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κ1253Κεκονιαμένοιςplastered, whitened… is probably a gloss on it. [2] An approximation of Xenophon, Anabasis 4.2.22 (web address 1); it uses not the headword participle but an adjective of similar meaning.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1838Κλώψthief… comes from Gregory of Nazianzus, Poems 2.1.55.3. [2] Misquotation of Xenophon, Anabasis 4.6.17: "for the foot-soldiers captured some of the thieves following (e(pome/nwn) us, by setting an ambush". [3] Greek Anthology 6.157.2 (Theodoridas), addressed …Matched in noteshighshort
α851Ἀκέσταςhealers… that of a)ke/sths 'stitcher, tailor', as it is used by Xenophon (Cyropaedia 1.6.16) and others. See alpha 856.

κ1253

Κεκονιαμένοις

plastered, whitened

[Meaning] coated with lime. "There was wine, which they used to keep in plastered-over pits." Xenophon says [this].

Κεκονιαμένοις· ἀσβέστῳ κεχρισμένοις. οἶνος δὲ ἦν, ὃν ἐν λάκκοις κονιατοῖς εἶχον. Ξενοφῶν φησι.

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α1326Ἁλλόμενον ὕδωρleaping water… leaping water". [1] Presumably quoted from somewhere (the possibilities include Xenophon, Josephus and Lucian); and cf. generally alpha 1301.Matched in noteshighshort

α2803Ἀξιάγαστοςadmirable… web address 1 below) is rare in classical literature after Xenophon, Lakedaimonion Politeia 10.2, but common in the Christian era and late antiquity. cf. epsilon 1348, mu 359, omicron 218, tau 386, upsilon 166.Matched in noteshighshort

δ157Δεδοκιμασμέναapproved (ones), tested (ones)… not have it, and there are other possibilities in e.g. Xenophon (Oeconomicus 6.14, later quoted by Stobaeus) and Polybius (9.32.8). [2] Eusebius of Caesarea: see epsilon 3737, from which this phrase comes. Eusebius' Commentaries …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1126Διμοιρίτηςdouble-pay soldier, half-file commander… sailors enrolled in the fleet: Thucydides 8.45.2 (web address 4); Xenophon, Hellenica 1.5.7 (web address 5). [3] A semantic connection is stressed in the gloss between a wage of a di/moiron (half-drachma) and the …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1229Διώκεινto prosecute, to pursue… web address 2). For "follow after", "pursue", cf. Herodotus 3.4; Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.3.3; Alexander of Aphrodisias, Commentaries on Aristotle's Topica 437.19 to\ a)kribe\s e)n tw=| lo/gw| "precision in language". Like diw/kw, metadiw/kw can refer …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1230Διῳκίσατοdispersed, scattered… plei/ous, "scattered the Mantineans from one community into many" (cf. Xenophon, Hellenica 5.2.7 diw|ki/sqh h( *manti/neia tetraxh=|, "Mantineia was divided into four parts"); on this see mu 163. For the use of dioiki/zw with …Matched in noteshighshort

ε70<20Ἐγκαλινδεῖσθαι σωματικοῖς παθήμασιto wallow in bodily affections… to roll around in, occurs occasionally in classical authors (e.g. Xenophon, Symposium 8.32, missed by LSJ) but is more typical of Patristic and Byzantine authors, who use it to describe the condition of the …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1867Ἐξ ὑπερδεξίωνfrom above on the right… Oration 5 (PG 36.1249d). The headword phrase is used by Xenophon, Polybius, Diodorus, Arrian and others; and cf. upsilon 254. [2] Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 9.20.2. See on this identification Theodoridis' Photius edition, …Matched in noteshighshort

κ771Κατὰ σκοπόνin accordance with (the) mark… who also notes an instance of kata\ to\n skopo/n in Xenophon. For mark/objective/target cf. generally sigma 662; and for prepositional phrases with skopo/s -- though not this one -- see LSJ s.v., II.1. [1] …Matched in noteshighshort