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β270Βίαντος Πριηνέως δίκηBias of Priene's justiceBias was a famous judge in the Ionian city of Priene, c.570 BCE. See the detailed account in Diogenes Laertius 1.82-88 and more briefly Strabo 14.1.12. The point of the quotation from Hipponax (an …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2464Κρόμμυα ἐσθίεινto eat onions[1] From Diogenes Laertius 1.83. For Bias see beta 270. [2] Aristophanes, Lysistrata 798, followed by comment from the scholia there (unhelpful: this is a retort to an offer of a kiss). [3] Aristophanes, …Matched in noteshighshort
α4096Ἀρχὴ ἄνδρα δείκνυσινoffice exposes a man… is to Nicomachean Ethics 1130a1; for Theophrastus, fr.737 Fortenbaugh. On Bias of Priene see beta 270.Matched in noteshighshort
χ478Χρήματα χρήματ' ἀνήρmoney money (is the) man… 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 OCD(4) s.v. [2] …Matched in noteshighshort
δ642ΔιαμαρτάνωI fail completely, I miss the mark… Josephus, Jewish War (1.7.2); he is commenting on the anti-Jewish bias of his predecessors (web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort
δ1244Διώνυμοιfamous, renowned… amidst Ephialtes's and Leokrates's etc.'.) [2] Parasite of the soldier Bias in Menander’s play Kolax. See also the commentary in POxy, L 3534: "Bias and Strouthias ... are the names of the soldier and …Matched in noteshighshort
α1423ἈλυάττηςAlyattes… identifies it as Diogenes Laertius 1.83 (an anecdote in which Bias [beta 270] fools the king, by means of fattened mules, into abandoning the siege and making peace). Cf. pi 1569.Matched in noteshighmedium
μ172ΜαξιμῖνοςMaximinus… & 5), but one must be wary of their Christian bias against Daia and the other pagan emperors. [6] The story of Daia’s death is no doubt a Christian moralizing invention; compare Lactantius, On …Matched in noteshighmedium
μ147ΜάνηςManes, Mani… notes and bibliography at kappa 2174 (cf. mu 149). Their bias is exposed by publication of a Manichaean life of Mani and of Manichaean documents translated from many languages. See generally OCD(4) p.892. [1] …Matched in noteshighlong