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α3781Ἀργόλαιargolai, snakes… type of snakes, which the Macedonian Alexander brought from Pelasgian Argos [Myth, Place] to Alexandria and threw into the river for the destruction of the cobras, when he moved the bones of the prophet …Matched in translationhighshort
κ227ΚαλλίμαχοςCallimachus, Kallimachos, Kallimakhos… as follows: The Coming of Io; Semele; The Founding of Argos [Myth, Place]; Arcadia; Glaucus; Hopes; satyr plays; tragedies; comedies; lyric poems; Ibus (this is a poem deliberately made obscure and abusive, addressed to …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ1175ΔιονύσιοςDionysios, Dionysius… Leather-worker. [He wrote] the Expedition of Dionysos and Athena, [and] Argonauts in 6 books. These works are in prose: Fables for Parmenon.

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A type of snakes, which the Macedonian Alexander brought from Pelasgian Argos [Myth, Place] to Alexandria and threw into the river for the destruction of the cobras, when he moved the bones of the prophet Jeremiah from…

Ἀργόλαι· εἶδος ὄφεων, οὓς ἤνεγκε Μακεδὼν Ἀλέξανδρος ἐκ τοῦ Ἄργους τοῦ Πελασγικοῦ εἰς Ἀλεξάνδρειαν καὶ ἐνέβαλεν εἰς τὸν ποταμὸν πρὸς ἀναίρεσιν τῶν ἀσπίδων, ὅτε μετέθηκε τὰ ὀστᾶ…

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ι12ἸάκωβοςIacobos, Jacob… father went to Rhodes, then to Drepanon, the one in Argos [Myth, Place]; and when he came there he married the woman who bore Jacob to him. Then he left his wife and the …Matched in translationhighmedium

α3419ἈπολλώνιοςApollonios, Apollonius… appears also on page 5 of his commentary on the Argonautika: Apollonios Rhodios, Argonautika. Trans. Peter Green. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. [1] Cf. sigma 412. [2] See generally kappa 227. [3] See …Matched in noteshighshort

α1862Ἀναδρομαίretreats, returns… Pyrrhus the king of the Epeirotes and his invasion into Argos [Myth, Place] and the expedition of Lysimachus through Thrace against Dromichaites the king of the Odryssians; also many other [situations] like these."Matched in translationhighmedium

α4011ἉρποκρατίωνHarpokration, HarpocrationOf Argos [Myth, Place]. Platonic philosopher. Companion/confidant of a Caesar. He wrote a Commentary on Plato (24 books); Lexicon to Plato (2 books).Matched in translationhighshort

α4309ἈταλάντηAtalante, Atalanta… was friends, thanks to having been their shipmate on the Argo; and he seized Iolkos and killed the wife of Akastos.Matched in translationhighmedium

β121Βάροςweight, influence, gravitas, dignity… fortification of Sikyon and the influence of the city of Argos [Myth, Place] [Aemilius] came to Epidauros". And elsewhere: "they busied themselves with the detail of the position and influence of the city [of …Matched in translationhighmedium

δ250Δέραςskin… Jason took after coming through the Black Sea with the Argonauts into Colchis, and [sc. taking also] Medea the daughter of the king Aietes. This was not as is reported in poetry, but it …Matched in translationhighshort

δ513Διαβιασάμενοςhaving overcome by force… force, by means of his earlier habits, he came from Argos [Myth, Place] to Megalopolis on the same day."Matched in translationhighshort

ι53ἸάσωνJason, IasonOf Argos [Myth, Place]. Historian, younger than Plutarch of Chaeronea. Grammarian. He wrote On Greece in 4 books: this comprises (1) the ancient history of Greece, (2) events after the Persian wars, (3) events …Matched in translationhighshort

ι591ἽπυςHipys, Hippys… Sicily, 5 books, Chronologies [likewise] in 5 books; History of Argos [Myth, Place] in 3. This man was the first to write parodies and choliambics and other [such] things.Matched in translationhighshort

κ1596ΚικίλιοςKikilios, Kaikalos, Caecalusof Argos [Myth, Place], epic poet. He wrote a Halieutica; [so] too [did] Numenius of Heraclea, Pancrates the Arcadian, Posidonius of Corinth, Oppian the Cicilian. And the following wrote [sc. on the same subject] …Matched in translationhighshort

α15ἈβάντειοςAbanteios, Abantius, Abantian… fact almost certainly A. the son of Lynkeus, king of Argos [Myth, Place] after Danaos and father of the twins Akrisios and Proitos (Pausanias 2.16.2 (web address 1); Apollodorus, Library 2.2.1 (web address 2)). …Matched in noteshighshort

α3415ἈπολλωνιάςApollonias, Apollonis… I and brother of Attalos II. [2] Two brothers from Argos [Myth, Place], famous for devotion to their mother; their story is briefly told in kappa 2499.Matched in noteshighmedium

α4563Ἀφάσσωνgroping for… a)fa/sswn, however, is quoted from somewhere else: either Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.428, or Lycophron, Alexandra 114; the scholia to both passages gloss it as here.Matched in noteshighshort

αι250Αἰολομίτρηςagile with a waistband [or: having a multicoloured or twisted or flashing waistband]; having a multicoloured diadem… used of the baldric that carries a quiver (Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.156), or of a virgin's girdle (Gow 491, note 55) or a wrestler's (Greek Anthology 15.44), passing between the legs. But elsewhere it …Matched in noteshighshort

β131Βαρυνόμενοςweighed-down… of Philopoimen (phi 409), which entailed a hurried journey from Argos [Myth, Place] to Megalopolis - see delta 513; F.W. Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius iii (1979) 239-240.Matched in noteshighshort

β237ΒενεβεντόςBeneventos, Beneventum, Benevento… another Beneventum near Verona.) On the other hand Argyrippe, a.k.a. Argos [Myth, Place] Hippium, was in Apulia, which is at least within striking distance of Calabria. This odd entry appears to be conflating information …Matched in noteshighshort

δ377Δῆθενindeed… (below, in the bibliography). Cf. also scholia to Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.998, to Thucydides 1.92, and to Sophocles, Trachiniae 382. [2] Adler tentatively assigned this quotation to Appian, on no stated (or discernible) basis. …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1586Ἔξαιτονchoice… = scholia to Homer, Iliad 12.320 and to Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.1004. See also the first part of Hesychius epsilon3522, and cf. (with different genders/cases) Apollonius Sophista, Homeric Lexicon 69.34; scholia to Homer, Odyssey …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1993Ἔπαυλιςencampment… 226.27, Etymologicum Magnum 353.57, and the scholia to Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.800. See also epsilon 1991. [2] Polybios fr. 145 Büttner-Wobst. Büttner-Wobst notes (145) that Casaubon attributed this fragment to Polybios and that Schweighäuser …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2426ἘπικύδηςEpikydes, Epicydes… Hannibal. He accordingly selected Polykleitos of Kyrene and Philodemos of Argos [Myth, Place] for the purpose, and sent them into Italy, with a commission to discuss the subject of an alliance with the Carthaginians; …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε2754Ἐπιφρασθείςobserving… earlier instance in Herodotus 4.200.2 (and two in Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica). [1] An abridgement of Arrian, Indica 27.8. The text of Arrian reads katalhpte/on ('should be taken under control') rather than katalhpte/a, but this …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2755Ἐπιφροσύνῃwith thoughtfulness… somewhere: probably Oppian loc.cit., though other possibilities are Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.659, and Philo Judaeus (eight instances). [1] cf. generally epsilon 2756.Matched in noteshighshort

ε3996ἜχετοςEchetus, Echetos… King Echetus of Epirus see (besides Homer, below): Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.1092-1095; Hesychius s.v.; ps.-Nonnus, Scholia mythologica 4.48; Michael Apostolius s.v. *fala/ridos a)rxh\ kai\ *)exe/tou; and under beta 279 and tau 1187. [1] Homer, …Matched in noteshighshort

η88Ἤδηby this time… Porphyrius, Life of Pythagoras 45; the scholia to Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 56.Matched in noteshighmedium

ι52ἸάσωνJason, Iason… (iota 53) credits a historian and scholar called Jason of Argos [Myth, Place] with the authorship of 4 volumes about Greece, peri\ th=s *(Ella/dos. Jacoby in his commentary to FGrH 94 declines to equate …Matched in noteshighshort

κ499Καταγινέωνbringing back, recalling… (79.1); Stein, however, prefers 'bringing down', as the grove of Argos [Myth, Place] lay on a hill." (taken from How & Wells: see web address 2).Matched in noteshighshort

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