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δ207Δελφίςdolphin… of the enemy ship and sink or disable it. [2] Thucydides 7.41.2: web address 1. Consult Dover's note (in A Historical Commentary on Thucydides v.4, by A.W. Gomme, A. Andrewes and K.J. Dover. Oxford: …Matched in noteshighshort
α537Ἀδύνατα εἶναιto be impossibles[1] Thucydides 1.59.2, etc; see web address 1. (For something similar see epsilon 2774.) Same material in other lexica; references at Photius alpha392 Theodoridis. [2] Stoic doctrine from Diogenes Laertius 7.75. [3] This sentence …Matched in noteshighshort
α1020Ἀκροτελεύτιον ἔποςfag-end word… Arabius, Praeparatio sophistica fr. 14. [2] From the scholia to Thucydides 2.17.1, where the adjective 'fag-end' (with 'word' or the like implicit) is used.

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Δελφίς

dolphin

An engine of war [sc. intended] for a sea-battle. Whence also 'a dolphin-bearing ship'. Thucydides [book] 7 says : "at that point the dolphin-bearing spars suspended from the merchantmen over the entry channels hindered…

Δελφίς· πρὸς ναυμαχίαν πολεμιστήριον ὄργανον. ὅθεν καὶ δελφινοφόρον ναῦν Θουκυδίδης ἐν τῇ ζʹ φησίν· ἔπειτα αὐτοὺς αἱ κεραῖαι ὑπὲρ τῶν εὔπλων, αἱ ἀπὸ τῶν ὁλκάδων δελφινοφόροι,…

gender and sexuality2

gender and sexuality2

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α1183Ἀληλεσμένονground-up… is in fact a)lhleme/non there). [1] A loose approximation of Thucydides 4.26.5. [2] cf. omicron 769 and the references there. [3] cf. beta 295.Matched in noteshighmedium

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

α3593Ἀποτειχίζωνwalling off… now becomes Harpokration s.v., abridged. [4] Antiphon fr. 9 Sauppe; Thucydides 1.64-5, etc.Matched in noteshighmedium

δ234Δεξιόςclever… 1909. [9] So the scholia to Aristophanes, Frogs 541. [10] Thucydides 8.68.4. [11] So the scholia to Aristophanes, Birds 1111. This is a comment on a line in which "they" are greedy Athenians in …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ625Διαλέγουσανenlarging, picking open… (aorist active infinitives). [4] Adler notes Dindorf's view that this 'Thucydides' refers to another gloss, and certainly it cannot relate to diale/gou; but epsilon 77 may provide the link.Matched in noteshighshort

ε1508Ἐν χρῷ παραπλέωνsailing close to skinFrom a scholion on Thucydides 2.84.1, where the plural of this participial phrase is used of Phormio's warships (web address 1). For the part of it which generates the comment cf. already epsilon 1506, …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2326Ἐπιθεραπεύωνnursing, tending… nominative singular) of the verb e)piqerapeu/w. [1] An approximation of Thucydides 8.47.1 (web address 1). For Alkibiades see generally alpha 1280.Matched in noteshighshort

ε3558Εὔλαχαeulaka… apart from "in an oracle" -- in other lexica. The Thucydides passage is 5.16.2 (web address 1), in respect of the oracles allegedly given in 427 BCE to Spartan delegates by Delphi at the …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1205ΔιοσημείαZeus-omen, Zeus-sign… bloody behaviour of the Thracians see Aristophanes, Lysistrata 563f; cf. Thucydides 7.29.4, describing a savage attack of the mercenaries on Mycalessos. [4] cf. Eustathius on Homer, Iliad 1.34 to\ a)stra/ptein to\n *di=a, h)/toi to\n …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε2171Ἐπηλυγάζονταιthey are being obfuscated… [1] = Hesychius epsilon4553, possibly deriving from the scholia to Thucydides. Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon offers the same glosses in reverse order. This form of the headword does not occur in the received text of …Matched in noteshighmedium

α333Ἀγωνιούμενοιabout to be contenders… demonstrably so, and there are plenty of alternatives (beginning with Thucydides, Xenophon and Plato). [1] Quotation unidentifiable, but evidently from (or connected with) a war narrative. This brings out the point that the verb …Matched in noteshighshort

α336Ἀγώνισμαachievement, prize… (both a struggle and its reward) Dover ad loc. compares Thucydides 7.59.2 (web address 2 below).Matched in noteshighshort

α923Ἀκονιτίdustless… in the C5 BCE we find attested the metaphorical usage (Thucydides 4.73.2) alongside the literal one (Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum 36B.20, of an Olympic boxing victory). See further alpha 924, and under lambda 688. [1] …Matched in noteshighshort

α1707Ἀμφίβολοιsurrounded, in doubt… Same glossing in other lexica, and cf. the scholia to Thucydides 4.32.2, where the (plural) headword occurs. [2] Arrian, Parthica fr. 86 Roos-Wirth (FGrH 156 F119a). For Arrian on the Mardoi -- a Caspian …Matched in noteshighshort

α1913Ἀνακωχήcessation… glossing in other lexica. [2] From the imaginatively-phrased scholia to Thucydides 1.40.4, where the present headword occurs in the genitive singular, with the preferable spelling a)nokwxh/ (web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort

α3649Ἀποχειροτονηθῆναιto be voted down, to be rejected… Philochorus FGrH 328 F128, on events of 425/4 BCE (cf. Thucydides 4.41.3-4). [3] Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 3.5.16; again at kappa 1990; cf. de Boor (119) and Whitby (79). After his failure to retake Martyropolis …Matched in noteshighshort

α4565ἈφαυανθήσομαιI will be dried up… (425/4) which saw captured Spartans brought back to Athens, see Thucydides 4.1-41. For Kleon see generally kappa 1731. [3] So the transmitted text, but the scholiast has 'at Pylos'. [4] Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 215-16 (web …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ208Δελφίςdolphin… by comment from the scholia there. See further below. [3] Thucydides 7.41.2 (web address 2); see already delta 207. [4] The chorus in Aristophanes' Knights uses the metaphor of a naval battle to warn …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ436Δημιουργόςartisan, craftsman… other lexica. [2] Sophocles, Ajax 1035. [3] An approximation of Thucydides 1.56.2, on one of the Athenian orders to its ally Potidaea in 432 BC. (Since the noun in question is the compound EPIdemiourgoi, …Matched in noteshighshort

ε19Ἐβαρύνετοwas weighed down[1] From a scholion on Thucydides 2.16.2, where the plural e)baru/nonto occurs (web address 1). (The headword itself, singular e)baru/neto, must, unless it is simply a slip, be quoted from somewhere else, such as …Matched in noteshighshort

ε352Ἐκκαρπωσάμενοιhaving reaped rewardsSame entry in other lexica, and cf. the scholia to Thucydides 5.28.2 (on the Argives' position of neutrality: web address 1), where the headword -- an aorist middle participle in the masculine nominative plural …Matched in noteshighshort

ε419Ἐκεχειρίαarmistice, holiday, rest… variously, are also in other lexica (and in scholia to Thucydides and Aristophanes). [1] Josephus, Jewish War 3.72.Matched in noteshighshort

ε692Ἐκτρυχωθείςworn-out… certainly be e)ktruxwqei/s, from e)ktruxo/w (a verb first attested in Thucydides: see LSJ s.v.). Latte's edition of Hesychius, Cunningham's edition of the Synagoge, Bachmann's edition of recension B of the Synagoge (215.4) and Theodoridis' …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1638Ἐξέπλευσενsailed out… lacks the nu-moveable. Extant alternatives are numerous, from Sophocles and Thucydides onwards. [2] Aelian fr. 39a Domingo-Forasté (36 Hercher). For the idiom cf. Herodotus 3.155.3 (e)ce/plwsas tw=n frenw=n), noted by ps.-Zonaras: see epsilon 1639.Matched in noteshighshort

ε1946Ἐπάλξειςbattlements… lego/menoi promaxw=nes). The word also occurs frequently in prose, e.g. Thucydides 3.21.3 (web address 2). See also epsilon 1947, mu 1272, pi 2501, pi 3201. [1] Up to this point the entry = Lexica …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2418Ἐπικρεμαμένουhanging over… (though there is an earlier instance in Herodotus 9.33.5). [2] Thucydides 7.75.7 (web address 1), quoted approximately; see also omicroniota 177.Matched in noteshighshort

ε2488Ἐπίνειονnaval base, sea-port… or similar glossing other lexica, and cf. the scholia to Thucydides 1.30.2. [2] The kata/bolos is indeed a naval station (cf. LSJ s.v., epsilon 2489 end). But here the Suda appears to gesture at …Matched in noteshighshort

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