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12 entries for Thucydides

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δ625Διαλέγουσανenlarging, picking open… Also [sc. attested is the imperative] diale/gou, [meaning] dig through! Thucydides [sc. uses the word].Matched in translationhighshort
δ206ΔελφίνιονDelphinion, Delphinium… s.v., intially commenting on the appearance of the word in Thucydides 8.38.2 (Chios, web address 1) but going on to cite the Athenian one mentioned in Demosthenes 40.11 (web address 2). [1] Besides Thucydides …Matched in noteshighshort
α285ἈγνώνειοςHagnoneian, Hagnonian[1] An entry seemingly generated by Thucydides 5.11.1, which records the demolition in 422 BCE of the "Hagnonian buildings" of Amphipolis, i.e. those buildings associated with its Athenian founder Hagnon, father of Theramenes (theta …

δ625

Διαλέγουσαν

enlarging, picking open

[Meaning her] building over. For le/gein [sc. can apply to] to building. Also [sc. attested is the imperative] diale/gou, [meaning] dig through! Thucydides [sc. uses the word].

Διαλέγουσαν· διοικοδομοῦσαν. λέγειν γὰρ τὸ οἰκοδομεῖν. καὶ Διαλέγου, διορύττου. Θουκυδίδης.

medicine

medicine

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β559Βρόχοιςwith nooses, with slip-knots… 558. [1] For this glossing Adler adduces a scholion on Thucydides 2.76.4, but the headword is accusative plural there. The Suda's dative plural must be quoted from somewhere else; there are numerous possibilities. [2] …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1596Δυσαρεστούμενοςdispleased… been famous for its lack of a city wall (cf. Thucydides 1.10), but the hellenistic period was another matter: a rudimentary ditch-and-palisade was built in c.317 (Diodorus Siculus 18.75.2, 19.35.1), and the (authentic) circuit-wall …Matched in noteshighshort

ε77Ἐγκατελέγησαν λίθοιstones were laid in[1] From the scholia to Thucydides 1.93.2, where the phrase li/qoi ei)rgasme/noi e)gkatele/ghsan ("prepared stones were laid in") occurs in the description of the Themistoclean rebuilding of the walls of Athens in 479 BCE; …Matched in noteshighshort

ε806Ἐλευθεριώτερος Σπάρτηςfreer than Spartacf. Diogenianus 4.87, Apostolius 7.2. [1] So, famously (but implicitly), Thucydides 1.10.Matched in noteshighshort

ε1525Ἐξαληλιμμένος[having been] smeared-over… the present entry, however, perhaps derives from ancient comment on Thucydides 3.20.3 (web address 1), where the equivalent neuter participle is used in a sense appropriate to the gloss given here (of the "unplastered" …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1946Ἐπάλξειςbattlements… lego/menoi promaxw=nes). The word also occurs frequently in prose, e.g. Thucydides 3.21.3 (web address 2). See also epsilon 1947, mu 1272, pi 2501, pi 3201. [1] Up to this point the entry = Lexica …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3051Ἑρμῶν Ἑρμοὶof hermai, of hermae, of herms… must be extracted either from alpha 1280 or directly from Thucydides 6.27ff (at 28.1 & 2), on the mutilation of the Herms by, allegedly, Alkibiades and others. (For more information about the episode see …Matched in noteshighmedium

χ46ΧαλκίοικοςBronze-House, of the Bronze House; ChalkioikosFrom the scholia to Thucydides 1.128.2, where the headword occurs (and recurs at 1.134.1 & 4). See also e.g. Euripides, Helen 228 & 245; Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1299; Lycurgus 1.128, Polybius 4.22.8 and 4.35.2. Pausanias …Matched in noteshighshort

χ275ΧηλαίbreakwatersThe gloss is taken from the scholia to Thucydides 1.63.1 (where a form of the headword appears: web address 1 below). For the zoological sense of the headword see chi 276.Matched in noteshighshort