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κ1273Κεκρύφαλονhairnet… 1273. [5] Greek Anthology 6.206.3-4 (Antipater of Sidon). The adjective filo/plektos "tending to be braided" is usually taken to be a corruption of filo/plagktos, "errant, straying". The phrase "dyed with flowers of the grey …Matched in noteshighshort
α2380Ἀνείμονεςunclad… on Hesychius s.v. says Gregory of Nazianzus; another possibility is Philo Judaeus.Matched in noteshighshort
η475ἩρακλῆςHerakles, Heracles, Hercules… one of the earliest authors to depict Herakles as a philosophical exemplum virtutis. See also eta 454, eta 458, eta 464, eta 467, eta 474, eta 476, eta 477. [1] Herakles' eleventh Labor was …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3504ΕὐθύδημοςEuthydemos, Euthydemus… opening sentence, the entry is an ever-increasingly loose approximation of Philostratus, Life of Apollonius 1.7 (cf. web address 1). See also alpha 3193, kappa 2613, omicron 80, sigma 689. [1] Barrington Atlas map 66 …Matched in noteshighmedium
α2657ἈντιγενίδηςAntigenides, Antigenidas… aulode -- no doubt a mistake for "aulete" -- of Philoxenos [the dithyrambist Ph. of Kythera, c.435-c.380 BC: see phi 393]; perhaps it was he [= Antigenidas] who had to accompany the chorus through …Matched in noteshighshort
α1981ἈναξαγόραςAnaxagoras… Photius) s.v.; cf. nu 523. [2] Apparently quoted loosely from Philostratus, Life of Apollonius 1.2.22-26. See also kappa 2216 and note 9 there. [3] alpha 3420, Apollonius. See Philostratus, Life of Apollonius 1.2.13. Philostratus …Matched in noteshighmedium
ι448ἸουστῖνοςIoustinos, Justinus, Justin… version) 33; cf. Photius, Bibliotheca c. 125. [1] Justin the Philosopher, also known as Justin the Martyr: Catholic Encyclopedia entry at web address 1; works in Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, web address 2. [2] …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1240ΔίωνDion, Dio… generally RE Dion(18); NP Dion(3); OCD4 Dio Cocceianus; PIR2 D93; Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists 1.7. [1] In Bithynia (present-day Bursa in Turkey); Barrington Atlas map 52 grid E4. [2] Dio, Oration 11.Matched in noteshighmedium
γ490Γυμνοσοφισταίnaked-sophists… alpha 425 (and beta 524), and generally Richard Stoneman, "Naked philosophers: the Brahmans in the Alexander historians and the Alexander Romance", Journal of Hellenic Studies 115 (1995) 99-114.Matched in noteshighshort
κ39Καθαρσιώτεραcleaner… the quotation given, though see next note. [1] Polybius 11.9.5 (Philopoemen [phi 409] on military uniform)- - where, however, the word transmitted is kaqariw/tera or kaqareio/tera.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1320Δοθιῆνιboil… 2) and represents the answer of Bdelycleon to his father Philocleon, who has just asked "Look at my gait, and see which rich man I resemble the most in my way of walking!". One …Matched in noteshighshort
μ26Μαγώτεραmore magically… also is the gloss -- adverbially. [2] Greek Anthology 5.121.1-3 (Philodemos); quoted also at kappa 1428, mu 1175. For the cestus see, besides kappa 1428, kappa 1427.Matched in noteshighshort
κ64Καθεῖναιto let grow… about beard-growing actually concerns not Antisthenes (alpha 2723) but another philosopher, Diodoros of Aspendos. For the idiom pw/gwna kaqei=nai see already Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 99-100, and generally LSJ s.v. kaqi/hmi.Matched in noteshighshort
ε3195Ἐσπούδαζονwere treating seriously… [2] An approximation of Polybios 11.8.5-6, on the predecessors of Philopoimen (phi 409) as Achaian generals. Parts of the same quotation appear at upsilon 274 and (ectopically) at chi 395; cf. also sigma 967.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1854Κνάφοςcarding-comb… first paragraph of the present entry's material is common from Philoxenus fr. 668 Theodoridis (cited in the Etymologicum Magnum and Etymogicum Gudianum), Herodian, De prosodia catholica p. 446, and Pollux 7.37. Similar wording in …Matched in noteshighshort
ε1093Ἐναγίζωνoffering sacrifice… indicative). Extant instances are confined to two in Porphyrius, On philosophy from oracles. [2] Polybius 23.10.17 (web address 1). Valesius [Henri de Valois, 1603-1676] emended *canqw=| to *canqikw=| mhni/ ("in the month Xandikos"; cf. …Matched in noteshighshort
α1853Ἀναδεῖbinds… is quoted from somewhere else, unidentifiable. [2] Perhaps quoted from Philostratus, Imagines 1.3.2. [3] Aelian fr. 48b Domingo-Foraste (45 Hercher).Matched in noteshighshort
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
α211Ἀγείρειcollects… [2] Dative plural a)gei/rousin, from the quotation which follows. [3] Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 4.39. [4] Aelian fr.124c Domingo-Forasté (121 Hercher); see also pi 2900, sigma 293.Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3574Εὐμάρειαconvenience… wife of Krates (kappa 2341), both of whom were Cynic philosophers. The phrase does not contain the present headword but merely another word similar to it, eu)/maris, 'an Asiatic shoe or slipper' (LSJ s.v.); …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1428Κεστόςkestos, girdle… 350, kappa 2628 (and kappa 1427). [2] Greek Anthology 5.121.3 (Philodemus); quoted more fully at mu 26. On this epigram, in which the poet describes a lover's charms, see Gow and Page (vol. I, …Matched in noteshighshort
α571ἈέτιοςAetios, Aetius… months in the year 332. [4] Anazarbos: alpha 1866. [5] Philostorgius, Historia ecclesiastica III.15b, pp.44-47 Bidez-Winkelmann. Philostorgius himself had Arian sympathies, and presents a more favorable view of Aetius than does Socrates Scholaticus, in …Matched in noteshighlong
λ768Λύγδιναmarble-white… adjective in the neuter nominative/accusative plural. [1] Greek Anthology 5.13.3-4 (Philodemus). The passage is also quoted under kappa 2277 through e(/sthke. Note that the transmitted peritroma/dos in the present entry is probably incorrect; peridroma/dos …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2405ἘπίκουροςEpicurus, Epikouros… killed Epicurus' brothers nor the physical ailments that afflicted the philosopher himself are attested elsewhere. [4] The cause of Epicurus' death (in 270 BCE) was a urinary blockage and associated dysentery. [5] Metrodorus of …Matched in noteshighlong
γ41ΓάλλοςGallus… Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable; cf. tau 1175. [5] A witticism of the philosopher Arcesilaus (alpha 3950) in Diogenes Laertius 4.43.Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2800Κύφωνεςpillories… in Crete dealing with the banishment and punishment of Epicurean philosophers.Matched in noteshighmedium
ε2807Ἐποποῖepopoi (in hoopoe-ese)… pastiche of tragic laments (cf. its later use at Sophocles, Philoctetes 743, 790). See also iota 56. Modern texts read the same phrase twice: a)ttatai\ a)ttatai/. The prefix para- is used in Byzantine literary …Matched in noteshighlong
α4450ΑὐξέντιοςAuxentios, AuxentiusFrom Philostorgius, Historia ecclesiastica 5.2, p. 67-68 Bidez-Winkelmann. Auxentius, bishop of Mopsuestia (not to be confused with several homonyms, cf. upsilon 448), died in 360 CE. [1] In Cilicia; see under theta 154. [2] …Matched in noteshighmedium
α4426Αὐθέντηςperpetrator… (Contrast xi 130.) [5] There was a theory, promoted by Philoxenos of Alexandria (phi 394), that the Greek vocabulary was based on a core of monosyllabic verbs: see Dickey, 3.1.10 (p. 85). Hence the …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ646ΛογγῖνοςLonginus… “This” is possibly meant to distinguish him not from the philosopher Longinus (lambda 645) but rather from other Isaurian contemporaries such as Longinus of Kardala — on whom see Bury (1923: 400). [2] e)pi\ …Matched in noteshighmedium