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ε2659Ἐπὶ τὰ Μανδροβόλουon Mandrobolos' property… History of Samos 800-188 BC (Oxford 1987) appendix 2; 'Samian Earth' seems to have been a kind of fuller's earth. [2] A ram, because, according to a scholiast on Nicander's Alexipharmaka, this was the …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1504Δραπέτης κλῆροςrunaway lot… Cresphontes wanted Messenia, so he placed a lot of moist earth in the pot, knowing it would never jump out of the hydria (either because it dissolved in water in the pot or because …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ1723ΚλεομένηςKleomenes, Cleomenes… to Alexandria, meeting his death in 219 after a failed plot against the Macedonian king of Egypt, Ptolemy IV Philopator, named here. [1] alpha 2345.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1124Διμήτωρtwice-born… thus being considered as having been born once from the earth and again from the vine"), and generally LSJ s.v.Matched in noteshighshort
ε3139ἘσθήρEsther… 2.19 ff. Mordechai, while "at the king’s gate", discovers the plot against the king organized by two of his eunuchs. It is not Mordechai who reveals to the king the details of the conspiracy, …Matched in noteshighmedium
γ236Γῆ κληρουχικήallotted land, cleruchic land… phrase translated here "by lot" can equally mean "in a plot"; the kleros is both process and outcome.Matched in noteshighshort
δ691Διαπεσούσηςafter it had collapsed, if it had collapsed… this passage, reading e)pibolh=s ("attempt, assault") instead of e)piboulh=s ("plan, plot"). [1] Extracted from somewhere else, evidently.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1703Κλαρόταιserfs… examples of "serfs" (klaro/tai or klarw=tai: literally men working a plot of land, Doric kla=ros, Attic-Ionic klh=ros), but the initial gloss goes astray. The defining characteristic of groups like these, which differentiated them from …Matched in noteshighshort
γ4ΓάγγηςGanges… and were therefore driven from their home by the angry earth, which refused to produce crops for them, as well as by the ghost of Ganges. [5] That is Briseis, taken away by king …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε2201Ἐπῇρενexcited, incited, stirred up, urged on… tyrant Phalaris is told by Aelian, Varia Historia 2.4. The plot failed, but Phalaris displayed clemency by allowing the lovers to live in exile. Phalaris ruled Akragas c.570-554 BCE. See alpha 1812, alpha 2634, …Matched in noteshighshort
ε953Ἔμβολονwedge, wedge-formation… (98a Jacoby=68a-b Theiler), in reference to the shape of the earth. [3] i.e. the iron (or bronze) tip of a ram (epsilon 952, and cf. epsilon 949). [4] Diodorus Siculus 31.5.3 (via the Excerpta …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε2494ἘπίνικοςEpinikos, Epinicus… the wife of Leo I, he organized with her a plot against Emperor Zeno in 415 AD. After the latter fled from Rome, Basiliscus (DIR entry by Hugh Elton at web address 2) was …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε2426ἘπικύδηςEpikydes, Epicydes… that destroyed the Punic troops. See Polybius 7.2: "after the plot against king Hieronymos of Syracuse [iota 200] ... Zoippos and Andranodoros persuaded Hieronymos to lose no time in sending ambassadors to Hannibal. He …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1205ΔιοσημείαZeus-omen, Zeus-sign… that [phenomenon] is called dioshmi/a". Some natural phenomena, such as earthquakes, thunders and storms, were held by the Athenians to be bad omens, so that they would interrupt an assembly and suspend a deliberation …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2225Κώθωνkothon; Kothon… Carthage. The original actually says that the Romans heaped up earthen ramparts before the gates and slung these inflammable subjects onto them, together with pitch, thus setting fire to several towers. [5] After 'sulphur' …Matched in noteshighshort
μ172ΜαξιμῖνοςMaximinus… and 5. [2] The first half of the entry, until 'plots against him', is John of Antioch fr.142 FHG (4.594), now 221 Roberto, which is found at Constantine VII Porphyrogenitius, De Virtutibus et Vitiis …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3737ΕὐσέβιοςEusebios, Eusebius… In 262, Porphyry initiated his six-year study of Neoplatonism with Plotinus in Rome. Exhausted from his apprenticeship, Porphyry then retreated to Sicily for five years, returning to Rome as Plotinus' successor. [7] Pamphilus and …Matched in noteshighmedium
α1124Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ ΜαμαίαςAlexander Mamaias, Alexander son of Mamaia… Nevertheless, Elagabalus lost the support of the Senate and began plotting against his cousin Alexander, whom he recognized to be broadly supported by the Praetorian Guard. At the age of eighteen, along with his …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3046ἙρμογένηςHermogenes… [2] Probably the Athenian Stoic mentioned in Porphyry, Life of Plotinus 20 (RE Musonios (17)). This and other details in the present article are discussed in Heath (1998). [3] Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists …Matched in noteshighmedium