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α3605Ἀπὸ τοῦ κρατίστουin all good faithThe phrase is a favourite one in Polybius: besides the two instances given here, see 6.56.3, 8.17.4, 8.24.10. [1] Polybius fr. 118 Büttner-Wobst. Büttner-Wobst notes (530) that Dindorf deemed this fragment to be genuinely …Matched in noteshighshort
α3357Ἀπόκλητοιselect-men, apokletoi, apocleti… by the oblique cases in the two quotations given. [1] Polybius 4.5.9-10 (here abridged). [2] Polybius 20.1.1 (cf. Livy 35.45.9-46.1). These two quotations in the Suda comprise the whole of the passage. In the …Matched in noteshighshort
δ446Δημοκρατίαdemocracy… see generally OCD(4) 436-7 (s.v. 'democracy, non-Athenian and post-Classical'). [1] Polybius 11.13.7. It continues: "whereas a tyranny, the more ambitious are its aims, the more mercenaries it needs".

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Ἀπὸ τοῦ κρατίστου

in all good faith

[Meaning] powerfully. "With the Carthaginians obedient, in all good faith, to all the commands." And Polybius [writes elsewhere]: "and in antiquity monarchy existed in all good faith amongst the Romans; but in our times…

Ἀπὸ τοῦ κρατίστου· μετὰ δυνάμεως. ἅτε πεπειθαρχηκότων Καρχηδονίων ἀπὸ τοῦ κρατίστου πᾶσι τοῖς ἐπιταττομένοις. καὶ Πολύβιος· καὶ τὸ μὲν παλαιὸν ἀπὸ τοῦ κρατίστου ἐγίνετο παρὰ…

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δ1065Δικαιοδοσίαjurisdictioncf. generally delta 1066. The present headword occurs frequently in Polybius, both in the general meaning of "jurisdiction" and in the one of "trial" (cf. 4.16.4, ei)s dikaiodosi/an prokalei=sqai). See LSJ at web address …Matched in noteshighshort

α117ἈγαθοκλῆςAgathokles, Agathocles… The entry presents a semi-verbatim and mildly abridged extract from Polybius (12.15.2-7: web address 1 below), who is in turn citing, disapprovingly, Timaeus of Tauromenium (FGrH 566 F124b). [1] On this passage K.J. Dover, …Matched in noteshighmedium

α2659ἈντίγονοςAntigonos, AntigonusA rearranged quotation of Polybius 5.9.8-10, on King Antigonos III Doson (lived c.263-221; reigned from 227) of Macedonia.Matched in noteshighmedium

α3587Ἀποτέλειοιmagistrates… word in another context, magistrates of the Achaean League, see Polybius 10.23.9, 16.36.3-4; and in fact (as Adler notes) Toup and Hemsterhuis wanted to emend 'of the Judaeans' in the present entry to 'of …Matched in noteshighshort

α4217Ἀσταθμεύτουςnot encamped; without soldiers quartered[1] Polybius 15.24.3, concerning the behavior of Philip V of Macedon at Thasos. (The quotation, however, actually exemplifies the adjective anepistathmeutos, not the astathmeutos of the headword.) See already alpha 2298 and again alpha …Matched in noteshighshort

α4512Αὐτονομουμένη πόλιςautonomously-governed polis… form is otherwise unattested, but compare e.g. the plurals in Polybius 21.22.10 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 …Matched in noteshighshort

ε469Ἐκκλησιάζωνassembling, summoning to an assembly… comedy Ecclesiazusae. [2] Quotation unidentifiable. (Adler notes Tittmann's suggestion of Polybius.)Matched in noteshighshort

ε2616Ἐπιστάτιςchairwoman, lady president… reign of Commodus). For this sense of epistates cf. e.g. Polybius 1.40.11.Matched in noteshighshort

ε2736Ἐπιτυχοῦσινto just any people; to those who happen to be there; to people of no consequence; to those who happen to succeed… apparently in reported speech -- is unknown. Adler’s suggestion of Polybius is implausible, as he does not use e)pituxw/n in the sense required here (an observation I owe to F.W. Walbank in correspondence). If …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3604Εὐνοῦχοςeunuch… quoted also at iota 195 and mu 381. [5] From Polybius 22.22; also at alpha 3925 (q.v.). [6] alpha 3822. [7] i.e. Theodosius II (408-450) theta 145; De Imperatoribus Romanis entry (Geoffrey Nathan) at …Matched in noteshighmedium