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3087
Ἐροιάδα
Eroiadai, Eroeadae
… The truncated spelling of its name in the Suda headword,
Eroiada,
is a textual aberration.
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η
545
Ἡρώδης
Herodes
c. AD 101-177. See generally RE
Herodes(13)
= Claudius (72); OCD4 Claudius Atticus
Herodes(2);
PIR2 C802; Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists 2.1.545-566. [1] See RE Claudius(71).
Herodes'
grandfather's name was in fact Hipparchus. [2] …
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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
Likewise in ps.-Zonaras. [1]
Herodotus
6.58.3 (web address 1 below), on the ten-day suspension of elections in Sparta whenever a king dies. The
Herodotus
passage, in other words, illustrates the first rather than the …
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ε
1711
Ἐξηγηταί
expounders
… Platonic Lexicon, and the scholia to Plato, Laws 916C. [3]
Herodotus
5.31.4 (Artaphrenes to Aristagoras). [4] So the transmitted text, o)nomazo/mena; but -- as is clear from the Suda's source for this paragraph (Harpokration …
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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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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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δ
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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δ
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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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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