That is, of a diverse and eclectic [one].
*pantoi/as h)/dh mou/shs peiraqe/ntes kaq' e(autou/s: toute/sti poiki/lhs kai\ pantodaph=s.
The headword phrase is a quotation of
Aristophanes,
Knights 505-506 (web address 1: here without the opening
w)=); the glosses (from the
scholia there) seek to explain the word
pantoi/as ('every kind of') that occurs in the quotation. (Both this word and the glosses are genitive singular feminine adjectives.)
On the basic level the noun 'muse' or 'Muse' (
mou/shs) is used metonymically for 'poetry'; however, the aorist passive participle
peiraqe/ntes can mean 'try the patience of' or, with an animate feminine object, even 'assault sexually'; thus there may be a double- or triple-entendre at work.
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