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ε45Ἐγγαστρίμυθοςventriloquist… [call] a Python, but Sophocles [calls] a chest-diviner, and the philosopher Plato [calls] a Eurycles, from a diviner of such a kind [named] Eurycles. Aristophanes in Wasps [writes]: "mimicing the oracle and device of …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε3040ἙρμίαςHermias… a eunuch and slave of Euboulos, a Bithynian dynast and philosopher. Having been educated in the school of Aristotle, he wrote On the Soul, that it is immortal. This man is "the thrice-sold eunuch". …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε3695ΕὐριπίδηςEuripides… was a vegetable-hawker; she was actually of high-born parentage, as Philochorus reports. His mother conceived at the time Xerxes made his crossing, and Euripides was born on the day the Greeks defeated the Persians. …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ912Κατεγλωττισμένονtongued-down (?tongue-engaged); (sunk) under too many glosses (far-fetched).… dictionary word. Properly a 'tongued-down' is the tongue-in kiss. And Philostratus [writes]: "But Apollonius cultivated a style of discourse not dithyrambic and swollen with poetic words nor sunk under too many glosses and full …Matched in translationhighmedium
α4348Ἀτέχνοιςfor unskilled ones, to unskilled ones, with unskilled ones… The "she" in question is the 5th century CE Neoplatonic philosopher Aidesia/Aedesia of Alexandria, student of Proclus at Athens, daughter, wife, and mother of Neoplatonic philosophers: see alphaiota 79. [4] cf. tau 441 (and …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1029Διθυραμβοδιδάσκαλοιdithyramb-directors… being an ambassador]. And there is a conversation of the philosopher Socrates with him. And Callimachus mentions him in his Choliambics, that he wrote many things.Matched in translationhighmedium
κ2647Κυκλίων τε χορῶν ᾀσματοκάμπαςand tune-benders of cyclic choruses.… is hinting at the associates of Cinesias and Cleomenes and Philoxenos, who composed dithyrambs. He means that the composers of dithyrambs were also sophists; for these men were the producers of the cyclic choruses. …Matched in translationhighmedium
α1298Ἀλκυονίδες ἡμέραιAlcyon days, Halcyon days, kingfisher days… book] Concerning Animals, but Demagoras of Samos [says] 7, and Philochorus 9. Hegesander tells the myth about them in his Memoirs as follows. They were the daughters of the giant Alkyoneus: Phosthonia, Anthe, Methone, …Matched in translationhighmedium
α124ἈγάθωνAgathon… was set at a dinner party of his, with many philosophers introduced all together. A comic poet [sic] of the school of Socrates. He was lampooned in comedy for womanliness.Matched in translationhighmedium
δ797Διατριβήschool, amusement, pastime… according to which we turn back on something. Or a philosophical discourse. It also means pursuit and business, way of living, mode of life, purpose out of which we are about to spend time …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ1995Κομήσῃςyou would grow your hair long… thoughts: for they will not be any less convincing. And philosophers used to grow their hair long either out of [ascetic] endurance or out of stinginess. "None of them ever shaved, out of frugality." …Matched in translationhighmedium
α3977Ἁρμονίανharmony… appears (in the accusative case, as again here). [2] John Philoponus, Commentary on Aristotle's de Anima 142.6-16. [3] John Philoponus, Commentary on Aristotle's de Anima 145.1-4. [4] The transmitted text actually says "first" again. …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ857ΔιδάξομαιI will learn… say, "I will have my son taught [dida/comai (middle voice)] philosophy," more correctly than "I will teach" [dida/cw (active voice)]. For the teacher will say dida/cw, but the father [will say] dida/comai and [so …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε786Ἐλελεῦeleleu, war-cry… rhythmic movement; just as Achaeus of Eretria, too, in the Philoctetes makes Agamemnon announce to the Acheans: "it is time to help: and I will lead. Let someone take the grip of a sword …Matched in translationhighmedium
α122Ἀγαθοῦ Δαίμονοςof the Good Spirit… the first [book] of On the Soul, calling it On Philosophy.Matched in translationhighmedium
δ572Διακεκναισμένηworn-away… abandoning the habits of the horsemen, go over to the philosophers." And in Clouds: "for I could not bear for the horsemen to see me with my complexion worn-away."Matched in translationhighmedium
κ394ΚαρκίνοςKarkinos, Carcinus… plays are Achilles, Semele or Beginning, as Athenaeus says in Philosophers at Dinner. Lysias [writes]: "for the bitches, he says, were spoiled by going in to my "crab"." And whenever the grain is rooted …Matched in translationhighmedium
α1930Ἀναλαμβάνεινto gather up[Used] with an accusative. In reference to lifting up. Philosophers used to take care also to gather up their clothing in an orderly fashion, and they mocked those who did not do this. Plato …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ1205ΔιοσημείαZeus-omen, Zeus-sign… a dioshmi/a (web address 2); see also Dio Chrysostom 38,18; Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 4.34. For other portents, such as a flash of lightening, see Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 792; Clouds 579; Philostratus, op.cit. …Matched in noteshighmedium
μ801ΜέτωνMeton… also next note. [3] This phrase unintelligibly abridges one in Philochorus FGrH F122: "under [sc. the archon] Apseudes, the one before Pythodoros", i.e. 433/2. [4] Phrynichus fr. 21 Kock, now 22 K.-A.Matched in noteshighmedium
μ115Μᾶλλον μᾶλλονmore and more… Laertius 9.75, on Pyrrho, founder of the Skeptic school of philosophy (on which see web address 1); cf. omicron 802.Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2254Κωμάσαιto carouse… the Iberian peninsula of the mid second century BCE. [2] Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 6.3; cf. alpha 4330 and especially tau 598. [3] Aristophanes, Wasps 1317. The verb here should be second …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1445Δωδωναῖον χαλκεῖονDodonian bronze… some form of words involving the name of the Attidographer Philochorus; cf. FGrH 328 F72.Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2800Κύφωνεςpillories… in Crete dealing with the banishment and punishment of Epicurean philosophers.Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3944Ἐφόλκιαtenders, towed-boats… and pi 2073. On Diogenes the Cynic, the ascetic skeptical philosopher, cf. delta 1141, delta 1143, and delta 1144. On Charon, ferryman of the dead to Hades, see chi 135. [5] Aristophanes, Wasps 268-269, …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1168ΔιονύσιαDionysia… major occasion in a child’s life, on the basis of Philostratus, Heroicus 35.9 and inscriptions. On the other hand, the Choes included a drinking contest with a wineskin as the prize, and thus the …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2216Κῴδιονsmall fleece, small sheepskin rug (for sleeping on) or cloak (against rain)… entry alpha 1981. We owe this story (fr.6 Diels/Kranz) to Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 1.2.22-26, here cited in an odd variation of the original: "Who does not know that (with the accusative …Matched in noteshighmedium