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κ2745Κύρβειςkyrbeis, kurbeis, crested stelae, crested tablets… 'cryptic'). The Latin translation in the Gaisford-Bernhardy edition evades the matter by leaving the word in Greek. [2] For Asclepiades (of Tragilus, C4 BCE: OCD(4) s.v. 'Asclepiades(1)') see alpha 3407 and (esp.) alpha 4173, …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3877Ἐφέταιephetai, ephetaeSame or similar materal in other lexica; and see generally OCD(4) s.v. (p.509). As with e.g. Hellenotamiai (epsilon 841, epsilon 842, epsilon 843), the Suda's material on the ephetai comes in three contiguous entries: …Matched in noteshighshort
ι114Ἰδιόξενοςprivate guest-friend… pi 2539, pi 2540, delta 1399, xi 45. [1] This material is also in Photius (Lexicon iota25 Theodoridis), and is paralleled elsewhere. Agamemnon's (alpha 140) family originated in Lydia. [2] Appian, Basilica 6.1.Matched in noteshighmedium
λ464Λῆξιν δίκηςallocation of a lawsuit… reports) in ms A, as if to suggest that this material is a continuation of lambda 463. But Photius too has this as a discrete entry: lambda278 Theodoridis. The entry as a whole begins …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2721ΚυνόσαργεςKynosarges, Cynosarges… Journal of Hellenic Studies 94 (1974) 88-95. For the present material cf. the scholia to Demosthenes 24.114. [1] Thus the name as transmitted, but it should be Diomos; cf. generally delta 1161. [2] Presumably …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ461Δημοσίων πραγμάτων διοικητήςadministrator of public affairs… pragma/twn kai\ tw=n i)di/wn pa/ntwn; "I am curator of public matters and of all the private ones" (web address 1). The gloss develops the sycophant's thought; he is claiming to be a model volunteer …Matched in noteshighshort
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
δ1208ΔιοσκόριοςDioskorios, Dioscorius… (5). Brother of Nicolaus (nu 394 = nu 395). This material reappears under theta 530. [1] In Lycia (Barrington Atlas map 65 grid C5). [2] [lambda 267] Leon.Matched in noteshighshort
ε3973Ἐφ' ὕδωρon water-dutySame material in Photius (where it fills two consecutive entries, epsilon2473-4); and cf. Hesychius epsilon7550. See also epsiloniota 334 (for a proverb which includes the present headword phrase), kappa 1743, and generally Stephen Todd, …Matched in noteshighshort
α4090Ἄρχεινto hold office… at epsilon 1637. The scholia on this passage supply the material of the present entry.Matched in noteshighshort
ε3956Ἔφοροιephors… 3955, and generally P.A. Cartledge in OCD(4) s.v. The present material on them, as C. Theodoridis points out in his Photius edition (vol.II p.CI), is drawn from the scholia to Thucydides 1.85.3, where the …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2612Ἐπιστάτηςchairman… headword's appearance in Isaeus fr. 42 Sauppe and citing other material (Aeschines 3.14 & 29, ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 44.2-3; Hyperides, Against Demosthenes 12). See also epsilon 2610, epsilon 2611, epsilon 2613, epsilon 2614, epsilon …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2465Ἐπιμελητὰς ἐμπορίουsuperintendents of the port… Dinarchus fr. VI.6 Conomis. [1] The ultimate source of this material (cited by Harpok.) is ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 51.4, and there, more intelligibly, this adjective is sitiko/n, "for grain". See web address 1.Matched in noteshighshort
ε3876Ἐφέταιephetai, ephetaeSimilar material in other lexica -- but this is the most dubious of the Suda's trio of entries on this topic: see epsilon 3877 and epsilon 3878 (with the bibliography there); also epsilon 3865, …Matched in noteshighshort
α4091Ἀρχήauthority, rule… also alpha 4092, alpha 4093. [1] The source of this material (also in ps.-Zonaras) is unidentifiable. [2] In the proverb arkhe is used in the sense of "beginning": "well begun is half done." See …Matched in noteshighshort
α921Ἄκομψονunadorned, lacking in prestige… the second of these glosses but then turns to different material and cites a fragment of Euripides. [1] Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 1.4.6 (here abridged); on Elpidius, formerly praetor Siciliae, envoy to the Avars in …Matched in noteshighshort
α3894ἈρίσταρχοςAristarchos, Aristarchus… (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 verb u(pani/stamai is unusual enough …Matched in noteshighshort
γ418Γραμματεύςclerk, secretary… headword and gloss in reverse. [2] i.e. a secretis. This material (including the etymology) comes from Procopius, History of the Wars of Justinian 2.7.15 (web address 1); cf. Kaldellis (87). [3] The topic now …Matched in noteshighshort
δ431ΔημήτριοςDemetrios, Demetrius… nevertheless accepted by (e.g.) H.H.Schmitt (ed.), Staatsvertraege no.433. (The entry's material between these 2 sections on the treaty is unidentifiable.) [2] i.e. Peiraieus (Athens). Part of this sentence reappears at sigma 1799. [3] Demetrius …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε1936Ἐπακτρία χώραEpaktrian territoryThis material -- also in other lexica -- bears some general resemblance to Strabo 9.1.20, which cites Philochorus FGrH 328 F94 on the twelve ancient poleis of Attica, but there is extra, implausible detail. …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2467Ἐπιμεληταὶoverseers, superintendentsSame or similar material in the Etymologicum Magnum and other lexica. [1] sc. in classical Athens. [2] These officials are perhaps to be identified with the 10 superintendents of the Dionysia mentioned in ?Aristotle, …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2760Κυρία ἐκκλησίαςmaster assembly, chief assembly-meeting… of the headword phrase in Hyperides fr. 89 Jensen. The material which glosses it comes from ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 43.3-4. cf. epsilon 470.Matched in noteshighshort
ε464Ἔκλειψιςabandonment; eclipse[1] See generally delta 850. [2] Similar material in Lexica Segueriana s.v. ekleipsis (259.21-26). [3] delta 810.Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1495ΔράκωνDrakon, Draco… 477. On the present entry, which contains the only biographical material we have on him, see T.J. Figueira, "The strange death of Draco on Aegina," in Nomodeiktes: Greek Studies in honor of Martin Ostwald …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε2611Ἐπιστάτηςchairman… 3000 for prytaneis; pi 2382 for proedroi). [1] For the material so far cf. ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 44.1-2. (It then goes badly astray.)Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2759Κυρίαsovereignty… gloss -- before the rest of the entry turns to matters of law, history and historiography -- indicates that the (feminine) headword comes from a philosophical context; see generally LSJ s.v. ku/rios, II.1. [2] …Matched in noteshighshort
α3913ἈριστογείτωνAristogeiton, Aristogiton… this sentence cf. Demosthenes 25.55-57 (web address 1 below). The material reappears under epsilon 1514 and mu 820; cf. also zeta 115. [3] In 338/7. For details see M.H. Hansen, The Sovereignty of the …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ1199ΚαῖσαρCaesar… 10, kappa 1196. [3] cf. Etymologicum Magnum 498.27-30 for the material of this first paragraph of the entry. The Suda's own source for it is indeterminable. [4] a.k.a. Marcus Aurelius, 161-180: see mu 214. …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3770ΕὐτόκιοςEutokios, EutociusMaterial attributed to Eunapius (1.273.18 - 274.5 Dindorf; fr.106 FHG (4.55)) by Kuster. This individual can scarcely be the celebrated Neoplatonist philosopher and mathematician Eutokios of Askalon (b. ca.480 CE; OCD(4) p.557), but perhaps …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1112Δικτάτωρdictator… now 80.1 Roberto. (See also Livy 2.18, upon which that material ultimately depends). [1] More exactly, Octavius Mamilius, leader of the Latins, who attacked Rome in the 9th year after the expulsion of the …Matched in noteshighmedium