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Δίδυμος
Didymos, Didymus, the Twin
[Didymos is] also [a name of] the apostle Thomas.
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Ἀλύειν
to be beside oneself, to be overwhelmed
… put the garrison to the test somehow or other." But
Didymus
[says that] both [are] unaspirated. For the one, he says, [comes] from the [verb] a)leiai/nesqai, but the other from the [noun] a)/lh. But …
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Ἄνδηρα
borders [for plants or flowers]
… just like the flower bed and the water-conduit [would be].
Didymus
speaks [of them]. "[...] so that he could remove the irregularity of the plot by the construction of the borders and the water-conduits".
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Γαμηλία
wedding-feast
… associated with] the introduction of wives to the phratry-members. So
Didymus
the grammarian. And [there is] a saying. To bring in a wedding-feast: whenever someone married a wife [and] before a child was produced, …
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1256
Δίπαλτος
doubly-brandished, twice-brandished
… 1). The scholia there attribute the gloss panti\ sqe/nei to
Didymus,
the alternative one to the lesser-known grammarian Pius.
Didymus'
interpretation is preferred by Kamerbeek, who suggests a sense of the passage close to …
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804
Ἐλευθέριος
of Freedom
… [eleutheroi] built the portico near him. So [says] Hyperides. But
Didymus
maintains that it is not because of this, but because of the fact that the Athenians escaped subjection to the power of Persia. …
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Χάλκεος
brazen
… Alternatively there was a city called Brazen Jar. [Note] that
Didymus
the grammarian was called "brazen-bowelled" because of his steadfast activity in books, for they say that he compiled more than 3500 books.
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182
Δεκατεύειν
to tithe
… prompted by Demosthenes 22.77 (and also citing other oratory, and
Didymus).
See also delta 181.
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261
Δερμιστής
skin-eater
… Harpokration, Lysias merely used the word, without explanation. It was
Didymus,
commenting on Sophokles (fr. 449 Radt), who attempted to gloss it. [2] For Aristarchus see generally alpha 3892. [3] From the Milesian Histories …
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368
Δεισιδαιμονία
fear of the gods, piety, superstition
… not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as
Didymus
Caecus, On Genesis 27. [7] Quotation unidentifiable. [8] Appian, Samnitica 12.4; cf. pi 3232.
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515
Διαγεγονότος
elapsed, gone through, surviving
… of the 4th-5th centuries (Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory of Nazianzus,
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Caecus, Cyril of Alexandria). In the classical period, for the same sense, writers prefer the aorist tense. Thus it is probable that both …
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1126
Διμοιρίτης
double-pay soldier, half-file commander
… subject of an anathema by Pope Damasus in 381. See
Didymus
Caecus, In Psalm. 3; Epiphanius, Anchoratus, 13.8.5, 63.7.1; Panarion, Adv. Haereses v. I, p. 159, 6 M; I, 161, 13; 3, 416, 4; …
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774
Ἔλεγος
elegy
… epsilon 772, epsilon 773. [1] Likewise in other lexica, e.g.
Didymus
in the Etymologicum of Orion [Author, Myth] 58.7; and cf. the scholia on Aristophanes, Birds 217; Proclus in Photius, Bibliotheca 319b8; a scholion …
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Ἐλπίς
hope, expectancy
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Caecus (PG 39, 1140c; 219-220 Hagedorn-Hagedorn-Koenen) on Job 8.13 LXX; again under pi 2621. [1] See phi 559; for this definition of "fear" see Plato, Protagoras 358D and the Stoic doxography …
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1767
Ἕξις
dispositional state
… (cf. eta 286). The concept of a)teuci/a is used in
Didymus
(On the Trinity 39.616.25) and Damascius (On principles 1.7.7). It is derived from a root teuch- for achieving and hitting the mark (tau …
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1885
Ἑωλοκρασία
leftover-mixture
… youths rather than to the juices. [5] This "I" is
Didymus,
according to Cohn (cited by Theodoridis); in any event this entire comment is quoted verbatim (with some slight variations) by several sources, including …
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2297
Ἐπιδιετὲς ἡβῆσαι
to be two years past puberty
… words: see web address 1). Harpok. goes on to cite
Didymus
and to quote Hyperides fr. 192 Jensen. See also eta 19.
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952
Κατεντευκτήν
accuser
… Chrysostom, Comm. in Job 87.15-23 (cf. Synopsis scripturae sacrae 56.363.58-60),
Didymus
Caecus, Comm. in Job 209.6ff., and Severianus, In Job 56.580.24-27.
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