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869
Ἀκήρατος
unmixed
… alpha 836. [2] Used of e.g. a writing tablet in
Polyaenus
2.20; cf. alpha 833 note 1.
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1756
Ἀμφιπρύμναις
double-sterned
… "double-sterned" vessels were perhaps like the ones which, according to
Polyaenus
3.11.14, the Athenian general Chabrias (chi 1) used in the mid C4 BCE: with a second pair of steering oars, for rough water.
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3013
Ἀπελογίζετο
gave an account of
… cf. tau 112). On him, and this epsiode, see also
Polyaenus
5.17.2.
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1215
Διότιμος
Diotimus, Diotimos
… called an 'admiral' (nauarchos) in the dossier of stratagems in
Polyaenus
5.22.
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96
Ἔγκειται
bears down upon
… ignored in Zintzen's collection of the fragments). She rightly compares
Polyaenus
3.7.1, where just this ruse enables the Athenian general Lachares to flee Athens when it was captured by Demetrios Poliorketes in c.295 BCE; …
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202
Ἐδεδίξατο
was frightened
… one instance of the corresponding third person plural (as does
Polyaenus,
Stratagems 1.12, on an early war between the Boeotians and the Thessalians).
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1233
Ἐνελόχισαν
they lay in ambush
… is attested only here. (For the third person singular see
Polyaenus
3.1.2, on the Athenian general Demosthenes in Acarnania in 426 BCE.)
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