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- α2260Ἀνέμου παιδίονwind's child… paroemiographers; also casually mentioned -- apparently as proverbial -- in Libanius, Letters 1196.2.
- χ397Χορευτήςpupil… See LSJ (web address 1), with references to Julian and Libanius.
- δ512Διάβροχοςsoaked… not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as Libanius fr. 70 Foerster.
- δ1307ΔιψῶI thirst [after]… of Demosthenes (delta 454) but, as Adler noted, one from Libanius (lambda 486): his second Declamation (On the Silence of Socrates; cf. sigma 829). (Adler's note uses the phrase *Dhmosqe/nhs o( mikro/s, "Demosthenes the …
- κ1241ΚέκλεικαI have confined… the present entry's first person singular might be quoted from Libanius, Letters 1329.2: ke/kleika toi=s toiou/tois ta\s qu/ras.
- κ1342Κεντροτύποςstriking with a goad… as "someone deserving whipping" (mastigi/as). The only literary instance is Libanius, Letters 226.5: "a knavish and goad-struck little man attacked the orator"; the lexicographers' gloss "knavish" could well be from that context. Greek Anthology …
- λ325Λευκὴ στάθμηwhite measuring-line… a white background. For other applications of the phrase see Libanius, Epistles 481.2; Simplicius, Commentary on Aristotle's De caelo 7.404. [1] Sophocles fr. 330 Radt. Up to this point the entry = Photius. [2] …
- δ1093Δίκηςof justice… as often in the Suda. Perhaps a distant recollection of Libanius, Oration 4.2.36: ou) kako\n poih/sontes e(te/rous h(/komen, a)ll' a(\ te a)fh|re/qemen komiou/menoi w(=n te h)dikh/meqa di/kas a)/neu o(/plwn proslhyo/menoi ('we have come not …