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463
Γρύλλος
Gryllos, Gryllus
… Harpokration s.v., itself prompted by Hyperides fr. 101 Jensen. For
Xenophon
see generally xi 47, xi 48. His sons were almost certainly born sometime after 399 BCE. Gryllos, who bore the same name as …
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3520
Εὐθυωρόν
straight
… eu)qu/wros or, as here, eu)quwro/s. It is often (as in
Xenophon,
below) used adverbially. [2] Antiphon fr. 40 Sauppe. [3]
Xenophon,
Anabasis 2.2.16, where -- just as later in the present entry -- adverbial …
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1601
Ἅμιπποι
horse-attached
… 328 F71. [1] Isaeus fr. 125 Sauppe. [2] Thucydides 5.57.2;
Xenophon,
Hellenica 7.5.23 (web addresses 1 & 2).
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2877
Ἀπαλλάξας
having put aside, having put off, having abandoned
… of the latter.) Same material in Photius and elsewhere. [2]
Xenophon,
Anabasis 3.2.28 (web address 2). [3] Perhaps Aelian (so Adler, appealing to pi 1029 and pi 2771, where the same may be true); …
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316
Βλακεύεται
gets lazy, is lazy
… 21 Zintzen (237 Asmus, 16A Athanassiadi). [3] An approximation of
Xenophon,
Anabasis 2.3.11 (web address 1 below), on the disciplinary methods of Klearchos. Again, even looser, at epsilon 2687.
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1676
Δυσωποῦμαι
I am timid
… found in one manuscript but not printed in Butcher's OCT);
Xenophon
Memorabilia 2.1.4 (web address 1); both cited from Harpokration (and Photius) s.v. See also under upsilon 139. cf. delta 1674 (and delta 1677).
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589
Ἐκπολεμῶσαι
to provoke to war
… Demosthenes (1.7, 3.7) and also cites Thucydides and (see below)
Xenophon.
[1] cf. pi 1893; see also epsilon 561. [2] Harpok. cites book "6" (in fact 5.4.20) of the Hellenica for this; accordingly, the …
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234
Δεξιός
clever
… [3] For this material see already alpha 3764. [4] See
Xenophon,
Hellenica 1.7.4-35. [5] cf. Lysias 12.72-77 and
Xenophon,
Hellenica 2.3.1-2, 11-56. [6] A summary of this sentence reappears at kappa 2448 (under a …
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205
Γέρροιν
with a pair of wickers
… (web address 2). But the quotation which follows is from
Xenophon,
for which see n.7. [7] An abridgement of
Xenophon,
Cyropaedia 2.1.21 (web address 3). [8] From the description of the Persian battle-order at …
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2895
Ἐρασινάδης
Erasinades, Erasinides
… to one of his several mentions in book 1 of
Xenophon's
Hellenica (between 1.5.16 and 1.7.29); see also e.g.
Xenophon,
Memorabilia 1.1.18, Lysias 21.8.
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229
Ἀγησίλαος
Agesilaos, Agesilaus
… king of Lacedaemonians' comes from Harpokration s.v., though it is
Xenophon
who is cited there, and the sentence finishes quite differently ("and he overturned much of Asia using the soldiers who had gone upcountry …
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482
Ἀδιήγητον
indescribable
… did not, extant instances of the headword alone begin with
Xenophon
and Demosthenes.)
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766
Ἀθυμότερος
more dejected, rather dejected
… 765 -- is presumably quoted from somewhere; extant possibilities include
Xenophon
(Anabasis 1.4.9) and Isocrates (Letters 4.8).
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1984
Ἀναξίβιος
Anaxibios, Anaxibius
Late C5/early C4 B.C. Mentioned by
Xenophon,
Diodorus and Lysias (fr.114 Sauppe). See generally Paul Poralla, A Prosopography of Lacedaemonians (edn.2, Chicago 1985, by A.S.Bradford) no.85. The entry is abridged from the one in …
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2981
Ἀπέδοξεν
it seemed good not, it was resolved not
… must be quoted from somewhere: there are instances in Herodotus,
Xenophon,
Pausanias and Philostratus. Impersonal a)pe/docen is the opposite of e)/docen as a decision-making formula: see LSJ s.v. a)podokei=.
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3013
Ἀπελογίζετο
gave an account of
… the quotation given, though there are also instances in (e.g.)
Xenophon
and Aeschines. [1] Polybius 13.5.2, on Herakleides of Tarentum (in southern Italy, cf. tau 112). On him, and this epsiode, see also Polyaenus …
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3111
Ἀπεψηφίσατο
voted off
… garbled version of the post-Arginusae trials, Athens 406 BCE. See
Xenophon,
Hellenica 1.7.1-35, esp. 1.7.1-2: "in Athens the people deposed all these generals except Konon ... Two of the generals who had taken part …
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3394
Ἀπόλιδας
citiless, polis-less
… from somewhere; the possibilities include Lysias (20.35), Isocrates (8.44) and
Xenophon
(Hellenica 6.3.1). See also alpha 3395.
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3962
Ἄρκυς
hunting-net
… [3] Abridged from Harpokration s.v., who cites Lycurgus (fr.86 Conomis),
Xenophon
(On Hunting 2.3, etc.), and Cratinus (fr 79 Kock = 84 K.-A.).
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293
Αἱρετώτερον
preferable, more choiceworthy
… it is neuter), but there are many other possibilities, from
Xenophon,
Isocrates and Demosthenes onwards. [1] Alexander of Aphrodisias, Commentaries on Aristotle's Topica 220.14-20 and 219.10-11; cf. generally alphaiota 291.
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172
Δεκαδαρχίαι
tenfold-regimes
… victory in the Peloponnesian War. A variant term, in (e.g.)
Xenophon,
is dekarxi/a (cf. mu 627). [2] This "And" is a clumsy connection between two parts of the longer entry in Harpokration. [3] Demosthenes …
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422
Δημαίνετος
Demainetos, Demaenetus
… is mentioned retrospectively in Aeschines 2.78 as well as in
Xenophon,
Hellenica 5.1.10 & 26.
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996
Διείρουσι
they draw through, they string together
… repeated by Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Alternatives are few but include
Xenophon,
Cyropaedia 8.3.10. (The glossing is rather odd in any event, however.)
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1109
Δικροῖς
bifurcated, forked, two-pronged
… di/kroos or di/kros, whose meaning is "bifurcated" (Plato, Timaeus 78B;
Xenophon,
Cynegeticus 9.19 and 10.7 ta\ dikro/a th=s u(/lhs, "forked branches"). The image of forked timbers occurs also in a comic fragment, where a …
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1235
Διωμοσία καὶ ἀντωμοσία
diomosia and antomosia, preliminary oath and counter-oath
… alpha 2758, and esp. alpha 2475 on the a)nqippasi/a (sic:
Xenophon
and epigraphy). *diippasi/a is unattested outside lexicography, but see e.g. the redaction of the Etymologicum Magnum of ms. Laurentianus Divi Marci 304, where …
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1561
Δοίημεν
we might give
… 349. It must be quoted from somewhere; perhaps Demosthenes or
Xenophon,
but there are numerous other possibilities.
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232
Ἐδιδαξάμην
I had [someone] taught
… is just". (The headword also occurs, independently of that, in
Xenophon,
Cyropaedia 1.6.2.) The remainder of the entry comes from one of the several scholia on the word. For the verb cf. delta 857. …
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308
Ἐθελοντήν
willingly
… a particular favourite of Polybius, but occurs first in Herodotus,
Xenophon,
Lysias and Isaeus.) [1] For related ones see epsilon 307, epsilon 310. [2] Polybius fr. 129 Büttner-Wobst. Büttner-Wobst notes (p. 531) that Tittmann …
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1867
Ἐξ ὑπερδεξίων
from above on the right
… Oration 5 (PG 36.1249d). The headword phrase is used by
Xenophon,
Polybius, Diodorus, Arrian and others; and cf. upsilon 254. [2] Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 9.20.2. See on this identification Theodoridis' Photius edition, …
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1889
Ἐωνημένοι
having purchased
… *pria/menoi [LSJ s.v. pri/amai] is standard in the Attic orators,
Xenophon,
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