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χ451Χωστρίςdigging-shedDuring sieges and blockades: see e.g. Diodorus Siculus 24.1.1. The headword is used either as a adjective attached to 'tortoise' (xelw/nh) or by itself.Matched in noteshighshort
κ2782Κύρτωμαvault… History of the Wars of Justinian 6.27.7 (web address 1); during their siege of Auximum (Auximus, modern-day Osimo, Italy) in 539 CE, Roman soldiers attempt to destroy a vaulted cistern which serves the city; …Matched in noteshighshort
β482ΒῶλοςBôlos, BolusFrom Mendes in Egypt, he lived during the third century BCE and wrote on magic and pharmacology. He is now thought to be the same person as Bolus the Democritean (beta 481): see OCD(4) …Matched in noteshighshort
α3199Ἀππία ὁδόςAppian Way, Via Appia… Way and the aqueduct were commissioned by Appius Claudius Caecus during his censorship in 312 BCE. At that time it reached from Rome to Capua (Livy 9.29). Paving began in 295. Later in the …Matched in noteshighshort
ε52Ἔγεσταegesta, agesta… next note. For Cilician goat-hair cf. kappa 1605, kappa 1607. During the siege of Edessa (cf. epsilon 207) in 544 CE, the Persians under Chosroes (cf. chi 418) construct an artificial hill against the …Matched in noteshighshort
α1215ἈλιγέρνηςAligernes, Aligernos, Aligernus, Aligern… Cuma in central-west Italy, Barrington Atlas map 44 grid F4), during the Gothic War (535-554 CE). The Roman army, under the Byzantine general Narses (nu 42), failed to capture the city after a sustained …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ818Διαφέρωνcarrying out; exceptional… [2] Polybius 3.18.8 (web address 2, L.Aemilius Paullus at Pharos during the Second Illyrian War, 219 BCE). The city of Pharos (Pharus) is on the western end of an island of the same name …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1170Διονύσιος ὁ ἈρεωπαγίτηςDionysios the Areiopagite, Dionysius the Areopagite… meekness. To John the Apostle, Dionysius addresses word of support during his exile. The Suda does not mention the letter to the hierarch Titus, concerning the symbolism of "spiritual nourishment". A letter to Apollophanes …Matched in noteshighlong
δ1108Δίκροταdikrota, two-banked… two banks of oars (web address 1); see also e.g. Duris FGrH 76 F66, who gives ploi=on di/kroton as a definition of the word samai/nh (cf. sigma 77; see also Hesychius eta507 h(mioli/a: h( …Matched in noteshighshort
ε953Ἔμβολονwedge, wedge-formation… mentions a naval wedge, taken up by the Roman ships during the battle at Cape Ecnomus (256 BCE). A reference to a Byzantine use of the same arrangement is provided by John Cinnamos, Epitome …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1355ΔομνῖνοςDomninos, Domninus… by both of these names: first Larissa but renamed Laodicea during the reign of Seleukos I or one of his successors. Barrington Atlas map 68 grid C3 ('Larissa/Sizara'). [2] This whole entry, in fact, …Matched in noteshighlong

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