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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
… Th.], with Buecheler's *)/Akhs for a)kti/s.] [2] The hellenistic antiquarian
Demetrius
of Scepsis (on whom see generally OCD(4) p.433, s.v.
"Demetrius(12)").
Here he probably implies that only the headland fortress was still called Ake …
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Ἀνεπόπτευτον
not-fully-initiated
… Against Phryne). [2] Philochorus FGrH 328 F69b and 70b. The
'Demetrius'
in question is the early-Hellenistic king
Demetrius
Poliorcetes, for whom the usual rules were waived, so making possible his initiation to all the …
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Ἔνην καὶ νέαν
old-and-new
… but clearly we need "they", as in Harpok. [3] King
Demetrius
Poliorcetes, after whom (in the late C4 BCE) the Athenians certainly did name a state trireme and a new tribe (as 'Demetrias' in …
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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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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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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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Ἑρκεῖος Ζεύς
Zeus Herkeios
… XXII.2 Conomis, and cites both Hyperides (fr. 94 Jensen) and
Demetrius
of Phaleron (FGrH 228 F6 = fr. 139 Wehrli) for the constitutional point. See also Photius and, post-Suda, the Etymologicum Magnum; and epsilon …
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41
Εἴδω
I place
Cf. post-Suda the scholia of Thomas Magister and
Demetrius
Triclinius on (?)Aeschylus Prometheus Bound 451, where however the accepted reading is h)=|san rather than ei)=san. [1] Perhaps this should be i(/zw, which has the …
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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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