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- ε80Ἐγκατέσκηψανthey fell upon… in ps.-Zonaras, is not part of the Aelian fragment. For 'Varro' cf. omicron 767.
- η541ἩροφίλαHerophila, Herophile… Sibyl see again under chi 484, and cf. Hesychius eta829. Varro listed a total of ten Sibyls, and the story reported by the Suda about the Sibylline books is also related by some sources …
- α3435Ἀπόμαχοςbattle-free, disabled, unfit to fight… and relinquishes his command to Lucius Aemilius and Publius Terentius Varro; see Eutropius, Breviarium 3.10.1 and alpha 971.
- δ1126Διμοιρίτηςdouble-pay soldier, half-file commander… or duplicarius (inscriptions bear both forms, sometimes also dupliciarius); see Varro, Latin Language 5.90; Vegetius 2.7. A scholion to Menander’s fragmentary drama Kolax gives a similar explanation: dimoiri/ths o( diplou=n lamba/nwn tw=n stratiwtw=n misqw/n, …
- κ2602Κύβοςcube (six-sided gambling die or a square face or pip (spot) on such a die)… the risk-taking of others (M. Minucius in Polybius 3.102-5; Terentius Varro before Cannae in Plutarch, Fabius 14.1). On risk-taking see the cross-references at note [5].