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49 entries for Polybius

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α1868Ἀναζυγαῖςwithdrawals… 40.38), though perhaps [DW] there is a likelier instance in Polybius (5.52.3). [2] Polybius 5.110.5. Kephallenia (Cephalonia, Kephalonia, Cephallania; cf. kappa 1448; Barrington Atlas map 54 grid C5) is the largest Ionian island off …Matched in noteshighshort
α2452ἈννίβαςHannibal… 4134. [3] Appian, Annibaica 17. [4] Appian, Annibaica 43. [5] Polybius 3.15.6. [6] Pausanias 8.11.11-12 (web address 1 below). [7] Polybius 23.13.1-2. [8] This addendum might also come from Polybius (so Schweighauser); alternatively it …Matched in noteshighlong
α1056Ἀλαζονείαboastfulness… gloss, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (1347). [2] Polybius 11.8.4; more fully at zeta 58. [3] Oikoumenios (PG 118, 343d) on Ep.Romans 1.30; and see note at phi 508. (For a)lazo/nes, cf. …

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Ἀναζυγαῖς

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[Meaning] returns, breakings of camp. Polybius [writes]: but Philip "made the withdrawal and the return voyage with no order at all and put into Kephallenia on the second day." "But the Romans, knowing absolutely…

Ἀναζυγαῖς· ἀναστροφαῖς, στρατοπεδείαις. Πολύβιος· ὁ δὲ Φίλιππος οὐδενὶ κόσμῳ ποιησάμενος τὴν ἀναζυγὴν καὶ τὸν ἀνάπλουν δευτεραῖος εἰς Κεφαλληνίαν κατῇρεν. οἱ δὲ Ῥωμαῖοι τῶν…

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α2422Ἀνήνυτονendless… quotation given here, but there are numerous other possibilities. [1] Polybius 9.24.4. [2] Quotation not identified but Adler, but Favuzzi [cited under alpha 1518] 56-57 plausibly argues that it is a close approximation of …Matched in noteshighmedium

α2821Ἀξιουμένουexpecting… given. [1] Cassius Dio 8.36.9; cf. under alpha 870. [2] Polybius 13.9.4. 'The king' in this episode is Antiochus III, encountering (in 205 BCE) the Gerraeans of the Persian Gulf.Matched in noteshighshort

δ368Δεισιδαιμονίαfear of the gods, piety, superstition… Acts of the Apostles 17.22. [3] FGrH 200 F7. [4] Polybius 12.24. [5] Damascius, Life of Isidore fr.202 Zintzen (119 Asmus). [6] Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as Didymus …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ472ΔημοχάρηςDemochares… OCD(4) s.v. (p.434); FGrH 75. The present entry derives from Polybius 12.13.1-5. [1] For whom see generally delta 454, delta 455, delta 456. [2] FGrH 566 F35. [3] See further on this at omega …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε637Ἐκτενῶςenthusiastically, intensely… adverb as quoted from the Septuagint (e.g. Judith 4.12). [2] Polybius 8.19.1 (web address 1), copied to beta 480; see also pi 1653. (8.15-21 recount events of 214 BCE; Bolis, an otherwise unknown Cretan, …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1136Ἐναύεινto kindle, to light a fire… again epsilon 1137, and cf. Hesychius epsilon2705, epsilon2708, epsilon2709. [1] Polybius 9.40.5 (web address 1 below). The passage, though incomplete in the manuscript transmission, tells about the measures taken by the Acarnanians when faced …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε1584Ἐξαίσιαextraordinary… Latte on Hesychius s.v. [2] cf. epsilon 1088 (Damascius). [3] Polybius fr. 38 Büttner-Wobst; cf. sigma 1500. (Compare 15.1.1 for the same idiom, with the noun in the genitive.)Matched in noteshighshort

ε2522Ἐπίπνοιαfervour[1] In Büttner-Wobst as Polybius fr. 44, but in fact (as Büttner-Wobst (520) and de Boor pointed out) an almost verbatim quotation of Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 5.5.1; cf. de Boor (196) and Whitby (138). …Matched in noteshighshort

α1082Ἀλάστωρalastor… alpha privative and the root of lanqa/nw, aorist e)/laqon. [2] [Polybius] fr. 98 Büttner-Wobst, of uncertain location (and application); cf. pi 444 (end). This fragment was once attributed to Polybius by Casaubon, and subsequently …Matched in noteshighshort

α4133ἈσδρούβαςHasdrubal… and again alpha 4134. For Golosses see gamma 369. [1] Polybius 38.7.1-5. [2] Polybius 38.8.7. [3] Polybius 38.8.10.Matched in noteshighmedium

α1936Ἀνάλημμαembankment… the Septuagint: 2 Paralipomenon 32.5. (See also Ecclesiasticus/Siracides 50.2.) [2] Polybius fr. 105 Büttner-Wobst. Büttner-Wobst notes (p. 529) that only Valesius (Henri de Valois 1603-1676) attributed this fragment to Polybius.Matched in noteshighshort

α2101Ἀνατεινάμενοςhaving held out as a threat… quotation given. For the glossing cf. Hesychius s.v. a)natei/nasqai. [1] Polybius fr. 109 Büttner-Wobst. Büttner-Wobst notes (p. 529) that Valckenaer attributed this fragment to Polybius. [2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε1957Ἐπαναχθέντεςbrought back… quoted from an historiographical source: there are instances in Herodotus, Polybius, Diodorus and Appian -- and the gloss are aorist passive participles in the masculine nominative plural. Hesychius epsilon4180, earlier, had presented an equivalent …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2745Ἐπίφασιςappearance… extracted from somewhere in this form the prime candidate is Polybius 4.77.3, e)pi/fasis basilikh\ kai\ du/namis. [2] Quotation unidentifiable. Adler suggested Aelian -- but perhaps, rather, from Polybius, who uses forms of the headword …Matched in noteshighshort

α1278Ἀλκήενταςmighty… (Barrington Atlas map 70 grid E3) in 217 BCE; cf. Polybius 5.79-87 (web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort

α2353Ἀνέφερενoffered… 2352, alpha 2354, alpha 2355. [1] Quotation unidentifiable. (Attributed to Polybius by Valckenaer, to Aelian by Adler.)Matched in noteshighshort

α2379Ἀνειμέναιlaid open, let loose… scholion. [3] Plato, Laws 761C (web address 2). [4] Perhaps Polybius (so Bernhardy). [5] Again at pi 3067.Matched in noteshighmedium

α2517Ἀνθομολογησόμεθαwe will make a covenant… with the commentary of Theodoret (PG 80, 1509ab). [2] From Polybius 29.17.1; more fully at phi 34. [3] Quotation unidentifiable. [4] A version of Diogenes Laertius 2.40, which purports to quote the beginning of …Matched in noteshighmedium

α2659ἈντίγονοςAntigonos, AntigonusA rearranged quotation of Polybius 5.9.8-10, on King Antigonos III Doson (lived c.263-221; reigned from 227) of Macedonia.Matched in noteshighmedium

α2693ἈντίοχοςAntiochus, Antiochos… Antiochus III ("the Great"), c.242-187. See generally OCD(4) p.105. [2] Polybius 15.37; abridged at mu 356. [3] This long central paragraph of the entry consists of excerpts from the Chronicon of George the Monk; …Matched in noteshighlong

α2700Ἀντιπαράκλησιςmutual exhortation… case, appears in the accusative in the quotation given. [1] Polybius 11.12.2 (loosely quoted) on the preliminaries to the Battle of Mantinea (207 BCE). For "divine inspiration" -- enthusiasm in its original and literal …Matched in noteshighshort

α3039Ἀπερείδομαι τὸν πόκονI put forward the fleece… Quotation unidentifiable. (Adler notes Toup's suggestion that it might be Polybius.)Matched in noteshighmedium

α3167Ἀπήνηmule-cartPolybius 31.26.4, more fully at alphaiota 198. For this headword see already alpha 3166.Matched in noteshighshort

α3306Ἀποδυσπετεῖgives up… from somewhere; there are instances in several Christian writers. [2] Polybius 33.17.2 (on those impatient to see the results of their medical treatment); cf. delta 1640.Matched in noteshighshort

α3335Ἀποκαραδοκίαanxiety… [2] Quotation unidentifiable. (As Adler noted, attributed by Tittman to Polybius, who does use this verb -- but so do others.)Matched in noteshighshort

α3416Ἀπολλωνιὰς λίμνηLake Apollonias… suggestion of Johann Schweighaeuser (1742-1830) that its ultimate source is Polybius. See now John fr.145.1 Roberto (220-221). [1] Attalos II Philadelphos of Pergamon (220-138 BCE; reigned from 159). [2] Nikomedes II of Bithynia (reigned …Matched in noteshighshort

α3643Ἀποφοιβάζωνuttering by inspirationThe headword verb, first in Polybius, is related to Phoebus (Apollo). [1] Same glossing in other lexica; this participle must be quoted from somwhere.Matched in noteshighshort

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