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η
555
Ἡρῷον
hero-shrine
[Meaning a] monument/tomb.
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545
Ἡρώδης
Herodes
… Hadrian the sophist succeeded him as head of his school.
Herodes
was a contemporary of the sophist Aristides. Very many other works by him are preserved, in which the greatness and elevation of his …
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33
Αἰγεῖον
Aigeion, Aegeum
… the [speech] Against Polyeuktos [mentions it]. [The] Aigeion is a
hero-shrine
of Aigeus in Athens.
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ε
2355
Ἐπικάρσιον
angled, crosswise
[Meaning something] transverse, not straight.
Herodotus
[sc. uses the word].
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2629
Ἐπίστιον
ship-shed, ship-slip
[Meaning a] military lodging.
Herodotus
[writes]: "[Kleomenes] expelled the Athenians' households".
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η
271
παροιμία
the ten-company of Lykos, the ten-company of Lycus
A proverb. Lykos at Athens [was] a
hero,
in the shape of a wild animal, [whose temple stood] by the jurycourt. 'Company of ten' [signifies] being bribed in tens, to which the proverb [refers]. …
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2163
Ἀνδρεών
men's quarters
[A term for] the big house in
Herodotus.
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δ
174
Δεκάζεσθαι
to be bribed in tens
… This is how the term came about. Lykos is a
hero
who has the shape of the beast [sc. of a wolf]. A stone monument to him stands near the jurycourts in Athens; at …
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1043
Ἀκυληΐα
Aquileia
… *\Akulh/ios, but the Suda's form is the norm in (e.g.)
Herodian's
History.
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α
2550
Ἀνόκαιον
upper floor
Same or similar entry in other lexica. According to ps.-Herodian and Hesychius, this is a variant of a)nw/gewn. cf. already alpha 1819, and again alpha 2582. [1] Xenophon, Anabasis 5.4.29 (web address 1); Antiphanes …
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3797
Ἀργυρόπεζα
silver-footed
… sat as he watched the sea-battle (sc. of Salamis); cf.
Herodotus
8.90 (web address 3). [4] See e.g. Demosthenes 24.129 (web address 4).
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α
3947
Ἀρκαδία
Arkadia, Arcadia
… "arch-general" would be the Archangel Michael. [4] See on this
Herodotus
1.66: a Delphic oracular response given to the Spartans in respect of their territorial designs on Arkadia in the mid C6 BCE. For …
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α
4703
Ἀχθοφόρον
burden-bearing
… and other Egyptian monuments, as transmitted in book 2 of
Herodotus
(see esp. 2.124.2-3, 2.136.3-4); cf. alpha 3819.
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δ
1161
Διόμεια
Diomeia
… Herakles' lover: scholia vetera on Aristophanes, Frogs 650-1, reading tou=
e)rome/nou
tou= *(hrakle/ous. Except for that word, the Suda reproduces the scholion; hence Küster's integration of
e)rome/nou
tou=, rejected by Adler. The same omission …
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δ
1251
Διώροφον
two-storey
… related to it). For the explanation and the etymology see
Herodian,
Partitiones 20.10 diw/rofos oi)=kos: o( du/w o)ro/fous e)/xwn; 204.1, where the word is compared to such similar adjectives as a)nw/rofos, triw/rofos, poluw/rofos, o(mw/rofos; …
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ε
2595
Ἐπισπαστῆρες
door-pulls
… perhaps the entry is generated by the genitive plural in
Herodotus
6.91.2 (web address 1). See also epsilon 2596. [1] 'Pulled back and set to' is a rather recherché way of saying 'opened and …
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ε
3216
Ἑστιατορεῖον
feasting-hall
… found only in grammarians. For the -o/rion form see e.g.
Herodotus
4.35.4 (Ionic), Pausanias 5.15.12. [1] Strictly speaking a trape/zion should be a "little table" (diminutive of tra/peza, tau 906), but in late Greek …
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ε
3640
Εὐπάρυφα
finely-bordered
… might refer, but not exclusively (more ambiguously Pollux 7.46.3). Unless
Herodian
(1.16.3) and Irenaios (1.7.2) are being pleonastic, the sense of the headword can be separate from purple-ness. See also alpha 3460 and beta …
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