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δ1328Δοκιμασθείςhaving been scrutinized… an office of any kind; sometimes their life was examined. Lycurgus says that three scrutinies take place by law: for one is the one in which the nine archons are scrutinized; in another it …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε1032Ἐμποδώνin the way… hand, but to strive after nothing further with [one's?] intentions." Lycurgus in the [speech] Against Lycophron [also uses it], to mean clear. Plato [uses it] to mean central. Isaeus [uses it] to mean recent …Matched in translationhighmedium
α2689Ἀντιόπη

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Δοκιμασθείς

having been scrutinized

Demosthenes [uses this word] to mean having been registered amongst [the] adults. For he also refers to having been scrutinized before the archons. The term "having been scrutinized" used also to be applied to those in…

Δοκιμασθείς· Δημοσθένης μὲν ἀντὶ τοῦ εἰς ἄνδρας ἐγγραφείς. λέγει γὰρ καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἀρχόντων τὸ δοκιμασθῆναι. ἐλέγετο δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν πολιτευομένων τὸ δοκιμασθῆναι, εἰ καὶ μηδ' ἥντινα…

Antiope

… had a wife, named Dirce, who suspected that her husband Lycus loved Antiope. She led her onto a mountain and tied her up to the neck of a bull and kindled torches on its …

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α3962Ἄρκυςhunting-net… in other lexica. [3] Abridged from Harpokration s.v., who cites Lycurgus (fr.86 Conomis), Xenophon (On Hunting 2.3, etc.), and Cratinus (fr 79 Kock = 84 K.-A.).Matched in noteshighmedium

ε1031ἜμπληνI neared, they neared… e)/mplhn (B). This seems to be an etymology of the lucus a non lucendo type. Gow suggests that at Nicander, Theriaca 322, a better translation would be "nearly": op. cit. p. 101.Matched in noteshighmedium

ε2907Ἐργολάβοςcontractor; profit-maker… address 2. [3] Demosthenes, Letter 3 (Concerning the sons of Lycurgus) at ch.34 (web address 3). [4] Reading h)/, from Demosthenes, for the Suda's e)k. [5] The translation renders the Suda's text w(s; but …Matched in noteshighmedium