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44 entries for four principal virtues

ε470Ἐκκλησία κυρίαprincipal assemblyThe ekklesia [assembly] in which they used to confirm [make kyrios] the decrees, is called kyria. There are regular ekklesiai, those that are called kyriai, three per month at Athens, on the first and …Matched in headwordhighshort
ε1936Ἐπακτρία χώραEpaktrian territory… the citizen-body the name Kekropia after himself; two of the four-city units he named from the four cities [concerned], establishing a share for each; the three remaining ones he named epaktrides ['hilly']; and the …Matched in translationhighshort
χ353ΧλωθόμυροςChlothomurus, Clodomer, Clodomir… in Lexicum Ambrosianum 259. Like chi 351, one of the four sons of chi 352.Matched in noteshighshort
χ137ΧάρωνCharon… Famous Men (in 4 volumes), Lives of Women (likewise in four).Matched in translationhighshort
ι525Ἱππάςcavalry… of the second Cavalrymen, of the third Yoke-team-men, of the fourth Laborers, and of the 5th Cavalry.Matched in translationhighshort
κ2760Κυρία ἐκκλησίαςmaster assembly, chief assembly-meeting… every day, unless that day was a holiday; the people four times in each prytany. At the master assembly it was necessary to vote out of office any officials who did not seem to …Matched in translationhighshort
χ351ΧλωθάριοςChlotharius, Chlothar, Clotaire, Lothair, Lothar… The father is Clovis, and this is one of his four warring sons, Clotaire (I) "The Old" (497-561). For another son see chi 353. Chlotharius was also the name of several Frankish kings and …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2745Κύρβειςkyrbeis, kurbeis, crested stelae, crested tablets… And [there is] a proverb: 'kyrbeis of evils'. [Kyrbeis] are four-angled tablets among the Athenians, on which they used to write the laws, as well as prescribe the punishments of the wrong-doers. The proverb …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε1985Ἔπαρχος πραιτωρίωνprefect of praetorians… 64. (Its substance had undergone great change from the time, four-five centuries earlier, when it had designated the command of the imperial guard in Rome.)Matched in noteshighshort
ι537Ἱππεῖςcavalrymen, horsemen, knightsThe Athenian demos was divided into four parts: into Pentakosiomedimnoi, into Hippeis, into Zeugitai, into Thetes. The Pentakosiomedimnoi they named because their farming produced that many measures; and these men were affluent. But the …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ70ΛακρατίδηςLakratides, Lacratides; LakrateidesThe principal source of this material is a fragment of Philochorus (FGrH 328 F202) preserved in the scholia to Aristophanes, Acharnians 220. Develin (below) 48 dates Lakrateides -- the most authentic version of his …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3511Εὔθυναaudit, euthyna… their own entry at lambda 651. [2] This first and principal part of the entry is also in other lexica, including Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon, and the scholia to Plato, Laws 945D. [3] From phi …Matched in noteshighmedium
α4537Αὐτόχρημα ὅμοιονexactly the same, straight away… It is not clear which Hasdrubal this is (OCD(4) has four). [3] Aristophanes, Knights 74-78 (web address 1 below); cf. chi 82.Matched in noteshighmedium
α2833Ἄξονεςaxones, axlesThe first and principal part of this entry derives from Harpokration s.v. a)/coni (sic: dative singular, from the Demosthenes passage quoted -- see below). The headword applies not only to the axles on which …Matched in noteshighshort
ε1711Ἐξηγηταίexpounders… Athens, at any rate, there was a single Pythochrestos, and four of other kinds. [2] For this opening section of the entry cf. Timaeus, Platonic Lexicon, and the scholia to Plato, Laws 916C. [3] …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1021Κατεχειροτόνησαν αὐτοῦthey voted to convict himThe first and principal paragraph of this entry is also in other lexica; see the references at Photius kappa457 Theodoridis. It stems from the phrase "[the entire people] voted to convict him [sc. Meidias]" …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1126Διμοιρίτηςdouble-pay soldier, half-file commander… Bishop of Laodicea. Flourishing in the latter half of the fourth century, the bishop appealed to the well-known Platonic division of the human soul to affirm that Jesus would have been provided only with …Matched in noteshighshort
μ203ΜάρκελλοςMarkellos, MarcellusMagister [officiorum] of the emperor Arcadius; an adornment of all virtue or, to speak more harmoniously, virtue personified.Matched in translationhighshort
δ1424Δοῦλοιslaves… so] by disposition. Base men [are] slaves of evils, but virtuous men [are] free. There is also another [sc. type of] slavery, the one [consisting of] subjection [to another person], and a third one …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ2051Κονσούλουςconsuls… called them u(/patoi ["highest"] because of their extreme authority. See further under u(/patoi.Matched in translationhighshort
δ1111Δικτάτωρdictator… abstract noun at delta 1110. [1] Likewise in Hesychius. See further, next note. [2] Likewise -- both elements -- in Photius (see further, next note) and other lexica. But these are late applications of …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2297Ἐπιδιετὲς ἡβῆσαιto be two years past pubertyMeaning to be sixteen years old. For puberty lasts until fourteen. But the "ephebes" in Athens were what eighteen-year-olds used to be called; and they would remain as ephebes for two years, after which …Matched in translationhighshort
ει273ΕἰσιτήριαInauguration, Eisiteria… Joining in the feast and participating were the generals and virtually all the office-holders".Matched in translationhighshort
δ420Δήμαρχοςdemarchos, demarch, mayor… were also the custodians of the deme registers [lexiarchika grammateia]. Furthermore they would assemble the demes[men] whenever required and give them a vote; and it was they too who used to seize the property …Matched in translationhighshort
κ1452ΚέφαλοςKephalos, Cephalus… in Athenian public life in the first quarter of the fourth century BCE. [2] 404/3. (For this technical sense of the term anarchia see LSJ s.v., III.)Matched in noteshighshort
λ684ΛουκιανὸςLucian… to their duty. And this man in fact, showing every virtue befitting a ruler to his subjects, became famous for his justice and wisdom and everything that is an ornament to rulers, as he …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε721Ἐκφυλλοφορεῖνto leaf out… procedure for internal discipline WITHIN the classical Athenian Council. See further under epsilon 722.Matched in noteshighshort
ε2435ἘπιλαχώνdeputyFrom Harpokration s.v. [1] Aeschines 3.62. [2] Harpokration adds that further light is shed on this by Plato (Comicus) fr. 166 Kock (182 Kassel-Austin).Matched in noteshighshort
α4696Ἀχίλλειος εὐχήAchillean prayer… address 1 below). [2] Appian, Italica fr. 8. For Marcus Furius Camillus see kappa 283, and generally OCD(4) p.595. The episode in question here is the Gallic sack of Rome in 390 BCE.Matched in noteshighshort
α4389Ἄτριψunaccustomed… Mother to Disclose the Secrets of the Roman Senate.) Favuzzi further suggests that this passage be attributed to Aelian; cf. sigma 1023. [2] Quotation unidentifiable.Matched in noteshighshort