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Δημήτριος
Demetrios, Demetrius
… mu 1136.) This adjective is unattested outside lexicography, but Plutarch,
Demetrius
(sic) 41.6 has dimitros.
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Ἀκή
Ake, Acre
… the old name for the one now called Ptolemais, though
Demetrius
[says this] not of the [whole] city but of its acropolis.
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Ἀνεπόπτευτον
not-fully-initiated
… things and all the epoptic things". And elsewhere: "so for
Demetrius
something special and unique happened: becoming a semi-initiate [mystes] at the same time as a full-initiate [epoptes] and side-stepping the traditional times of …
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Ἔνην καὶ νέαν
old-and-new
… maintains that once he called it Demetrias in honor of
Demetrius
the Macedonian. They call "of the day after tomorrow" and "to the day after tomorrow" the [period] to the third; and by itself …
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Ἀνοδίᾳ
roadlessly, without using roads
… that in the morning they might ambush the defenders under
Demetrius
of Pharos (cf. OCD(4) s.v.
Demetrius(7)).
The surprise attack was successful, and this passage describes the flight of
Demetrius's
troops after the rout.
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Διισθμήσαντα
having di-isthmusized
… Taurion (Macedonian governor of the Peloponnese) and the dynast Demetrios
(Demetrius,
cf. OCD(4) s.v.
Demetrius(7))
of Pharos (Pharus, Barrington Atlas map 20 grid D6) in 220 BCE. The verb is unique to this passage …
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197
Δέλεαρ
bait
… subsequent piece of bait, encouraging him to sail off to
Demetrius."
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3500
Ἀπορησία
difficultness
… his intention to back out of a marriage-alliance with king
Demetrius
I of Syria. See Favuzzi [cited under alpha 1990] 54-55. [5] So in (e.g.) Plutarch, Themistocles 2.8 (= 2.6 Loeb): the story -- …
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Ἀρετή
arete, excellence, virtue
… not "imprudence": either, with Diogenes Laertius' text, swfrosu/nh|, or, with
Demetrius
Chalcocondyles' editio princeps (1499), eu)frosu/nh|. Health and strength are non-intellectual virtues, so it does not make sense to say that health follows on …
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250
Αἰολομίτρης
agile with a waistband [or: having a multicoloured or twisted or flashing waistband]; having a multicoloured diadem
… fr. 31 Mette, FGrH 76 F14), on the mitre of
Demetrius
Poliorcetes, and Curtius Rufus (OCD(4) p.400) 6.6.4, on Alexander's.
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93
Βάναυσος
vulgar, mechanical, banausic, plebeian
… 602) of the complaints made by Demochares (delta 472) against
Demetrius
of Phaleron (delta 429), benign dictator of Athens 317-307 BCE.
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6
Δᾳδουχεῖ
bears a torch, is a torch-bearer
… of Stratokles in 302 BC which (for the benefit of
Demetrius
Poliorcetes) tampered with the timing of the Eleusinian Mysteries; see generally C. Habicht, Athens from Alexander to Antony (Cambridge Mass. 1997) 79-80).
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799
Ἑλεπόλεις
city-destroyers, helepoleis
… late C4 BCE, with the engineers and designers serving King
Demetrius
Poliorcetes ("The Besieger"). Marsden 84-5 suggests that the name was suggested by the application of the adjective e(le/ptolis in tragedy to Helen (Aeschylus, …
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140
Χαρώνειος θύρα
Charon's door
… prison see L. O'Sullivan, "Philochorus, Pollux, and the nomophylakes of
Demetrius
of Phalerum", Journal of Hellenic Studies 121 (2001) 51-62; and cf. omicroniota 124. [2] Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 278: web address 1.
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