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ε
3087
Ἐροιάδα
Eroiadai, Eroeadae
Eroiadai
is a deme of the Hippothontid tribe [sc. in Athens].
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2843
Ἐπώνυμοι
Eponyms
… Salaminian could be regarded as an intruder amongst native Athenian
heroes;
cf.
Herodotus
5.66.) [1] C. Theodoridis in his Photius edition (vol.II p.LXVII) points out that 'a hundred' (e(kato/n) does not appear in Ph's …
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4078
Ἀρχαιρεσία
magistrate-election
… of the masses, or to make voluntary contributions of money.
Herodotus
[sc. uses the word].
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1711
Ἐξηγηταί
expounders
… a certain curse. Also those expounding the ancestral customs. And
Herodotus
[writes]: "you are expounder of matters good for the house of the King, and all this advice of yours is sound". Expounder, in …
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2981
Ἀπέδοξεν
it seemed good not, it was resolved not
… headword must be quoted from somewhere: there are instances in
Herodotus,
Xenophon, Pausanias and Philostratus. Impersonal a)pe/docen is the opposite of e)/docen as a decision-making formula: see LSJ s.v. a)podokei=.
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α
3894
Ἀρίσταρχος
Aristarchos, Aristarchus
… "the Great", king of Persia (d. 530 BCE), see generally
Herodotus
1.108ff -- but the material of the present entry does not come from there, or anywhere else identifiable. [1] This sense of the …
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4512
Αὐτονομουμένη πόλις
autonomously-governed polis
… and Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 14.147. [1] For no/mois xrwme/nh, compare
Herodotus
1.173, 216, etc.; and alpha 4656. [2] For the verb u(pakou/ein (and its cognate u(ph/koos) of "subject" or dependent cities, compare Thucydides 2.62, …
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δ
446
Δημοκρατία
democracy
… democracy may create associations that are too modern. See (e.g.)
Herodotus
6.43, Thucydides 6.89, Aristotle Politics 1279b18; and see generally OCD(4) 436-7 (s.v. 'democracy, non-Athenian and post-Classical'). [1] Polybius 11.13.7. It continues: "whereas a …
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1111
Δικτάτωρ
dictator
… 182 and 168 BCE), and under eta 545 (Philostratus on
Herodes
Atticus). [3] Likewise in Photius. For the accountability criterion cf. already delta 1110. [4] Similarly in ps.-Zonaras.
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1205
Διοσημεία
Zeus-omen, Zeus-sign
… case. [1] *qeomhni/a is better characterized as "negative sign" (see
Herodian,
Partitiones p. 56, 15 qeomhni/a: h( tou= qeou= o)rgh/) as referred to plagues and famines; Anna Comnena, Alexiad 4, 2, 1; Arrian, Bithyniaca …
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ε
2723
δοτικῇ$ χαρίζεται
entrusts
… perhaps, though not necessarily, the quotation given; extant alternatives, from
Herodotus
onwards, are very numerous. For the dative with this verb cf. also epsilon 2724. [1] cf. chi 111. [2] Quotation (also in ps.-Zonaras) …
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263
Χειροτονία
vote, show of hands
… not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as
Herodian,
Ab excessu divi Marci 7.10.5, on Maximus and Balbinus, two of the cast of characters in 238 CE, the Year of the Six …
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