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521
Διαγνώμη
decree, resolution
… entry in other lexica, and cf. also the scholia to
Thucydides
1.87.6, where the headword, a feminine noun, occurs (the Athenian assembly's resolution that the Thirty Years' Peace had been breached). See also
Thucydides
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3150
Ἀπήλαυσε
enjoyed
… demonstrably, extracted from the quotation given. [1] Marcellinus, Life of
Thucydides
26; see again under alpha 3377. The "misfortune" was the loss (from an Athenian perspective) of Amphipolis, which General
Thucydides
had been sent …
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2206
Ἐπήρεια
insolence
… the Ambrosian Lexicon (1493); and cf. also the scholia to
Thucydides
1.26.3 (next note). [2]
Thucydides
1.26.3 (web address 1). [3] Quotation (already at epsilon 1412) unidentifiable. It contains not the headword but a …
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2745
Ἀντιφῶν
Antiphon
… Gorgias. [4] An inference from the praise of Antiphon in
Thucydides
8.68. [5] The "archetypal wise old man" (OCD s.v.) in epic poetry.
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323
Γνάθους
jaws
… Wasps 946-8 (web address 1 below). The individual concerned is
Thucydides
Melesiou, one-time opponent of Pericles and (?)maternal grandfather of the historian.
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234
Δεξιός
clever
… 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 …
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1085
Δικαιώσεις
justifications
… Harpokration s.v.; cf. delta 1084. Lysias 9.8 (web address 1);
Thucydides
1.141.1 (web address 2), 8.66.2 (web address 3).
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1965
Ἐπανεῖπον
they proclaimed
Likewise in Photius. [1] In fact
Thucydides
6.60.4 (on the Athenians' reaction to the Hermae/Mysteries scandal: web address 1), with scholion. (Adler notes that Valckenaer wanted to emend the book number, but she retains …
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2658
Ἐπιτακτοί
reserves
… punctuation there includes 'troops' as part of the headword [2]
Thucydides
6.67.1 on the Athenians at Syracuse (web address 1). [3] For the quotation cf. kappa 1021 (end) -- but it is out of …
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3981
Ἐχέγγυος
secure, security-providing, trustworthy
… Lexicon epsilon2482; second one (only) in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. [3]
Thucydides
3.46.1 (web address 1): Diodotus exhorts the Athenians not to trust in the death penalty 'as if it could provide security'.
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1188
Διοπείθης
Diopeithes
… error by Aelian. These considerations, together with the silence of
Thucydides
and other sources, suggest that Aelian's story may well originate from a comic play, and lack historicity. Nevertheless, *if* the incident is not …
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4512
Αὐτονομουμένη πόλις
autonomously-governed polis
… (and its cognate u(ph/koos) of "subject" or dependent cities, compare
Thucydides
2.62, 4.56, 6.82, 7.57.3ff.; Xenophon, Hellenica 4.1.36, etc.; see Meritt/Wade-Gery/McGregor, The Athenian Tribute Lists III.155f. [3] Besides the lexica, compare the scholia to …
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206
Δελφίνιον
Delphinion, Delphinium
… s.v., intially commenting on the appearance of the word in
Thucydides
8.38.2 (Chios, web address 1) but going on to cite the Athenian one mentioned in Demosthenes 40.11 (web address 2). [1] Besides
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2156
Ἐπηγάγετο
won over
… given here, though there are extant alternatives from Herodotus and
Thucydides
onwards. (The instance in
Thucydides
1.104.1, on the Libyan Inaros winning over the Athenians to his rebel cause, generated a scholiast's gloss: e)pespa/sato, …
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2248
Ἀνελεῖν
to overturn; to take up
… the grievances that led to the Peloponnesian War (431-404); cf.
Thucydides
1.139. [2] cf. alpha 2202 and alpha 2371. [3] Demosthenes 22.20 (web address 1).. To understand the textual issue which now arises (cf. …
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2848
Ἀόριστος γῆ
undefined land
The headword phrase occurs in
Thucydides
1.139.2 (on a territorial dispute between Athens and Megara in the 430s BCE), and the substance of the entry derives from the scholia on the passage.
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3124
Ἀπείπατο
denied, refused
… Quotation unidentifiable (but probably from the C5 BCE; cf. e.g.
Thucydides
6.104.2 on Kleandridas). The "first aorist" with stem vowel alpha occurs sometimes (but not in Homer or standard Attic) instead of the usual …
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3649
Ἀποχειροτονηθῆναι
to 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 …
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243
Δέον
necessary
Aristophanes, Clouds 859, with comment from the scholia there. cf.
Thucydides
1.114.2, 2.21.2 and 5.16.3; Plutarch, Pericles 22-23. For discussion of the incident see Donald Kagan, The Archidamian War (Cornell UP 1974) 92 n.64. …
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458
Δημοσιεύων
being a public [doctor]
… clearly the metaphor of a treaty (as in Herodotus 3.144,
Thucydides
4.99 and in this same work, at lines 199 and 1534). Therefore the sense of the phrase should be "I did not make …
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837
Διαφρυκτοῦν
to use a roasted [bean]
… the pre-C4 procedure of appointing officials by lot. See e.g.
Thucydides
8.69.4 (web address 1); Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.2.9 (web address 2); and generally Staveley (below) 61-2. cf. kappa 2575, kappa 2577, kappa 2578.
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1078
Δικαιοῦν
to think just, to exact justice
… unidentifiable. Adler suggests Dexippus (and cites a similar passage at
Thucydides
2.47.4: web address 3). [3] Nowhere in the extant portions of Appian's text. Conventionally assigned to Book I as Fragment 8. [4] Josephus, …
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1084
Δικαίωσις
judgment
… more broadly delta 1082 end). [1] cf. the scholia on
Thucydides
8.66.2, where the headword occurs. [2] Aelian fr. 225 Domingo-Forasté (225 Hercher). [3] Aelian fr. 215a Domingo-Forasté (214 Hercher). On Aristaios see generally …
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1126
Διμοιρίτης
double-pay soldier, half-file commander
… was the normal pay for sailors enrolled in the fleet:
Thucydides
8.45.2 (web address 4); Xenophon, Hellenica 1.5.7 (web address 5). [3] A semantic connection is stressed in the gloss between a wage of …
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1229
Διώκειν
to prosecute, to pursue
… "pursue unattainable goals"; Sophocles, Ajax 997 so\n mo/ron "his doom";
Thucydides
2.63 tima/s "honors". The reference to moral values or virtue (cf. Plato, Gorgias 480C to\ a)gaqo\n kai\ kalo/n, 482E a)lh/qeian) is common in …
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1546
Δρύοπες
Dryopes
… the Peloponnese at Asine, Hermione and Eion. See Herodotus 8.46.4;
Thucydides
7.57.4; Diodorus Siculus 4.37.2; Pausanias 4.34.9-11. [2] The fourth labour of Heracles was to capture the Erymanthian boar and bring it alive to …
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311
Ἐθελοπρόξενος
voluntary proxenos
… in Hesychius epsilon650. The word etheloproxenos is used (coined?) by
Thucydides
3.70.3, and this is the glossing of the scholia there. For the ordinary kind of proxenos see pi 2540, and OCD(4) s.v., p.1231 …
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1439
Ἔνσπονδος
treaty-bound
[1] Likewise in other lexica, and cf. a scholion on
Thucydides
1.31.2 (where the plural of the headword occurs). [2] Appian, Basilica fr.13; cf. pi 568. [3] Quotation unidentifiable. (Adler tentatively suggests Aelian.)
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2048
Ἐπελπίζων
causing to hope
… is presumably extracted from the quotation given. (The instance in
Thucydides
8.54.1 is intransitive, and might anyway be simple e)lpi/zwn.) [1] Aelian fr. 51a Domingo-Forasté (48 Hercher), quoted more extensively (and with some slight …
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2350
Ἐπικαλουμένων
being accused, being charged
… here, though there are numerous other possibilities (including two in
Thucydides
which generated scholiastic synonyms). [1] Adler tentatively attributed this quotation to Damascius, Life of Isidore: now fr. 293 Zintzen, 119.I Athanassiadi.
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