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δ451Δημοποίητοςnaturalized citizen… on Aelian fr. 71 Domingo-Forasté, 68 Hercher (which itself reflects Plutarch, Perikles 37). [1] For Perikles see pi 1179, pi 1180, pi 1181. [2] Perikles' sons by his first wife, Paralos and Xanthippos, died …Matched in noteshighmedium
α109ἈγάθαρχοςAgatharkhos, Agatharchos, Agatharchus… other primary sources on A. (translated in Pollitt, below) are Plutarch, Life of Pericles 13.2 (web address 2); Plutarch, Life of Alcibiades 16.4 (web address 3); Vitruvius, On Architecture 7, praef. 1l (web address …Matched in noteshighshort
α621Ἄεικεςunalike… Athens after his victory, c.476 BCE, at Eion (Aeschines 3.185; Plutarch, Kimon 7). Eion is at the mouth of the River Strymon, where it empties into the Aegean Sea from Thrace (Barrington Atlas map …

δ451

Δημοποίητος

naturalized citizen

[Meaning] one who is adopted by the demos and has become a citizen. For Perikles, the son of Xanthippos, proposed a law that someone whose parents were not both citizens would not himself be a citizen. A short time…

Δημοποίητος· ὁ ὑπὸ τοῦ δήμου εἰσποιηθεὶς καὶ γεγονὼς πολίτης. Περικλῆς γὰρ ὁ Ξανθίππου, νόμον γράψας τὸν μὴ ἐξ ἀμφοῖν ἀστυπολίτην μὴ εἶναι, οὐ μετὰ μακρὸν τοὺς γνησίους ἀποβαλών,…

gender and sexuality2

gender and sexuality2

meter and music1

meter and music1

trade and manufacture1

trade and manufacture1

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α1280ἈλκιβιάδηςAlcibiades, Alkibiades… tau 661. [7] lambda 852. [8] For Alkibiades' end cf. Plutarch, Alcibiades 38-39. The Suda's version of this dream is an abbreviated version of what we are told in Plut. Alc. 39: e)do/kei perikei=sqai …Matched in noteshighmedium

α2148ἈνδοκίδηςAndocides, Andokides… and b have other versions of what Hellanicus said, from Plutarch's Alcibiades and the Life of Andocides attributed to him.] For Nausicaa see nu 70.Matched in noteshighshort

α2490ἈνθεμόκριτοςAnthemokritos, Anthemocritus… to the statue of Anthemocritus". For this episode see principally Plutarch, Perikles 30. Following the lead of the ancient sources, most modern scholars date it to the 430s BCE, in the prelude to the …Matched in noteshighshort

α2745ἈντιφῶνAntiphon… s.v. [2] Not in the sources used here, evidently; contrast [Plutarch], Lives of the Ten Orators 832B-C, where his teacher is his own father. [3] [gamma 388] Gorgias. [4] An inference from the praise …Matched in noteshighshort

α2775Ἀνοικίσαι τὴν πόλινto resettle the city… quoted from somewhere. There are ones like it in e.g. Plutarch, Moralia 458C, but the only exact match occurs in Himerius, Orations 5.200 (in Photius' Bibliotheke); Themistocles is speaking about Athens.Matched in noteshighshort

α3658Ἀποψηφισθένταvoted-off, voted-out… text see web address 1 below. See also Dinarchus 1.63; Plutarch, Demosthenes 14.5; I. Worthington, A Historical Commentary on Dinarchus (Ann Arbor 1992) 227-8. [3] delta 850, delta 851.Matched in noteshighmedium

α3937ἈρίστρατοςAristratus, Aristratos… Sicyonian leader of the C4 BC: Demosthenes 18.48 and 295; Plutarch, Aratus 13.Matched in noteshighshort

β561ΒροῦτοςBrutus… Brutum) and the epitome of Polybius must come ultimately from Plutarch's Brutus 2 and 4. [2] A cross-reference to delta 421 (but the Brutus there is a much earlier one).Matched in noteshighshort

δ455ΔημοσθένηςDemosthenes… cf. delta 456. [1] Again at epsiloniota 57. [2] cf. [Plutarch], Lives of the Ten Orators 847C-E.Matched in noteshighmedium

δ1109Δικροῖςbifurcated, forked, two-pronged… legomenon: more occurrences for kekragmo/s (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 1357; Plutarch, Quaest.Conv. 3.6.4). The coinage of the word might have been determined by metrical reasons.Matched in noteshighshort

δ1630Δυσήνεμονbad-winded, very windy… (Argonautica 1.593) but not thereafter until the second century CE; Plutarch fr.82; Babrius, Mythiambi Aesopici 1.18 (both genitive singular). In the following centuries it appears in Basil, Nonnus and subsequently in medieval authors. For …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1674Δυσωπεῖσθαιto look askance at… ashamed) are mainly not Attic writers: Chariton, Heliodorus, Polybius, Philo, Plutarch, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Dio Chrysostom, the emperor Julian, Libanius (see Francisco Adrados, 2002 s.v.) [6] This definition refers to the active form, duswpei=n; …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε71ἘγκαλοῦμαιI reproach… reproaching laziness is almost a commonplace), but cf. also e.g. Plutarch, Moralia 459C; Dionysius of Halicarnasssus, Roman Antiquities 7.13.3. [3] (Not only accusative but also dative.) Probably from Lexicon Syntacticum epsilon291.14 Cramer. [4] Quotation …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1220Ἐνεδέχοντοthey accepted… ancestor kappa 1637) was one of his generals (see e.g. Plutarch, Pyrrhus 14-22 passim).Matched in noteshighshort

ε1653Ἐξερρύησανthey flowed out, they melted away… them describing speeches falling out of people's consciousness -- in Plutarch's Lives (Themistocles 12.2, Cato Minor 61.3). [1] The strange phrase e)n po/lei feugo/ntwn is taken over from Lexica Segueriana 224.10. The tacit emendation …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1851ἘξωρχησάμηνI danced out, I expressed, I revealed… Poulytion (sic) see e.g. Isocrates 16.6; Andocides 1.12 & 14; Plutarch, Alcibiades 19.2; Pausanias 1.2.5.Matched in noteshighshort

ε2037Ἐπεκήρυξανthey proclaimed… at delta 524 (and Ammonius 184), but there is also Plutarch, Themistocles 29, as well as Lysias 6.18 (a closer parallel than any of the others). [2] Quotation (already at alpha 2729) unidentifiable. Adler …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2155Ἐπηβολώτατοςmost capable, most skilled… singular. It must be quoted from somewhere: extant possibilities include Plutarch (Aratus 10.3) and Synesius (Epistle 148).Matched in noteshighshort

ε2196Ἐπηράσαντοthey called down curses… epsilon 3584. The 'him' is Alkibiades (alpha 1280); cf. generally Plutarch, Alcibiades 22 and 33 (and Nepos Alcibiades 4.5).Matched in noteshighshort

ε2907Ἐργολάβοςcontractor; profit-maker… e)/rgon and the verb lamba/nein), see e.g. Plato, Republic 373B; Plutarch, Pericles 31; and many epigraphical attestations. LSJ entry at web address 1. [2] A trace of a usage of e)rgola/bos in a legal …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε3019Ἑρκύνιοι δρυμοίHercynian forests (?Black Forest)… of the Celts (7.1.3-5, 7.2.2, 7.3.1; cf. 4.6.9); see also Plutarch (Marius 11.9), Diodorus Siculus (5.21, 5.32), Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Roman Antiquities 14.1), Eustathius (Commentary on Dionysius the Periegete 298.16-45), and the Emperor Julian …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3248Ἔσχατα ἐσχάτων κακὰ διαπέπρακταιevils ultimate of ultimates have been perpetrated… the comparison; in the Proverbs of the Alexandrians attributed to Plutarch, the present proverb is cited under the one the Suda gives as alpha 123 (q.v.).Matched in noteshighshort

ε3272Ἑταιρισάμενοςassociating one's self… other attestations of this form is found. (The other is Plutarch, Moralia 1086E.) Adler cites the lexicon of Codex Laurentianus 59.16 as a comparandum.Matched in noteshighshort

ε3317ἘτιμησάμηνI (would have) estimated the penalty… was tracked down and killed by Antony's soldiers (see e.g. Plutarch, Cicero 47-49). Cicero's head and hands were cut off, and Antony had them displayed on the rostra -- perhaps at the instigation of …Matched in noteshighshort