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- α1973Ἀνανεοῦσθαιto renewSame entry in Photius. [1] Thucydides 5.18.9 (web address 1 below), a provision of the Peace of Nikias, on renewing an oath. [2] Cratinus fr. 167 Kock, now 178 K.-A.
- ε1965Ἐπανεῖπονthey proclaimedLikewise in Photius. [1] In fact Thucydides 6.60.4 (on the Athenians' reaction to the Hermae/Mysteries scandal: web address 1), with scholion. (Adler notes that Valckenaer wanted to emend the book number, but she retains …
- ι203Ἱερῶσθαιto have been consecratedPerfect middle-passive infinitive of i(ero/w; Thucydides 5.1.1 (web address 1). Likewise or similarly in other lexica. cf. iota 158.
- χ547Χρῶσανproclaiming… generally chi 541. [2] Adler hesitantly gives the reference as Thucydides 5.16.2, on the allegation that King Pleistoanax of Sparta (pi 1741) had bribed the Delphic priestess to give certain responses. This must be …
- ε2329Ἐπιθειάσαςhaving appealed to the gods… the quotation very well (contrast Hesychius epsilon4794, and scholia to Thucydides ad loc.; see next note) and they may have been produced originally for commentary on a different passage. For the verb, see also …
- ε3558Εὔλαχαeulaka… apart from "in an oracle" -- in other lexica. The Thucydides passage is 5.16.2 (web address 1), in respect of the oracles allegedly given in 427 BCE to Spartan delegates by Delphi at the …
- α871Ἀκηρύκτως ἐμίγνυντοthey mixed unheraldedcf. generally alpha 870. [1] Thucydides 1.146 (abridged and recast: e)pemei/gnunto ... a)khru/ktws me/n, a)nupo/ptws de\ ou)/). The material given here appears in the scholia on that passage.
- κ260Καλῶςwell, cleverlyFrom the scholia to Thucydides 1.5.2, quoted here, where this adverb (again kappa 262) occurs. The sense of the explanation seems to be that humane piracy is a credit because it is done openly …
- α2325Ἀνέσπακεhas drawn forth[1] 'Thucydides' appears to be an error, as A. Meineke first suggested, for the comic poet Thugenides (fr. 5 Kock, now 6 K.-A.). [2] Same or similar glossing in other lexica; references at Photius …
- α730ἈθήναιονAthenaion, Athenaeum, shrine of Athena… from alpha 3418, and will reappear in pi 2103. [1] Thucydides 2.91.1 (web address 1 below).
- δ428Δημήτρειος καρπόςDemetrian fruit… cereals. Likewise in other lexica, and cf. phi 478. [2] Thucydides 2.91.1. [3] From alpha 3418; cf. alpha 730, pi 2103.
- α2655Ἀντιβόλησιςprayer… in other lexica, and cf. also the scholia to the Thucydides passage about to be quoted [2] Thucydides 7.75.4. See web address 1 below for the text (which needs the comma after the finite …
- ι276Ἴκριονscaffold, post… commentary on the Psalms (PG 80.1308). [2] Marcellinus, Life of Thucydides 31 (on the alleged grave monument of theta 414, whose name intrudes into the quotation here).
- χ475Χρῆμαthing, work, reality… chi 473, chi 474. [1] As Adler notes (following Bernhardy), Thucydides does not use the headword xrh=ma as a synonym for the gloss xrh=sis but does use xrh=sis itself (at 7.5.2). [2] Josephus, Antiquities …
- α4214Ἀσπονδείwithout libation, without a truce… quoted from the New Testament (2 Timothy 3.3). [2] Presumably Thucydides 2.22.2 (web address 1 below). [3] Quoted from alpha 4245, q.v.
- ε2375Ἐπικηρυκεύεταιsends a message by heraldcf. the scholia to Thucydides 6.48.1 (web address 1), where the infinitive e)pikhrukeu/esqai appears. For this headword itself see e.g. Thucydides 7.83.2 (web address 2). cf. generally epsilon 2038, and also epsilon 2376, epsilon …
- α3418ἈπολλώνιονApollônion… 730, delta 428, delta 1169 (end), and pi 2103. [1] Thucydides 2.91.1 (web address 1). The alternative spelling *)apollw/neion with a diphthong is attested in Cassius Dio and discussed by Ps.-Herodian, Stephanus of Byzantium, …
- ε2206Ἐπήρειαinsolence… the Ambrosian Lexicon (1493); and cf. also the scholia to Thucydides 1.26.3 (next note). [2] Thucydides 1.26.3 (web address 1). [3] Quotation (already at epsilon 1412) unidentifiable. It contains not the headword but a …
- ε590Ἐκ πολλοῦfrom a great [time], from long ago… This idiom can also mean "for a long time" (e.g. Thucydides 1.68.3) and "from a great distance" (e.g. Thucydides 4.32.4).
- κ2488Κρωβύλοςtop-knot… Theodoridis; cf. Hesychius kappa4266, Synagoge, etc. [2] A misunderstanding of Thucydides 1.6.3 (web address 1), where the golden cicada is a pin used to fasten the top-knot; both pin and top-knot are part of …
- λ640ΛόγιαsayingsFrom the scholia to Thucydides 2.8.2: "many logia were in circulation, and many were the chants of the chresmologoi". But the distinction drawn here does not always hold good (see LSJ s.v. [web address …
- α314Ἄγοςpollution, leader… of religious awe": LSJ s.v.; see also pi 150. [3] Thucydides 1.126.2-12 (web address 1), here so drastically abridged as to be misleading. (This banishment was part of the events of 632 BCE, now …
- δ206ΔελφίνιονDelphinion, Delphinium… s.v., intially commenting on the appearance of the word in Thucydides 8.38.2 (Chios, web address 1) but going on to cite the Athenian one mentioned in Demosthenes 40.11 (web address 2). [1] Besides Thucydides …
- ε2330Ἐπιθειασμοίdivine appeals… Arrian, Parthica fr. 34 Roos-Wirth (cf. FGrH 156 F149). [2] Thucydides 7.75.4 (web address 1), with a)poleipo/menoi in place of Thucydides' u(poleipo/menoi, producing little difference in meaning. [3] For this gloss cf. the scholia …
- ε841ἙλληνοταμίαιHellenotamiai, Hellenic TreasurersLikewise in Photius. From the scholia to Thucydides 1.96.2, where (famously) the headword ocurs; see epsilon 842 (quotation of it) and epsilon 843.
- ε1408Ἐνωμοτίαenomotia… in the classical period -- in this instance in Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon, principally -- with their later and often different meanings in Hellenistic-era and Roman-era military treatises. See further below. [1] cf. scholia …
- δ1010Διηνέχθηdisputed… (2 Maccabees 3.4) but there are numerous alternatives, beginning with Thucydides 8.90.1 (on Phrynichus and Alcibiades); cf. also under beta 171.
- ε415Ἐκενώθησανthey were emptied… on Photius s.v. points out that one should not exclude Thucydides 2.51.5.
- α1068Ἀλλὰ νῦνright now… confined to this genre, or even to poetry: see e.g. Thucydides 1.63.2.)
- χ541Χρωμένῳconsulting an oracle… It must be quoted from somewhere; extant possibilities begin with Thucydides 1.126.4, on Kylon (kappa 2673, pi 1179) at Delphi. cf. chi 547.