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δ1145ΔιογένηςDiogenes… readily suggest themselves, but the name must have been common: "Zeus-born." Adler identifies this entry as Aelian fr. 103 Hercher (= fr. 106 in the more recent Domingo-Forasté edition (Teubner 1994) of Aelian). [2] …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3510ΕὔθυμοςEuthymos, Euthumos, Euthymus… also spelled Theogenes and Theugenes (each meaning "He Who Is Born Of God[s]) -- won at Olympia in boxing (480 BCE) and in pankration (476). He is reported to have won twelve hundred crowns …Matched in noteshighmedium
γ214Γειναμέναιςgiving birth… to follow. The lexicographer interprets the headword participle as "being born," but it should mean "giving birth." See note at gamma 215. [2] Greek Anthology 7.99.1-2 (Plato the Epigrammatist) = Diogenes Laertius 3.30. The …Matched in noteshighshort
α4683ἈχαιόςAchaeus, Achaios… generally OCD(4) p.5, under 'Achaeus(2)'. [1] 484-481. [2] Sophocles was born in the mid 490s. [3] 448-445. "Jointly" evidently means "contemporaneously".Matched in noteshighshort
μ455ΜελανιππίδηςMelanippides… to the Marmor Parium (Ep. 47, p.15 Jacoby). He was born, according to the Suda, between 520 and 517, and cannot then be identical with mu 454, as some scholars once argued. We cannot …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2744ἘπιφάνιοςEpiphanios, Epiphanius… of Hypatia (upsilon 166). [1] This suggests that they were born into Christian families, but later were converted to paganism.Matched in noteshighmedium
ε739ἙλλάνικοςHellanikos, Hellanicus… for gegono/ti. The original text would be translated, "Hekataios was born," (instead of Hellanikos) which does not make sense in the context. For Hekataios see epsilon 360. [4] The original text reads "and a …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ569ΛίνοςLinos, Linus… the Thebans, how that later than this Linus there was born another, a teacher of music called the son of Ismenias, and how Heracles while still a child killed him".Matched in noteshighshort
δ1216ΔιοτρεφήςZeus-fostered, Zeus-reared… the river Scamander as fed by the rain, thus by Zeus. LSJ entry at web address 1.Matched in noteshighshort
δ40ΔάμασοςDamasos, DamasusThis is Saint Damasus, born c.305 and Bishop of Rome (i.e. Pope) 366-384; Catholic Encyclopedia entry at web address 1. [1] Jerome, Famous Men 111.Matched in noteshighshort
γ112Γελλοῦς παιδοφιλωτέραmore overfond of children than Gellocf. 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 …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1943Κολοκτρυώνkoloktryôn… Declension of Nouns p. 724) and glossed by Hesychius kappa3367: "born from a maimed large rooster". All this is wasted ingenuity, however, because in Aristophanes the phrase to\n cou=qon i(ppalektruo/na (quoting Aeschylus fr. 134) …Matched in noteshighshort
α19ἈβαρνίςAbarnis… Aphrodite's refusal (a)parnh/sasqai) to recognize her offspring Priapos, who was born in the region.Matched in noteshighshort
ι465ἸωάννηςIoannes, Joannes, John [the Lydian]This is Joannes Laurentius Lydus, born c.490. (The TLG Canon unhelpfully lists him under 'Lydus'.) The list of his works given here omits what is arguably the most important one, On the Magistrates of …Matched in noteshighshort
α69ἈβραάμAbraham… time of God's promise. [5] The Suda here omits Ishmael, born to Abraham by the Egyptian slave Hagar when he was 86 years old (Genesis 16:1-16). The Suda's omission tacitly acknowledges a covenantal and …Matched in noteshighlong
κ1767Κλειτοριάζεινto [touch the] clitoris… of Thasos claimed that twin sons of Kimon had been born e)k gunaiko\s...*kleitori/as (FGrH 372 F37, in Plutarch, Kimon 16.1); that is, ostensibly, "from a woman of Kleitor [in northern Arkadia]". Scholars have debated …Matched in noteshighshort
γ32ΓαληνόςGalenos, Galenus, GalenBorn AD 129. See generally RE Galenos; OCD4 Galen; PIR2 G24. [1] Marcus (Aurelius), reigned 161-180 (mu 214, mu 215, mu 216); Commodus, reigned 180-192 (kappa 2007); Pertinax, reigned 192-193. See V. Nutton, 'The …Matched in noteshighshort
ι428ἸουβενάλιοςJuvenal… in Gilbert Highet's entry for OCD(2) s.v.). [1] Or: 'was born' when etc. For Domitian see delta 1351, delta 1352.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1142ΔιογένηςDiogenes… in (e.g.) Snell, TGrF pp.185 and 254-8. [1] Or: was born. [2] i.e. the suppression of Athenian democracy by the Thirty, a.k.a Thirty Tyrants: 404/3 BCE.Matched in noteshighshort
ε1499Ἐνυδροβίωνof aquatic (ones)… means, by transference, any matched pair: see generally LSJ s.v. zeu=gos, II (web address 1). On this epigram, the seafarer Damis's dedication and prayer to an unnamed Egyptian goddess, see Gow and Page (vol. …Matched in noteshighshort
λ33Λάγυνοςflask, flagon… the bibliography below) or, more briefly, OCD(4) p.148. [1] Aphrodite, born in the sea off Cyprus (kappa 2738). See the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite. [2] An Homeric formula (delta 128). [3] This unparalleled and …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2713ΚυνθιάδεςKynthos' children, Cynthus' children… Apollo and Artemis, since they were said to have been born on Mt. Kynthos. But here, as we learn in the last line of the poem, it refers to goats inhabiting the mountain that …Matched in noteshighshort
αι178ΑἰλιανόςAelian, Aelianus, Ailianos… 170-235), Roman author and teacher of rhetoric at Rome, was born at Praeneste, offspring of freedmen, and flourished under the reign of Septimius Severus (192-211). He wrote in Greek and was admired for it; …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2426ἘπικύδηςEpikydes, Epicydes… 3, on Sicilian affairs in 215/214 BCE. [1] Hippokrates was born at Carthage into an exiled Syracusan family. During the Second Punic War he returned to Syracuse and urged the city to war against …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε2385Ἐπίκληροςepikleros, heiress… primary note, and bibliography, see under epsilon 2384. [1] e.g. born out of wedlock; cf. generally nu 448, nu 449. [2] Agathias, Histories 1.12; cf. epsilon 3875. The women of Luca (present-day Lucca, in …Matched in noteshighmedium
μ227ΜαρσύαςMarsyas… OCD(4) s.v. Marsyas(2). His dates are uncertain: probably he was born about the same year as Alexander, that is 356 BCE. and died some time after 294. The few fragments of Marsyas' History of …Matched in noteshighshort
δ210ΔελφοίDelphi, Delphoi… in retribution for the king's sheepdogs having killed his child, born by the Argive princess Psamathe. Vengeance then snatched babies from mothers in Argos until the Argive hero Coroebus killed her. Pausanias 1.43.7-8 (web …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2628ΚυθέρειαKythereia, Cytheria… 16. [4] A mortal woman, yet like Aphrodite (who was born off the coast of Kythera; cf. kappa 2629). [5] Greek Anthology 7.218.5-6 (Antipater of Sidon); epitaph for Lais, the legendary Corinthian hetaera; quoted …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2341ΚράτηςKrates, Crates… 517. [3] 328-325. The Suda actually says that Krates was "born" then, but for "flourished", h)/kmaze, see D.L. 6.87. [4] cf. theta 606. [5] cf. beta 492 (with the note there) and theta 19. …Matched in noteshighmedium
χ568ΧρύσιπποςChrysippus, Chrysippos… II,3,2), and Pausanias (1.17.2; SVF 3,19) state that Chrysippus was born in Soloi, and Strabo adds that his parents emigrated from Soloi in Cyprus to Tarsus in Cilicia, early in the third century BCE, …Matched in noteshighshort