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- ε1932Ἐπακτόνacquired[Meaning] added-on, foreign, excessive. Plotinus says that "virtue in the soul is acquired; but in That, from which [the soul] has it by imitation, [it is] inherent. [...] But if that [virtue] in which …
- μ25Μάγοςmagus, magician, sorcerer… used to name sorcerers magi. Sophocles [writes]: "suborning such a plotting magician."
- λ814ΛύκοςLykos, Lycus… under the Successors [sc. of Alexander the Great] and was plotted against by Demetrios of Phaleron. This man wrote a history of Libya, and about Sicily.
- λ178Λαίθαργοςsecretly-biting… to be sure, pretend to be well disposed but are plotting in secret.
- α3678Ἀπωτέρωfurther off, quite far off… myself. For since he attacked that man, he might be plotting against me. Also [sc. attested is the masculine] a)pw/teros ["farther off"], [meaning] a longer distance away. *)apwta/tw ["farthest off"], far off, a long …
- ε1546Ἐξάντηdanger-free, out of danger… [his] daughter, who was ignorant of that man's schemes and plots against him, comes safe out of the evil [situation]." It is also an interjection. "Being safe I see another man having my misfortune." …
- κ240ΚαλλισθένηςKallisthenes, Callisthenes… he was killed, at the same time as Nearchos, for plotting against Alexander. [He was] naturally impulsive, and [was said] to be motivated by great passion. And a story is told that Kallisthenes ruined …
- α3909ἈρίστιπποςAristippos, Aristippus… cast off what's weighing you down." When he was being plotted against on a voyage he cast into the sea the things on account of which he was being conveyed. "For," he said, "the …
- ε3695ΕὐριπίδηςEuripides… enjoying the highest honor. Euripides met his end at the plotting of Arrhibaeus of Macedonia and Crateuas of Thessaly, poets jealous of him. They bribed, with ten minas, a servant of the king's, named …