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α2786Ἀνύπαρκτονnon-existent[Meaning] that which does not exist. Compare the Pindaric [phrase]: "What is anyone? What is he not? Man is a dream of a shadow." Meaning more non-existent than the non-existent. But here this word …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ523ΔιαγόραςDiagoras… applied himself to the lyric art, being in time after Pindar and Bacchylides, but older than Melanippides: he flourished in the 78th Olympiad. And he was called Atheos since he held such an opinion, …Matched in translationhighmedium
ει45Εἴδωλονlikeness, image, phantom… kind of idols, [they are] a shadow of dreams in Pindar's phrase. "And [the] sons of Ephraim happened to be worshippers of idols."

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Ἀνύπαρκτον

non-existent

[Meaning] that which does not exist. Compare the Pindaric [phrase]: "What is anyone? What is he not? Man is a dream of a shadow." Meaning more non-existent than the non-existent. But here this word is nearer the truth…

Ἀνύπαρκτον· τὸ μὴ ὑπάρχον. πρὸς τὸ Πινδαρικόν· τί δέ τις; τί δ' οὔ τις; σκιᾶς ὄναρ ἄνθρωποι. ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀνυπάρκτου ἀνυπαρκτότερον. ἐνταῦθα δέ ἐστιν ὁ λόγος ἐγγυτέρω τῆς ἀληθείας…

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ει83Εἰκόςprobable… that one who undertakes the deed will suffer harm;" like Pindar's phrase, "doing something also to suffer harm." And Herodotus [writes]: "as I myself think and probability allies itself with me, [Demaratos] was not …Matched in translationhighmedium

η481Ἥρας δὲ δεσμοὺς ὑπὸ υἱέοςHera's bindings by (her) son… [uses the phrase]. It should be written thus; for in Pindar [it is written] "she is bound by Hephaestus in the chair built by him"; which some ignorantly write as "[she is bound] by …Matched in translationhighshort

ε3344Ἔτυχονhit (the target), succeeded (through preparation) in obtaining, achieving or winning, met; coincided, happened (to hit), chanced… my way by luck (Iliad 11.684, cf. tau 1147). In Pindar tyche becomes a concept of succeeding under the fashioning power of the gods (or a trainer), almost visually of arriving at, or “hitting”, …Matched in noteshighshort

α18ἌβαριςAbaris, Avars… (696-693) or "the time of Croesus, king of Lydia" (so Pindar, fr.270 Snell-Maehler), i.e. c.560-546. [6] The word used for the Avars here, *)aba/ris, is a homograph for the name of the Hyperborean wise …Matched in noteshighmedium

α2252Ἀνέλπιστον βίονhope-free life, hopeless lifeSame entry in other lexica, including Photius whose addendum 'thus Pindar' was rejected by Reizenstein as misplaced. (It is also in Apostolius 2.91.) Perhaps, rather, a philosophical (Stoic?) twist on the word "hopeless", which …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3253Ἐσχατιάνextremity, farthest part… It must be quoted from somewhere; extant possibilities begin with Pindar (Olympians 3.43, Pythians 11.56) and include Aeschines (1.97-98) and [Demosthenes] (42.5 & 19). The scholia to both Olympians 3.43 and to Aeschines 1.97 …Matched in noteshighmedium