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Διδαξάμενος
having [someone] taught
Same entry in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon, compiled at some time between the first and the fourth centuries CE. Similar one, later, in Photius, Lexicon delta520, though the glossing there is corrupted into tele/sas ti …
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1796
Ἐξομόργνυνται
they wipe off (from themselves)
The headword is third person plural present middle of e)como/rgnumi. It must be quoted from somewhere: same or similar glossing in other lexica, and cf. also the scholia to Plato, Laws 775D, where the …
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471
Χρή
it is necessary
[1] See the A scholia to Homer, Iliad 1.216 (web address 1), where the form xrh/ appears; see also Etymologicum Magnum 814.50. [2] Eupolis fr. 4 Kock, now 11 K.-A. [3] See chi 493 …
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Ἐωνημένοι
having purchased
[1] The headword is the perfect middle participle, masculine nominative plural, of w)ne/omai. Same or similar glossing in other lexica; evidently quoted from somewhere (perhaps Plato, Republic 563B, though there are other possibilities). As …
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2000
Ἀναπεμπάζειν
to ponder, to calculate, to count over
Same entry in ps.-Zonaras; similar ones in Photius (s.v. a)napempa/zesqai) and Hesychius (s.v. a)napempa/zei and a)napempazo/menoi, on the second of which see below). [1] The Aeolic form for pe/nte "five" is pe/mpe -- both …
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150
Ἀγαπᾶν
to love, to receive favorably, to be content with.
… expression meaning "please...". There are classical Attic instances in Plato
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75C) and Isocrates (Letters 6.6); and see generally LSJ s.v. a)gapa/w, III.1.
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1150
Ἀλευάδαι
Aleuadai, Aleuadae, Aleuads
… lexica, including Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. From the scholia to Plato,
Meno
70B, where the headword occurs. cf. under epsilon 3952 and sigma 438, and see generally OCD(4) p.55.
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1280
Ἀλκιβιάδης
Alcibiades, Alkibiades
451/0-404/3. See generally P.J. Rhodes in OCD(4) s.v. (pp.52-3). The present entry is attributed by Adler to the biographies of notable individuals by Hesychius of Miletus (C6 CE); and specifically, the section beginning 'This …
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110
Δαιδάλου ποιήματα
Daidalos' creations, Daedalus' creations
The phrase "Daidalou poiemata" occurs in Plato,
Meno
97D-E, and this material derives from ancient comment on that passage. For Daidalos/Daedalus cf. already delta 106, delta 107, delta 108, delta 109; and see generally …
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468
Δημοῦσθαι
to talk popularly
Same entry in other lexica, including Photius, who cites Plato for this sense of the verb (= Theaetetus 161E, which has the participle dhmou/menon; cf. the scholia there). [1] See delta 444. [2] This …
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575
Ἔκπλεα
complete (ones)
[1] = Anecdota Graeca I 214.9 (Bachmann); also in ps.-Zonaras, who goes on to give the quotation which immediately follows. The headword, neuter plural of the adjective e)/kpleos, is presumably extracted from it. [2] …
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Ἐπηλυγασάμενος
overshading
= Timaeus, Platonic Lexicon 986b.3-4. The headword (aorist middle participle, masculine nominative singular, of the verb e)phluga/zw) appears in Plato, Lysis 207b (web address 1), although most mss of Plato (and hence most modern …
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Εὖ πράττειν
do well, fare well
… Letter to Herodotus 35; Letter to Pythocles 83; Letter to
Menoeceus
121). The Athenian demagogue Cleon (kappa 1731) seems in odd company here, but see chi 164.
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3695
Εὐριπίδης
Euripides
Probably 480s - after 408 BCE; see generally John Gould in OCD(4) s.v. For a balanced and succinct investigation of Euripidean lore (with ample sourcing), see the Introduction (1-49) by David Kovacs in Euripides: …
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3792
Εὐφήμει
speak well
… epsilon1009; Photius, Lexicon epsilon2361; scholia to Plato, Gorgias 469A and
Meno
91C.
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57
Εἰκάζων
conjecturing, comparing
… always a certainty with Timaeus -- the likely context is
Meno
98B. [2] Quotation unidentifiable. (Adler suggests Aelian.) The transmitted plural fa/smata may be corrected either to the singular fa/sma or better (as suggested …
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263
Εἰσηγούμενος
instructing
Same or similar entry (minus the grammatical point) in other lexica. The headword, a middle participle in the masculine nominative singular, must be quoted from somewhere. The possibilities are numerous: for a famous instance …
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278
Εἰς καλόν
for good
See e.g. Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 78; Plato,
Meno
89E, Symposium 174E. cf. generically epsiloniota 279.
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33
Ἦ γάρ
n'est-ce pas? no?
… confirmation, very common in Plato; Theodoridis on Photius s.v. offers
Meno
97A and Theaetetus 160E exempli gratia.
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150
Κακία
vice, evil
… belong to ignorance or, rather, they are ignorance) see Plato,
Meno
77B-78B; Gorgias 460B-D, 488A; Protagoras 352C, 355A-358A, 360D, and the Diogenes Laertius and Stobaeus passages quoted above. [3] alpha 3830. [4] From commentary …
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