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- ι588ἹππώναξHipponax… This entry is the main source of biographical information on Hipponax. A similar story is given more fully by Pliny, Natural History 36.5, with a date in the 60th Olympiad (540-537); see J.J. Pollitt, …
- β270Βίαντος Πριηνέως δίκηBias of Priene's justice… more briefly Strabo 14.1.12. The point of the quotation from Hipponax (an Ionian poet and Bias' contemporary) is that Bias was the standard for powerful forensic speaking. [1] Hipponax fr. 79 Bergk; again at …
- β452ΒούπαλοςBoupalos… here. [2] Aristophanes, Lysistrata 360-1 (web address 1 below). [3] Hipponax fr. 120 West. See iota 588 both for him and for his enemy Boupalos.
- ε3040ἙρμίαςHermias… Etymologicum Magnum 376.25. [7] The attribution of the verse to Hipponax is incorrect. The verse derives from Helladius Besantinoos. See Wormell p.91. [8] On qladi/as, one whose testicles have been crushed, see epsilon 1474. …
- κ1902Κοδάλου χοίνιξKodalos' choenix… Hesychius s.v., Diogenianus 5.69, and -- the ultimate source -- Hipponax [iota 588] fr. 151a. See also kappa 2212. For 'choenix' see generally chi 590, chi 591.
- δ1055Δικάζεσθαι Βίαντος τοῦ Πριηνέως κρείσσωνto litigate more powerfully than Bias of PrieneFor the unglossed headword phrase (from Hipponax) and in general see under beta 270. For Priene (present-day Gullubahce) see generally OCD(4) s.v.
- ι587ἽππωνHippon… mentioned in Xenophon, Hellenica 1.2.8, and a pre-Socratic philosopher a.k.a Hipponax. [2] i.e. stable, stall: i(ppw/n (with an acute accent on the last syllable, rather than a circumflex; cf. next note). [3] Besides here, …
- ι591ἽπυςHipys, Hippys… C5 BCE. [3] Otherwise unknown. [4] Surely not Hip(p)ys but Hipponax (iota 588), as Kuster suggested.
- κ2062ΚόπτωI knock at, I strike… [3] Aristophanes, Lysistrata 360-1, with scholia; cf. beta 452. [4] Hipponax fr. 120 West; again cf. beta 452.