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α360Ἀγρίουςwild menAeschines in the speech Against Timarchos calls men who are very agitated by the love of boys "wild men". And Menander says a gambler is "wild" if he is too eager for gambling. The …Matched in translationhighshort
α4072Ἀρχαῖονprincipal, ancient… interest or the principal". It is also used for "old". Aeschines in the [speech] Against Timarchos [writes]: "but Solon, who of the law-givers was especially well-reputed, wrote in ancient style." And once more: "so …Matched in translationhighmedium
α4140ἈσέλγειαlicentiousnessMeaning extravagance. Thus Aeschines [sc. uses this word]. Or a)se/lgeia, [meaning] prostitution, impurity. Defilement. It is derived, so they say, from this reason. Selgê is a city of Pisidia, where the people used to …

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Aeschines in the speech Against Timarchos calls men who are very agitated by the love of boys "wild men". And Menander says a gambler is "wild" if he is too eager for gambling. The ancients used to call pederasts "wild"…

Ἀγρίους· Αἰσχίνης ἐν τῷ κατὰ Τιμάρχου τοὺς σφόδρα ἐπτοημένους περὶ τὰ παιδικὰ οὕτως ὠνόμασε. καὶ Μένανδρος δὲ ἄγριον εἶπε κυβευτὴν τὸν λίαν περὶ τὸ κυβεύειν ἐσπουδακότα. ἀγρίους…

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ε2435ἘπιλαχώνdeputyAeschines in the [speech] Against Ktesiphon [writes]: "having drawn neither first place nor that of deputy, but having schemed to buy the position". This is the sort of thing being spoken of. Those eager …Matched in translationhighshort

β178ΒάταλοςBatalos, Batalus… (web address 1). The nickname is also referred to at Aeschines 2.99 (web address 2). While there is some evidence that 'Bat(t)alos' means 'stammerer', the present passage (and indeed Aeschines 2.99 itself) seems to …Matched in noteshighshort

α3367Ἀπόκριναιanswer!… word]. But Demosthenes too says likewise in the [speech] against Aeschines: "come here," he says, "and answer me."Matched in translationhighmedium

χ586ΧρυσοχοεῖονgoldsmithyDinarchus says: "for when he again stopped going to Aeschines and [went] to this man, it is clear that he was learning to 'to smelt gold', but not [so much] to perform what was …Matched in translationhighmedium

α1590Ἀμίδαchamberpot… Aristophanes, Wasps 935 (a passage quoted in the scholia to Aeschines 3.14). cf. alpha 4471 and omicron 946. [1] (For the gloss cf. upsilon 431.) Again, quoted from somewhere -- probably Demosthenes (54.4), which …Matched in noteshighshort

α1805ἈναβιβῶμαιI will bring up, I will bring forward… 30 Kock, now 29 K.-A.). It is also found in Aeschines 2.146, of adducing evidence in court; see web address 1.Matched in noteshighshort

α2293Ἀνεπιεικέςunseemly… though there are other extant possibilities, beginning with Aristophanes and Aeschines (sc.) Socraticus. [1] Arrian, Anabasis 4.21.9 -- but the Suda's quotation of it is garbled in a most intriguing way. In place of …Matched in noteshighshort

α2410Ἀνηλεήςmerciless, pitiless… and e)/leos; cf. generally nu 311. There are instances in Aeschines (2.163), Menander, Callimachus, Appian and elsewhere.Matched in noteshighshort

α4254Ἀστρατείαnon-campaigning… obliged (Aristophanes, Knights 444). See also: Lysias 14.6-7; Andocides 1.74; Aeschines 3.175-176; Plato, Laws 943A-945B; Pollux 6.151, 8.40. On this and other military offenses see chiefly Hamel (below).Matched in noteshighshort

β257Βῆμαplatform, podium, rostrum… the Athenian lawcourt(s), one each for plaintiff and defendant, see Aeschines 3.207. [2] Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 677-8, preceded by comment from the scholia there.Matched in noteshighshort

δ1491Δραγμὴ χαλαζῶσαa drachma falling as hail; a handful falling as hail… eponymous archon, is linked with theorika by a scholiast to Aeschines 3.24. (So G.L. Cawkwell, 'Eubulus', JHS 83 (1963) 47-67, at 55 n.53; P.J. Rhodes, A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia (1981) 514.) …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1049ἜμπουσαEmpousa, Empusa, Banshee… s.v. (commenting on Demosthenes 18.130: D. is being rude about Aeschines' mother). [3] cf. the scholia to Aristophanes, Frogs 293-4. Here is the first acknowledgement in the entry of the creature's gender; cf. OCD, …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε1530Ἐξ ἁμάξηςfrom a wagon, out of a wagon… lambda 458. [1] Demosthenes 18.122 (web address 2), thus characterising Aeschines' attacks on him (as loud and vulgar).Matched in noteshighshort

ε2187Ἐπῄνειwas praising, was approving… given, but earlier instances are numerous (Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, Demosthenes, Aeschines). [2] Aelian fr. 234 Domingo-Forasté (235 Hercher).Matched in noteshighshort

ε3718ΕὐρύβατοςEurybatos, Eurybatus… of Demosthenes (On the Crown 18.24: web address 1) and Aeschines (Against Ctesiphon 3.137: web address 2). See also epsilon 3715, epsilon 3716, epsilon 3717, phi 770. [1] Ephorus FGrH 70 F58c; cf. Diodorus …Matched in noteshighmedium