[1] Likewise in ps.-Zonaras. This is one sense of the headword noted by LSJ s.v. ('II. part of the women's tunic that was fastened on the shoulder by brooches, shoulder-strap'). Note also Hesychius epsilon5583 on the accusative e)pwmi/da (quoted, in Latte's view, from Exodus 25.7 LXX): 'a priest's cloak'. Elsewhere the term is related either literally or figuratively to the root-element 'shoulder'. See also under alpha 2513.
[2] Procopius, Secret History 7.14 (web address 1), on the clothing style favored by adherents of the Byzantine circus guilds (cf. alpha 3460); cf. Kaldellis (33).
[3] From this point on, the entry seems to be a misplaced fragment of material intended for an entry on e)/foros ['overseer'] or e)po/pths ['witness'] or the like; cf. epsilon 2808.
[4] An approximation of Aristophanes, Frogs 745 (web address 2), drawn from the scholia thereto, which are also the source for the rest of this paragraph. Only the part enclosed by the double inverted commas is verbatim.
[5] This part is garbled and elliptical: the text of Aristophanes, beginning ma)ll' e)popteu/ein dokw= ("Nay, rather I seem to be witnessing...") is the enthusiastic response of Hades' slave to the question "are you happy". The scholion attempts to explain the use of the negative "nay rather..." (ma)ll' = mh\ a)lla/) in an affirmative response. In excerpting this, the Suda drops the "nay" (m') from "nay rather...", obscuring the point of the comment.