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η
94
Ἠδολέσχησα
I talked idly, I talked, I meditated
… the classical age it seems to have negative implications (to
talk
idly), but less so subsequently. [1] Quotation excerpted from Theodoret, Interpretatio in Psalmos 80.1477b Migne, commenting on Psalm 76.4 LXX: h)dole/sxhsa, kai\ w)ligoyu/xhsen …
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1043
Κατηδολέσχησά σου
I wearied you with my prattling
… the de Garrulitate), an anecdote about Aristotle wearied with the
talk
of an interlocutor. As in Julian's letter, the form is used by the interlocutor about his own speech and the effect it may …
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4
Γάγγης
Ganges
The bulk of the entry, from "10 cubits
tall.."
on, is a quotation from Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 3.20.2-3, in a story about how the Ethiopians supposedly came to leave their original …
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319
Ἐς τὸ δέον
for the necessary
… appears variously as ten, fifteen (as here), twenty and fifty
talents.
[3] Aristophanes, Clouds 859. [4] Menander fr. 163 Kock (128 K.-A.).
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2762
Ἀντωνῖνος
Antoninus, Antoninos
… 'Antonius Saturninus', Journal of Roman Studies 68 (1978) 12-21; R.J.A.
Talbert,
The Senate of Imperial Rome (Princeton 1984) 86 n. 44. Favuzzi (below) connects three other Suda entries with him: see epsilon 2548, eta …
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3635
Ἀπόφημον
unspeakable
… Lexicon. [2] From Aelian fr.60 Hercher, 63a Domingo-Forasté (the cautionary
tale
of Eutelidas the Arcadian).
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β
109
Βάρβιος
Barbios, Barbius
… of assuming the praetorship before his background was revealed. Both
tales
may be a garbled recollection of M. Barbatius Pollio (on the name and his identity see Syme 1955: 57, 1961: 24-5), mentioned as …
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139
Βάσανος
touchstone, test
… [1] Variously attributed to Antiphon the orator (fr.161 Sauppe, 157
Thalheim)
and his namesake the Sophist (fr.88 D.-K.). [2] Pindar, Pythian 10.67(105). [3] Sophokles fr. 91a Radt. [4] Hyperides fr. 5 Jensen. [5] Apostolius …
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433
Βουλή
council, senate
… see R. Syme, "Antonius Saturninus", JRS 68 (1978) 12-21; R.J.A.
Talbert,
The Senate of Imperial Rome (Princeton 1984) 86 n.44.
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112
Γελλοῦς παιδοφιλωτέρα
more overfond of children than Gello
cf. Zenobius 3.3, attributing the
tale
to Lesbos, and specifically to Sappho; hence the headword phrase itself is regarded as a fragment of Sappho (178 Lobel-Page). Hesychius has two consecutive 'Gello' entries (gamma307-308) of …
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6
Δᾳδουχεῖ
bears a torch, is a torch-bearer
… kappa 2077. [5] Aelian fr. 10d Domingo-Forasté (10 Hercher): the
tale
of a daduch corrupted by Epicureanism. [6] Aelian fr. 10d Domingo-Forasté (10 Hercher) again; cf. gamma 504, chi 349. NB: Stratokles was ineligible …
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δ
1370
Δοξάσαι
to suppose
… fr.118). [2] An approximation of Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 911-913 (Jocasta
talking
to the magistrates of Thebes); it contains not the headword verb but the related noun. [3] Stoic doctrine: an approximation of Diogenes Laertius …
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δ
1504
Δραπέτης κλῆρος
runaway lot
… was simply limp and soggy). Teucer, in Sophocles' play, is
talking
of the lots that the Greek heroes cast in a helmet at Homer, Iliad 7.175ff. (web address 2), to choose one to fight …
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1550
Δρυπολεῖν
to go around (with) trees
… indicative drupolei= (presumably quoted from somewhere) in three different ways:
talaipwrei=
("is in a miserable state"; cf. tau 49), o)reibatei= ("walks on mountains"; cf. omicron 544), and puri\ poliorkei= ("besieges with fire"). See also …
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ε
70
<20Ἐγκαλινδεῖσθαι σωματικοῖς παθήμασι
to wallow in bodily affections
… Chrysostom; ptai/smata (Catenae) and a(marti/ai (Basil of Caesarea); bodily pains
(talaipwri/ai),
as in Gennadius Scholarius and -- as here -- bodily affections. Despite Adler's indication, it may be connected with Isidore of Pelusium, Epistulae …
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2662
Ἐπιτάφιον
funeral
… it were a noun. The quotation is drawn from Theophylact's
tale
of a badly wounded Roman soldier found after the Battle of Solachon (586); cf. alpha 141 and cross-references therein.
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2994
Ἐριννύς
Fury, Erinnys, Erinys
… scholia to Homer, Iliad 9.567. [2] Greek Anthology 7.188.5-6 (Antonius
Thallus);
cf. mu 1258, phi 800. On this epigram, wherein a young woman dies on her wedding day, see Gow and Page (vol. I, …
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3605
Εὔξενος
Euxenos, Euxenus
… of Apollonius of Tyana 1.7 [1] cf. chi 163. On
talking
birds as pets, see OCD(4) s.v. "pets." [2] cf. mu 479.
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3955
Ἔφοροι
ephors
… 445 [BCE], it was seen that he had entered ten
talents
as spent ei)s to\ de/on: the Assembly, knowing that this sum had been given as a bribe to bring about the Spartan king's …
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368
Ἴνδακος
Indakos, Indacus
… (note 2 in vol. I, ch. XII) comments on Isaurian
talent
at running; web address 2 (note 41 in vol. I, ch. XII), commenting on p.399 of vol. I, mentions Indakos' role in betraying …
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504
Καταγλωττίσματα
tongued-downs
… neuter noun in -ma, from the verb for tonguing or
talking
down (kappa 503), or using too many rare words. It should therefore be used for concrete things such as plasters put in place …
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191
Χελώνη μυιῶν
a tortoise [uncaring] of flies
… a blow from Odysseus. See theta 257.) [3] An apocryphal
tale
about the death of Aeschylus; from alphaiota 357.
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478
Χρήματα χρήματ' ἀνήρ
money money (is the) man
… and the notes there. [1] The Seven Sages are usually
Thales
of Miletus, Bias of Priene, Cleobulus of Lindos, Pittacus of Mitylene, Solon of Athens, Chilon of Sparta and Periander of Corinth. See generally …
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