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γ164Γεωμετρίαgeometry… measure land) or about hypothetical things (as when deductions are made about any triangle). [2] George the Monk, Chronicon 1.74.7-9, cf. 48.21-23.Matched in noteshighshort
α4647ἈφρικανόςAfricanus… But actually the objection (involving the genealogy of Jesus) was made by Africanus himself in a letter to Origen (for whom see omega 182).Matched in noteshighshort
α3289Ἀπόδειξιςdemonstration… or after, is a sign of the other's being or having coming into to being (An.Pr. 70a6-9; Oxford Translation). That is to say, given two propositions (p, q) indicating two events, p is said …Matched in noteshighlong
α3929ἈριστοτέληςAristoteles, Aristotle… 384/3 - 381/0; in 384, in fact. [8] The charge made against Aristotle was impiety. See Diogenes Laertius 5.5.Matched in noteshighmedium
ει22Εἰδέαidea, form, aspect, figure… cause in the strict sense –- the Form –- is made: web address 3). [2] Probably a reference to Plato, Sophist 249A, where the subject under discussion is whether or not 'what is absolutely' …Matched in noteshighmedium
η481Ἥρας δὲ δεσμοὺς ὑπὸ υἱέοςHera's bindings by (her) son… chair to bind his mother Hera in return for her having hurled him from heaven (cf. Homer, Iliad 18.394-405). Ares tried to release her and failed. Then Dionysus made Hephaestus drunk, compelled him to …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1830Κλῴζεταιis hooted at… merely players." *klw/zein (no iota subscript) is properly the sound made by jackdaws; figuratively it is a noise made to indicate disapproval (LSJ s.v.). *suri/zein, Attic suri/ttein, is properly to play the syrinx (sigma …Matched in noteshighshort
ει35Εἴδησιςknowledge… scientific knowledge (or 'to know' in the strict sense) implies having the principles, causes and elements of that we are accounting for. In other words, you know something strictly if and only if you …Matched in noteshighmedium
α2015Ἀνάπηρον ψυχήνcrippled soul, mutilated soul… capture of Bryzakios and the victory over his forces by having the Persian officer killed at a banquet (spring/summer of 591); cf. de Boor (197-198), Whitby (139), and delta 125. On Chosroes, Persian king …Matched in noteshighmedium
γ97Γεγωνόνloud, sonorous… unrelated verb, gi/gnomai; glossed in Hesychius gamma258 as gegonw/s, u(pa/rxwn "having become, being." Latte regards it as extracted from Euripides, Phoenician Women 123, where the ti/s is interrogative (web address 1): ti/s, po/qen gegw/s …Matched in noteshighshort
μ210ΜάρκιοςMarkios, Marcius… banishment Coriolanus took refuge among the Volscians (cf. mu 211). Having gained the confidence of their leader Tullus Attius (cf. tau 243 n.2) and the rest of the Volscians (cf. Dion.Hal. 8.1-3), he then …Matched in noteshighlong
δ559Διαθέσειςdispositions… virtue is a form of knowledge and they added (probably having Aristotle’s discussion of virtue in mind) that virtue is a “disposition”, or rather “a consistent disposition of the commanding part of the soul” …Matched in noteshighmedium
α3909ἈρίστιπποςAristippos, Aristippus… Euripides, Bacchae 836 (web address 1 below). The second trimeter, "having been born a male and from a male line", appears to be an addition. [3] Euripides, Bacchae 317-318 (web address 2).Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3569Εὔλογον ἀξίωμαprobable assumption, reasonable proposition… Plutarch in that passage asserts that Sphaerus visited Sparta and made an intellectual impact on its young men, notably the one who in 235 BCE (at the age of c.24) would become the reforming …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ15Δαΐμονοςof a daimon… perhaps this led some later poet to treat dai/monos as having four syllables.Matched in noteshighshort
γ457Γρῖφοςriddle, conundrum… "to test memory" (mnhmo/neia), and distinguishes it from enigma as having not only the character of a game but also a serious side. The person solving the riddle received a particular portion of meat, …Matched in noteshighshort
κ700Καταπέπτωκενhas fallen down… 88D. The gloss printed by Adler, e)ptoh/qh, is an emendation made by Tiberius Hemsterhuis (1685-1766) and Lodewijk Valckenaer (1715-1785); the manuscripts have e)ptwh/qh or e)ptw/qh.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1252Κεκομψευμένοςingenious… be ingenious", referring to people (with a middle sense), and "made neatly" of things (with a passive sense) (LSJ s.v.). The former sense is exemplified by Philo Judaeus, De migratione Abrahami 75.6: oi( ta\ …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1547Δρύοχοιstocks… literally means oak-holders (because the keels of warships were traditionally made of oak: Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 5.7.2) -- is translated 'stocks' by Lionel Casson, Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (Baltimore 1995) …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1149ΔιόδωροςDiodoros, Diodorus, Diodore… ruled the West) 364-378. It was indeed Valens' death which made Diodorus' bishopric possible. [2] In Greek, Theodore Anagnostes, a church historian of the early sixth century. See Cayré, vol. 2, p. 112. [3] …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2536Κοιλάδα κλαυθμῶνοςvalley of lamentation… the headword phrase appears. Manuscripts of the Septuagint vary between having the word for 'valley' in the accusative (as here, and cf. kappa 2537) and in the dative.Matched in noteshighshort
μ104Μαλιασμόςglanders… Byzantium's epitome of Aristotle's History of Animals. The incidental distinction made in the definition is between an overarching no/sos and its constituent nosh/mata.Matched in noteshighshort
κ2216Κῴδιονsmall fleece, small sheepskin rug (for sleeping on) or cloak (against rain)… krati/nion, found in Athenaeus (Deipnosophists, Epitome 2.2.58.29-31) for a drinking-cup made of cornel-wood. [7] The English does not capture the distinction between entering a dramatic contest and writing the script of a comedy. The …Matched in noteshighmedium
ι543ἹππίαςHippias… once went to Olympia wearing nothing that he had not made himself (clothes, ring, oil-flask, strigil), and notes that this is either support for or else (and more probably?) responsible for what the Suda …Matched in noteshighshort
κ595Κατακωχήpossession, inspiration… the headword is closely related to katoxh/, differing only in having a reduplication of the root -ox- (from *sogh/segh/sgh as in the verb e)/xw). [2] Marinus, Life of Proclus 33: quoted more fully at …Matched in noteshighshort
ε852ἙλικώνιοςHelikonios, Heliconius… of silver from Dionysius II of Syracuse (delta 1179) for having correctly predicted a solar eclipse (in 360). The thirteenth Letter attributed to Plato calls him (360C) a pupil of Eudoxus (epsilon 3429). [1] …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3808ΕὐφραῖοςEuphraios, Euphraeus… (Barrington Atlas map 55 grid E3). [2] In addition to having studied at the Academy (cf. OCD(4) s.v., alpha 774, and alpha 775), Euphraios also served at Plato's behest (cf. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 11.115 (Kaibel), …Matched in noteshighshort
α1018Ἀκροσφαλεῖςprecarious… the gloss is more obviously etymological than it can be made to sound in translation.) The headword is extracted not from the quotation given here (which the other lexica do not have) but from …Matched in noteshighshort
η48Ἡγέτηςleader, guide… to an unidentified god, who loves both hunting and fishing, made by Kleonikos, who is both hunter and fisherman. See further excerpts from this epigram at epsilon 1658, kappa 466, and tau 1009.Matched in noteshighshort
μ174ΜάξιμοςMaximus… passim; Ammonius, On Aristotle's Prior Analytics 1.1.108 (where reference is made to Julian's lost work Peri ton trion schematon - Suda iota 437); Simplicius, On Aristotle's Categories 1.13-16 and On Aristotle's Physics 4.5.138.6-10; Ibn …Matched in noteshighshort