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Ἀγοστῷ
in an embrace
[Meaning] in the embrace. In the Epigrams: "you did not go unnoticed by the Graces nor by joyful Academe, in whose embrace I tell all comers of your beneficence".
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320
Ἀγωγή
conveyance
Transportation of anything, which is also known as 'supplying'; as one speaks of conveyance of grain or of wine.
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528
Ἀδριανός
Hadrian, Adrianos, Adrian, Hadrianos, Hadrianus, Adrianus
Sophist. A pupil of Herodes; floruit under Marcus Antoninus; as a teacher he was a rival to the rhetor Aristides in Athens. He was also sophist in Rome, and was secretary with responsibility for …
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Ἀθήναιος
Athenaios, Athenaeus
Of Naucratis. Grammarian. Lived in the time of Marcus. He wrote a book with the title Deipnosophists, in which he records how many of the ancients had a reputation for munificence in giving banquets. …
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734
Ἀθηνόδωρος
Athenodoros, Athenodorus
This man was an Athenian soldier. There is also another, a pupil of Dionysius the Areopagite; he wrote various works. Also another sophist; brother of Gregory Thaumaturgus.
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1128
Ἀλέξανδρος Αἰγαῖος
Alexandros Aigaios, Alexandrus Aegaeus, Alexander of Aegae
Peripatetic philosopher; teacher of the emperor Nero, along with the philosopher Chaeremon. He had a son called Caelinus. This man used to call Nero 'clay mixed with blood'. In my view, bad pupils have …
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1639
Ἀμμωνιανός
Ammonianos, Ammonianus
Grammarian, honoured by his association with Syrianus and also by their innate similarity in character and physique -- in Homer's words, 'in appearance and stature and nature most similar'; for each of them was …
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1640
Ἀμμώνιος
Ammonios, Ammonius
Philosopher; of Alexandria; nicknamed Saccas. He was of Christian parents, but became a [pagan] Greek, as Porphyry says.
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1641
Ἀμμώνιος
Ammonius, Ammonios
Son of Ammonius; of Alexandria; an acquaintance of Alexander. He succeeded Aristarchus as head of school, before Augustus was monarch.
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1981
Ἀναξαγόρας
Anaxagoras
A sophist, son of Hegesibulus, of Clazomenae. He was nicknamed 'Mind', since he said that matter and mind are the guardian of all things. This is the man who said that the sun is …
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1989
Ἀναξιμένης
Anaximenes
Son of Aristocles, of Lampsacus, rhetor; pupil of Diogenes the Cynic and the grammarian Zoilus of Amphipolis, who abused Homer; teacher of Alexander of Macedon, and accompanied him on his campaigns. When king Alexander …
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2185
Ἀνδρόμαχος
Andromachus, Andromakhos, Andromachos
Of Neapolis in Syria. Sophist. Son of Zonas or Sabinus; he taught in Nicomedia under the emperor Diocletian.
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3397
Ἀπολινάριος
Apollinarios, Apollinarius
Of Laodicea in Syria. He lived in the days of Constantius and Julian the Apostate, and until the reign of Theodosius the Great; he was a contemporary of Basil and Gregory, the much-admired Cappadocians. …
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3398
Ἀπολινάριος
Apollinarius, Apollinarios
This man appeared after Paul of Samosata; he was bishop of Laodicea in Syria, and introduced another folly. The Arians said that our Lord's flesh had no soul; he said that the Lord took …
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3407
Ἀπολλόδωρος
Apollodorus, Apollodoros
Son of Asclepiades. Grammarian. One of the pupils of the philosopher Panaetius of Rhodes and the grammarian Aristarchus. He was Athenian by birth. He was the first of the so-called tragiambic poets.
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3902
Ἀριστείδης
Aristeides, Aristides, Aelius Aristides
Of Hadriani. Sophist. (Hadriani is a city in Mysia, now Bithynia.) Pupil of the rhetor Polemo of Smyrna. Son of Eudaemon, who was a philosopher and priest in the temple of Zeus in his …
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3916
Ἀριστοκλῆς
Aristocles, Aristokles
Of Messene in Italy; Peripatetic philosopher. He composed On Philosophy, 10 books; Whether Homer or Plato is more Serious. In these books he catalogues all the philosophers and their opinions. He also wrote an …
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3917
Ἀριστοκλῆς
Aristocles, Aristokles
Of Lampsacus, Stoic philosopher. He wrote an Exegesis of Chrysippus' How we name each thing and form a conception of it, in 4 books.
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Ἁρποκρατίων
Harpokration, Harpocration
Of Argos [Myth, Place]. Platonic philosopher. Companion/confidant of a Caesar. He wrote a Commentary on Plato (24 books); Lexicon to Plato (2 books).
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4012
Ἁρποκρατίων
Harpokration, Harpocration
Surnamed Gaius. Sophist. He wrote On Antiphon's Figures; On the Speeches of Hyperides and Lysias; etc.
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4113
Ἀρχιμήδης
Archimedes
Of Tralles. Philosopher. [He wrote] a commentary on Homer; and Mechanics.
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4173
Ἀσκληπιάδης
Asclepiades, Asklepiades
Son of Diotimus; of Myrlea (Myrlea is a city in Bithynia, now called Apamea); but by his original descent, of Nicaea. A pupil of Apollonius. He lived in the time of Attalus and Eumenes, …
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4460
Αὐσόνιος
Ausonius
Sophist. He wrote letters and certain other works addressed to Nonnus.
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4556
Ἀφαρεύς
Aphareus
Athenian, rhetor, son of the sophist Hippias and Plathane, stepson of Isocrates the rhetor, flourished in the 95th Olympiad, at the same time as the philosopher Plato.
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4630
Ἀφθόνιος
Aphthonius, Aphthonios
Sophist. He wrote [a commentary] on Hermogenes' Art [of Rhetoric]; Progymnasmata.
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4734
Ἀψίνης
Apsines
Of Athens. Sophist. Father of Onasimus the sophist, the father of Apsines.
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4736
Ἀψίνης
Apsines
[Son] of the sophist Onasimus of Athens. Sophist. Later than Apsines of Gadara.
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Δαμόφιλος
Damophilus, Damophilos
Philosopher, sophist. He was raised by Julianus, the consul under the emperor Marcus. He was a prolific author; I have found the following works in the libraries: Bibliophile (book 1), on books worth purchasing, …
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429
Δημήτριος
Demetrius, Demetrios
Son of Phanostratus, of Phalerum (Phalerum is a harbour in Attica); he was called Phanus at first; a Peripatetic philosopher. He wrote on philosophy, history, rhetoric and politics, and about poets. He studied with …
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454
Δημοσθένης
Demosthenes
An Athenian, son of Demosthenes and Cleobule; rhetor, of the deme Paeania. [He was] painstaking rather than naturally gifted, Hermippus says; and he lacked self-control with regard to pleasures (the same source says this …
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