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ε962Ἐμβριθῆ νοῦνsevere thought, weighty thought… help identify the individual taking cover amidst the shields. [3] Menander Protector fr. 20.3 Blockley (190-191), on Tanchosdro's preference for professional soldiers; again under tau 89. On 'Tanchosdro' see n.3 at delta 1327. On …Matched in noteshighmedium
α3367Ἀπόκριναιanswer!… future tense middle forms are preferable to passive forms. [4] Menander fr. 255 Kock, now 199 K.-A. [5] Menander fr. 492 Kock, now 382 K.-A. (with indicative la/lei (Hirschig) for the Suda's infinitive). [6] …Matched in noteshighmedium
χ93Χαράκωμαstockade… stray fragment (no.43 in his numbering) of the late historian Menander Protector. In fact, from his namesake the comic poet: Menander, Aspis 30-1.

ε962

Ἐμβριθῆ νοῦν

severe thought, weighty thought

[Meaning] a serious and prudent [piece of] reasoning. The Pisidian [says]: "you came inside the shields with a severe speed". Menander [says]: "but Tanchosdro, Chosroes' general, did not collect elephants and a rustic…

Ἐμβριθῆ νοῦν· στερεὸν καὶ ἔμφρονα λογισμόν. Πισίδης· ἔσω τῶν ἀσπίδων ἦλθες ἐμβριθεῖ τάχει. Μένανδρος· ὁ δὲ Τανχοσδρώ, ὁ τοῦ Χοσρόου στρατηγός, οὐχὶ ἐλέφαντάς τε καὶ ἀγροίκων…

trade and manufacture1

trade and manufacture1

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α360Ἀγρίουςwild men… accusative plural. See also alpha 359. [1] Aeschines 1.52. [2] Menander fr. 965 Kock, 705 Koerte, now 480 Kassel-Austin. [3] Scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 349; the meaning of the word is otherwise unknown. [4] …Matched in noteshighshort

α2891Ἀπαμφιέσαντεςhaving stripped off… from its only extant occurrence outside lexica, in Themistius. [2] Menander, Misoumenos 363-364. [3] Evidently quoted from somewhere but not independently attested.Matched in noteshighshort

αι322Αἴσιοςappropriate, right… the masculine. For the neuter see already alphaiota 321. [2] Menander Protector fr. 32 Blockley (244-245). Adler associated this fragment with epsilon 304. [3] Quotation unidentifiable. [4] Quoted from delta 454. (Repeated here simply …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3835Εὔψυχοςof good courage, good-souled… ends epsilon 3834; it has evidently displaced the one from 'Menander' (sc. Protector).Matched in noteshighmedium

ε958Ἐμβριθέςweighty… lexica; evidently quoted from somewhere (there are numerous possibilities). [2] Menander Protector fr. 9.1 Blockley (102-103), on Justin II (ruled 565-578); quoted again at iota 449. Further excerpts from this fragment are at alpha …Matched in noteshighshort

α1243Ἁλιρρόθιονsea-beaten, roaring; Halirrothios… is inscribed on a headless double herm (to Homer and Menander) found outside the walls of Rome, Alle Tre Fontane, in what had probably been Aelian's (Claudius Aelianus, sophist, ca. 170 – ca. 235 …Matched in noteshighshort

α2201Ἀναίνεσθαιto reject, to spurn… citations are Demosthenes 36.31 and fragments of Plato Comicus and Menander. [1] cf. chi 110. [2] cf. eta 376.Matched in noteshighshort

α2410Ἀνηλεήςmerciless, pitiless… cf. generally nu 311. There are instances in Aeschines (2.163), Menander, Callimachus, Appian and elsewhere.Matched in noteshighshort

α2811Ἀξιόλογα βάρηnoteworthy weights… at alpha 2621. [2] Quotation unidentifiable. [3] Quotation unidentifiable. [4] Menander Protector fr. 6.1 Blockley (80-81), the Persian king Chosroes (cf. chi 418) explains his lack of designs on Suania to Justinian's envoy Petros. …Matched in noteshighshort

α4505Αὐτολήκυθοιcarriers of their own oil-flask… which this present one summarizes, Attic New Comedy (Diphilus and Menander) is cited.Matched in noteshighmedium

δ768Διαστῆσαιto set at odds… appearance of this verb in Antiphon (fr. 2 Sauppe) and Menander (fr. 448 Koerte, 406 K.-A.).Matched in noteshighshort

δ930Διεξοδικούςdetailed, discursive, elaborate… in encomiastic rhetoric (see the topoi of the praise-speech by Menander the Rhetor); but after the imperial age writers stressed the importance for the orator of relying on the peculiar qualities of person and …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε1149Ἐν γειτόνωνin the neighbours' [place]… For the headword phrase e)n geito/nwn (sc. oi)/kois) see e.g. Menander, Aspis 122; Lucian, Symposium 22.9; and cf. to\ xwri/on to\ e)n g. in Demosthenes 53.10. Metaphorical use, with the meaning of "to be …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2724Ἐπιτρέπειν τοῖς οἰκείοιςto entrust [the arbitration of a dispute] to one's friends… comes from Demosthenes). Besides Demosthenes and Lysias, below, Harpok. cites Menander's play Epitrepontes. [1] Demosthenes 27.1, with "arbitrators", diaithtai/, instead of "jurors", dikastai/. (The error postdates Harpok.) [2] Lysias fr. 63 Sauppe (now 70 …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3520Εὐθυωρόνstraight… (inappropriately) glossed by a scholiast as au)th=| th=| w(/ra|. [4] Menander Protector fr. 31.2 Blockley (244-245); the same passage is quoted at omicron 119; cf. also kappa 2311. The fragment is unplaced. On the …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3969Ἐφοινίττετοwas blushing, was turning red… 795), presumably extracted from the quotation given. [2] Part of Menander Protector fr. 9.3 Blockley (108-109), on the Persian envoy Mebod's (cf. alpha 3098) embarrassment while addressing Roman emperor Justin II (cf. iota 449). …Matched in noteshighshort

χ473Χρῆμαmatter; thing… of Synagoge chi110, Hesychius chi709 (although Hesychius omits 'property'). [2] Menander Protector fr. 23.9 Blockley (212-213), on the dismal lodgings provided to Roman envoys to Persia, Zacharias and Theodorus, in 576-577. On Zacharias see …Matched in noteshighmedium