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- κ1597Κίκινοςringlet, curl of hair, lock of hair… poet confesses exhaustion from his loves, among them the hetaera Timo, see Gow and Page, vol. I (222-223) and vol. II (620-621). [2] Aristophanes, Wasps 1067-1070 (web address 1); quoted more fully in kappa …
- δ1170Διονύσιος ὁ ἈρεωπαγίτηςDionysios the Areiopagite, Dionysius the Areopagite… a disciple of Dion of Prusa (Philostr. 1.25.539), Skopelianos and Timokrates. His treatise on physiognomy survives in an Arabic version. [6] P. Aelius Aristides (117-180; see alpha 3902), Greek rhetor and orator, among the …
- α1122Ὅτι Ἀλέξανδρος φιλήκοος ἦνAlexander, Alexandros… orthios nomos as played on the kithara (kappa 1590). That Timotheos played it on the aulos may be the point of emphasis in the present entry.
- μ812Μέτριοςmoderate… Timaeus [tau 600] FGrH 566 T13 (and cf. F119). For Timoleon, who does not have his own Suda entry, see also -- besides tau 600 -- epsilon 95.
- κ237ΚάλλιπποςKallippos, Callippus… Kaibel]. [2] See Plutarch, Dion 17, 28, and esp. 54-58; Timoleon 11; Comparison of Timoleon and Aemilius 2.
- κ1326Κενοφωνίαςempty speeches… that the headword is quoted from the New Testament (1 Timothy 6.20 or 2 Timothy 2.16), it is accusative plural -- rather than genitive singular -- of the feminine noun kenofwni/a. [2] This verb …
- δ682Διαπαρατριβαίconstant wranglings… a feminine noun), is quoted from the New Testament (1 Timothy 6.5).
- κ734Κατὰ πρόσκλισινwith partiality1 Timothy 5:21 (web address 1), with glosses. Likewise or similarly in other lexica. cf. pi 2735.
- α3508Ἀπορρῶγαςprecipices… 84 F35; cf. sigma 797. Plutarch [Antonius 70.3] records that Timon was buried 'at Halai near the sea'. There were two Attic demes of this name, H. Aixonides on the SW coast and H. …
- κ795Καταστολήdress… 61.3, figurative there). Other possibilities include the New Testament: 1 Timothy 2.9. In the Greek the headword is simply a compound form of the gloss.
- ε795Ἐλέου βωμόςPity's altar… a cult of personified Pity at Athens, but cf. also Timocles fr. 31 Kock (now 33 K.-A.) for P. as 'kindly god'; and for something similar in Epidaurus see LSJ s.v. e)/leos.
- μ588Μεμψίμοιροςreproachful… lost comedy by Antidotus (C4 BCE); or possibly from Lucian (Timon 13 & 55, Prometheus 7, Jupiter Tragoedus 40). In any event, this attribute is no.17 in the Characters of Theophrastus.
- κ1234Κεκαυτηριασμένοςcauterised, searedThe sense is from New Testament 1 Timothy 4:2 (allowing for the variation between kauthria/zw and kausthria/zw, cf. kappa 1141): "hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared [as with a hot iron]". Same or …
- χ96Χάραξpalisade; stake… other lexica. [2] Polybius 18.18.6; again at pi 2243. [3] Timostratus [sic] fr. 2 Kock and K.-A. The Suda and other lexica (for which see below) have "Demostratus", but no such author is attested …
- ε997Ἐμπαροινοῦντεςbehaving as if drunken… glossing in other lexica, and cf. a scholion on Lucian, Timon 14, where e)mparoinh/sei occurs. [2] Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 6.265 (web address 1).
- η203Ἠλέματοςidle, vain… Hesychius eta338) seems to imply, but for an instance see Timon fr.808.3. See also under kappa 1894 (and cf. eta 204).
- δ1227Δίωκε ἀρετήνpursue excellence… the lemma might be related to Paul's First Epistle to Timothy 6.11: *su\ de\, w)= a)/nqrwpe *qeou=, [...] di/wke de\ dikaiosu/nhn, eu)se/beian, pi/stin, a)ga/phn, u(pomonh/n, prau+paqi/an; "But you, man of God, [flee the love …
- δ1087Δίκελλαfork, mattock… view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable. [3] See Lucian, Timon 8.
- ε3819ΕὐχάvowThe unglossed headword (in mss FV only, Adler reports), nominative singular, is the Doric form for eu)xh/. It is very rarely attested, but see e.g. Aeschylus, Suppliant Women 657: filo/timos eu)xa/ (web address 1). …
- δ1513Δραστήριοςeffective, efficient, energetic… (Antonius 42.2, Lucullus 6.2, Nicias 16.9, Pericles 19.3, Phocion 6.3, Timoleon 3.7) and Dionysius of Halicarnassus. It exemplifies well the overtones of the verb dra/w (delta 1488), from which it is a derivative. The …
- μ1004Μητραλοίαςmother-striker… Hesychius mu1292. The secondary headword mhtrolw/|as (attested in e.g. 1 Timothy 1:9), translated here as "mother-beater", is in fact an orthographic variant for the primary one, mhtraloi/as (attested in e.g. Aeschylus, Lysias and Plato). …
- α4214Ἀσπονδείwithout libation, without a truce… is taken to be quoted from the New Testament (2 Timothy 3.3). [2] Presumably Thucydides 2.22.2 (web address 1 below). [3] Quoted from alpha 4245, q.v.
- ι283Ἴκτινοςkite… iota 284, and cf. a scholion (119.1 Rabe) on Lucian, Timon 54. [2] A comedy-challenged scholion on Aristophanes, Birds 501 (web address 1). The passage is quoted again at pi 2492.
- ε2110Ἔπεχεhold back… somewhere; Theodoridis on Photius s.v. suggests the New Testament (1 Timothy 4.16) but there are numerous other possibilities. [2] Diogenes Laertius 3.52. [3] See next note. [4] A careless version of Diogenes Laertius 4.32: …
- α3438Ἀπὸ μηχανῆςfrom a machine… the proverbiality of the phrase see also e.g. Demosthenes 40.59: "Timocrates alone, as if from a machine, testifies that..." [1] cf. theta 181.
- ε760Ἐλάχιστοςthe least [thing]… Cramer's vol.2. [1] Matthew 6.24 (web address 2). [2] 1 Timothy 6.7 (web address 3).
- δ1243Διώνυμονwell-known… dia- and o)nom-. Compare, likewise, the instances in (e.g.) Plutarch, Timoleon 30; Josephus, Jewish War 5.1.3. LSJ's sense I for the adjective (cf. epsiloniota 260; eta 544), is "provided with two (proper) names" or …
- β488Βωμολοχεύσαιτο(if one) were to play the wit at the altar… (mu 454; cf. Pherecrates fr.155 PCG vol.7) and eleven-stringed by Timotheus (tau 620; cf. his Persians) allowed for octaves, a greater vocal range, chromatic coloring and, probably, modulations into the chromatic and diatonic scales. …