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4512
Αὐτονομουμένη πόλις
autonomously-governed polis
… autonomia assured the rights of an allied city to conduct
most
of its own internal affairs (courts, magistracies, etc.) without restriction, though it was constrained in the free exercise of foreign/military policy by conditions …
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2833
Ἄξονες
axones, axles
… objects, while this entry asserts that axones were square, but
most
authorities regard the two terms as interchangeable. [3] So in e.g. Homer, Iliad 5.838.
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1062
Δικαίαρχος
Dikaiarkhos, Dicaearchus
… Pelling. One of the giants of Hellenistic geography, perhaps the
most
immediately relevant predecessor to Eratosthenes (so Strabo, anyway). [1] Modern Messina. [2] Literally 'listener', 'hearer'. Dikaiarkhos' floruit is placed c.320-300 BC. [3] Only …
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1205
Διοσημεία
Zeus-omen, Zeus-sign
… (Plato, Cratylus 409B) is attested only in a few instances,
mostly
in formal language, with reference to magistrates: cf. Aristotle, Politics 1322a12; idem, Athenaion Politeia 4.2 strathgoi\ e(/noi; IG 12.324.26 *(ellhnotami/ai e(/noi; Demosthenes 25.20; …
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1491
Δραγμὴ χαλαζῶσα
a drachma falling as hail; a handful falling as hail
… edn. 1988) 265-268. [1] This phrase has been understood by
most
scholars as an archon-date, i.e. 395/4. Latte, for instance, adds this in parenthesis in Hesychius; and such a (putative) datum has duly played …
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469
Ἐκκλησιάζων
assembling, summoning to an assembly
… the verb (II in LSJ s.v.). The intransitive sense is
most
famously illustrated by Aristophanes' comedy Ecclesiazusae. [2] Quotation unidentifiable. (Adler notes Tittmann's suggestion of Polybius.)
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2434
Ἐπιλαχόντα
having obtained by lot
… nominative/accusative plural. Either way, it must be quoted from somewhere.
Most
of the (few) extant instances outside lexicography come from Philo Judaeus.
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3876
Ἐφέται
ephetai, ephetae
Similar material in other lexica -- but this is the
most
dubious of the Suda's trio of entries on this topic: see epsilon 3877 and epsilon 3878 (with the bibliography there); also epsilon 3865, …
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222
Εἰσαγγελία
impeachment, eisangelia
… 21 calls Harpokration s.v. eisangelia "one of his finest and
most
informative notes". The long first paragraph of the present entry derives from it. See also epsiloniota 220, epsiloniota 221. [1] Isaeus 11.15 and …
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465
Ἰωάννης
Ioannes, Joannes, John [the Lydian]
… of his works given here omits what is arguably the
most
important one, On the Magistrates of the Roman Republic. [1] For this city, present-day Alasehir, see Barrington Atlas map 56 grid H5. [2] …
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