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ι525Ἱππάςcavalry… [1] See generally sigma 776, sigma 777, sigma 779. [2] Four, rather (as is clear from e.g. ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 7.3). This error in Photius' source creates the need for a non-existent fifth class: …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2745Κύρβειςkyrbeis, kurbeis, crested stelae, crested tablets… see alpha 2833. [7] Here, for the second time in four lines, the noun ou)si/as is transmitted, but (as Adler notes, following Kuster) by a change of a single letter it can become qusi/as …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1126Διμοιρίτηςdouble-pay soldier, half-file commander

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Solon, when he wrote laws for the Athenians, divided their whole population into 5 classes, according to the value of their properties. And the name of the first class was Five-hundred-medimnos-men, of the second…

Ἱππάς· ὁ Σόλων τοὺς νόμους Ἀθηναίοις γράψας εἰς εʹ τέλη τὸ πᾶν πλῆθος αὐτῶν διέταξε τῶν κατὰ τὰς οὐσίας τιμημάτων. καὶ τῷ πρώτῳ ὄνομα ἦν Πεντακοσιομεδίμνων, τῷ δευτέρῳ Ἱππέων, τῷ…

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… 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 …

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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

α3913ἈριστογείτωνAristogeiton, Aristogiton… The Sovereignty of the Peoples Court in Athens in the Fourth Century BC and the Public Action against Unconstitutional Proposals (Odense 1974) 36-7, #27.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

γ439Γραφήpublic-suit, graphe… The Sovereignty of the People's Court in Athens in the Fourth Century B.C. and the Public Action against Unconstitutional Proposals (Odense 1974). Strictly speaking, the grafh\ parano/mwn could only be brought against decrees; against …Matched in noteshighshort

δ258ΔερκυλλίδαςDerkyllidas, Dercyllidas, Derkylidas, Dercylidas… in several military commands during the late fifth and early fourth centuries. Xenophon reports that he won a reputation for cleverness and deception which earned him the nickname "Sisyphos" (Xenophon, Hellenica 3.1.8). Derkylidas first …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

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

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

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

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

κ1786Κληρωτήριαallotment-machines… for allocating jurors to Athenian courts, operative in the early fourth century (after bribery scandals at the end of the fifth), and later superseded by the even more complicated one described in ?Aristotle, Athenaion …Matched in noteshighmedium

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

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

χ353ΧλωθόμυροςChlothomurus, Clodomer, Clodomir… in Lexicum Ambrosianum 259. Like chi 351, one of the four sons of chi 352.Matched in noteshighshort