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μ18ΜάγκινονMancinus… case, presumably from the quotation given [2] A version of Cassius Dio 23.79.3; from epsilon 143 (q.v.). [3] From Latin manceps, also transliterated ma/gkiy. [4] From Latin manucipium, also transliterated magki/pion.Matched in noteshighshort
ε143Ἔγνωcondemned, convicted… s.v. gignw/skw A.II. [1] Quotation unidentifiable. [2] A version of Cassius Dio 23.79.3; again at mu 18. For the 'Nomantai' (Numantians) see generally nu 453.Matched in noteshighshort
α1124Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ ΜαμαίαςAlexander Mamaias, Alexander son of Mamaia… the city of Emesa (present-day Homs). The contemporary Roman senator, Cassius Dio, condemned him for being a tyrant; having multiple wives, including a Vestal Virgin; flaunting other Roman religious traditions; and generally leading a …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ403Ληγατάριοςlegate… in Justinian. [2] Hellenization of the Latin legatum; attested in Cassius Dio and Justinian. [3] Aorist indicative active, third person singular, of a rare verb lhgateu/w; extracted here from epsilon 829.Matched in noteshighshort
ε238Ἐδικαιώθησανthey were justified, they were adjudged… person plural; cf. delta 1078, epsilon 237, epsilon 239. [2] Cassius Dio 15.57.46a (phi 516 has a shorter extract). For 'the Campanians attempted to accuse Flaccus and the Syracusans Marcellus' cf. Livy 26.30.12: 'of …Matched in noteshighmedium
ι439Ἰουλία ΑὐγούσταJulia Augusta… see OCD(4) s.v. Iulia Domna. The present material comes from Cassius Dio 75.15.6-7. [1] Reigned AD 193-211. [2] C.Fulvius Plautianus, Severus' all-powerful praetorian prefect until his murder in 205.Matched in noteshighshort
ε2616Ἐπιστάτιςchairwoman, lady president… [3] Sophocles, Ajax 27 (web address 2) with scholion. [4] Cassius Dio 73.16.3 (from his eye-witness account of the over-the-top spectacles at the end of the reign of Commodus). For this sense of epistates …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1080Δικαίωμαact of justiceFor this headword cf. generally delta 1081, delta 1082. [1] Cassius Dio 61.1.2, already at gamma 340. [2] See generally Diogenes Laertius 2.16-17 (and alpha 4084). [3] The Greek ai(/resis means both “choice” and …Matched in noteshighshort
ε344Ἐκκαλεῖταιcalls out, provokes… by Adler, who declared rash Mai's attribution of it to Cassius Dio. Latterly Favuzzi [see under alpha 1596] 198-199 canvasses the likelihood, on vocabulary grounds, of Appian, Dio, and John of Antioch, and argues …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε1055Ἐμποίνιμοςpunishable… this quotation (quoted already in part at epsilon 239) to Cassius Dio; Gaisford, to Eunapius; and latterly Favuzzi [see under alpha 1596] 208-209 on vocabulary-based grounds to Aelian. In any event this 'Saturninus' is …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3272Ἑταιρισάμενοςassociating one's self… glossed with another one. Perhaps quoted (via the Excerpta) from Cassius Dio 45.26.2, where one of only two other attestations of this form is found. (The other is Plutarch, Moralia 1086E.) Adler cites the …Matched in noteshighshort
γ25Γαλεάγραweasel-trap, iron-maiden… death of Regulus at the hands of the Carthaginians), or Cassius Dio 59.10 (on the abuses of Caligula). The use of the word dieirgme/nhn is puzzling here since it should normally mean 'fenced apart'. …Matched in noteshighshort
β109ΒάρβιοςBarbios, Barbius… with the account of a certain Maximus who, according to Cassius Dio 48.34.5 was exposed as a slave before assuming the post of quaestor (in Rome, not in Antonius' entourage). [2] That is, during …Matched in noteshighmedium
α4426Αὐθέντηςperpetrator… alpha 1596] 209-210 finds vocabulary-based grounds for an attribution to Cassius Dio. (Contrast xi 130.) [5] There was a theory, promoted by Philoxenos of Alexandria (phi 394), that the Greek vocabulary was based on …Matched in noteshighmedium
γ12ΓάϊοςGaius… account which seems to depend heavily on Book 59 of Cassius Dio (see particularly Dio 59.5 for the last sentence of the present account). A sentence from this source is also quoted at omicron …Matched in noteshighlong
κ1708ΚλαύδιοςKlaudios, Claudius… 10 (web address 2). After this the Suda begins following Cassius Dio (60.2.1-60.3.1). For discrepancies, see the notes below. [2] cf. Suet. Claud. 3 (web address 3) & 41-2 (web address 4). [3] cf. …Matched in noteshighlong

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