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ε3087ἘροιάδαEroiadai, EroeadaeEroiadai is a deme of the Hippothontid tribe [sc. in Athens].Matched in translationhighshort
η545ἩρώδηςHerodes… Hadrian the sophist succeeded him as head of his school. Herodes was a contemporary of the sophist Aristides. Very many other works by him are preserved, in which the greatness and elevation of his …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ1360ΚεραμίςKeramis, Ceramis, Kerameis… potters' [lit: ceramic] craft and from sacrificing to a certain hero [called] Keramos.Matched in translationhighshort
λ824ΛυκοῦργοςLykourgos, Lycurgus… and, founding an altar, they sacrifice to him as a hero once every year. For he was conspicuously the cause of the complete excellence and leadership of the Spartans, who in older times had …Matched in translationhighlong
ε2843ἘπώνυμοιEponyms… Salaminian could be regarded as an intruder amongst native Athenian heroes; cf. Herodotus 5.66.) [1] C. Theodoridis in his Photius edition (vol.II p.LXVII) points out that 'a hundred' (e(kato/n) does not appear in Ph's …Matched in noteshighmedium
α4078Ἀρχαιρεσίαmagistrate-election… of the masses, or to make voluntary contributions of money. Herodotus [sc. uses the word].Matched in translationhighshort
ε1711Ἐξηγηταίexpounders… a certain curse. Also those expounding the ancestral customs. And Herodotus [writes]: "you are expounder of matters good for the house of the King, and all this advice of yours is sound". Expounder, in …Matched in translationhighshort
α2981Ἀπέδοξενit seemed good not, it was resolved not… headword must be quoted from somewhere: there are instances in Herodotus, Xenophon, Pausanias and Philostratus. Impersonal a)pe/docen is the opposite of e)/docen as a decision-making formula: see LSJ s.v. a)podokei=.Matched in noteshighshort
δ446Δημοκρατίαdemocracy… democracy may create associations that are too modern. See (e.g.) Herodotus 6.43, Thucydides 6.89, Aristotle Politics 1279b18; and see generally OCD(4) 436-7 (s.v. 'democracy, non-Athenian and post-Classical'). [1] Polybius 11.13.7. It continues: "whereas a …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2723δοτικῇ$ χαρίζεταιentrusts… perhaps, though not necessarily, the quotation given; extant alternatives, from Herodotus onwards, are very numerous. For the dative with this verb cf. also epsilon 2724. [1] cf. chi 111. [2] Quotation (also in ps.-Zonaras) …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1111Δικτάτωρdictator… 182 and 168 BCE), and under eta 545 (Philostratus on Herodes Atticus). [3] Likewise in Photius. For the accountability criterion cf. already delta 1110. [4] Similarly in ps.-Zonaras.Matched in noteshighshort
α3894ἈρίσταρχοςAristarchos, Aristarchus… "the Great", king of Persia (d. 530 BCE), see generally Herodotus 1.108ff -- but the material of the present entry does not come from there, or anywhere else identifiable. [1] This sense of the …Matched in noteshighshort
χ263Χειροτονίαvote, show of hands… not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as Herodian, Ab excessu divi Marci 7.10.5, on Maximus and Balbinus, two of the cast of characters in 238 CE, the Year of the Six …Matched in noteshighshort
α4512Αὐτονομουμένη πόλιςautonomously-governed polis… 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 (and its cognate u(ph/koos) of "subject" or dependent cities, compare Thucydides 2.62, …Matched in noteshighshort
μ1067ΜιλτιάδηςMiltiadesSee also mu 1068, and generally OCD4 s.v. [1] cf. Herodotus 6.104. For Miltiades' trial in 493 BCE see M.H. Hansen, Eisangelia: the Sovereignty of the People's Court in Athens in the Fourth Century …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1205ΔιοσημείαZeus-omen, Zeus-sign… case. [1] *qeomhni/a is better characterized as "negative sign" (see Herodian, Partitiones p. 56, 15 qeomhni/a: h( tou= qeou= o)rgh/) as referred to plagues and famines; Anna Comnena, Alexiad 4, 2, 1; Arrian, Bithyniaca …Matched in noteshighmedium

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