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- ε3890Ἔφηβοςadolescent, ephebe… to? [Is it] against the adolescent?' It was said of Apollonius and it had the force of a proverb. The law allows only the free to become ephebes. It was necessary for the ephebe …
- α607Ἀείalways… loss of a child, or in serious illnesses". Such was Apollonius of Tyana. And [there is] a proverb: "for the dice of Zeus always fall well." Fittingly equivalent to: the dice of Zeus always …
- κ2254Κωμάσαιto carouse… to carouse his way into the women's apartments." And elsewhere: "Apollonius said, 'Let us vote for him to be crowned thus for temperance, and in preference to Hippolytus son of Theseus: for he [Hippolytus] …
- δ1352ΔομετιανόςDomitian, Domitianus, Dometianos… he was plotting to obtain the principate, and he arrested Apollonius of Tyana as a friend of Nerva and had him shorn and brought into court in fetters. And when the philosopher did not …
- λ775Λυγκέως ὀξυωπέστερον βλέπεινto see more sharp-sightedly than Lynkeus… fir, Kastor treacherously murder his brother, as Pindar says. And Apollonius in Argonautica [writes]: "if the story is indeed true, that that man could easily see even below the earth".
- κ1226Κεδνόςdiligent[1] Same or similar entry in other lexica, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon, and in several Homeric and tragedic scholia; see the references at Photius kappa513 Theodoridis. [2] Sophocles, Ajax 661-664 (web address 1), abridged. …
- α1071Ἀλαόςunseeing… lambda 35. Same or similar material in other lexica, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon. [2] Homer, Iliad 10.515 (web address 1), with scholion.
- ν192ΝεοκλῆςNeokles, Neocles… any rate it became proverbial (lambda 41; Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 8.28; etc.), and Plutarch devoted an entire work to it (Moralia 1128Aff), entitled Whether the phrase "live unobtrusively" is well said.
- μ481Μέλειis an object of carecf. mu 482. [1] cf. Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon (110.28). As far as e)/oiken, there are parallels in other lexica, and in scholia on Homer, Iliad 1.564 and Plato, Republic 8.566E (in both of which …
- α4718Ἄχριup to… Etymologicum Gudianum. [2] Likewise or similarly in other lexica, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon, and cf. also the scholia to Homer, Iliad 4.522 (and 17.599); cf. next note. [3] Homer, Iliad 4.521-522 (web address 1 …
- ε3996ἜχετοςEchetus, EchetosOn King Echetus of Epirus see (besides Homer, below): Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.1092-1095; Hesychius s.v.; ps.-Nonnus, Scholia mythologica 4.48; Michael Apostolius s.v. *fala/ridos a)rxh\ kai\ *)exe/tou; and under beta 279 and tau 1187. [1] …
- κ1405ΚέρκωπεςKerkopes, Cercopes, Monkey-menThe name derives from ke/rkos "tail" (kappa 1402, kappa 1403) and the Kerkopes were mythological dwarvish and simian beings, associated with Thermopylae and Euboea, who feature in myths of Heracles and Omphale. See Lucian, …
- α101ἌβυδοςAbudos, Abydos, Abydus… of this adverb prior to Musaeus Grammaticus (5/6 CE); cf. Apollonius Dyscolus On Adverbs 2.1.1.164. [4] = Synagoge Codex B alpha44, but in the better mss of Photius (Lexicon alpha64 Theodoridis) the adjective (in …
- ε2807Ἐποποῖepopoi (in hoopoe-ese)… as sxetliastika/ ‘exclamations’, a sub-class of e)pirrh/mata ‘adverbs’ according to Apollonius Dyscolus (OCD(4) 124 'Apollonius (13)'; cf. bibliography below) and his son Herodian (OCD(4) 674 'Herodian(1)''; see bibliography below). The majority of the examples …
- α1298Ἀλκυονίδες ἡμέραιAlcyon days, Halcyon days, kingfisher days… Gigantomachy. Its cry was taken as one of ill-omen (e.g. Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1085). [1] cf. the scholia to Aristophanes, Birds 250. [2] The halcyon days were associated with a habit of nesting and …