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- μ231ΜαρτῖνοςMartinos, Martinus, Martin… Catholic Encyclopedia entry at web address 1. [2] Instances in Cassius Dio and elsewhere.
- μ72Μακρὰ χαίρειν[to say] a long goodbye, to dismiss… Theodoridis. The expression is attested in Plutarch, Galen, Lucian, Athenaeus, Cassius Dio, Aelian, and Christian writers.
- κ1914ΚοκκιανόςKokkianos, Cocceianus… delta 1239 the Suda gives this cognomen to the historian Cassius Dio, but this seems to be Byzantine confusion -- persisting into modern times -- between the two homonyms.
- ε2099Ἐπευωνίζωνlowering a price… there are several other possibilities (in e.g. Plutarch, Philo Judaeus, Cassius Dio). The gloss assumes a (common-sense) principle that lowering the price increases sales volume.
- κ647ΚαταμέμφομαιI blame… with the name Eumenes as a gloss there). Adler prefers Cassius Dio or Diodorus. (The latter has an instance of the idiom polla\ memya/menoi: 24.12.3.)
- δ1588Δυσαλθέςhard to cure… frequent thereafter; first in medical literature (Philumenus Medicus, Galen, Aretaeus, Cassius Iatrosophus) and later, in the Byzantine era, in theology, philosophy, and philology.
- δ620ΔιαλλάττωI reconcile, I exchange… Matthew 5:24 (web address 2). [3] Quotation unidentifiable. (Adler suggests Cassius Dio.)
- ει179Εἴργεσθαιto be hindered, to be stopped… of knowledge". [3] Quotation unidentifiable (Adler suggested Diodorus Siculus or Cassius Dio.) In any event Bernhardy advocated emending zh=los to the proper name *zih/las (zeta 100).
- κ1187Καίριονtimely… [4] Sophocles, Ajax 34 (web address 2), with scholion. [5] Cassius Dio 67.6.1; cf. delta 344 (on Decebalus, king of the Dacians).
- η30Ἤγαλλενused to honour… 59.16 folium 184. For the verb cf. alpha 130. [2] Cassius Dio 16.57.39 (on Scipio). [3] The verb a)ga/llw is common in writers of all periods, but is not extant in the theologian Eunomius …
- ε459Ἐκλεκτόςchosen, selected… 1.113.22. The form e)/klektos occurs as a proper name in Cassius Dio and Herodian; as an adjective, it can be found in two alchemic texts (Fragm. Alch. 2.334.17; Moses 2.314.9 Berthelot-Ruelle). But cf. in …
- γ12ΓάϊοςGaius… account which seems to depend heavily on Book 59 of Cassius Dio (see particularly Dio 59.5 for the last sentence of the present account). A sentence from this source is also quoted at omicron …
- κ1708ΚλαύδιοςKlaudios, Claudius… 10 (web address 2). After this the Suda begins following Cassius Dio (60.2.1-60.3.1). For discrepancies, see the notes below. [2] cf. Suet. Claud. 3 (web address 3) & 41-2 (web address 4). [3] cf. …