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α4298Ἀσφόδελοςasphodel… states that asphodel, which he had seen consumed in famines during his own time, was barely edible. However, Theophrastus, who was less fussy than Galen, praised [in Enquiry into Plants 7.12-13] the utility of …Matched in noteshighshort
ι639Ἰσθμικὴ πίτυςIsthmian pine… OCD(4) s.v. The crowns awarded there were of dry celery during the classical period but of pine earlier (and again later). There is a lavish and learned discussion of this in book 5 of …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1530Δρίοςcopse, thicket… fowlers used tamed quails and partridges to attract other birds during a hunt.Matched in noteshighshort
α2545Ἀνοδίᾳroadlessly, without using roads… Barrington Atlas map 20 grid D6) in Illyria (present-day Croatia). During the Second Illyrian War (220-219 BCE) in 219 Roman Consul Lucius Aemilius Paullus (cf. OCD(4) s.v. Aemilius Paullus(1)) disembarked the bulk of his …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3510ΕὔθυμοςEuthymos, Euthumos, Euthymus… offered at the Panathenaea (Festival of All Athena) at Athens during the classical period in Young (bibliog. below) 115-127. [7] (Euthymos first won the boxing at Olympia in 484, lost to Theagenes in 480, …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε52Ἔγεσταegesta, agesta… next note. For Cilician goat-hair cf. kappa 1605, kappa 1607. During the siege of Edessa (cf. epsilon 207) in 544 CE, the Persians under Chosroes (cf. chi 418) construct an artificial hill against the …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1374Κερασβόλαhorn-struck, hard-shelled… [2] Odd accusative for "sowing and the plough" (presumably meaning "during sowing with the plough"). W.C. Greene's edition of the scholia vetera to Plato, where the same phrase occurs, considers this passage corrupt; so …Matched in noteshighshort
ι544ἹππίαςHippias… History Bulletin 8.4 (1994) 121-122. Herodotus 6.107 reads as follows: 'During this time, Hippias son of Peisistratos was directing the advance of the barbarians into Marathon. In a dream the previous night it seemed …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2161Κοτίνου στεφάνῳwith a wreath of wild olive… land beyond the Hyperboreans where he first saw them when, during his third labor for Eurystheus, he was pursuing the doe with the golden antlers. The ode was written for Theron, tyrant of Akragas …Matched in noteshighmedium

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