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- δ1499Δραματουργήσαςhaving staged a drama, having fabricated… the reading of the newly recovered Zavordensis ms, restores sunqei/s ('having composed'), which surely ought to have been (if it wasn't actually) what the Suda compiler wrote as well (as suggested already by Portus …
- κ1870Κνηστιῶντες τὰς ἀκοάςwanting to scratch their hearing, having itchy ears… "I want to scratch". The metaphorical use given here, as "having itchy ears", must come (as Adler's note implies) from Julian, Letter 111.67, though he uses a different form of the present participle: "There …
- η19Ἡβήσαντεςhaving come of age… 14 for other forms of this verb. [1] More literally "having come to their peak." For this gloss cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 5.550, where h(bh/sante occurs. [2] Referring to emotional and physical …
- α2667Ἀντικαταλλαττόμενοςchanging, coming to an agreement… 19.114 (see next note) shows, what Philokrates is accused of having done "in the assembly" is openly confess there his bribe-taking. [2] Demosthenes 19.114 (with puropolon, "wheat-selling", for the lexicographer's turopolon, "cheese-selling"). See web …
- α3289Ἀπόδειξιςdemonstration… or after, is a sign of the other's being or having coming into to being (An.Pr. 70a6-9; Oxford Translation). That is to say, given two propositions (p, q) indicating two events, p is said …
- κ2648ΚυκλοβόροςKykloboros, Cycloborus… Hesychius kappa4476. No non-lexicographical reference to this supposed river is made outside Aristophanes (here and at fr. 636 Kock). One of the scholia to the Knights passage offers a different explanation, a circular place …
- ει22Εἰδέαidea, form, aspect, figure… cause in the strict sense –- the Form –- is made: web address 3). [2] Probably a reference to Plato, Sophist 249A, where the subject under discussion is whether or not 'what is absolutely' …
- μ1111ΜισγόλαςMisgolasA misleading compression of a statement made in tau 595, q.v.
- α2248Ἀνελεῖνto overturn; to take up… nominative (and placing a comma between tou=ton and to\n no/mon: "having overturned the law, [the Council] elected this man itself".
- κ1830Κλῴζεταιis hooted at… merely players." *klw/zein (no iota subscript) is properly the sound made by jackdaws; figuratively it is a noise made to indicate disapproval (LSJ s.v.). *suri/zein, Attic suri/ttein, is properly to play the syrinx (sigma …
- ε3213ἙστιάδεςHestiades… is unidentifiable in this precise form, though the final sentence ('Having accomplished etc.') summarizes Eusebius, Life of Constantine 3.46.1-47.1. The relative pronoun a(\s connects the passage awkwardly to the apparently unrelated note on the …
- ε2789Ἐπλινθεύθησανthey were bricked in… and alter the translation as follows: "being shut up by having a structure built around one..." This emendation receives some support from the parallel entry in the Glossae rhetoricae (see note above), where a …
- ε134Ἐγκύκλιοςcyclical, periodic… order to encourage loyalty. Here the general seems to have made an annual payment of this sort; this is similar to the way modern companies will give a Christmas bonus to keep employees happy. …
- α2015Ἀνάπηρον ψυχήνcrippled soul, mutilated soul… capture of Bryzakios and the victory over his forces by having the Persian officer killed at a banquet (spring/summer of 591); cf. de Boor (197-198), Whitby (139), and delta 125. On Chosroes, Persian king …
- α111Ἀγαθῆς Τύχης νεώςtemple of Good Fortune… entry in Harpokration -- which prompted the present one, without having the present gloss (also in Photius, Lexicon alpha69 Theodoridis) -- it was mentioned by Lycurgus (fr. 23 Conomis) "and others"; probably, therefore, it …
- γ457Γρῖφοςriddle, conundrum… "to test memory" (mnhmo/neia), and distinguishes it from enigma as having not only the character of a game but also a serious side. The person solving the riddle received a particular portion of meat, …
- α1500Ἀμαρτυρήτουςwitness-less… finer distinction in the Greek than it can readily be made to sound in translation. [2] Antiphanes fr. 311 Kock, now 326 K.-A. Photius s.v. gives the authority as 'Antiphon', but that, even if …
- δ1547Δρύοχοιstocks… literally means oak-holders (because the keels of warships were traditionally made of oak: Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 5.7.2) -- is translated 'stocks' by Lionel Casson, Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (Baltimore 1995) …
- α307Ἀγοραίαν δίκηνagora lawsuit, forensic lawsuitAn opaque entry, and made the more so because it appears in other lexica in different forms. In Photius (alpha231 Theodoridis) the lemma itself is the adjective only, i.e. di/khn is lacking; the Synagoge …
- α4582Ἀφέντες τὴν ὑπέραν τὸν πόδα διώκουσινthey let go the brace and chase the sheet[1] A proverb using nautical terminology, as is made explicit in Harpokration s.v. (from which the present entry derives). [2] Hyperides fr. 181 Jensen (from the first of the two speeches For Chairephilos, on …
- ε1628Ἐξένιζενused to be foreign… Demosthenes 57.18, where the speaker uses it of the allegations made against his father. This glossing on it is a shorter version of Harpokration s.v. (epsilon66 Keaney), which cites the explanation in Didymos (p.315 …
- ε1960Ἐπανένταςremitting… Demosthenes' Second Olynthiac, i.e. Demosthenes 2.30 (web address 1). There, having created the image of a system of Athenian political factions which behave like tax-symmories, he urges his fellow-citizens to 'remit' it. The extant …
- ι543ἹππίαςHippias… once went to Olympia wearing nothing that he had not made himself (clothes, ring, oil-flask, strigil), and notes that this is either support for or else (and more probably?) responsible for what the Suda …
- κ1802Κλιμάζειbends… is clearly correct), not the indicative. [2] The point being made (already in Photius) is that the purported verb klima/zein should perhaps be blima/zein: cf. beta 341.
- κ2524ΚτησιφῶνKtesiphon, Ctesiphon, Ctesipho… and 8894; LGPN ii s.v., nos. 4 and 5) is made. [1] In 347/6. [2] Or: 'the decree which...'. [3] Aeschines 3; cf. alphaiota 348.
- ε3039Ἑρμῆς ὁ πρὸς τῇ πυλίδιHermes by-the-gate… to the date of the dedication, a case has been made both for 493/2 and (Jacoby) 394/3.
- ε3808ΕὐφραῖοςEuphraios, Euphraeus… (Barrington Atlas map 55 grid E3). [2] In addition to having studied at the Academy (cf. OCD(4) s.v., alpha 774, and alpha 775), Euphraios also served at Plato's behest (cf. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 11.115 (Kaibel), …
- κ2058Κόπιςprater, wrangler… 1), referring to Odysseus; see also the corresponding scholia. Lycophron, having a predilection for nonce-words, uses it twice (Alexandra 763 and 1464). The scholia to these verses connect the noun ko/pis with the verb …
- μ174ΜάξιμοςMaximus… passim; Ammonius, On Aristotle's Prior Analytics 1.1.108 (where reference is made to Julian's lost work Peri ton trion schematon - Suda iota 437); Simplicius, On Aristotle's Categories 1.13-16 and On Aristotle's Physics 4.5.138.6-10; Ibn …
- η233Ἥλιον κρύπτεσθαι ἄστρα δείκνυσθαιthe sun being hidden (but) the stars being revealed… on the parallel structure of the headword phrase, each noun having a passive verb with the same termination. The phrase itself was not identified by Adler but is identifiable via the TLG as occurring …