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α4618Ἀφίκετοarrived[1] Likewise in other lexica. [2] Thucydides 2.18.1. [3] Likewise or similarly in other lexica. (Perhaps also quoted from Thucydides: 4.10.1.) [4] Perhaps also quoted from Thucydides: 7.75.6.Matched in noteshighshort
δ521Διαγνώμηdecree, resolution… entry in other lexica, and cf. also the scholia to Thucydides 1.87.6, where the headword, a feminine noun, occurs (the Athenian assembly's resolution that the Thirty Years' Peace had been breached). See also Thucydides …Matched in noteshighshort
ε123Ἐγκράτειαcontinence, control, self-control… 23.121. [7] In terms of nouns, the transmitted text of Thucydides 3.1-50 consistently calls this revolt an apostasis, translated here as 'secession'. (For 'insurrection', epanastasis, applied to other revolts see 2.27.2 and 4.56.2 (Helots) …

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Ἀφίκετο

arrived

[Meaning he/she/it] has come, came. "The army arrived in Attica at Oinoe, where they intended to invade". This is the syntax Thucydides uses. Also [sc. attested is the perfect] a)fi=ktai ["has arrived"], [meaning] is…

Ἀφίκετο· ἐλήλυθεν, ἦλθεν. ὁ δὲ στρατὸς ἀφίκετο τῆς Ἀττικῆς ἐς Οἰνόην, ᾗπερ ἔμελλον εἰσβαλεῖν. οὕτω φησὶ Θουκυδίδης τὴν σύνταξιν. καὶ Ἀφῖκται, παραγέγονεν. καὶ Ἀφῖκτο.

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Nicholas Wilshere1

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Oliver Phillips ✝1

Richard Rodriguez1

Richard Rodriguez1

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ε994Ἐμπαλασσόμενοιentangled with one another[1] cf. the scholia to the passage which follows. [2] Thucydides 7.84.3-4: web address 1. (NB: Adler punctuates after 'river', but editors of Thucydides as above.) Probably unconsciously, Thucydides here echoes Herodotus 7.85.2, on …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2237Ἐπιβόημαcall, cry, shout[1] An approximation of Thucydides 5.65.3 (web address 1): King Agis of Sparta is warned by an old Spartan soldier not to take unnecessary risks in the prelude to the Battle of Mantineia. [2] …Matched in noteshighshort

α1188Ἀλλήλωνeach other… Nauck, but that instance is dubious. [2] An approximation of Thucydides 2.70.1, on the siege of Poteidaia (web address 1); cf. epsilon 53. In Thucydides the verb is the pluperfect e)ge/geunto "they had tasted."Matched in noteshighshort

α2294Ἀνεπικλήτωςblamelessly… given. cf. generally alpha 2295. [1] From scholia to the Thucydides passage about to be quoted. [2] Thucydides 1.92.1 (web address 1). [3] Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 18.337 (web address 2).Matched in noteshighshort

α2655Ἀντιβόλησιςprayer… in other lexica, and cf. also the scholia to the Thucydides passage about to be quoted [2] Thucydides 7.75.4. See web address 1 below for the text (which needs the comma after the finite …Matched in noteshighshort

α3150Ἀπήλαυσεenjoyed… demonstrably, extracted from the quotation given. [1] Marcellinus, Life of Thucydides 26; see again under alpha 3377. The "misfortune" was the loss (from an Athenian perspective) of Amphipolis, which General Thucydides had been sent …Matched in noteshighshort

α3269Ἀπόγνοιαdespair[1] Same glossing in the scholia to Thucydides (see next note). [2] An appoximation of Thucydides 3.85.3 (web address 1 below): the aorist participle e)mprh/santes ('having burned') becomes the finite e)neprh/santo ('they burned') here, …Matched in noteshighshort

α3713Ἀποίκησιςemigration… Herodotus 1.94 (web address 1). [3] From the scholia to Thucydides 1.12.4, where this topic occurs (web address 2). [4] Thucydides 2.27.1 (web address 3), concerning Athenians on Aegina; cf. epsilon 2877.Matched in noteshighshort

δ500Διαβάλλεινto bring across, to cross, to mislead, to slander[1] In Thucydides this verb occurs several times, but never in Book 1. Note also that Thucydides most frequently uses it in the sense of discrediting/slandering (cf. below in the present entry), and once …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ657Διαμώμενοςcutting through… good fit with this gloss. [2] cf. the scholia to Thucydides 4.26.1 (sic, but see next note). [3] Thucydides 4.26.2 (web address 1) [4] Cited at Arrian, Parthica p.27 Roos, but not regarded by …Matched in noteshighshort

ε122Ἐγκρατέστεροςstronger, on a stronger basis… (though cf., e.g., under zeta 79). [1] An approximation of Thucydides 1.118.2 (web address 1), on the Pentekontaetia. (The received text of Thucydides does not include e)poi/hsan [here "built up"] kai/; it also transmits …Matched in noteshighshort

ε229Ἐδῄουνthey were slaying, they were laying waste[1] Thucydides 2.12.5 (web address 1). Imperfect of dh|o/w, third person plural; cf. delta 482. [2] Quotation (which illustrates the kata- compound version of the headword verb: kappa 526) unidentifiable, but apparently from late …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2206Ἐπήρειαinsolence… the Ambrosian Lexicon (1493); and cf. also the scholia to Thucydides 1.26.3 (next note). [2] Thucydides 1.26.3 (web address 1). [3] Quotation (already at epsilon 1412) unidentifiable. It contains not the headword but a …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε2329Ἐπιθειάσαςhaving appealed to the gods… the quotation very well (contrast Hesychius epsilon4794, and scholia to Thucydides ad loc.; see next note) and they may have been produced originally for commentary on a different passage. For the verb, see also …Matched in noteshighshort

α314Ἄγοςpollution, leader… of religious awe": LSJ s.v.; see also pi 150. [3] Thucydides 1.126.2-12 (web address 1), here so drastically abridged as to be misleading. (This banishment was part of the events of 632 BCE, now …Matched in noteshighshort

α327Ἀγώνcontest, training, arena… to be quoted here) see LSJ s.v. a)gw/n I.2. [3] Thucydides 5.50.4, on Lichas the Spartan.Matched in noteshighshort

α871Ἀκηρύκτως ἐμίγνυντοthey mixed unheraldedcf. generally alpha 870. [1] Thucydides 1.146 (abridged and recast: e)pemei/gnunto ... a)khru/ktws me/n, a)nupo/ptws de\ ou)/). The material given here appears in the scholia on that passage.Matched in noteshighshort

α1697Ἀμφηρικόνsculling… in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable. [2] Thucydides 4.67.3 (imperfectly quoted). See web address 1.Matched in noteshighshort

α1946Ἀναλοῦντεςspending [themselves]cf. generally alpha 1940, alpha 1945. [1] Thucydides 4.48.3 (web address 1 below).Matched in noteshighshort

α1973Ἀνανεοῦσθαιto renewSame entry in Photius. [1] Thucydides 5.18.9 (web address 1 below), a provision of the Peace of Nikias, on renewing an oath. [2] Cratinus fr. 167 Kock, now 178 K.-A.Matched in noteshighshort

α2018Ἀναπίπτεινto fall back… for both entries is Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.23B (1.42 Kaibel). [1] Thucydides 1.70.5, of the Athenians (web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort

α2362Ἀνέχειsustains… this verb cf. alpha 2361, alpha 1363, alpha 2364. [1] Thucydides 1.141.5 (web address 1). [2] Quotation unidentifiable. (Perhaps textually faulty; if not, 'besieged' is used figuratively.) [3] Quotation unidentifiable.Matched in noteshighshort

α2916Ἀπαράκλητοιvolunteers… extracted from the quotation given. See also alpha 2917. [1] Thucydides 2.98.3 (web address 1 below).Matched in noteshighshort

α2979Ἄπεδονflat, level[1] See already alpha 2972. [2] Thucydides 7.78.4 (web address 1 below), with scholion. [3] An incoherent addition as it stands.Matched in noteshighshort

α3012Ἀπέλθῃwould depart… singular, of a)pe/rxomai. [1] Same glossing in other lexica. [2] Thucydides 5.46.4, on Nikias (web address 1). [3] Adler cited no Demosthenic passage which illustrates this, but see e.g. 23.104 (web address 2).Matched in noteshighshort

α3067Ἀπεσταύρουνthey were palisading off… presumably extracted from the quotation given. cf. alpha 3548. [1] Thucydides 4.69.2 (with "the" trees): see web address 1 below. (Thuc. uses the form again in 6.101.2.)Matched in noteshighshort

α3377Ἀπολαύεινto enjoy; to reap [the results of][1] Isocrates 8.81. [2] Marcellinus, Life of Thucydides 26; cf. alpha 3150.Matched in noteshighshort

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