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83 entries for Lysis

  1. λ861ΛυσιμάχειαLysimakheia, Lysimacheia, Lysimachea… generated the present entry -- was the one founded by Lysimachos (see OCD(4) s.v., and under alpha 1862, etc.) as capital for his Thrakian realm. This was on the site of Polis Agora (present-day …Matched in noteshighshort
  2. λ863ΛύσιπποςLysippos, LysippusOld Comedy; OCD(4) s.v. Lysippus(1), by W.G. Arnott. [1] Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 3.124D [3.98 Kaibel] and 8.344E [8.33]. [2] (The names of one or more plays have evidently been lost.) For the thyrsus see theta …Matched in noteshighshort
  3. λ860ΛυσικράτηςLysikrates, Lysicrates… Birds 513: a bird "was standing and watching what bribe Lysikrates took" (web address 3). Commentators rightly point out that, with twenty years between the two plays, there can be no certainty that L. …Matched in noteshighshort
  4. κ1046Κατηκόντισεshot down… here it takes a genitive. The phrase 'the soul of Lysias' occurs -- in the genitive case, as here: th=s *lusi/ou yuxh=s -- in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Lysias 11, referring to the genius of …Matched in noteshighshort
  5. χ309Χίλιοι διακόσιοιTwelve Hundred… from Harpokration s.v. [1] Isaeus fr. 74 Sauppe. The name "Lysides" is otherwise unattested in Athens. Though it is admitted into vol.II of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names (s.v. no.1), there must be …Matched in noteshighshort
  6. κ2095Κορκορυγάςrumblings… wordplay is simple enough -- Peace will acquire the name Lysimache, Battle-stopper -- but it has the extra dimension of the fact that this was the name of Athens' venerable and longstanding priestess of …Matched in noteshighshort
  7. ε2452Ἐπίλυσινresponse[1] The headword is accusative case of the noun e)pi/lusis. The best-known instance -- Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 134: e)pi/lusin fo/bwn, e)pi/lusin di/dou -- means 'release' and so makes a bad fit with this …Matched in noteshighshort
  8. κ1639ΚινησίαςKinesias, Cinesias… generic gloss, this entry savagely abridges Harpokration s.v. (generated by Lysias fr. 142 Sauppe, now 196 Carey OCT: two speeches In Reply to Kinesias). See further at phi 459. Kinesias, son of Meles (c.450-390); …Matched in noteshighshort
  9. χ266Χειρουργίαςof handiwork… and its gloss, it also has figurative applications. [1] Aristophanes, Lysistrata 673 (which has liparaou=s for the Suda's lipara=s: see web address 1 below), with glosses (the etymological one fanciful and incorrect) from the …Matched in noteshighshort
  10. α135Ἀγαλματοποιοίstatue-makers, sculptors… for information on these three sculptors of the C5 and (Lysippus) C4 BC.Matched in noteshighshort
  11. ε3260Ἐσχηματισμένοςposturing, having assumed a posture… generated by the corresponding plural in the quotation given. [1] Lysias fr. 229 Sauppe, now 282 Carey OCT.Matched in noteshighshort
  12. ε1004Ἐμπεδοκλέους ἔχθραEmpedokles' hatred, Empedocles' hatredFor Empedokles cf. (epsilon 1001,) epsilon 1002, epsilon 1003. [1] Lysias fr. 261 Sauppe, now 459 Carey OCT; from a letter. (It underlines its point with wordplay: Empedokles/e)mpodw\n "impede".) The phrase sounds proverbial already …Matched in noteshighshort
  13. α2043Ἀνάργυροςmoneyless[1] Lysias fr. 93 Sauppe (35 Thalheim), now 104 Carey OCT; again at epsilon 2263. As Davies 178 notes, enemy -- sc. Spartan -- occupation of Attica indicates a date during the Decelian War …Matched in noteshighshort
  14. α1984ἈναξίβιοςAnaxibios, AnaxibiusLate C5/early C4 B.C. Mentioned by Xenophon, Diodorus and Lysias (fr.114 Sauppe). See generally Paul Poralla, A Prosopography of Lacedaemonians (edn.2, Chicago 1985, by A.S.Bradford) no.85. The entry is abridged from the one in …Matched in noteshighshort
  15. ε2908ἘργοκλῆςErgokles, ErgoclesIn 390/89. See chiefly Lysias 28-29 passim; Demosthenes 19.180. Entry identical with Harpokration s.v.Matched in noteshighshort
  16. α2196Ἀνδρωνῖτιςmen's chamber, men's quarters… of the quotation given here, Marcus waged war against the Lusitanians after agreeing to what later seemed to be a pusillanimous truce with certain troublesome Celtiberian tribes.Matched in noteshighshort
  17. μ453Μελανίωνος σωφρονέστεροςmore restrained than MelanionA rough-and-ready version of Aristophanes, Lysistrata 784/5-795/6. (The text preferred by modern editors does not in fact contain the present headword phrase: see web address 1.) Me(i)lanion gave his name to a lost comedy …Matched in noteshighshort
  18. α1822Ἀνάγεσθαιto put to sea… (109-110). [2] The source now becomes Harpokration s.v., abbreviated. [3] Lysias fr. 62 Sauppe (now 69 Carey OCT); Dinarchus fr. 8 Conomis.Matched in noteshighshort
  19. χ113ΧαρικλῆςCharikles, ChariclesAbridged from Harpokration s.v., explaining his appearance in Lysias 12.55 (web address 1). Late C5 BCE.Matched in noteshighshort
  20. κ213ΚαλλίαςKallias, Callias… fathers of both the poet and Aristeides had the name Lysimachos.Matched in noteshighshort
  21. δ1029Διθυραμβοδιδάσκαλοιdithyramb-directors… 414 BC). (The frustrated young husband of this name in Lysistrata [829-953, 411 BC, cf. alphaiota 101] is probably not intended as a comment on the dithyrambic poet [see Henderson in his edition on …Matched in noteshighmedium
  22. κ1763ΚλειταγόραKleitagora, Cleitagora, Clitagora[1] Aristophanes fr. 261 Kock, from a scholiast to Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1237. In fact "Kleitagora" was the name of a well-known skolion (drinking-song), and nothing about its female subject is certain beyond her name. …Matched in noteshighshort
  23. δ1147ΔιόγνητοςDiognetos, Diognetus… permit a specific identification. (Examples: one of the protagonists in Lysias 18 -- brother of the well-known Nikias (nu 389); the hellenistic historian from (?)Erythrai, FGrH 120; and see under alpha 830.)Matched in noteshighshort
  24. λ812Λυκόποδεςwolf-feet, white-feetFrom the scholia to Aristophanes, Lysistrata 667, where the headword occurs (web address 1) -- but not as luko/podes (metrically impossible); rather, as leuko/podes, "White-feet", which is probably "an honorific way of referring to …Matched in noteshighmedium
  25. α2929Ἀπαρτίανchattels, household utensils, moveables… remainder of the entry is abridged from Harpokration s.v. [5] Lysias fr.28 Sauppe (now 33 Carey), from the lost speech In Reply to Aresandros. [6] Herodotus 7.29.2. The noun a)partilogi/h occurs in the clause …Matched in noteshighmedium
  26. ε731Ἐλαγοθήρειhe was a hare-hunterFrom the scholia to Aristophanes, Lysistrata 789, where the headword occurs (in the chorus's story of Melanion the misogynist: fully at mu 453). The verb is otherwise unattested.Matched in noteshighshort
  27. α2015Ἀνάπηρον ψυχήνcrippled soul, mutilated soul… 535D, where the headword phrase appears (web address 1). [2] Lysias 24.13 (web address 2), abridged. [3] Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 5.5.8, on Chosroes II celebrating the capture of Bryzakios and the victory over his …Matched in noteshighmedium
  28. α3932ἈριστοφάνηςAristophanes… -- almost a quarter, all told, of the text of Lysistrata is quoted.Matched in noteshighmedium
  29. κ394ΚαρκίνοςKarkinos, Carcinus… [6] Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 5.189D [5.15 Kaibel], cf. 13.559F [13.8]. [7] Lysias fr. 154 Sauppe, now 206 Carey OCT (where the meaning of "crab" is unclear). [8] Pherecrates fr. 20 Kock (24 K.-A.), from the …Matched in noteshighmedium
  30. ε3548ΕὔκριτοςEukritos, Eucritus… to permit a specific identification. [Some instances: the defendant in Lysias's lost speech On behalf of Eukritos (fr. 103 Sauppe, now 121a Carey OCT); a fourth-century-BCE Pythagorean philosopher in an anecdote in Polyaenus 5.2.22; …Matched in noteshighshort

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