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ε2616Ἐπιστάτιςchairwoman, lady president… verb e)pistate/w: cf. epsilon 2086). See web address 1. [3] Sophocles, Ajax 27 (web address 2) with scholion. [4] Cassius Dio 73.16.3 (from his eye-witness account of the over-the-top spectacles at the end of …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3015Ἑρκεῖος ΖεύςZeus Herkeios… Photius and, post-Suda, the Etymologicum Magnum; and epsilon 3017. [2] Sophocles, Ajax 108 and 110 (web address 1), with scholion. Modern editors emend to e(rkei/ou. [3] cf. epsilon 3016.Matched in noteshighmedium
ε2645Ἐπιστροφῆςtending-to… (533) that Schweighäuser attributed this fragment to Polybios. [3] Rather Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 536-7 (web address 2), with comments from the scholia. The texts of Sophocles read muri/wn instead of muri/ai, rendering the …

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Ἐπιστάτις

chairwoman, lady president

Feminine. A particular office, established to advise on war or peace or something else. Aristophanes in Thesmophoriazusae [writes]: "Timokleia in the chair, Lusilla as secretary". And Sophocles [writes]: "to presidents…

Ἐπιστάτις· θηλυκῶς. ἀρχή τις, ἥτις ἀνισταμένη συμβουλεύει περὶ πολέμου ἢ εἰρήνης ἢ ἄλλου τινός. Ἀριστοφάνης Θεσμοφοριαζούσαις· Τιμόκλει' ἐπιστάτει· Λύσιλλ' ἐγραμμάτευε. καὶ…

trade and manufacture

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α4096Ἀρχὴ ἄνδρα δείκνυσινoffice exposes a man… is a cut-down version of the one in Harpokration, where Sophocles (among his elegies: fr.2 West) is cited for the attribution to Solon. The Aristotle reference is to Nicomachean Ethics 1130a1; for Theophrastus, fr.737 …Matched in noteshighshort

α4512Αὐτονομουμένη πόλιςautonomously-governed polis… Aigina [Myth, Place]; contrast Figueira, 1993). Early literary references (e.g. Sophocles, Antigone 821f.) pose no difficulty, and attempts to explain these passages as somehow derived from an original, "political" sense (Ostwald, 10-12) are not …Matched in noteshighshort

δ436Δημιουργόςartisan, craftsman… (cf. delta 435.) Likewise or similarly in other lexica. [2] Sophocles, Ajax 1035. [3] An approximation of Thucydides 1.56.2, on one of the Athenian orders to its ally Potidaea in 432 BC. (Since the …Matched in noteshighshort