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Ἄπαγέ με εἰς τὰς λατομίας
take me away into the quarries
A proverb in reference to those not prepared to put up with what is unworthy. For they say that Philoxenus the dithyrambic poet was staying at the court of Dionysius the tyrant, and when …
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1178
Διονύσιος
Dionysius, Dionysios
Tyrant of Sicily; he wrote tragedies and comedies and historical works. "Others, too, became despots, but the tyranny of Dionysius was responsible for the greatest and most extreme ill-treatment [inflicted] on any state." Concerning …
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Δοκιμασίαν ἐπαγγεῖλαι
to institute a dokimasia.
[Meaning] the declaration against a person of a suit of [= for] debauchery. The dokimasia of debauchery does not apply to everyone, but to active politicians [politeuomenoi rhetores] and those who propose decrees.
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1546
Δρύοπες
Dryopes
A lawless people from the region of Delphi whom Heracles resettled. For at the time when he was fetching the Erymanthian boar he sought food from them but they did not give him any.
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