled an enemy. And if he has anything nice it's pressed into service [
ἀγγαρεύεται ]."[4]
Ἄγγαροι: οἱ ἐκ διαδοχῆς γραμματοφόροι. οἱ δὲ αὐτοὶ καὶ ἀστάνδαι. τὰ δὲ ὀνόματα Περσικά. Αἰσχύλος Ἀγαμέμνονι: φρυκτὸς δὲ φρυκτὸν δεῦρο ἀπ' ἀγγάρου πυρὸς ἔπεμπε. τίθεται τὸ ὄνομα καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν φορτηγῶν καὶ ὅλως τῶν ἀναισθήτων καὶ ἀνδραποδωδῶν. καὶ τὸ Ἀγγαροφορεῖν ἐπὶ τοῦ φορτία φέρειν. καὶ Ἀγγαρεύεσθαι καλοῦσιν ὥσπερ ἡμεῖς νῦν τὸ εἰς φορτηγίαν καὶ τοιαύτην τινὰ ὑπηρεσίαν ἄγεσθαι. Μένανδρος καὶ τοῦτο ἐν τῷ Σικυωνίῳ παρίστησιν: ὁ πλέων κατήχθη; κρίνεθ' οὗτος πολέμιος. ἐὰν ἔχῃ τὶ μαλακὸν, ἀγγαρεύεται.
Notes:
Same entry in
Photius, similar ones elsewhere.
LSJ entry at web address 1. See also
alpha 162,
alpha 163,
alpha 164.
[1] cf.
Herodotus 3.126 (web address 2) and esp. 8.98 (web address 3).
[2] cf.
alpha 4420. The word appears also at
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 3.122A (3.94 Kaibel);
Eustathius Commentaries on Homer's Odyssey vol. 2 p. 189.6;
Hesychius alpha7814;
Plutarch,
Alexander 18 (bis);
De Alex. fort. virt. 326E; 340C.
[3]
Aeschylus,
Agamemnon 282f. (web address 4), where the mss have
ἀγγέλου , an obvious gloss.
[4]
Menander,
Sikyonios fr.4 Sandbach [= fr 440 Kock].
Web address 1,
Web address 2,
Web address 3,
Web address 4
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs; science and technology; tragedy; zoology
Translated by: Gregory Hays on 23 June 1999@13:13:42.
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Headword:
Ἀγάσματα
Adler number: alpha,170
Translated headword: objects of wonder
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] objects of awe, things at which one would wonder [
ἀγάσαιτο ].
Sophocles uses [the word].
Ἀγάσματα: σεβάσματα, ἃ ἄν τις ἀγάσαιτο. Σοφοκλῆς κέχρηται.
Note:
The headword, a neuter plural, is printed as
Sophocles fr. 971 Radt (885 Nauck edn.2), on the authority of this entry and
Photius p.13, 28 Reitzenstein [now alpha131 Theodoridis] =
Synagoge alpha95. Similar definitions in
Hesychius alpha340 and at
Eustathius Commentaries on Homer's Iliad 3.589.17. It is otherwise unattested.
Translated by: Gregory Hays on 4 June 1999@14:19:45.
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Headword:
Ἀγάστονος
Adler number: alpha,171
Translated headword: much-groaning
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] copiously moaning.
Greek Original:Ἀγάστονος: πολυστένακτος.
Notes:
Same or similar entries in other lexica; references at
Photius alpha128 Theodoridis.
The headword adjective is used of Poseidon's wife Amphitrite (personifying the sea) in
Homer,
Odyssey 12.97 (web address 1), and in the
Homeric Hymn (3) to Apollo 94 (web address 2); it is also attested in a general sense at
Aeschylus,
Seven against Thebes 99 (web address 3).
Web address 1,
Web address 2,
Web address 3
Keywords: definition; epic; imagery; mythology; poetry; tragedy
Translated by: Gregory Hays on 4 June 1999@14:50:49.
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Headword:
Ἀγαστός
Adler number: alpha,173
Translated headword: admirable
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] wondrous.
Greek Original:Ἀγαστός: θαυμαστός.
Notes:
Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at
Photius alpha129 Theodoridis. (Latte on
Hesychius s.v. claims the headword as quoted from
Euripides,
Hecuba 169, but there are alternatives in
Plato and elsewhere.)
See further under
alpha 174.
Translated by: Gregory Hays on 4 June 1999@14:48:46.
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Headword:
Ἀγηλατεῖν
Adler number: alpha,214
Translated headword: to drive out, to drive out a curse
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to pursue, to drive into exile,[1] to set upon.
Herodotus [sc. uses it in the sense of] to do violence.[2]
Ἀγηλατεῖν: διώκειν, φυγαδεύειν, ἐπιτάττειν. Ἡρόδοτος, ὑβρίζειν.
Notes:
[1] The first two of these glossing infinitives are paralleled in
Photius, Lexicon alpha162 Theodoridis, where the participle
ἀγηλατῶν (said to be extracted from the tragic poet
Nicomachus) is glossed with
διώκων and
φυγαδεύων .
[2] A very loose interpretation of the single use of this verb by
Herodotus (5.72.1: see web address 1 below for Greek text), from the ancient glosses on that passage; "drive out" would be better there, as elsewhere. See further under the next entry,
alpha 215.
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; religion; tragedy
Translated by: William Hutton on 22 October 2000@22:04:55.
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Headword:
Ἀγηλατεῖν
Adler number: alpha,215
Translated headword: to banish as accursed
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to drive out as a curse and accursed people.[1]
If [the breathing is] rough, [it means] to drive out curses; but if smooth, it means to drive away. "You seem to me to be in sad shape, you and the one who arranged to drive out these things".[2]
And
Herodotus [writes]: "he arrived with a large force and drove out seven hundred Athenian families as accursed."[3]
Ἀγηλατεῖν: ὡς ἄγος καὶ ἐναγεῖς τινας ἐλαύνειν. ἐὰν μὲν δασέως, τὸ τὰ ἄγη ἀπελαύνειν: ἐὰν δὲ ψιλῶς, ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀπελάσειν. κλαίων δοκεῖς μοι καὶ σὺ χ'ὡ συνθεὶς τάδε ἀγηλατήσειν. καὶ Ἡρόδοτος: ὁ δὲ σὺν μεγάλῃ χειρὶ ἀπικόμενος ἀγηλατέει ἑπτακόσια ἐπίστια Ἀθηναίων.
Notes:
On this verb see already
alpha 214.
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica; references at
Photius alpha161 Theodoridis.
[2]
Sophocles,
Oedipus Tyrannus 401-2, with scholion.
[3]
Herodotus 5.72.1 (web address 1 below) on king Cleomenes of
Sparta in 510 BCE.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; historiography; history; religion; tragedy
Translated by: William Hutton on 22 October 2000@22:19:26.
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Headword:
Ἀγηλατοί
Adler number: alpha,216
Translated headword: curse-expelling
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [A term applicable to] thunderbolts.[1]
But ἀγηλατοῖ [is] a verb,[2] [meaning he/she/it] leads, thunderbolts[3] or pursues.
Greek Original:Ἀγηλατοί: οἱ κεραυνοί. Ἀγηλατοῖ δὲ ῥῆμα, ἄγει, κεραυνοὶ ἢ διώκει.
Notes:
[1] The headword is masculine/feminine nominative plural of this adjective, presumably quoted from somewhere. For the sense, LSJ s.v. cite the phrase
ἀγηλάτῳ μάστιγι (i.e. a purifying lightning-strike) in
Lycophron,
Alexandra 436.
[2] And differently accented, as if from a contracted verb
ἀγηλατοῦν ; but LSJ has only
ἀγηλατεῖν .
[3] Textual corruption here: a (plural) noun amidst (singular) verbs. Perhaps it has been carelessly repeated from the first part of the entry.
Translated by: William Hutton on 22 October 2000@22:22:14.
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Headword:
Ἀγῆλαι
Adler number: alpha,217
Translated headword: to celebrate, to glorify
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to honor a god with celebrations. Thus
Eupolis in
Demes [writes]: "now we too should dedicate to these the twin woolly wreaths[1] and approach in celebration. Hail everyone, we welcome [you]!"[2]
Aristophanes in
Peace [writes]: "and with holy sacrifices and grand processions we all, on our own, glorify you, mistress, always".[3]
Hermippus in
Breadsellers [writes]: "come now, glorify the same gods I do and burn the incense, now that your son has been saved".[4]
Ἀγῆλαι: τιμῆσαι θεὸν ἀγλαί̈αις. οὕτως Εὔπολις Δήμοις: ἀναθῶμεν νῦν χἡμεῖς τούτοις τὰς διττὰς εἰρεσιώνας καὶ προσαγήλωμεν ἐπελθόντες. χαίρετε πάντες, δεχόμεσθα. Ἀριστοφάνης Εἰρήνῃ: καί σε θυσίαισιν ἱεραῖσι προσόδοις τε μεγάλαις ἰδίᾳ πάντες, ὦ πότνι', ἀγαλοῦμεν ἡμεῖς ἀεί. Ἕρμιππος Ἀρτοπώλισι: φέρε νῦν ἀγήλω τοὺς θεοὺς οἵους ἐγὼ καὶ θυμιάσω τοῦ τέκνου σεσωσμένου.
Notes:
Same or similar material in other lexica; references at
Photius alpha163 Theodoridis (and see also alpha164). The headword is the aorist infinitive of the verb
ἀγάλλω , probably quoted from
Euripides,
Medea 1027; cf. the
scholia there.
See also
alpha 218.
[1] On the role of woolly wreathes in ancient ritual see LSJ (web address 1) and
epsiloniota 184,
pi 1304,
delta 589. A Homeric "epigram" is also called
εἰρεσιώνη and designed to accompany the procession (
omicron 251 [note 35]).
[2]
Eupolis fr. 119 Kock, now 131 K.-A. (using, in fact, a compound of the headword verb).
[3] An approximation of
Aristophanes,
Peace 396-398.
[4]
Hermippus fr. 8 Kock (and K.-A.).
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; poetry; religion; tragedy; zoology
Translated by: William Hutton on 22 October 2000@22:35:49.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (added notes; cosmetics) on 18 January 2001@05:57:23.
Robert Dyer (Added new note 1 and Web address. Minor spelling chnge.) on 23 January 2002@15:54:18.
Tony Natoli (Corrected link to LSJ) on 4 November 2006@20:28:46.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 5 November 2006@04:19:34.
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 3 January 2012@08:47:48.
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