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α293Ἀγομένων τῶν ἡμετέρωνour [possessions] being led off… 22.3, 7 postquam res sociorum ante oculos prope suos ferri agique vidit; 38.15 ut ferri agique res suas viderunt, 3.37 (the same). [2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable. …Matched in noteshighshort
ν266Νεῦρα μάχηςsinews of battle… war or battle, see also mu 380 (citing Pindar); Plutarch, Agis and Cleomenes 48; Appian, Civil Wars 4.99, etc. [2] George of Pisidia, Heraclias 1.163-4 Tartaglia; on Heraclius during his incursion into Persia, undeterred …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1723ΚλεομένηςKleomenes, Cleomenes… of Sparta c.235-222 (for which see Polybius 2.46-70, 5.35-9; Plutarch, Agis and Kleomenes) and focuses on the end of his life. After the Macedonians defeated the Spartans at Sellasia, Kleomenes escaped to Alexandria, meeting …Matched in noteshighshort
μ380Μεγάνορος πλούτου[more than] lordly wealth… Pindar scholia to Olympian 1.4b, Appian (Civil War 4.12.99), Plutarch (Agis and Cleomenes 48.1.1), and nu 266, which quotes George of Pisidia (the seventh-century AD Byzantine poet), Heraclias 1.163-4. George's lines contain the phrase …Matched in noteshighshort
ε1055Ἐμποίνιμοςpunishable… beta 433 but presumably the Republican tribune (103-99 BCE) and agitator L. Appuleius Saturninus. Though never consul, he did surrender under a promise of official safety (fides publica) before being murdered by a mob.Matched in noteshighshort
α3460Ἀπόνοιαsenselessness… in fact a misrepresentation: Justinian (cf. iota 446) openly supported, agitated, and fired-up the Blues; cf. Procopius, Secret History 7.6 (web address 2). The Blues and Greens were rival circus guilds and enjoyed imperial …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3569Εὔλογον ἀξίωμαprobable assumption, reasonable proposition… BCE (at the age of c.24) would become the reforming Agiad King Cleomenes III. How far, if at all, the teachings of Sphaerus can be supposed to underpin Cleomenes' measures has been much debated: …Matched in noteshighmedium
ω245Ὡς τὴν ἐν Ἄργει ἀσπίδα καθελώνlike one capturing the Aspis in Argos… for the Larisa, or for part of it; cf. Plutarch, Agis & Cleomenes 38, 42, and Pyrrhus 32, where "Aspis" is the evidently the term used for the primary Argive citadel and is described …Matched in noteshighshort
λ272ΛεωνίδηςLeonides, LeonidasLeonidas (the appropriate Doric form) was Agiad king of Sparta between c.490 and 480 BCE, in which year he perished heroically in the defense of Thermopylai. See generally OCD(4) s.v. Leonidas(1); Poralla/Bradford, A Prosopography …Matched in noteshighmedium