Etymologicum Magnum (Ancient Greek: Ἐτυμολογικὸν Μέγα, Ἐtymologikὸn Méga) (standard abbreviation EM, or Etym. M. in older literature) is the traditional...
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Terpsichore was the mother of the Sirens by the river god Achelous. The Etymologicum Magnum mentions her as the mother of the Thracian king Biston by Ares. According...
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tradition, including the Etymologicum Magnum, Etymologicum Gudianum and Etymologicum Symeonis. Modern scholarship discovered the Etymologicum Genuinum only in...
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translates to 'she who conceals'. According to the medieval dictionary Etymologicum Magnum, her name means 'concealing the knowledge' (from Greek: καλύπτουσα...
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Proclus, Commentary on Plato's Timaeus 31 a (I 433, 31 Diehl)], 75 [= Etymologicum Magnum p. 787.29, 76 [= Hermias, Commentary on Plato's Phaedrus 246e], 79...
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Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.59; Brill's New Pauly, s.v. Anteros. Etymologicum Magnum, 179.59 (p. 179). Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Bistonia (pp. 352...
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pp. 152–153; Linforth, p. 310; Etymologicum Genuinum s.v. Ζαγρεύς (Harder 2020a, p. 190 on line 34); Etymologicum Magnum s.v. Zagreus; Hesychius s.v. Ζαγρεύς;...
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(Lidell and Scott 1940). Cf. Etymologicum Genuinum s.v. Αἰθίοψ, Etymologicum Gudianum s.v. Αἰθίοψ. "Αἰθίοψ". Etymologicum Magnum (in Greek). Leipzig. 1818...
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Apru (from Greek Aphrō, clipped form of Aphrodite). The medieval Etymologicum Magnum (c. 1150) offers a highly contrived etymology, deriving Aphrodite...
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the Greek God Zeus, according to Hesychius of Alexandria and the Etymologicum Magnum, which described him as the avenger of evil deeds, specifically familial...
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