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δ359ΔειπνοσοφισταίDeipnosophistai, Deipnosophistae, Deipnosophists, Dinner-Sophists, Sophists at Dinner… a book thus titled (the one who wrote it [is] Athenaeus by name) which is helpful. [It records] that Ulpian, one of the Dinner-Sophists, who was called "Attested-or-Unattested" [Keitoukeitos] because of his constantly challenging …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ228ΔεξικράτηςDexikrates, Dexicrates… comic poet. His dramas are: Men Deceived by Themselves, as Athenaeus says in the third [book] of Deipnosophists.Matched in translationhighshort
η53ἩγήμωνHegemon… for taking bribes. Amongst his plays is Philinna, according to Athenaeus in Deipnosophists.

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Δειπνοσοφισταί

Deipnosophistai, Deipnosophistae, Deipnosophists, Dinner-Sophists, Sophists at Dinner

There is a book thus titled (the one who wrote it [is] Athenaeus by name) which is helpful. [It records] that Ulpian, one of the Dinner-Sophists, who was called "Attested-or-Unattested" [Keitoukeitos] because of his…

Δειπνοσοφισταί· βιβλίον ἐστὶν οὕτως ἐπιγραφόμενον [Ἀθήναιος δὲ ὁ γεγραφὼς ὄνομα] ὅ ἐστιν ἐπωφελές. ὅτι Οὐλπιανός, εἷς τῶν Δειπνοσοφιστῶν, ὃς Κειτούκειτος ἐκλήθη διὰ τὸ συνεχῶς…

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α2019Ἀναπίπτεινto fall backSee also alpha 2018. The source for both is Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.23B (1.42 Kaibel). See further below, nn.1-2. [1] Athenaeus has this adverb, kuri/ws. [2] So the Suda mss, o)ligwrei=n; but o)ligodranei=n (Athenaeus), "to …Matched in noteshighshort

α1303Ἅλμη οὐκ ἔνεστ' αὐτῷthere is no salt in him; there is no sauce in him… as being a solution in which the meat is plunged. Athenaeus also uses the word frequently for the spicey, salted pickle or sauce in which a cook prepares his dish, either in cooking or …Matched in noteshighshort

α3207ἈπίκιοςApicius… fourth-century. The present entry's material, after the opening ethnikon, summarizes Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.7A-C (1.12 Kaibel). See also alpha 3213, alpha 3214. [1] So again at kappa 387 and kappa 1649. But manuscript M has …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ1161ΔιόμειαDiomeia… so-called "dramatic" aorist, expressing a sudden thought. [6] According to Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 6.260B (6.76 Kaibel) and 14.614D (14.3 Kaibel) the festival of Hercules featured some burlesque rituals to which a large group of gelwtopoioi/ …Matched in noteshighshort

α54Ἀβλεμέωςfecklessly, heedlessly… fragment of the epic poet Panyassis (pi 248) preserved in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 2.36D (2.3 Kaibel); it refers there to intemperate drinking. See also Etymologicum Magnum 3.24 and other lexica.Matched in noteshighshort

α100Ἀβυδηνὸν ἐπιφόρημαAbydene dessert… For a different explanation (involving taxes and harbor dues) see Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 14.641A [14.47 Kaibel], citing Aristeides, On Proverbs.Matched in noteshighshort

α122Ἀγαθοῦ Δαίμονοςof the Good Spirit… this genitive-case phrase occurs. See also alpha 966. [1] cf. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 15.675B-C (15.17 Kaibel), where the G.S. is equated, not necessarily correctly, with Dionysos. [2] cf. Hesychius s.v., and see generally J.D. Mikalson, …Matched in noteshighmedium

α305ἈγοράσωI will go to market… one of the skolia (drinking songs) -- best preserved in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 15.695A-B [15.50 Kaibel] -- which commemorated the assassination of Hipparchos in 514 BCE. See generally M. Ostwald, Nomos and the Beginnings of …Matched in noteshighshort

α740Ἀθλητάςathletes… [3] Polybius 8.9.8-9, himself quoting Theopompus (FGrH 115 F225; cf. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 6.260E = 6.77 Kaibel), on the hetairoi of Philip II of Macedon.Matched in noteshighshort

α962Ἀκρατοπότηςunmixed-wine-drinker… picked up this habit from the Scythians: Herodotus 6.84; cf. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 10.427B-C (10.29 Kaibel), 10.436E (10.48 Kaibel); Aelian, Varia Historia 2.41. But see also under zeta 163, kappa 203.Matched in noteshighshort

α1057Ἀλαζώνboaster, imposter… Archestratus of Gela (fr. 59.12 Brandt, nominative plural) preserved in Athenaeus. [3] So too in the Etymologicum Gudianum. [4] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 102, where the word occurs (web address 2).Matched in noteshighshort

α1073Ἀλλ' ἅπαν γένοιτ' ἂν ἤδηbut now anything might happen… of Sikyon by the scholiast, see the drinking-song quoted by Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 15.695D = 15.50 #20 Kaibel ("Under every stone, my friend, there lurks a scorpion. Take care that it does not strike you; …Matched in noteshighshort

α1296Ἀλκτῆρεςprotectors… part of an oracle of Apollo quoted also by (e.g.) Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 13.602C (13.78 Kaibel), and Aelian, Varia Historia 2.4: qei/as a(ghth=res e)fameri/ois filo/tatos, "guides of divine friendship for mortals". See further H.W. Parke …Matched in noteshighshort

α1684Ἄμυρις μαίνεταιAmyris is mad… entry parallels the one in Photius, Lexicon alpha1275. See also Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 12.520A-B (12.18 Kaibel). The date must be before 510 BCE, when Sybaris (in S Italy) was destroyed. On the episode see generally …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1812Ἀναβολήdeferral… and the lavish narrative in Aelian, Varia Historia 2.4; also Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 13.602B (13.78 Kaibel).Matched in noteshighshort

α1930Ἀναλαμβάνεινto gather up… Likewise in syntactical lexica. [2] Here begins material taken from Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.21B-D (1.38 Kaibel); it includes the quotations from Plato and Alexis. The opening verb is the impersonal e)/mele, not (as here) e)/melle. …Matched in noteshighmedium

α2018Ἀναπίπτεινto fall back… See also alpha 2019. The source for both entries is Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.23B (1.42 Kaibel). [1] Thucydides 1.70.5, of the Athenians (web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort

α2862Ἄπαγέ με εἰς τὰς λατομίαςtake me away into the quarries… to have spent some time in the stone quarries, for Athenaeus (Deipnosophists 1.6F = 1.11 Kaibel) records the story that he was sent there for seducing Dionysius' mistress. See also delta 1178, epsiloniota 291, …Matched in noteshighmedium

α3210Ἀπινήςdirt-free, dirt-less… headword is effectively confined to lexica and grammars, but note Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 14.661D (14.81 Kaibel), where the ms reading poli/ths ... tis ou)k a)pinh/s is normally corrected (e.g. to Gulick's ou) tapeino/s).Matched in noteshighshort

α3336Ἀποκαρτερήσανταhaving killed oneself by abstinence… from somewhere (other than the quotations given below) -- probably Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 6.234A (6.24 Kaibel) [= part of Posidonius fr. 402 Theiler], on Gylippos (gamma 477) doing this after his conviction for embezzlement by …Matched in noteshighshort

α3455Ἀπόνιπτρονdirty water, washing water… where the phrase "water for hands" occurs; and see generally Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 9.408F (9.76 Kaibel), citing the learned Aristophanes of Byzantium.Matched in noteshighshort

α3660Ἀποψώμενονwiping off… may be another matter, but cf. e.g. Aristophanes, Peace 1230; Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 13.578E (13.41 Kaibel) and 13.584C (13.47 Kaibel). In the present Aristophanes passage, using leaves rather than stones is presented as a surrender …Matched in noteshighshort

α3722Ἄπυρα σῖταfireless rations, unfired rations… in Nabataea, 312 BCE. [2] Diogenes Laertius 7.26. [3] From Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.31C-D (1.57 Kaibel), citing Alcman and Polybius; cf. generally alpha 1482.Matched in noteshighshort

α3928ἈριστόξενοςAristoxenus, AristoxenusAbridged from Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.7C (1.12 Kaibel). Aristoxenus of Cyrene was a hedonist philosopher, not to be confused with his namesake alpha 3297.Matched in noteshighshort

α3938ἈρίστυλοςAristylos, Aristylos… to give it a precise meaning. (See e.g. Machon ap. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 13.582D (13.45 Kaibel), where -- pace LSJ s.v. -- it refers not to fellatio but to incest.) The particular vice of Aristyllos …Matched in noteshighshort

α4402Ἀοιδόςbard… definitions, which are also in other lexica, the source becomes Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.14B-D and 1.16D (1.24 and 1.28 Kaibel). [1] delta 440. [2] Homer, Odyssey 8.248. [3] Homer, Odyssey 12.188.Matched in noteshighmedium

β64Βαλανειομφάλουςacorn-bossed[1] Cratinus fr. 50 Kock, now 54 K.-A.; cf. generally Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 11.501D-F (11.104 Kaibel). [2] Burn the shells to heat the baths? cf. kappa 1308. [3] Outside lexicography this noun is attested only …Matched in noteshighshort

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