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α2872Ἀπαθέσταταmost impassive [things], very impassive [things]… plural of this superlative, does not occur in the passage about to be quoted, but see next note. [2] A poor paraphrase -- at times destroying the sense altogether -- of Marcus Aurelius, Meditations …Matched in noteshighshort
ι401ἸοβιανόςJovianus, Jovian… not the books from the burned library, which were all destroyed, but rather famosa, some at least of which abused Jovian in Homeric language. [6] Homer, Iliad 3.428 (Helen to Paris). [7] Homer, Iliad …Matched in noteshighlong
ε2426ἘπικύδηςEpikydes, Epicydes… the Roman siege; but he died of the pestilence that destroyed the Punic troops. See Polybius 7.2: "after the plot against king Hieronymos of Syracuse [iota 200] ... Zoippos and Andranodoros persuaded Hieronymos to …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1573Δύναμιςcapability, capacity, ability, potentiality, power… 74-76. Together with lines 9-10 of the Pisidian's scoptic poem about the stylite Alypius, the sense is rather: "Their bulk and awkward burden I come to bring you, the jaws of Alypius, having joined …Matched in noteshighlong
ε2266ἘπιγλωττήσομαιI will utter abuse… scholion; cf. omicron 876. Aristophanes actually says peri\ tw=n *)aqhnw=n "about Athens."Matched in noteshighshort
ν117ΝέαρχοςNearchos, Nearchus… summary of Arrian, Anabasis 6.2.3. Arrian begins there by talking about the Cretan-born Nearchos, whom Alexander did appoint his admiral in 326 BCE (see generally OCD4 Nearchus); but the helmsman who pretended to be …Matched in noteshighshort
α3499Ἀπορρῆξαι τὴν ψυχήνto break off one's life… a)porrh/gnumi, can bear this meaning, but see (besides the quotation about to be given) LSJ s.v., I.2, citing e.g. Appian, Civil War 2.81 (Pompey bursts out with, a)pe/rrhcen, a remark). [3] George of Pisidia, …Matched in noteshighshort
α2883Ἀπαληθεύεινto speak the whole truth… singular). [1] Aelian fr. 65d Domingo-Forasté (62 Hercher), a story about a wicked sculptor.Matched in noteshighshort
λ739ΛώτLot… of the visit of the angels to Abraham and the destruction of the cities of the plain, see Genesis 18-19. At the beginning of the story the Septuagint says "God appeared" to Abraham in …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ1189Καιρόςopportune time… Quotation unidentifiable. (At iota 436, a similar allegation is made about Julian of Halicarnassus.)Matched in noteshighmedium
ε217Ἐδεινολόγουνthey were complaining loudly… outrage of the cities of Numantia and Termessus, c.142 BC, about the peace-terms imposed on them by Rome. Cf. epsilon 3393; eta 194 (gloss); pi 442. For the verb deinopaqe/w cf. delta 341.Matched in noteshighshort
ε532Ἑκόντων εἶναιas far as it depended on their will[1] Genitive plural(s), from the passage about to be quoted. [2] Dexippus FGrH 100 F6; cf. iota 432. [3] Procopius, Secret History 1.18 (web address 1), on Belisarius' unwillingness to believe the evidence pointing …Matched in noteshighshort
α4515Αὐτοπαθῶςcandidly, from one's own experience… the phraseology is uncannily like that of the Polybius passage about to be quoted, and latterly Favuzzi [see under alpha 1596] 202-203 has proposed an attribution to that author. [3] Polybius 3.12.1.Matched in noteshighshort
ι293ἹλαρίωνHilarion… saint of this name, founder of anchoritic life in Palestine (about 291-371). Catholic Encyclopedia entry at web address 1; biography by St. Jerome at web address 2.Matched in noteshighshort
ε3154Ἐς κόρακαςto the crows… oracle to settle where they see white crows. The part about the young men chalking up some birds and letting them loose occurs in Eusthathius' version also. The same version is found in the …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2362Κρέαςcarcass, flesh, meat… whether it might better be read as peri\ tw=n nekrw=n (about the dead) or simply interpreted as about the bodies. In fact, either choice points back to the failure of the generals to rescue …Matched in noteshighshort
β10ΒαβύλαςBabylas… under Decius, emperor 249-51, but also (6.34.1) relates a story about an unnamed church leader forbidding entrance to the church to Philip the Arab (emperor 244-249). For a similar doublet see Chronicon Paschale 503-4, …Matched in noteshighmedium
ι195Ἱεροφάντηςhierophant… instead of tw=n *aqhnai/wn read tw=n a)nqrwpei/wn: "does not care about human affairs". See also alpha 3499, epsilon 3604, mu 381, tau 477, phi 713. On the megaron see G.E. Mylonas, Eleusis and the …Matched in noteshighshort
μ1305ΜουσώνιοςMusonius (Rufus)… 30 to 90 or perhaps 100 CE. [6] Scholars debate about whether Musonius really wrote anything for publication. The "letters" mentioned here could be the apparently spurious ones found in Philostratus. The "speeches" could …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3139ἘσθήρEsther… it appears in the Book of Esther. What is said about the edict does not correspond with any evidence in the text, where the king orders all of his subjects to perform a proskynesis …Matched in noteshighmedium
μ35Μᾶζαbarley-cake… is a thinly disguised version of General Demosthenes is speaking about Kleon (kappa 1731). [8] At mu 549 this phrase (from the scholia) appears before the quotation from Knights instead of after. [9] Thucydides …Matched in noteshighmedium
γ482Γυμνῆταιlight-armed [troops]… headword is in the nominative plural (a form that is about to be repeated). The word literally means 'one who goes nude'. [2] This first sentence is omitted by mss FV (so Adler) and …Matched in noteshighmedium
α4713Ἀχράςachras, wild pear… Since there is a similar story, in a later context, about Demosthenes (Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights 11.9.1), the way the scholiast explained the present passage has been doubted; instead, it may refer to some …Matched in noteshighshort
λ771Λυγιζόμενοςbending oneself, twisting oneself… de/ fhsin a)gnow=n: 'lu/gos r(a/bdos.' i)/sws ou)=n mastigw/sein "to be about to bend ... Amerias says this is from chaste-trees. 'a withy is a young sapling.' Thus perhaps [it means] to be about to …Matched in noteshighmedium
μ392Μέγα τοι ἄγγελος ἐσθλόςa good messenger [is] a great thingLikewise in Appendix Proverbiorum 3.81. For a less banal proverb about messengers see alpha 3729.Matched in noteshighshort
ε289Ἐῆοςvaliant… See epsilon 3734. [2] Homer, Iliad 19.342 (Zeus to Athene, about Achilles).Matched in noteshighshort
η99Ἡδονῆς ἀκρότηςsummit of pleasure… Aphrodisias, Commentaries on Aristotle's Topica 265.19-20 Wallies (explaining Aristotelian thinking about the different kinds and grades of perfection). cf. generally eta 97 and eta 98.Matched in noteshighshort
λ745Λωφῆσαιto abate… and cf. lambda 746. [1] Procopius, Secret History 15.5 (actually about Theodora rather than Justinian: see web address 1; Greek text at web address 2); cf. Kaldellis (68). For Justinian see generally iota 446. …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3428ΕὐδόξιοςEudoxios, Eudoxius… see web address 1. Here, oddly, the Suda reports more about his father than about him, but Photius has more information (also from Philostorgius) about Eudoxius himself. [1] Barrington Atlas map 64 grid D4; …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ1043Κατηδολέσχησά σουI wearied you with my prattling… see Plutarch, Moralia 503B (from 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 …Matched in noteshighshort