cf. generally alpha 2756.
[1] Same glossing in other lexica. The headword must be quoted from somewhere. (The only extant instance outside lexicography occurs in Procopius of Gaza's Commentaries on Isaiah: 'the eagle ... faces the flashes of the sun'.)
[2] Quotation unidentifiable.
[3] Quoted from somewhere, probably Oppian, Halieutica 5.7; cf. the scholia there.
[4] Agathias, Histories 1.15. This passage describes the futile battle of the Heruli (cf. epsilon 901, epsilon 3058) military commander, Fulcaris, aligned with the Romans, against a superior contingent of ambushing Franks at Parma (in northern Italy, Barrington Atlas map 39 grid G4) during the Gothic War (535-554) in 553 CE; cf. Frendo (22-23).
[5] Greek Anthology 7.169.1-2 (author unknown), on a statue of a cow on a promontory overlooking the Bosporus (cf. beta 401, beta 402); see Page (371-374) and another extract from this epigram at beta 581. The context of the present excerpt is a Greek folk etymology of 'Bosporus', purporting it to be a portmanteau word from boo\s po/ros, e.g. 'Cow's Strait' or 'Oxford'; cf. Oppian Halieutica 1.617. However, neither the LSJ s.v. *bo/sporos (web address 1) nor, evidently, this epigram's author finds the etymology convincing.