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β294Βίοςlife, lifestyleFrom the works of Philo. "The church of Christ establishes two styles of life, the one supernatural and above the common human way of life, not accepting marriage nor the procreation of children nor …Matched in translationhighmedium
α69ἈβραάμAbraham… they were going to turn out in fact. In this, Philo, the Jewish philosopher, will be my confirmation via his work Life of the Statesman. About Philo it is said "Philo platonizes and Plato …Matched in translationhighlong
δ1573Δύναμιςcapability, capacity, ability, potentiality, power… with difficulty the heavy protuberances that weigh down the neck." Philo said that two potentialities meet in every soul, a salvific and a destructive. This man did not sense even a dream of the …Matched in translationhighlong
ε3123ἘσσαῖοιEssenes, Essaioi… 1.328.7-10, 329.11-17, 344.19-21. The Essaioi or Essenoi are mentioned by Philo, Josephus, Pliny, and later authors (see Catholic Encyclopedia entry by E.P. Graham at web address 1, Jewish Encyclopedia entry by Kaufmann Kohler at …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2626ΚυΐσκωI produce offspring… for the verb (in the sense of 'produce offspring'); e.g. Philo Judaeus, Life of Moses 1.13.2. LSJ also cites an instance with a male subject where the verb connotes 'impregnate'. This may be the …Matched in noteshighshort
ι291ἹλάριοςHilarios, Hilarius… of books; nevertheless he had been a late learner in philosophical discourse. For as he had been required to devote his life to the public affairs of his fatherland, he had no leisure for …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ1476ΔῶροςDoros, DorusThe one from Arabia. As Damascius says in his Philosophical History, he was a most remarkable investigator of the truth. Isidore the philosopher perceived initially that he was caught up in Aristotle’s propositions, seeing …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ2098ΚορνοῦτοςCornutus… [sc. now] virtually nobody knows him. This Cornutus [was] a philosopher from Leptis; Leptis [is] a city of Libya; he lived in Rome at the time of [sc. the emperor] Nero, by whose orders …Matched in translationhighmedium
αι79ΑἰδεσίαAidesia, Aedesia… especially took care for her sons in the area of philosophy, desiring to bequeath to them the wisdom of their father as though it were a sort of inheritence of paternal property. She saved …Matched in translationhighlong
α3929ἈριστοτέληςAristoteles, Aristotle… came] from Stageira, a city of Thrace; he was a philosopher, a disciple of Plato, with a stammering voice. He had siblings Arimnestos and Arimneste, and a daughter by Pythias, the daughter of Hermeias …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε3605ΕὔξενοςEuxenos, Euxenus[sc. was someone] not at all serious nor practicing philosophy energetically. For he was subject to his stomach and to sexual desires, and he patterned himself on Epicurus. He knew the doctrines of Pythagoras, …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ882Καταψήσαςcaressing, having caressed… and caressing them, he urged them to be cheerful." And Philostratus [writes]: "and caressing the ears of the horse and its mane."Matched in translationhighshort
α4446Αὖλος ΠοστόμιοςAulus Postumius… Aulus was among those senators who welcomed the delegation of philosophers, Carneades, Diogenes, and Critolaus, on the Capitoline (Cicero, Academica 2.137; Gellius, Attic Nights 6.14.8-10; Plutarch, Cato the Elder 22). The philosophers had come …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε341Ἐκκαλαμᾶταιfishes outAn abridgment of Aristophanes, Wasps 607-9 (web address 1), Philokleon speaking of himself and his daughter; cf. pi 261. For the three-obol piece, pay for jurors, see tau 998.Matched in noteshighshort
γ22ΓαλάτειαGalateia, Galatea… Best-known for the story, first ascribed to the dithyrambic poet Philoxenus of Kythera (phi 393), of the love of the cyclops Polyphemus for her (see theta 475). Philoxenus was writing in the court of …Matched in noteshighshort
λ505Λιγύμοχθοςshrill-distressed… (see web address 1). For the myth of the nightingale Philomela and her son Itys, see Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.424-674 (and cf. alpha 651).Matched in noteshighshort
ε3889Ἔφηβοςadolescentcf. epsilon 3888, epsilon 3890 [1] Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 6.3; see more fully at tau 598.Matched in noteshighshort
λ254ΛεόντιοςLeontios, Leontius… by the Ister, whom Homer calls hand-to-hand fighters. The heretical Philostorgius associates this Leontios with himself in his book as following his Arian heresy. [Leontios] had one son. When he saw that the child …Matched in translationhighlong
α3908ἈρίστιπποςAristippus, AristipposSon of Aritades, from Cyrene, a philosopher, a pupil of Socrates; by whom the sect called Cyrenaic began. He was the first of the Socratics to take wages. He was on bad terms with …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ1144ΔιογένηςDiogenes… who was conversing according to his reputation, he became a philosopher. On a sea voyage he was captured by pirates and sold. When he was being auctioned and was asked what he knew, he …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ2777ΚῦροςKyros, Cyrus, Kurash… This Cyrus was experienced, if any one was, in the philosophy in which he was educated by the magi; he was taught justice and truth, in accordance with some laws established for the Persian …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε3801ΕὐφορίωνEuphorion, Euphorio… from Euboia, a student of Lakydes and Prytanis among the philosophers, and, among the poets, of Archeboulos the Theran poet, whose beloved he is said have have become. He was born in the 126th …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε3890Ἔφηβοςadolescent, ephebecf. epsilon 3888, epsilon 3889. [1] Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 1.8. (No such proverb, in fact, appears in the paroemiographers.) [2] Artemidorus 1.54 (beginning).Matched in noteshighmedium
α3500Ἀπορησίαdifficultness… but in fact from Diodorus Siculus 31.28: king Ariarathes V Philopator of Cappadocia informs the Romans of his intention to back out of a marriage-alliance with king Demetrius I of Syria. See Favuzzi [cited …Matched in noteshighshort
αι347ΑἰσχίνηςAeschines, Aischines, Aiskhines… 346/alphaiota 349.] See generally RE Aischines(15); NP Aischines(1); OCD4 Aeschines(1); Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists 1.18. [1] [alpha 1283] Alcidamas. [2] Again as a tailpiece to epsilon 226. Manifest nonsense, at least as far …Matched in noteshighmedium
α1578Ἀμησάμενοςhaving shovelled up… 54) find Laqueur's (148) arguments for Eupator, son of Ptolemy Philometor (reigned 180-ca.145 BCE) and Chichorius, to be very strong.Matched in noteshighshort
α4174ἈσκληπιόδοτοςAsklepiodotos, Asclepiodotus… hope that leads to the divine; however, he was more philosophical than that man and was equipped with other preparatory education. Accordingly, the city of Aphrodite ascended in his time toward greater holiness. Already …Matched in translationhighlong
α2693ἈντίοχοςAntiochus, Antiochos… Macedon came a sinful root, this Epiphanes, son of Seleukos Philopator. He was a terrible man and greedy and he committed many ravagings and lootings and acquired a lot of money and from intemperance …Matched in translationhighlong
κ1663Κίρκονfalcon… whip; they suggest that here one might read e)c o)/lpas filokampe/a, kept supple by the oil-flask (ibid.). [3] From the dream-interpretations, in verse, attributed to Astrampsychus (alpha 4251); both already at iota 155.Matched in noteshighshort
λ451Λήμνιον κακὸν βλέπωνlooking a Lemnian evil… [1] cf. generally "Lemnian fire" (lambda 449) in (e.g.) Sophocles, Philoctetes 800, and Aristophanes, Lysistrata 299; it issued from the volcano on the island which was reputedly Hephaistos' forge. The present headword phrase itself …Matched in noteshighmedium