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α2872Ἀπαθέσταταmost impassive [things], very impassive [things]… plural of this superlative, does not occur in the passage about to be quoted, but see next note. [2] A poor paraphrase -- at times destroying the sense altogether -- of Marcus Aurelius, Meditations …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1573Δύναμιςcapability, capacity, ability, potentiality, power… 74-76. Together with lines 9-10 of the Pisidian's scoptic poem about the stylite Alypius, the sense is rather: "Their bulk and awkward burden I come to bring you, the jaws of Alypius, having joined …Matched in noteshighlong
μ724Μεταπήδαhop about, leap about, spring about… evidently extracted from somewhere. This is not the Aristophanes passage about to be quoted (which has the simple rather than this compound verb); but note that the only other extant instance occurs in an …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1052ΔιισχυρίζομαιI strongly affirm… Phaedo 100d7 (web address 1): "I make no positive statement about this (presence of or participation in the good)." Cf. Proclus' Commentary on Plato's Parmenides 882.1: "I do not affirm positively, he says, whether …Matched in noteshighshort
α1840Ἀναγώνιστοςuncontending… entry in Photius. [1] Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.5.10, in a simile about athletes (web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort
γ164Γεωμετρίαgeometry… of Aphrodisias, Commentaries on Aristotle's Topica 482.14-15. Geometry can be about actual things (as when it is used to measure land) or about hypothetical things (as when deductions are made about any triangle). [2] …Matched in noteshighshort
ι195Ἱεροφάντηςhierophant… instead of tw=n *aqhnai/wn read tw=n a)nqrwpei/wn: "does not care about human affairs". See also alpha 3499, epsilon 3604, mu 381, tau 477, phi 713. On the megaron see G.E. Mylonas, Eleusis and the …Matched in noteshighshort
μ1305ΜουσώνιοςMusonius (Rufus)… 30 to 90 or perhaps 100 CE. [6] Scholars debate about whether Musonius really wrote anything for publication. The "letters" mentioned here could be the apparently spurious ones found in Philostratus. The "speeches" could …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ771Λυγιζόμενοςbending oneself, twisting oneself… de/ fhsin a)gnow=n: 'lu/gos r(a/bdos.' i)/sws ou)=n mastigw/sein "to be about to bend ... Amerias says this is from chaste-trees. 'a withy is a young sapling.' Thus perhaps [it means] to be about to …Matched in noteshighmedium
α18ἌβαριςAbaris, Avars… manuscript, 'Skythian'. [2] Perhaps from a scholion on the passage about to be cited (so Adler). Cf. Herodotos 4.36.1 (web address 1). [3] Gregory of Nazianzus PG 36.524b. [4] This material is from Harpokration …Matched in noteshighmedium
η99Ἡδονῆς ἀκρότηςsummit of pleasure… Aphrodisias, Commentaries on Aristotle's Topica 265.19-20 Wallies (explaining Aristotelian thinking about the different kinds and grades of perfection). cf. generally eta 97 and eta 98.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1043Κατηδολέσχησά σουI wearied you with my prattling… see Plutarch, Moralia 503B (from the de Garrulitate), an anecdote about Aristotle wearied with the talk of an interlocutor. As in Julian's letter, the form is used by the interlocutor about his own speech …Matched in noteshighshort
ι545ἹππίαςHippias… of Susa (Sousa) was located in the lower Zagros Mountains, about 240 km. north of the Persian Gulf, the site of modern-day Shush, Iran; cf. Barrington Atlas map 93 grid E1. As to epigram's …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2217Κώδωνbell… searching, however, discloses that it comes from what is said about the related noun kwdw/nion by John Philoponus, Commentaries on Aristotle's de anima 15.356.25-26.Matched in noteshighshort
η174Ἥκισταleast, very little… must be extracted from somewhere (not necessarily the Libanius passage about to be quoted); cf. generally eta 175, eta 598, eta 626, eta 630. [2] Libanius fr.67 Foerster, also in the scholia to Plato, …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ1996Κομῆταιcomets… he uses the verb e)rina/zw, and discusses at length theories about why this process is successful. He differentiates it clearly from the similar process that allows male date palms to fertilize female ones, a …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1029Διθυραμβοδιδάσκαλοιdithyramb-directors… in the politics of the time) when Cinesias helped bring about legislation in Athens that deprived comedy of its right to public choregiai (OCD(4) pp.311-12; pi 3225, cf. scholia to Aristophanes, Frogs 404). The …Matched in noteshighmedium
η72Ἡγούμενοςleading, leader, abbot… where the headword h(goume/nou (genitive case) occurs in a phrase about Eros quoted from Plato, Republic 573E, and prohgoume/nou is part of the phrase which glosses it.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1319Δογματίζειdogmatizes, sets forth dogma… If this second gloss, fusiou=tai, means simply 'sets forth notions about physis', that would be a sense of the first verb unrecognised by LSJ. More probably, therefore, the sense is the one translated above. …Matched in noteshighmedium
α1280ἈλκιβιάδηςAlcibiades, Alkibiades… An odd characterisation, despite his association with Sokrates (sigma 829), about to be mentioned. [3] Factually nonsense, of course. Political abuse, if correctly located here; but Adler (addenda) notes Bernhardy's suggestion that it belongs …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε2313Ἐπιεικεστάτηmost decent, very decent, most suitable, very suitable… to a plausible (allegedly erroneous, but in fact true) opinion about the source of the Nile: see web address 1. cf. also the scholia to Plato, Charmides 153C (where the adverb e)pieikw=s occurs).Matched in noteshighshort
κ1252Κεκομψευμένοςingenious… masculine nominative singular, of the verb komyeu/w, "I make nice/quibble about/refine". This verb has in the middle/passive the meaning "be smart, be ingenious", referring to people (with a middle sense), and "made neatly" of …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2034Κόνιονhemlock… From Diogenes Laertius' short poem (2.46 = Greek Anthology 9.96) about Socrates (sigma 829).Matched in noteshighshort
ε3035ἙρμείαςHermeias, Hermias… fr. 119 Zintzen (74 Asmus); cf. Photius, Bibliotheca 341a8-9. More about Hermeias at epsilon 3036. For Damaskios himself see delta 39.Matched in noteshighshort
λ583Λιπαρήςimportunate, persistent… [1] Aelian fr. 64c Domingo-Forasté (part of fr. 61 Hercher), about an Epicurean philosopher; for another part see under the next entry, lambda 584. [2] Quotation unidentifiable.Matched in noteshighshort
κ64Καθεῖναιto let grow… [2] A clumsy summary of Diogenes Laertius 6.13; the claim about beard-growing actually concerns not Antisthenes (alpha 2723) but another philosopher, Diodoros of Aspendos. For the idiom pw/gwna kaqei=nai see already Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 99-100, …Matched in noteshighshort
α1353Ἀλλ' οὐ θέμιςbut not lawful… Clouds 140, with scholion (cf. mu 44). [1] The story about Socrates and Chairephon which follows.Matched in noteshighshort
ε3008Ἔρις ἔριν τίκτουσα προσμνᾶται λόγονcontention begetting contention facilitates discussion… 'out of friendship' but adds an explanatory clause: 'i.e. arguing about philosophy'. For the first two words, see also (e.g.) Mantissa Proverbiorum 1.59: e)/ris e)/rin a)ntifuteu/ei. This compound verb prosmna/omai is otherwise unattested (and …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1355ΔομνῖνοςDomninos, Domninus… the tail of one of these heavenly bodies had brought about the inflammation of the powder in the part lightened by the Sun. Thus an entire part of the Earth would have been set …Matched in noteshighlong
ε3070Ἔρωςlove… reproach, such as in the case of a person crazy about sexual love. Now the [excellent] erotic love is [for friendship] (see Stobaeus, Eclogae 2.65.17-20, ed. Wachsmuth). The problem here is that the sentence …Matched in noteshighmedium