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102 entries for a plot [against someone]

ε232ἘδιδαξάμηνI had [someone] taught… instruction in sophistry: "so I had you taught to speak against what is just". (The headword also occurs, independently of that, in Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.6.2.) The remainder of the entry comes from one of …Matched in noteshighshort
α4509Αὐτομαχεῖνto fight one's own battle… the rigmarole in this second paragraph anyway shows up poorly against the equivalent material (presented exempli gratia) in Harpokration.Matched in noteshighmedium
β429Βουλεύσεωςconspiracy… XV.2 Conomis. [4] Demosthenes 25.28 (web address 2). [5] Hyperides, Against Athenogenes 18 (web address 3).Matched in noteshighmedium
ε1815Ἐξούληςejectment, exoule… surviving case is the one brought by the young Demosthenes against Onetor (Demosth. 30-31; omicron 359). [1] Demosthenes 21.81 (here omitting the part which actually mentions the dike exoules -- and distorting the sense …Matched in noteshighmedium
χ307Χιλιωθένταthousanded… of xilio/omai. [1] Lycurgus fr. 11 Conomis, from the speech Against Aristogeiton. The Suda text (sofa\ o)/nta, 'being wise') is corrupt here; read o)flo/nta from Harpok. [2] Lycurgus fr. 60 Conomis, from the speech …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2612Ἐπιστάτηςchairman… material (Aeschines 3.14 & 29, ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 44.2-3; Hyperides, Against Demosthenes 12). See also epsilon 2610, epsilon 2611, epsilon 2613, epsilon 2614, epsilon 2615; and cf. epsilon 2616, epsilon 2617.Matched in noteshighshort
ε2701Ἐπίτιμονworthy, enfranchised… be from that era (the closest surviving parallel is Lycurgus, Against Leocrates 41), but it could equally well be from a sophistic reworking of the argument (cf. Valerius Apsines 342, Rhetores Graeci (Walz) 4.707-8, …Matched in noteshighshort
δ461Δημοσίων πραγμάτων διοικητήςadministrator of public affairs… in the form of marketplace informers, who threaten legal action against Dikaiopolis, the comedy’s protagonist, for violating Athens’ ban on the import of goods from hostile states. In his Birds (414 BC), Aristophanes introduces …Matched in noteshighshort
ε770Ἑλλεβοριᾶνto need hellebore… is present infinitive of a desiderative verb e(lleboria/w. [1] sc. against madness; cf. Aristophanes, Wasps 1489. [2] Callias fr. 28 Kock (35 K.-A.). Entry thus far = Photius, Lexicon epsilon640 Theodoridis. [3] And so …Matched in noteshighshort
χ191Χελώνη μυιῶνa tortoise [uncaring] of flies… Iliad 2, as an ugly Greek soldier who speaks out against Agamemnon and is quickly silenced with a blow from Odysseus. See theta 257.) [3] An apocryphal tale about the death of Aeschylus; from …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ660Λόγου τυχεῖνto get a wordDemosthenes 18.13 (web address 1). "Against" Ktesiphon here should of course be "For." The error postdates the Suda's immediate source, Harpokration s.v.Matched in noteshighshort
ι464ἸωάννηςIoannes, John… 490-570s. See generally RE Ioannes(21); OCD4 Philoponus. [1] The work against Proclus is the treatise Against Proclus on the Eternity of the World; the work against Severus is unidentified.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1573Κιβδηλίαadulteration, dishonesty… silver content; debasing coinage is in turn the action of someone wicked (though not obviously envious) --- hence the metaphorical use of the term in Aristophanes, noted below. [2] A distortion of the folk …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1202ΚαισάριοςKaisarios, Caesarius… Gregory of Nazianzus (gamma 450). [2] That is to say, against the pagans.Matched in noteshighshort
η39Ἡγεμονία δικαστηρίουpresidency of a jurycourt… under which anyone appointed to a liturgy could argue that someone else was better-placed to undertake it; see for instance Lysias 3.20. [9] Or better (as in ms A) "proceeding". [10] Every archon could …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ1038Κατηγορευκόταhaving accused… from its only extant occurrence outside lexica (Cyril of Alexandria, Against Julian, prologue 5). cf. kappa 509 (and, for headword and gloss reversed, kappa 1034 and kappa 1035).Matched in noteshighshort
ε2494ἘπίνικοςEpinikos, Epinicus… the wife of Leo I, he organized with her a plot against Emperor Zeno in 415 AD. After the latter fled from Rome, Basiliscus (DIR entry by Hugh Elton at web address 2) was …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε2807Ἐποποῖepopoi (in hoopoe-ese)… i)tw/ is transformed into the third person imperative i)/tw, 'let someone go'. At line 237 we have what Peterson describes as 'a slow piu, piu, piu, rising to [sic] a brilliant crescendo' (147), and …Matched in noteshighlong
ε1797Ἐξομόσασθαιto deny on oath… than used paradigmatically), likely sources are Demosthenes 19.124 and Lycurgus, Against Leocrates 20. cf. epsilon 1792, epsilon 1798, epsilon 1840, epsilon 1841.Matched in noteshighshort
κ826Κατατομήscarp… by a failure to distinguish between the two. [1] Hyperides, Against Demosthenes 9, referring to D. himself. [2] Philochorus FGrH 328 F58 (another context altogether).Matched in noteshighshort
η413ἬωνEon, Eion… of the speech is a mistake (in all lexica) for 'Against Aristokrates', i.e. not Demosthenes 24, but Demosthenes 23.199 (web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort
ε2679Ἐπιτείχισμαassault-fort… singular (as in Harpok.), producing the phrase "a place fortified against certain [people]". [2] Demosthenes 18.87.Matched in noteshighshort
ι46ἸάρχαςIarchas… Life of Apollonius of Tyana (2.40-41 and passim) and Eusebius, Against Hierocles; cf. under tau 598.Matched in noteshighshort
μ931Μηλόβοτος χώραsheep-pasturage territory… replaced? Orthodox suggestions, first made in the 1820s, are the Against Autolykos (= lost speech III) or the Against Lysikles (= lost speech XII). For speculation that the present phrase is actually a version …Matched in noteshighshort
ε1080Ἐμφρεάτοιin Phreato… made by the Suda's source here, Harpocration) for Demosthenes 23 [Against Aristocrates].77. [2] That is, in book 16 of his Laws: fr.13 Szegedy-Maszak (645 FHS&G). (Again Harpocration has been carelessly read.)Matched in noteshighshort
ι84ἸγνάτιοςIgnatius, Ignatios… where the preposition eis does need to be construed as 'against', see Barry Baldwin, "Book Titles in the Suda", Journal of Hellenic Studies 103 (1983) 136-7, at 136 (adding for good measure the comment …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3432ΕὐαίωνEuaion, EuaeonThat of an Athenian who killed someone in a brawl (Demosthenes 21.71-4: web address 1). Entry abridged from Harpokration s.v. cf. tau 406.Matched in noteshighshort
χ154ΧαιρέαςChaireas, ChaereasPerhaps here by cross-reference from epsilon 1094 (which mentions someone of this name in Josephus), but a common enough name anyway, in fact and fiction.Matched in noteshighshort
α1890Ἀνακαίασινat Anakaia, at Anacaea… of this locative in a fragment of Isaeus' lost speech Against Diocles.Matched in noteshighshort
α2038Ἀναπτήτωlet flutter… headword must be quoted from somewhere; perhaps Cyril of Alexandria, Against Julian 1.43.Matched in noteshighshort