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- δ813Διαφαίνειclarifies… from somewhere; perhaps Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.10.5 (also picked up by Stobaeus). cf. generally delta 810, delta 811, delta 812.
- ε1122Ἐναπομόργνυνταιthey are imparted… this verb see e.g. Iamblichus, On mysteries 5.3 (quoted by Stobaeus 3.3.26), of a colour; John Chrysostom, On virginity 71; Porphyry, Sententiae 29.12; Proclus, Eclogae fr.3.24; Stobaeus 1.49.55; Synesius, On insomnia 7.24, 19.17.
- λ594ΛίποιμιI might leave… Plato, Apology 29A (web address 1), a passage quoted by Stobaeus, though other extant possibilities include Euripides and Callimachus.
- α989Ἀκριτίjudgmentlessly… Sauppe = 88 Thalheim (now 425 Carey, OCT), preserved by Stobaeus, uses it in reference to a death-sentence without trial.
- α2650Ἀντιάζειmeets face to face… somewhere; perhaps from its only extant occurrence outside lexica, in Stobaeus 4.1.137 (= ps.-Archytas 34.9 Thesleff). cf. alpha 2652.
- ει30Εἰδημονικῶςknowledgeably… attested only here and in the derivative ps.-Zonaras 649, but Stobaeus 2.31.120 preserves an instance of the adjective (claimed to be) from Archytas (alpha 4121).
- ε3727Εὐρυπυλήςbroad-gated… Hades): see web address 1. (The line was anthologised by Stobaeus, and this particular formulaic phrase, eu)rupule\s *)/Ai+dos dw=, recurs in Odyssey 11.571.)
- α2937Ἀπατεῶνοςof a cheat… quoted from somewhere -- perhaps the fragment of Democritus in Stobaeus 3.14.8. which includes the phrase a)patew=nos e)/rgon; but see also (e.g.) under psi 61.
- δ1275Διοιδοῦσαswelling… from somewhere: perhaps Chrysippus' definition of xo/los (also noted by Stobaeus) as o)rgh\ dioidou=sa.
- μ852Μειονεκτεῖfalls short, is short of… three instances (1.19, 1.29, 4.1), two of them quoted by Stobaeus. cf. mu 853, mu 854.
- ι700Ἵστοροςknowledgeable… the quasi-proverbial fragment of the Hellenistic tragedian Apollonides excerpted in Stobaeus 4.22a.7: 'to praise a woman's virtues worthily would be the task of a wise histor of words').
- μ1396Μυκητίας σεισμόςbellowing earthquake… but appears as mukhti/ai when the passage is quoted in Stobaeus' Anthology (1.40.1). For earthquakes see generally sigma 291.
- κ2275Κωνειαζομέναιςwomen dosed with hemlock… one evidently quoted from somewhere; very probably (as twice in Stobaeus) from a mention of someone or something 'in' Menander's comedy of this name.
- α875ἈκιδαλίαAkidalia, Acidalia… (Braids), by the hellenistic poet Menophilus of Damascus, preserved in Stobaeus 4.21a.7.
- μ611Μενθῆρεςmentheres… of of the epic poet Panyassis (pi 248), preserved in Stobaeus, has menqh/rhs (genitive). Hesychius mu849 has the nominative singular menqh/rh glossed fronti/s, as well as the dative plural menqh/rais glossed meri/mnais "cares"; Orion …
- κ150Κακίαvice, evil… & 95 [1] For this distinction see (besides Diog. Laert.) Stobaeus, Eclogae 2.58.14 - 59.3 (ed. Wachsmuth). [2] For the Socratic antecedent of this position (i.e. that vices are proper to or belong to …
- λ843Λύπηpain, distress, vexation… This is a Stoic definition of pain, slightly modified (see Stobaeus, Eclogae 2.90, ed. Wachsmuth). [2] These words belong to the Stoic Apollodorus (see Diogenes Laertius 7. 118). The excellent person is the sage …
- β91Βαμβαίνειchatters… somewhere (perhaps Bion of Smyrna fr. 9 Gow, quoted by Stobaeus), though for the glossing cf. Hesychius s.v. bambai/nwn (from Homer, Iliad 10.375; cf. the scholia there).
- ν372Νίζειwashes… of (or attributed to) Epicharmus quoted in [Plato], Axiochus 396C, Stobaeus, and elsewhere: 'one hand washes the other'. cf. nu 371, nu 419. [1] The present ni/ptw was formed analogically from the future ni/yw …
- κ149Κακὴ μὲν ὄψιςface [is] bad… Menander fr. 441 Kock (5 Sandbach) -- though NB: in Stobaeus this quotation is attributed to another play (Dagger) by another poet of New Comedy, Philemon (fr. 21 Kock and K.-A.); cf. in any …
- ε2514Ἐπιπλέαquite full… it is neuter plural: Herodotos 7.45.3 (web address 2) and Stobaeus 4.34.73.
- ε2301ἘπιδοκιμάζωI make trial of [someone or something on behalf of someone else]… 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 the future participle of a different (and somewhat more common) …
- ε2902Ἐργαστῆραςworkmen… instance in Xenophon (Oeconomicus 5.15), noted by both Pollux and Stobaeus. [2] Aelian fr. 262 Domingo-Forasté (264 Hercher). Adler agrees with Bernhardy in suspecting the reading ei)s au)to/n.
- δ157Δεδοκιμασμέναapproved (ones), tested (ones)… other possibilities in e.g. Xenophon (Oeconomicus 6.14, later quoted by Stobaeus) and Polybius (9.32.8). [2] Eusebius of Caesarea: see epsilon 3737, from which this phrase comes. Eusebius' Commentaries on the Psalms were highly regarded …
- α1558Ἀμετάπτωτονunchanging… are the Stoics (see Plutarch, On common conceptions 1085 A-B; Stobaeus, Eclogae 2.73.16 Wachsmuth).]
- ε1864Ἐξυβρίζονταviolating… including one in Plato, Laws 691C (a passage quoted by Stobaeus). [2] Adler tentatively attributes this quotation to Arrian's Parthica (p. 31.106 Roos). On Dekebalos, see delta 189, delta 344.
- ε3858Ἐφέντεςyielding… instances are extant: see e.g. fr.564 of Euripides (preserved by Stobaeus), pa/nt' e)fe/ntes h(donh=|. [2] Quotation unidentifiable. [3] (The same participle in the accusative plural.) For this sense cf. epsilon 3865, epsilon 3866.
- ε3401Εὐδαῖμονhappy… belongs to the Stoic Zeno: see Diogenes Laertius 7.88 (and Stobaeus, Eclogae 2.77.21, ed. Wachsmuth). [4] Alexander of Aphrodisias, Commentary on Aristotle's Topica 142.22; also in Ps.Zonaras.
- ε3070Ἔρωςlove… a)taraci/a). See Diogenes Laertius 10.118. [2] On this point see Stobaeus, Eclogae 2.91, 15-16, ed. Wachsmuth (= SVF 395). This echoes the canonical Stoic definition of love, which is literally quoted below in the …
- δ559Διαθέσειςdispositions… te/xnai) with dispositions and virtues sounds Stoic in character (cf. Stobaeus, Eclogae 2.63.6-7, 2.67.5-12, and especially 2.70.21-71, 6, ed. Wachsmuth). Like the Platonic Socrates, the Stoics were willing to accept the thesis that virtue …