The origin of her name is believed by some like Robert S. P. Beekes to be Pre-Greek and related to pēnelops ( πηνέλοψ ) or * pēnelōps (* πηνέλωψ ), glossed by Hesychius as " some kind of bird " ( today arbitrarily identified with the Eurasian Wigeon, to which Linnaeus gave the binomial Anas penelope ), where-elōps (- έλωψ ) is a common pre-Greek suffix for predatory animals ;< ref > Zeno. org lemma relating πηνέλωψ ( gen. πηνέλοπος ) and < χην ( ά ) λοπες >· ὄρνεα ( predators ) ποιά.

Bruce Karl Braswell from readings in the lexicon of Hesychius, associates the appearance of the Moirai at the family hearth on the seventh day with the ancient Greek custom of waiting seven days after birth to decide whether to accept the infant into the Gens and to give it a name, cemented with a ritual at the hearth.

Karl Kerenyi ( and Robert Graves ) theorizes that Ariadne ( whose name they derive from Hesychius ' listing of Άδνον, a Cretan-Greek form for arihagne, " utterly pure ") was a Great Goddess of Crete, " the first divine personage of Greek mythology to be immediately recognized in Crete ", once archaeology had begun.

: Zalmoxis gave his name to a particular type of singing and dancing ( Hesychius ).

Other writers do not mention this nymph, but Hesychius mentions " Abarbareai " or " Abarbalaiai " as the name of a class of nymphs.

Hesychius says he was a son of Apollo, while Hyginus consistently calls him a son of Paphos ( presumably the eponym of Paphos ), and a scholiast on Pindar makes him a son of Eurymedon and the nymph Paphia.

Hesychius calls him a son of Apollo, and Ovid makes him the father of Adonis.

It may be derived from an Iranian ethnonym * ha-mazan -, " warriors ", a word attested as a denominal verb ( formed with the Indo-Iranian root kar-" make " also in kar-ma ) in Hesychius of Alexandria's gloss (" hamazakaran: ' to make war ' ( Persian )").

Other " sons of Hephaestus " were the Cabeiri on the island of Samothrace, who were identified with the crab ( karkinos ) by the lexicographer Hesychius.

Mnaseas of Patrae identified him with Cronos ( Hesychius also has ).

Photius praises the style of Hesychius, and credits him with being a veracious historian.

In 1664 he published at London an edition of the Lives of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius that contains an unedited anonymous life of Aristotle ; this life was known as ' Vita Menagiana ' before the critical edition by Ingemar Düring, Aristotle in the ancient biographical tradition Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell 1957 ; reprinted New York, Garland, 1987, pp. 80 – 93 ) with the title ' Vita Hesychii ' ( the attribution to Hesychius of Miletus is controversial ).

For well over a century scholars such as the Grimm brothers have made a connection with continental Celtic pen or ben, " head, summit, chief " on an analogy with the Zeus karaios of Hesychius.

Hesychius of Jerusalem attacked him around 435 in his Ecclesiastical History ; Rabbula, bishop of Edessa, who at Ephesus had sided with John of Antioch, now publicly anathematized Theodore ( Ibas, Ep.

Similarly hilasterion etymologically means thing for propitiation, with Hesychius writing that a synonym of hilasterion was thing for catharsis, while the Vulgate translates it as propitiatorium.

Many of the Aldine classics were published under Musurus ' supervision, and he is credited with the first editions of the scholia of Aristophanes ( 1498 ), Athenaeus ( 1514 ), Hesychius of Alexandria ( 1514 ) and Pausanias ( 1516 ).

Attic dēmiourgos " public worker for the people ( dēmos ), craftsman, creator "; Hesychius " prostitutes ".

In a prefatory letter Hesychius mentions that his lexicon is based on that of Diogenianus ( itself extracted from an earlier work by Pamphilus ), but that he has also used similar works by the grammarian Aristarchus of Samothrace, Apion, Heliodorus, Amerias and others.

Hesychius of Alexandria ( 5th century Byzantine lexicon ) gives a list of the following locations proposed by ancient authors as the site of Mount Nysa: Arabia, Ethiopia, Egypt, Babylon, Erythraian Sea ( the Red Sea ), Thrace, Thessaly, Cilicia, India, Libya, Lydia, Macedonia, Naxos, around Pangaios ( mythical island south of Arabia ), Syria.

Christian writers after Eusebius are probably reliant on him, but include Pseudo-Justinus ( 3rd – 5th century ), Hesychius of Alexandria ( 5th century ), Agathias ( 536 – 582 ), Moses of Chorene ( 8th century ), an unknown geographer of unknown date, and the Suda ( Byzantine dictionary from the 10th century ).

PGmc * wenđanan comes from Proto-Indo-European *- ‘ to wind, twist ’, which also gave Umbrian preuenda ‘ turn !’ ( imperative ), Tocharian A / B wänt / wänträ ‘ covers, envelops ’, Greek ( Hesychius ) áthras ‘ wagon ’, Armenian gind ‘ ring ’, and Sanskrit vandhúra ‘ carriage framework ’.

* Hesychius of Cazorla ( first century ), Spanish Christian missionary, bishop, martyr and saint

* Hesychius of Antioch ( fourth century ), Antioch saint

* Hesychius of Alexandria ( probably fifth century ), Alexandrian lexicographer

* Hesychius of Jerusalem ( probably fifth century ), Jerusalem Christian presbyter and exegete

* Hesychius of Miletus ( sixth century ), Greek chronicler and biographer

* Comic phraseology (), of which Hesychius made much use

* Alastor was an epithet of the Greek god Zeus, according to Hesychius of Alexandria and the Etymologicum Magnum, which described him as the avenger of evil deeds, specifically, familial bloodshed.

It is disputed, however, whether the words in the Suda (" of which this book is an epitome ") mean that Sudas compiler himself epitomized the work of Hesychius, or whether they are part of the title of an already epitomized Hesychius used in the compilation of the Suda.

It formed the basis of the lexicon, or rather glossary, of Hesychius of Alexandria, which is described in the preface as a new edition of the work of Diogenianus.

The authors on which his time was mainly spent were the tragedians, Aristophanes, Athenaeus, and the lexicons of Suidas, Hesychius and Photius.

In the portion relating to the history of the text he holds it to have been current up to the middle of the 3rd century only in a common edition, of which recensions were afterwards made by Hesychius, an Egyptian bishop, by Lucian of Antioch, and by Origen ).

From the works of Hesychius, it is clear that the word Seira among other interpretations signified Melitta, a bee ; also a hive, or house of Melitta, " uch is the sense of it in this passage: and was thus represented in ancient mythology, as being the receptacle, from whence issued that swarm, by which the world was peopled .".

The related abstract noun – banausia is defined by Hesychius as " every craft () by means of fire ", reflecting the folk etymology of the word as coming from ( baunos ) " furnace " and ( auō ) " to dry ".

The Orya, literally means " The pork ", in a Greek comedy written by Epic in 500 B. C, mentioned by Hesychius.

A possible etymology is a derivation from the Greek word – aiges = " waves " ( Hesychius of Alexandria ; metaphorical use of ( aix ) " goat "), hence " wavy sea ", cf.

Hesychius of Alexandria glosses the Galatian word karnon ( κάρνον ) as " Gallic trumpet ", that is, the Celtic military horn listed as the carnyx ( κάρνυξ ) by Eustathius of Thessalonica, who notes the instrument's animal-shaped bell.

The orthodox at Antioch, it seems, resented the loss of the traditional Messianic interpretation, and, if we may trust Hesychius of Jerusalem, Theodore was compelled to promise that he would commit his maiden work to the flames — a promise he contrived to evade ( Mansi, ix. 284 ).

Io may therefore be identical to Callithyia, daughter of Peiranthus, as is suggested by Hesychius of Alexandria.

Azorus was the helmsman of Argo according to Hesychius of Alexandria ; he could be the same as the Azorus mentioned by Stephanus as founder of the city Azorus in Pelagonia.

Hesychius ' explanations of many epithets and phrases also reveal many important facts about the religion and social life of the ancients.