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Ἀγωνιᾶν
to contest
Isocrates
[sc. uses the word] to mean agonizesthai ["to compete"].
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4074
Ἀρχαῖος
old-fashioned
[Meaning] someone/something ancient.
Isocrates
in the Panegyricus [says] "speaking old-fashionedly", that is, using rather archaic words. But Demosthenes in [the] Philippics [sc. is found] saying "they behaved so old-fashionedly, or rather, like good citizens"; …
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4426
Αὐθέντης
perpetrator
… own hand, or the one who kills himself. Hence in
Isocrates
perpetrator. Lysias applies it in a special sense to the 30, even though they had their murders committed by others. For 'the actual …
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334
Ἀγωνιῶ
I am in a torment
… out." Also [sc. attested in the plural] a)gwniw=ntes, meaning rivalling.
Isocrates
[sc. uses the term].
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441
Ἀδελφειός
brother
… is the cognate verb] a)delfi/zein, meaning "to call [someone] brother".
Isocrates
and Hecataeus the Milesian and Apollophanes used [it] in this way. And in the feminine [there is also attested] th\n a)delfidh=n, h( a)delfidh=, …
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904
Ἀκμή
moment, point, still
… and youth. But "akme of opportunity" [means] good fortune. Thus
Isocrates
[writes]: "[it is best] to grasp the akme of the opportunities." It is also taken to mean e)/ti ["yet, still"]. Thus Hyperides [sc. …
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2202
Ἀναιρεθείς
having been taken up
… [he] having been picked up [a)nalhfqei/s] [sc. and nurtured]. Thus
Isocrates
[sc. uses the term]. Also [sc. attested is] a)nairei=n, [meaning] to conceive in the womb, and to raise the offspring, and to kill, …
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Ἀντίθεσις
antithesis
… are contrasted with each other either partially or wholly. So
Isocrates
in the Panathenaikos [sc. uses the term].
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2923
Ἀπαριθμησόμενος
intending to secure payment
… attested is the present participle] a)pariqmw=n, meaning fulfilling an inventory.
Isocrates
[sc. uses the word in this way]. Also [note the idiom] a)pariqmw= se ["I requite you"], [i.e. used] with an accusative.
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3377
Ἀπολαύειν
to enjoy; to reap [the results of]
… only to pleasures, but also to their opposites, as [does]
Isocrates:
"I fear that I shall reap a bad reward." And Marcellinus says [this] about Thucydides: "neither Kleon nor Brasidas, the cause of the …
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557
Διάθεσις
deposing, disposing
… of these [terms] in reference to transacting business. And in
Isocrates
'to be disposed' is applied to experiencing, as he says in the Encomium of Helen: "from this as well one might realize how …
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558
Διάθεσις
disposition
Isocrates
[sc. uses this word] to mean sale. But Antiphon [does so] to mean arrangement. And [the cognate verb] diaqe/sqai relates to arranging. But diaqe/sqai can also substitute for sunqe/sqai, as Hyperides and Demosthenes …
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956
Διεσκαριφησάμεθα
we trivialized
… And such things are easily destroyed and easily dissipated. So
Isocrates
[sc. uses the word]. [The verb] skarifh/sasqai is to do something perfunctorily and not with the appropriate accuracy.
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2327
Ἐπιθέτους ἑορτάς
extra festivals
Isocrates
in Areopagitikos [sc. uses this phrase]. It is the festivals that are not traditional, but voted for by other means, that they used to call "extra". And other things too were described as …
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Ἐπισημαίνεσθαι
to signify approval
Isocrates
[uses it] to mean praise and to exclaim, but Isaeus to mean to set a seal on.
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229
Ἠλινδημένον
overturned, rolled over
… Against Phormisios [uses the word]. [It is the verb] which
Isocrates
calls kalindei=sqai.
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428
Ἤπειρον
continent
It is a habit of
Isocrates
to give this name to the land subject to [the] king of the Persians.
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179
Κακῶς εἰδότες
badly understanding
Meaning [they] being unaware.
Isocrates
in the [speech] On Peace [sc. uses the phrase].
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3383
Ἀπολελοιπότες
having left behind
The headword (quoted from
Isocrates:
see below) is perfect active participle, masculine nominative plural, of a)polei/pw. The entry derives from Harpokration s.v. (virtually verbatim, though see note below). [1] Not "Socrates", as the transmitted …
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171
Δέκα
ten
Abridged from Harpokration s.v., who besides
Isocrates
and Lysias (below) cites Androtion FGrH 324 F10. [1]
Isocrates
18.5. [2] Lysias fr. 79 Sauppe, now 88 Carey OCT.
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172
Δεκαδαρχίαι
tenfold-regimes
Abridged from Harpokration s.v., an entry generated by
Isocrates
4.110 and 5.95; also cited are
Isocrates
12.67 and (as below) Demosthenes. [1] In the late C5 BCE, after their victory in the Peloponnesian War. …
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Ἐπιδοκιμάζω
I make trial of [someone or something on behalf of someone else]
… here, it is attested only once, in a quotation from
Isocrates
2 (To Nicocles) 28 in the Anthology of Joannes Stobaeus, with the present participle e)pidokima/zontas. The transmitted text of
Isocrates,
however, has there …
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234
Δεξιός
clever
… himself to the situation. This Theramenes was a teacher of
Isocrates;
[he was the] son of Hagnon, of the deme of Steiria. He committed many crimes, but two are the greatest and most shocking: …
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296
Χιάζειν
to play the Chian
… poetry] with exharmonic colors [or: to the chromatic scale]; as
Isocrates
in the Against Eidothea; as in Aristophanes of an established [scale]: "one of them offers to act the altar-ambusher, by showing that he …
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150
Ἀγαπᾶν
to love, to receive favorably, to be content with.
… There are classical Attic instances in Plato (Meno 75C) and
Isocrates
(Letters 6.6); and see generally LSJ s.v. a)gapa/w, III.1.
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766
Ἀθυμότερος
more dejected, rather dejected
… quoted from somewhere; extant possibilities include Xenophon (Anabasis 1.4.9) and
Isocrates
(Letters 4.8).
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1924
Ἄνακτες
lords
From Harpokration s.v., commenting in the first instance on
Isocrates
9.72. [1] Aristotle fr. 526 Rose. [2] cf. generally alpha 1923 (and see also alpha 1897). [3] This abstract noun is here in the …
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2275
Ἀνεξάλειπτος
indelible
The headword adjective is first attested in
Isocrates
5.71. See also alpha 2034, tau 882.
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Ἀπεληλαμένος
having been expelled
… singular, is not simply generic, it might be quoted from
Isocrates
15.50.
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3219
Ἀπιστεῖν
to distrust, to disobey
… Harpokration s.v. [1] Harpok. cites Antiphon (fr. 22 Sauppe) and
Isocrates
(Epistle 2.12) for this. [2] Harpok. cites Demosthenes (9.38) 'and many others' for this. [3] Plato, Apology 26E, where a)/pistos seems to mean …
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