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κ1273Κεκρύφαλονhairnet… 1273. [5] Greek Anthology 6.206.3-4 (Antipater of Sidon). The adjective filo/plektos "tending to be braided" is usually taken to be a corruption of filo/plagktos, "errant, straying". The phrase "dyed with flowers of the grey …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1573Δύναμιςcapability, capacity, ability, potentiality, power… sequence: Alexander of Aphrodisias, On the Topica 348.24-32, 349.18-19; John Philoponus, On the de anima 34.6-19, 265.12-20. [1] Copied to delta 508, where the present entry's ba/llein 'to throw" is correctly diaba/llein "to slander". …Matched in noteshighlong
ε3617Εὐορκίαfidelity to an oath… attested in a variety of authors including Demosthenes, Appian and Philo Judaeus. cf. epsilon 3618, lambda 164, mu 277, rho 13.Matched in noteshighshort
ε118Ἔγκοτονspite, spiteful… may be that this primary headword too is extracted from Philo Judaeus (Legatio in Gaium 260), though Theodoridis opts for Herodotus 3.59.4. [2] Likewise in Hesychius (epsilon253) and elsewhere. Latte claims it as quoted …Matched in noteshighshort
α3420ἈπολλώνιοςApollonios, Apollonius… present entry draws on the problematic "biography" of him by Philostratos, for whom see phi 421-423 (and OCD(4) p.1137, under 'Philostrati'). [1] Philostratos (1.4) follows the Homeric portrait of Proteus (Odyssey 4.349ff) as residing …Matched in noteshighlong
ε2755Ἐπιφροσύνῃwith thoughtfulness… loc.cit., though other possibilities are Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.659, and Philo Judaeus (eight instances). [1] cf. generally epsilon 2756.Matched in noteshighshort
α1296Ἀλκτῆρεςprotectors… (13.78 Kaibel), and Aelian, Varia Historia 2.4: qei/as a(ghth=res e)fameri/ois filo/tatos, "guides of divine friendship for mortals". See further H.W. Parke & D.E.W. Wormell, The Delphic Oracle (Oxford 1956) no.327; J. Fontenrose, The Delphic …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2341ΚράτηςKrates, Crates… entry derives from Diogenes Laertius 6.85-88, with extra material from Philostratus and elsewhere. [1] See D.L. 6.88 (citing Demetrius of Magnesia). The point was not to punish the sons but to recognize that, if …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2342ΚράτηςCrates, Krates… Crates and the Kritikoi/, as revealed through their influence on Philodemus, see R. Janko's edition 128-34. [3] alpha 3892. [4] Ptolemy VI (reigned 180-145). [5] See Pfeiffer 238-9 on the nature and scope of …Matched in noteshighshort
η472ἩράκλειτοςHerakleitos, Heraclitus[1] Heraclitus of Ephesus (fl. 500 BCE), Presocratic philosopher, known for his emphasis on processes of change and the complementarity of opposites: see web address 1 (Daniel W. Graham, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy); OCD(4) …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ309Λέσχηlounging, lounge; conversation… the preceding epigram, Greek Anthology 7.79 (Meleager [Author, Myth])--to the philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus (eta 472), an error corrected by the AP scribe designated J (the Lemmatist). Gow and Page further observe that while …Matched in noteshighmedium
γ450ΓρηγόριοςGregorios, Gregorius, Gregory… For Caesarius see kappa 1202. [4] cf. pi 1889. [5] Philostorgius pp. 111-113 Bidez-Winkelmann; quoted also at alpha 3397 and beta 150.Matched in noteshighlong
ν393ΝικόλαοςNikolaos, Nicolaus… F132) now follows. [3] i.e. rhetorical education, as opposed to philosophical (suggested by Dr. Hubert Martin). [4] i.e. philosophy. [5] Cf. mu 1291.Matched in noteshighlong
δ1352ΔομετιανόςDomitian, Domitianus, Dometianos… delta 1351. [1] George the Monk, Chronicon 2.444.1-11. [2] cf. Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 8.8, where A. quotes Apollo's taunt to Achilles from Homer, Iliad 22.13. (On Apollonius see generally alpha 3420.) …Matched in noteshighlong
ει291Εἰς λατομίαςinto (the) quarries… suffer his poetry") is also in the Lexicon Sabbataicum. [1] Philoxenus of Cythera (c.435-380). While he was resident at the court of Dionysius I, he slighted the bad verses of the tyrant and for …Matched in noteshighmedium
α2657ἈντιγενίδηςAntigenides, Antigenidas… aulode -- no doubt a mistake for "aulete" -- of Philoxenos [the dithyrambist Ph. of Kythera, c.435-c.380 BC: see phi 393]; perhaps it was he [= Antigenidas] who had to accompany the chorus through …Matched in noteshighshort
α2862Ἄπαγέ με εἰς τὰς λατομίαςtake me away into the quarries[1] Likewise or similarly in the paroemiographers. [2] Philoxenus of Cythera (c.435-380); OCD(4) pp.1137-8, s.v. 'Philoxenos(1)'. While he was resident at the court of Dionysius I, he slighted the bad verses of the tyrant …Matched in noteshighmedium
α3397ἈπολινάριοςApollinarios, Apollinarius… heresy from the point of view of the Suda's source, Philostorgius, who was an Arian (the same passage is quoted at beta 150 and gamma 450).The Suda surprisingly has no entry for Athanasius, the …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1588Δυσαλθέςhard to cure… Cassius Iatrosophus) and later, in the Byzantine era, in theology, philosophy, and philology.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1141ΔιογένηςDiogenes… double negative, but the point must be that these famous philosophers are human beings like everyone else. [3] From alpha 180 (q.v.); repeated at omicron 28.Matched in noteshighmedium
ι487ἼωνIon… Athens, who also practiced other forms of poetry and wrote philosophical works in prose. The treatise "On the Sublime" calls his plays faultless and elegant but less inspired than those of Sophocles. [1] Possibly …Matched in noteshighshort
δ523ΔιαγόραςDiagoras… Janko, 'The Derveni Papyrus (Diagoras of Melos, Apopyrgizontes Logoi?)', Classical Philology 96 (2001) 1-32.Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1029Διθυραμβοδιδάσκαλοιdithyramb-directors… edition of his fragments by James Hordern, 2002), and (5) Philoxenus of Cythera (phi 393, phi 397, sigma 1192; cf. alpha 2862, delta 1178, epsiloniota 291; PMG frr. 814-35; Campbell 138-75; RE 20.192ff. 'Philoxenus …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2647Κυκλίων τε χορῶν ᾀσματοκάμπαςand tune-benders of cyclic choruses.… cf. alpha 2862, delta 1178, epsiloniota 291; OCD(4) pp.1137-8 s.v. Philoxenus(1).Matched in noteshighmedium
α4446Αὖλος ΠοστόμιοςAulus Postumius… Aulus was among those senators who welcomed the delegation of philosophers, Carneades, Diogenes, and Critolaus, on the Capitoline (Cicero, Academica 2.137; Gellius, Attic Nights 6.14.8-10; Plutarch, Cato the Elder 22). The philosophers had come …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε336Ἔθυσας ἀντιθύσῃyou sacrificed [so] you should sacrifice in turn… be corrupt. Suggested emendations include e)pequ/samen ('we burned incense'). [1] Philoxenus [phi 393] fr. 10 Bergk (PMG 823 Page); Appendix Proverbiorum 2.10; scholia on Homer, Iliad 9.219. [2] Homer, Odyssey 9.231.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1161ΔιόμειαDiomeia… (6.26 Kaibel); Plutarch, Themistocles 12); it was also where the philosophical school of the Cynics was founded by Antisthenes (Diogenes Laertius 6.16; alpha 2723). Pausanias 1.19.3 describes the altars devoted to mythological figures related …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2602Κύβοςcube (six-sided gambling die or a square face or pip (spot) on such a die)… Rome, may have been of cubic form (R. Eisler, "Kuba-Kybele," Philologus 68 (1909) 118-151, 161-209, suggesting an etymology from the same root as the sacred Ka'aba in Mecca). [4] Greek Anthology 5.25.3-4, attributed to …Matched in noteshighmedium
μ1261ΜόρσιμοςMorsimos, MorsimusFor this pairing see already mu 1260. [1] For Philokles see phi 378 and psi 176. Morsimos had a son Astydamas (alpha 4264). For the adjective psychros, 'frigid', 'weak', see psi 176. [2] 'A …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1245Διωξικέλευθα κέντραurging-on goads… reversed) in an epigram from the Greek Anthology, 6.246.1, by Philodemus or Marcus Argentarius; Charmus, son of Lycinus, is dedicating a horse's equipment to Poseidon after a victory at the Isthmian Games; cf. Gow …Matched in noteshighshort