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δ1210Διὸς κῴδιονZeus' ram-fleece… offer of cakes or sacrificial animals and was especially celebrated during the Diasia, an important Athenian festival (see Thucydides 1.126.6: web address 1). [4] The epithet is related to the function of Zeus as …Matched in noteshighshort
γ447ΓραικοίGraikoi, Graeci, Greeks… regnal date for Hellen the son of Deukalion (delta 283), during whose reign "those formerly called Graikoi were [re-]named Hellenes." [2] Here only. [3] Son of Thessalos, according to Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. [4] …Matched in noteshighshort
δ102Δάψατοtore… a young Ptolemaic prince that died in his parents' lifetime during a pandemic; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 20) and (vol. II, 54-5). Find further excerpts from this epigram at alpha 1578, delta …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2053Ἐπενεγκεῖν δόρυ ἐπὶ τῇ ἐκφορᾷ καὶ προαγορεύειν ἐπὶ τῷ μνήματιto carry a spear at the funeral and to make an announcement at the memorial… Prokris (pi 2488), a daughter of Erechtheus, was accidentally killed, during a hunt, by a javelin thrown by her husband Kephalos. See Apollodorus, Library of Greek Mythology 3.15.1 (web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort
α3199Ἀππία ὁδόςAppian Way, Via Appia… Way and the aqueduct were commissioned by Appius Claudius Caecus during his censorship in 312 BCE. At that time it reached from Rome to Capua (Livy 9.29). Paving began in 295. Later in the …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3510ΕὔθυμοςEuthymos, Euthumos, Euthymus… offered at the Panathenaea (Festival of All Athena) at Athens during the classical period in Young (bibliog. below) 115-127. [7] (Euthymos first won the boxing at Olympia in 484, lost to Theagenes in 480, …Matched in noteshighmedium
α523Ἀδράστεια ΝέμεσιςAdrasteian Nemesis, Nemesis of Adrastos… paroemiographers. [4] After relating the story of Adrastus's exceptional survival during the attack on Thebes, Libanius (Narration 10 [Foerster vol. 8, pp. 40-41]) adds that "This then seemed to come about in this way …Matched in noteshighshort
α1298Ἀλκυονίδες ἡμέραιAlcyon days, Halcyon days, kingfisher days… Aristotle -- quoting Simonides -- in History of Animals 542b4-24. During those days, especially around Sicily, the seas were calm and the weather clear; hence the phrase. Aristotle's description is the basis of the …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1161ΔιόμειαDiomeia… [Plutarch], Vitae X oratorum 835b3; Scholia on Aeschylus 1, 125; Duris FGrHist 76 FF 67 and 68); Plutarch, Alcibiades 21.3, Nicias 13.3; scholion on Aristophanes, Frogs 477. [2] See scholion on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1189Διοπομπεῖσθαιto escort [evil] away… to the offerings of ram-fleeces as scapegoats to Zeus Meilichios, during the purificatory rituals which took place in the month Maimakterion (cf. delta 1210). The meaning escorting out [of the city] the sacred fleece …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2161Κοτίνου στεφάνῳwith a wreath of wild olive… land beyond the Hyperboreans where he first saw them when, during his third labor for Eurystheus, he was pursuing the doe with the golden antlers. The ode was written for Theron, tyrant of Akragas …Matched in noteshighmedium