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11 entries for a plot [against someone]

ι464ἸωάννηςIoannes, John… very numerous, on grammar, philosophy, arithmetic, rhetoric, Holy Scripture; and against the eighteen arguments of Proclus and against Severus. However, he was rejected by the doctors of the church as a tritheist, and ejected …Matched in translationhighshort
α725Ἀθήλυντονunwomanish[Meaning someone or something] inflexible, hard.Matched in translationhighshort
γ118Γέλοιοςlaughable… who try to polish millet, or just like Murmêkides contending against the skill of Pheidias." And [there is] another proverb: "more laughable than Melitides", in reference to those accused of stupidity. For Melitides was …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
δ72ΔαρεικούςDarics… from the navy 700,000 were found together with the cavalry. Against the Scythians 600 ships were assembled.Matched in translationhighshort
κ27ΚάϊνCain… Cain; or if [you mean] that which has been decreed against him by God, you will not miss the idea this way either. For behold the first sin among those dared by Cain is …Matched in translationhighlong
ι521ἽππαρχοςHipparchus, Hipparchos… On the Monthly Motion of the Moon in Latitude, and (?)Against Eratosthenes.Matched in translationhighshort
μ187ΜαργίτηςMargites… 185), and at gamma 118 the present material attaches to someone called (apparently) Melitides.Matched in noteshighshort
μ365Μεγαλομερίαlavishness, munificence, greatness of parts… with around fifteen myriad [sc. soldiers], by which not only someone present and beholding under his view, but even one hearing [sc. about these numbers], would have been struck with astonishment at the magnitude …Matched in translationhighmedium
χ418ΧοσρόηςChosroes, Khosrau, Khosraw… had been translated for him into the Persian language by someone. And therefore they say that he gulped down all of the Stageirite even more eagerly than the Paeanian did the son of Oloros, …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ2602Κύβοςcube (six-sided gambling die or a square face or pip (spot) on such a die)… passage either from or modelled on Polybius. In the campaigns against Hannibal the Roman general Q. Fabius Cunctator on several occasions chose not to gamble his whole army against the Carthaginian. Both Polybius and …Matched in noteshighmedium