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2539
Ἄνθρωπος φιλοπραγματίας
meddlesome man
In reference to a busybody.
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3040
Ἑρμίας
Hermias
… 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". …
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Ἐγγαστρίμυθος
ventriloquist
… [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 …
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3695
Εὐριπίδης
Euripides
… 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. …
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1029
Διθυραμβοδιδάσκαλοι
dithyramb-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.
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4348
Ἀτέχνοις
for 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 …
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1161
Διόμεια
Diomeia
… (6.26 Kaibel); Plutarch, Themistocles 12); it was also where the
philosophical
school of the Cynics was founded by Antisthenes (Diogenes Laertius 6.16; alpha 2723). Pausanias 1.19.3 describes the altars devoted to mythological figures related …
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296
Χιάζειν
to play the Chian
… musician Democritus of Chios (RE 5.140, a contemporary of the
philosopher
of the same name), and that of the Siphnian style to an otherwise unknown citizen of that island named Theoxenides (but
Philoxenides
or …
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2954
Ἀπαίδευτοι
uneducated, untrained
… Disorderly. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "more uneducated than
Philonides
of Melite". This
Philonides
was not only big, but also unlearned and swinish. Aristophanes mocks him as a man who had hangers-on and …
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1298
Ἀλκυονίδες ἡμέραι
Alcyon 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, …
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3977
Ἁρμονίαν
harmony
… 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. …
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2807
Ἐποποῖ
epopoi (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 …
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616
Διαλλακτής
reconciler, mediator
… Adler prints filw/ths (otherwise unattested), while noting the ms variants
filo/ths
and filiwth/s. If
filo/ths
('friendship') is correct, the lexicographer has mistaken the nomen agentis diallakth/s for an abstract noun meaning roughly 'reconciliation'; the …
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1205
Διοσημεία
Zeus-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. …
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δ
1320
Δοθιῆνι
boil
… 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 …
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1548
Δρύππα
ripe olive
… ps.-Zonaras 571, e)fioulke/s), which is an hapax legomenon. Boissonade's conjecture
filouli/s
(fi/los
+ ou)=lis), based on the comparison with Dioscorides 1.139, seems quite plausible and explains the first word a(/t', which is otherwise unsatisfactory. …
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122
Ἀγαθοῦ Δαίμονος
of the Good Spirit
… the first [book] of On the Soul, calling it On
Philosophy.
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124
Ἀγάθων
Agathon
… 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.
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1353
Ἀλλ' οὐ θέμις
but not lawful
… ridicule and calumny. For slandering and envying [is] alien to
philosophers,
whose way is to share in everything without envy.
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1873
Ἀναθέσθαι
to take back
… one's plans and to repent. It is frequent in the
philosopher
Plato. Menander in Aphrodisian [writes]: "after escaping the illness which she had, she did not have to take back the words which had …
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1930
Ἀναλαμβάνειν
to 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 …
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3072
Ἀπέστω
let him go away
… [my] eyes." Socrates says [this] about those who want to
philosophize.
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3459
Ἀπ' ὄνου καταπεσών
having fallen from a donkey
… as if you had fallen from a donkey?" But the
philosopher
Plato says the proverb with "the mind" taking the place of the animal, like so: "[I should not], as if my mouth were …
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4171
Ἀσκητικόν
athletics-induced
… attested in the masculine] a)skhtiko/s, [meaning] a studious person, a
philosopher.
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572
Διακεκναισμένη
worn-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."
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797
Διατριβή
school, 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 …
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857
Διδάξομαι
I 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 …
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1178
Διονύσιος
Dionysius, Dionysios
… ill-treatment [inflicted] on any state." Concerning the tyrant Dionysius and
Philoxenus
the dithyrambic poet, see in the [entry] 'take me away to the quarries'.
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1179
Διονύσιος
Dionysius, Dionysios
Son of the tyrant of Sicily and a tyrant and
philosopher
himself. [He wrote] Letters and On the poems of Epicharmus.
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410
Ἐκκέκοφθ' ἡ μουσική
the culture has been cut out
They say that whereas the ancients engaged in
philological
enquiry during their symposia, their successors introduced the singing-girls and kithara-girls and dancing-girls. Hence some people used to use this saying when criticizing innovation.
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