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α4643Ἄφρακτος φίλωνunguarded by friends[Meaning] not be-fenced and be-walled with friends because you left them behind deceived.Matched in headwordhighshort
α136Ἀγαλματοφορούμενοςimage-bearing, image-carrying, enshrined as an image… images or impressions of things that one has thought of. Philo [sc. uses the term] this way.Matched in translationhighshort
κ1237Κεκιβδήλευταιis adulterated, has been adulterated… author who provides the only attestations of it outside lexica: Philo Judaeus, De Decalogo 3.2, De Specialibus Legibus 1.326.2, and Quod omnis probus liber sit 98.4. Philo's usage is figurative (referring to souls and …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1273Κεκρύφαλονhairnet… 1273. [5] Greek Anthology 6.206.3-4 (Antipater of Sidon). The adjective filo/plektos "tending to be braided" is usually taken to be a corruption of filo/plagktos, "errant, straying". The phrase "dyed with flowers of the grey …Matched in noteshighshort
ε519Ἐκνοσηλεύωνcuring completely… verb e)knoshleu/w. It must be quoted from somewhere -- perhaps Philo Judaeus, who uses it figuratively. cf. generally nu 491.Matched in noteshighshort
ι790Ἰχνηλατῆσαιto track down… If it is quoted from somewhere, the likely source is Philo Judaeus, who has four instances.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1573Δύναμιςcapability, capacity, ability, potentiality, power… with difficulty the heavy protuberances that weigh down the neck." Philo said that two potentialities meet in every soul, a salvific and a destructive. This man did not sense even a dream of the …Matched in translationhighlong
ε1924Ἐπαγωνιεῖταιwill struggle with… singular. It must be quoted from somewhere; extant possibilities include Philo Judaeus and several passages in Cyril of Alexandria.Matched in noteshighshort
ε2335Ἐπὶ θήρᾳout for a hunt… Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Roman Antiquities 1.186) and several passages in Philo Judaeus (e.g. Life of Moses 1.43).Matched in noteshighshort
μ436Μεθορμιζόμενοςchanging harbors, sailing from one harbor to another… meqormi/zw. This participle (in various case forms) is used by Philo and Christian writers, always with a figurative sense.Matched in noteshighshort
α2302Ἀνεπόλειhe was repeating… somewhere. (Its only extant attestation outside the Suda is in Philo Judaeus, Legatio ad Gaium 310, but the subject there is feminine.)Matched in noteshighshort
κ1258Κεκωφῆσθαιto be deafened… The verb kwfa/w occurs five times in the passive in Philo Judaeus, including kekwfh=sqai in De congressu eruditionis gratia 65.7 (in a figurative sense) and kekwfw=sqai in Quod deterius potiori insidiari soleat 175.Matched in noteshighshort
ε3430Εὔδραvigorous(?)… eu)/udra, neuter plural of the adjective eu)/udros "well-watered" (attested in Philo Judaeus and the geographer Dionysios).Matched in noteshighshort
β121Βάροςweight, influence, gravitas, dignity… follows (p. 517) Dindorf in opting for the alternative spelling filo/nikon instead of the Suda's filo/neikon. [3] Polybius 30.10.4. [4] Diodorus Siculus 33.28a (28b in Loeb edition); cf. iota 111. [5] Sophocles, Oedipus at …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε1120Ἐναποματτόμενοιbeing imaged, receiving an impression… It must be quoted from somewhere; the extant instances include Philo Judaeus and John Chrysostom. See also Hesychius epsilon2652 (aorist infinitive, with gloss to\n tu/pon a)nalabei=n, epsilon2653 (future, with gloss e)napotupw/sei) and epsilon2654 (present …Matched in noteshighshort
αι117Αἰθεροβατεῖνto aether-tread, to tread the aether… Eunapius. But this rare verb is used far more by Philo Judaeus than any other author.)Matched in noteshighshort
αι285Αἵρεσιςcapture, taking… perhaps, "dear to God." [3] Tittman attributes this passage to Philo Judaeus, Adler to Damascius (now adopted as fr. 292 Zintzen).Matched in noteshighshort
κ2341ΚράτηςKrates, CratesSon of Askondas, a Theban, a Cynic philosopher, a student of Diogenes and Bryson the Achaean. He liquidated his property and gave the money to a money-changer, telling him that if his sons were …Matched in translationhighmedium
η475ἩρακλῆςHerakles, Heracles, HerculesAlcmene's son. They give an account of him as a philosopher and they depict him wearing the skin of a lion, carrying a cudgel, and possessing three apples; which are the three apples the …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε3504ΕὐθύδημοςEuthydemos, Euthydemus… character of the city strange and not good for pursuing philosophy in. For nowhere were people more addicted to luxury -- jokers and brutes all -- and they were more interested in their linens …Matched in translationhighmedium
α4394Ἄτρυτοςunabating[Meaning someone/something] inexhaustible. "He was devoted to philology and unabating labors and overwhelmed the reputations of older and more clever men with his own name." And elsewhere: "during the daytime he gave himself over …Matched in translationhighshort
λ309Λέσχηlounging, lounge; conversation… and places in which men were accustomed to congregate and philosophize. So says, too, Hierocles in [book] 1 of Philosophical Subjects. Herodotus [writes]: "and yet when a conversation had taken place, [sc. about] which …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ1852ΚνάπτωI cardWhen someone came to Xenocrates the philosopher to study philosophy, although he knew neither geometry nor astronomy, [Xenocrates] said: "here with me [ = in my school] wool is not carded".Matched in translationhighshort
λ297Λεπτολογίαsubtle argument… not devote himself to subtle argument or extend his discourses." Philostratus the Lemnian writes [this] about Apollonius. Hermippos in Demesmen [sc. also uses the word.] "I am already seeking to chop logic, and to …Matched in translationhighshort
ε45Ἐγγαστρίμυθοςventriloquist… [call] a Python, but Sophocles [calls] a chest-diviner, and the philosopher Plato [calls] a Eurycles, from a diviner of such a kind [named] Eurycles. Aristophanes in Wasps [writes]: "mimicing the oracle and device of …Matched in translationhighmedium
α1128Ἀλέξανδρος ΑἰγαῖοςAlexandros Aigaios, Alexandrus Aegaeus, Alexander of AegaePeripatetic philosopher; teacher of the emperor Nero, along with the philosopher Chaeremon. He had a son called Caelinus. This man used to call Nero 'clay mixed with blood'. In my view, bad pupils have …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε3650ΕὐπείθιοςEupeithios, Eupithius… many others, but he neglected those [things] which lead to philosophy, inasmuch as he was ill-trained in these, because of his father's wealth which made him subject to flattery. But he proposed to himself …Matched in translationhighmedium
α735ἈθηνόδωροςAthenodoros, AthenodorusStoic philosopher, of the time of the Roman emperor Octavian. Under Octavian there was every reason for unbridled excess of power to be a universal misfortune, but the aforementioned Athenodoros persuaded him away from …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ1711ΚλεάνθηςKleanthes, Cleanthes… Zeno, whose successor he became. He was mentor of the philosopher Chrysippus of Soloi and of Antigonos the king. This man was at first a boxer, but after he had gone to Athens he …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε3046ἙρμογένηςHermogenesOf Tarsus; nicknamed Xyster. Sophist. The philosopher Musonius attended his classes. He lived under the emperor Marcus [sc. Aurelius], and had great natural talent. When he was lacking in years his wisdom by contrast …Matched in translationhighmedium

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