The headword, unglossed, is present participle, masculine nominative singular; evidently quoted from somewhere; cf. under epsilon 4073.
[1] Here the latter. (This opening remark is lacking, Adler reports, in mss FV.)
[2] According to LSJ s.v., Herodian the Grammarian says that e(/yw (accent on the first syllable) is Attic, some forms from e(ye/w are doubtfully attested in Herodotus and Hippocrates, and e(ya/w is late. See also epsilon 4054, epsilon 4059.
[3] This (unidentifiable) quotation illustrates a contracted form of the nominative plural masculine participle. On gold-bearing earth, see alpha 3792 and chi 571.