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κ390Καρίνη γυνήKarian woman, Carian woman… Kaphene, who -- in Plutarch's Mulierum Virtutes (Moralia 246D-247A); cf. Polyaenus 8.64 -- betrays her compatriots out of love for Nymphaios of Melos.Matched in noteshighshort
ε2405ἘπίκουροςEpicurus, Epikouros… his last will. Only fragments of his work survive. [6] Polyaenus of Lampsacus (?340-278), a mathematician, whose friendship with Epicurus started when the philosopher opened a school in Lampsacus in 307-306. Both Polyaenus and …Matched in noteshighlong
β279Βίαιοιviolent… "tyrant of the Cassandreians" (formerly Poteidaians) is Apollodorus. According to Polyaenus, Stratagems 6.7, Apollodorus "became the most murderous and cruel tyrant of all who had been tyrants both among the Greeks and the barbarians" …Matched in noteshighshort
ε49Ἐγένετο καὶ Μάνδρωνι συκίνη ναῦςeven Mandron got a fig-wood ship… Bebrycians, near Lampsacus, see Plutarch, Moralia 255 (Mulierum Virtutes #18); Polyaenus 7.31. The Mandros of the proverb can hardly be him; nevertheless there is a tantalizing link between the geographical location of his kingdom …Matched in noteshighshort