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ε3087ἘροιάδαEroiadai, Eroeadae… The truncated spelling of its name in the Suda headword, Eroiada, is a textual aberration.Matched in noteshighshort
η545ἩρώδηςHerodesc. AD 101-177. See generally RE Herodes(13) = Claudius (72); OCD4 Claudius Atticus Herodes(2); PIR2 C802; Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists 2.1.545-566. [1] See RE Claudius(71). Herodes' grandfather's name was in fact Hipparchus. [2] …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ824ΛυκοῦργοςLykourgos, Lycurgus… [4] cf. phi 366. [5] i.e. Thermopylai. For Aristodemos see Herodotus 7.229-231; and omicron 752. [6] cf. eta 616. [7] In fact these were separate groups. The 28 elders were permanent members of the …Matched in noteshighlong
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-electionLikewise in ps.-Zonaras. [1] Herodotus 6.58.3 (web address 1 below), on the ten-day suspension of elections in Sparta whenever a king dies. The Herodotus passage, in other words, illustrates the first rather than the …Matched in noteshighshort
ε1711Ἐξηγηταίexpounders… Platonic Lexicon, and the scholia to Plato, Laws 916C. [3] Herodotus 5.31.4 (Artaphrenes to Aristagoras). [4] So the transmitted text, o)nomazo/mena; but -- as is clear from the Suda's source for this paragraph (Harpokration …Matched in noteshighshort
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
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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