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α3963ἍρμαHarmaHarma, in the mountains between Attica and Boiotia (Strabo 9.2.11 calls it "in Boiotia"), was a place where lightning-omens were watched for; the proverb from it (besides Strabo loc.cit. see Plutarch, Moralia 679C) thus …Matched in noteshighshort
α523Ἀδράστεια ΝέμεσιςAdrasteian Nemesis, Nemesis of Adrastos… goddess as Adrasteia." For the temple to Adrasteia Nemesis, see Strabo 13.1.13.Matched in noteshighshort
α1298Ἀλκυονίδες ἡμέραιAlcyon days, Halcyon days, kingfisher days… nesting (Simonides). The Alcyon Sea was so named, according to Strabo, because this corner of the Gulf of Corinth is both a nesting place for the kingfisher and a stretch sheltered from the wind. …

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A place in Attica. And [there is] a proverb: "whenever [lightning] flashes through Harma." In reference to things which take a long time to happen.

Ἅρμα· τόπος τῆς Ἀττικῆς. καὶ παροιμία· ὅταν δι' Ἅρματος ἀστράψῃ. ἐπὶ τῶν χρονίως γινομένων.

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α4368ἌτλαςAtlas… is a mountain in northwest Africa, cf. Herodotus (4.184) and Strabo (17.3.2), evidently a coastal promontory opposite Gibraltar, to the north of today's Atlas Mountain Range (Barrington Atlas map 1a grid C2). For both, …Matched in noteshighshort

β270Βίαντος Πριηνέως δίκηBias of Priene's justice… the detailed account in Diogenes Laertius 1.82-88 and more briefly Strabo 14.1.12. The point of the quotation from Hipponax (an Ionian poet and Bias' contemporary) is that Bias was the standard for powerful forensic …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1189Διοπομπεῖσθαιto escort [evil] away… that place all that they wanted to cleanse off" (cf. Strabo 8.6.8; Pausanias 8.15.8). For further relation to rituals of ka/qarsis see [Lysias] 6.53 th\n po/lin kaqai/resqai kai\ a)podiopompei=n kai\ farmako\n a)pope/mpein kai\ a)lith/rion …Matched in noteshighshort

ε937Ἔμβαρός εἰμιI am weighty… see also beta 122 and pi 1455. [1] So e.g. Strabo 1.3.18. [2] Mounykhos is cross-referenced at mu 1289. [3] The name means 'Mister Weighty' (but apparently implying intellectual rather than bodily "weight"). [4] …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε3408Εὐδαίμων ὁ Κορίνθιος ἐγὼ δ' εἴην Τενεάτηςfortunate is Corinth but for myself I would rather be a Teneate… The headword phrase was already proverbial in the time of Strabo, who classifies it as an oracular response (8.6.22). See J. Fontenrose, The Delphic oracle: its responses and operations with a catalogue of responses …Matched in noteshighshort

η609Ἡ Συρακουσῶν δεκάτηthe Syracusans' titheStrabo 6.2.4 : "it came to pass that the Crotoniates took up residence in so healthy a city, as we said before [6.1.12], and that Syracuse fell into such wealth that the name of …Matched in noteshighshort