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42 entries for having made a libation

β196Βάψας τὴν κώπηνhaving dipped the oar… is quoted: "I want [to make him] a foreigner suddenly, having dipped to the nautodikai." (Here "I want," e)qe/lw, has become the Suda's e)lqw/n, "having come"). On the nautodikai see generally A.R.W. Harrison, The …Matched in noteshighshort
η19Ἡβήσαντεςhaving come of age… 14 for other forms of this verb. [1] More literally "having come to their peak." For this gloss cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 5.550, where h(bh/sante occurs. [2] Referring to emotional and physical …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε1136Ἐναύεινto kindle, to light a fire… of the Aetolians led by Scopas in 211 BCE. After having sent to Epirus their women, children and elderly people, the Acarnanians solemnly swore to fight the invaders with all their might, and bound …Matched in noteshighmedium
α3903ἈριστείδηςAristides, Aristeides… [4] A Persian coin. See delta 72. [5] Literally, bread made with no care (to cut out impurities); cf. epsilon 2464. [6] For this additional material see mu 1068, where the grammar of this …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ433Δημιόπραταpublicly-sold (goods)… pre-Henderson Loeb translation considers the cookies to be honey-cookies: " having licked the cakes made of confiscation sales, sprinkled with honey". For Kleon see kappa 1731.Matched in noteshighshort
β10ΒαβύλαςBabylas… confusion. Eusebius, Historia ecclesiastica 6.39.4, mentions Babylas by name as having been martyred under Decius, emperor 249-51, but also (6.34.1) relates a story about an unnamed church leader forbidding entrance to the church to …Matched in noteshighmedium
μ171ΜαξέντιοςMaxentios, Maxentius… 36). [10] Socrates, Historia Ecclesiastica 1.3 (line 7) has e)/xwn, "having." [11] The participle yu/xwn "breathing, blowing, chilling" has been added to replace e)/xwn governing do/cas ("ideas") taken from Socrates, Historia Ecclesiastica 1.3 (line …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1228Διώκεινto prosecute… address 2). Chremes is reporting to Blepyrus the public speech made by a "good-looking young man" (427) who, as the audience knows, is Blepyrus' wife Praxagora. After the negative remarks she has expressed on …Matched in noteshighshort
α2248Ἀνελεῖνto overturn; to take up… nominative (and placing a comma between tou=ton and to\n no/mon: "having overturned the law, [the Council] elected this man itself".Matched in noteshighmedium
λ344Λευστήρstone-thrower, oppressor… morphologically and in usage (LSJ s.v). The phrase "deserving of having stones cast" is used by Photius and others to define kataleu/simon, as is seen at kappa 615; the Suda may have copied this …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3213ἙστιάδεςHestiades… is unidentifiable in this precise form, though the final sentence ('Having accomplished etc.') summarizes Eusebius, Life of Constantine 3.46.1-47.1. The relative pronoun a(\s connects the passage awkwardly to the apparently unrelated note on the …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε2789Ἐπλινθεύθησανthey were bricked in… and alter the translation as follows: "being shut up by having a structure built around one..." This emendation receives some support from the parallel entry in the Glossae rhetoricae (see note above), where a …Matched in noteshighshort
ει261Εἰσηγορίαreproach… a difference of initial preposition) than they can readily be made to appear in translation.Matched in noteshighshort
δ458Δημοσιεύωνbeing a public [doctor]… there is a shift to the middle voice where the libation is clearly the metaphor of a treaty (as in Herodotus 3.144, Thucydides 4.99 and in this same work, at lines 199 and 1534). …Matched in noteshighshort
μ210ΜάρκιοςMarkios, Marcius… banishment Coriolanus took refuge among the Volscians (cf. mu 211). Having gained the confidence of their leader Tullus Attius (cf. tau 243 n.2) and the rest of the Volscians (cf. Dion.Hal. 8.1-3), he then …Matched in noteshighlong
ε99Ἔγκλητονof appeal, under appeal… effectively the same as epsilon 477, q.v. The point being made here is not self-evident but is more probably grammatical than procedural, i.e. referring to the aorist middle infinitive (which indeed is attested only …Matched in noteshighshort
ν184Νεοδαμώδηςnew-citizen, newly-enfranchised, neodamodesA liberated helot, in fact, whose new "citizen" status made him instantly into a soldier. The category was perhaps created during the Archidamian War (431-421 BC) and continues to be mentioned until the 370s. …Matched in noteshighshort
α1500Ἀμαρτυρήτουςwitness-less… finer distinction in the Greek than it can readily be made to sound in translation. [2] Antiphanes fr. 311 Kock, now 326 K.-A. Photius s.v. gives the authority as 'Antiphon', but that, even if …Matched in noteshighshort
η218ἩλιαίαHeliaia, Heliaea… entry, eta 219 (same source), where more coherent attempts are made to define these terms.Matched in noteshighshort
β442ΒοῦλιςBoulis… were in fact Spartans. (The mistake could not have been made by anyone who had read Herodotus for themselves.)Matched in noteshighshort
α307Ἀγοραίαν δίκηνagora lawsuit, forensic lawsuitAn opaque entry, and made the more so because it appears in other lexica in different forms. In Photius (alpha231 Theodoridis) the lemma itself is the adjective only, i.e. di/khn is lacking; the Synagoge …Matched in noteshighshort
ε1628Ἐξένιζενused to be foreign… Demosthenes 57.18, where the speaker uses it of the allegations made against his father. This glossing on it is a shorter version of Harpokration s.v. (epsilon66 Keaney), which cites the explanation in Didymos (p.315 …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2216Κῴδιονsmall fleece, small sheepskin rug (for sleeping on) or cloak (against rain)… krati/nion, found in Athenaeus (Deipnosophists, Epitome 2.2.58.29-31) for a drinking-cup made of cornel-wood. [7] The English does not capture the distinction between entering a dramatic contest and writing the script of a comedy. The …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ1802Κλιμάζειbends… is clearly correct), not the indicative. [2] The point being made (already in Photius) is that the purported verb klima/zein should perhaps be blima/zein: cf. beta 341.Matched in noteshighshort
κ2524ΚτησιφῶνKtesiphon, Ctesiphon, Ctesipho… and 8894; LGPN ii s.v., nos. 4 and 5) is made. [1] In 347/6. [2] Or: 'the decree which...'. [3] Aeschines 3; cf. alphaiota 348.Matched in noteshighshort
ε3981Ἐχέγγυοςsecure, security-providing, trustworthyThe headword is a two-termination compound adjective which literally means 'having security'. For the less common passive sense of the headword ('receiving security'), see already epsilon 3980. For the related adjective e)/gguos ('reliable', 'giving …Matched in noteshighshort
α69ἈβραάμAbraham… "fruitful and exceedingly numerous" (Genesis 17:19-20). Isaac's filial status is made explicit by God in identifying him as Abraham's "only son" (Genesis 22:12) through whom "offspring shall be named" for Abraham, whereas Ishmael, although …Matched in noteshighlong
ε1080Ἐμφρεάτοιin Phreato… be in a boat moored offshore. [1] An error (not made by the Suda's source here, Harpocration) for Demosthenes 23 [Against Aristocrates].77. [2] That is, in book 16 of his Laws: fr.13 Szegedy-Maszak (645 …Matched in noteshighshort
α4364Ἀτίμητος ἀγώνunassessed lawsuit… what the Suda has missed out, and by so doing made the entry say (with the help of a change from 'unassessed' to 'assessed' in the final sentence) the exact opposite of what it …Matched in noteshighshort
κ820Κατὰ τὴν ἀγορὰν ἀψευδεῖνno lying in the agora… phrase in Hyperides, Against Athenogenes 14. [1] The abridgement has made the Greek here ungrammatical: the clause has two main verbs. I have translated what it sought to say rather than what it actually …Matched in noteshighshort