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- ε2471ἘπιμενίδηςEpimenides… s.v.; FGrH 457. For the present material (main paragraph) cf. Diogenes Laertius 1.109-112. [1] Compare Aristeas (alpha 3900). [2] 660-657. [3] On whom see generally OCD(4) s.v. Seven Sages. [4] 604-601. (For this epidode …
- δ471ΔημοφῶνDemophon… uncles (see under delta 456); and Alexander the Great's butler (Diogenes Laertius 9.80).
- ε2591Ἐπισκύνιονhighbrow; superciliousness… Etymologicum Magnum 364.5. [2] Greek Anthology 7.63.2 (author unknown), of Diogenes; cf. nu 146. The Anthologia Palatina notes that the author of this epigram is a)de/spoton, anonymous; yet epigrams with similar themes, but nonetheless …
- κ288Καμόντωνof those whose work is done… 'ghosts' (web address 1). On this epigram, wherein the philosopher Diogenes the Cynic, bound for Hades, addresses Charon [Author, Myth] (q.v. chi 135), see Gow and Page (vol. I, 408-409) and (vol. II, 441). …
- α1367Ἄλοχοςspouse… quoted in an anecdote (about a male homosexual relationship) in Diogenes Laertius 4.29.
- α4305Ἄτταfather… an attribution of the epigram to Callimachus is found in Diogenes Laertius 1.79 and only there. They observe that although the Anthologia Palatina (AP) makes no attribution for this epigram, it is highly likely …
- α3402Ἀπόλογος ἈλκίνουAlkino(o)s' story, Alkino(o)s' taleDiogenianus 2.86. The phrase (explained thus in LSJ s.v. a)po/logos, I: "of long and tedious stories, from that told by Odysseus to Alcinous in Od. 9-12") is found in e.g. Comica Adespota fr. 743b …
- β78Βάλλειν μήλοιςto hit with apples[1] Diogenianus 3.63; and cf. mu 938, mu 942. [2] Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as a passage from Gregory of Nazianus' Funeral speech for Basil of Caesarea. [3] …
- α3745ἌρατοςAratus, Aratos… 194). [1] Aratus' brother Myris was a student of Zeno (Diogenes Laertius 7.38), and wrote on Homeric questions (Vita III). On Soloi, see sigma 781. [2] The fragments of the Erga of a Menecrates …
- α3420ἈπολλώνιοςApollonios, Apollonius… the sober comment "if indeed he died" (ei)/ge e)teleu/ta). [3] Diogenes Laertius 8.10 (Pythagoras). [4] Literally, "a biography befitting a philosopher." The formal title The Memoirs of Apollonios of Tyana is given as ta\ …
- γ68Γαστήρbelly, stomach[1] cf. generally sigma 543. [2] Diogenianus 3.85. [3] Theodoret (PG 80, 1080c) on Psalm 30:10 LXX.
- κ1506Κήλησιςenchantment, ravishment… has been suggested: katakhlou=sa in the editio princeps, persuasively citing Diogenes Laertius 7.114 (kh/lhsis ... e)stin h(donh\ di' w)/twn katakhlou=sa); kataxalw=sa Bernhardy, with (looser) reference to this verb in a scholion on Thucydides 1.94.2. …
- αι101Αἰείalway… both in the headword and in the examples.) [2] cf. Diogenianus 1.70; and see alpha 629. [3] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Lysistrata 855: see next note. The issue addressed is which case of …
- χ234Χειμὼνwinter… the entry, in which xeimw/n is defined, is quoted from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers 7.151, where it is attributed to the Stoic Chrysippus (fr. 693). The subsequent part, with the Homeric quotation …
- α1108Ἀλέγοιςmight you have a care for… probably a)le/kois "might you ward off"). The epigram, the sailor Diogenes's dedication of a promised object to one of the Kabeiroi (cf. kappa 6) during a storm at sea, is attributed to Diodorus; cf. …
- λ183Λαῖλαψstorm… beta 390. The epigram is a dedication, by the sailor Diogenes, of a promised object to one of the Kabeiroi (cf. kappa 6) during a storm at sea; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, …
- α3756Ἀργαλέον φρονέοντα παρ' ἄφροσι πόλλ' ἀγορεύεινpainful for someone of sound mind to say many things to the senseless… of a gnomic couplet of Theognis; registered as proverbial by Diogenianus (2.90) and other paroemiographers. [2] From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 4.471, where a)rgale/on occurs. [3] Lejeune (below) 151 accepts this etymology, as …
- α664Ἀήτηςgale… Barrington Atlas map 60 grid E4). The epigram, the sailor Diogenes's dedication of a promised object to one of the Kabeiroi (cf. kappa 6) during a storm at sea, is attributed to Diodorus; cf. …
- β390Βορᾶςof food, of prey… Arrian, Anabasis 1.26.2. [4] Greek Anthology 6.245.2 (Diodorus), the sailor Diogenes's dedication of a promised object to one of the Kabeiroi (cf. kappa 6) during a storm at sea; cf. Gow and Page (vol. …
- α1683Ἀμύξειςyou will scratch, you will tear… scholia to Homer, Iliad 1.243, where the headword occurs. [2] Diogenianus 6.69; cf. mu 865. [3] Greek Anthology 7.218.11 (Antipater of Sidon), epitaph for the famous Corinthian courtesan Lais; cf. Gow and Page (vol. …
- η5ἮI was, he was… line from one of the tragedies (fr. 2 Snell) of Diogenes of Sinope (delta 1143).
- β236Βέμβηξtop… Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. [2] Greek Anthology 7.89.9-10 (in Diogenes Laertius 1.80), a man seeks advice from the sage Pittacus; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 70-71), (vol. II, 205-207), and another excerpt …
- ε3585ΕὔμολποςEumolpus, Eumolpos… emerging polis of Athens. [2] mu 1294. Ιn other traditions (Diogenes Laertius 1.3.3-12 and Greek Anthology 7.615) Musaeus is Eumolpus’ son. [3] See the seven entries under *)orfeu/s: omicron 654, omicron 655, omicron 656, …
- κ2166Κοτύληkotyle… This is a garbling of Aristotle fr. 1.7.63 Rose = Diogenes Laertius 9.53: what is so defined is the kaloume/nhn tu/lhn, "the so-called shoulder-pad". Protagoras' career is also mentioned in phi 610.
- ε1002ἘμπεδοκλῆςEmpedokles, Empedocles… The material of the present entry is drawn largely from Diogenes Laertius. [1] Or "Exainetos": Inwood and others (from Satyrus ap. DL 8.53). Xenetos is cross-referenced at xi 24. [2] Again at kappa 224. …