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- α2786Ἀνύπαρκτονnon-existentThe headword is neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective. [1] Pindar, Pythian 8.95, but here misquoted by the lexicographer with anthropoi, "men", for the singular anthropos, "man". See web address 1. [2] In Sophocles, …
- δ523ΔιαγόραςDiagoras… 524, and generally OCD(4) s.v. (p.444). [1] delta 448. [2] Pindar pi 1617, Bacchylides beta 59, Melanippides mu 455. [3] 468-465. [4] For this work cf. alpha 3493, pi 3200. On the (controversial) view …
- η481Ἥρας δὲ δεσμοὺς ὑπὸ υἱέοςHera's bindings by (her) son… be excluded from the curriculum in the ideal state). [2] Pindar fr. 283 Maehler. For the legend, see Pausanias 1.20.3 (cf. 3.17.3). See also note 3 below. [3] According to Libanius, Narration 7 (Foerster …
- ει83Εἰκόςprobable… Zintzen. [5] Sophocles, Electra 1026 (web address 1), with scholion; Pindar, Nemean 4.52, where paqei=n e)/oiken "is likely to suffer" should be read (web address 2). [6] Herodotus 7.239.2 (web address 3). [7] Quotation …
- ει45Εἴδωλονlikeness, image, phantom… Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 55 Zintzen (242 Asmus), citing Pindar, Pythian 8.95; cf. sigma 599. [9] Quotation unidentifiable. For Ephraim see epsilon 3965.
- μ317Μαιευόμενοιdelivering, serving as a midwife (?)… Naber) plausibly corrects the headword to maio/menoi, twice attested in Pindar; also in e.g. Hesiod and Oppian.
- 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 …
- 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”, …
- 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 …
- λ688ΛούκουλλοςLucullus… Eastern Turkey: An Architectural and Archaeological Survey, vol. 3, London: Pindar Press, 1987, 357 ff.; Ronald Syme, Anatolica: Studies in Strabo. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995, 58-65. [5] See Plutarch, Lucullus 27.4. [6] In his …
- 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 …