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11 entries for Demosthenes

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α3559Ἀποστολαίdispatches… triremes. But a)po/stoloi [are] the sendings-out of the ships. So Demosthenes, both in the [speech] For Ktesiphon and in the First Philippic.Matched in translationhighmedium
α4365Ἄτιμοςdishonored… account of which he had come. In a special sense Demosthenes in [the] Philippics speaks of [the "dishonored" man in the sense of] the man one can kill with impunity ; that is, someone …Matched in translationhighshort
α109ἈγάθαρχοςAgatharkhos, Agatharchos, Agatharchus… initial gloss, this entry derives from Harpokration s.v., commenting on Demosthenes 21.147 (web address 1). The other primary sources on A. (translated in Pollitt, below) are Plutarch, Life of Pericles 13.2 (web address 2); …

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Ἀποστολαί

dispatches

[Meaning] discharges, gifts. Also [sc. attested is] a)po/stolos, the man sent out with an army in preparation for war. "Shattering some of the boats with their dispatches". That is, with their discharges. Also [sc.…

Ἀποστολαί· ἀποπέμψεις, δῶρα. καὶ Ἀπόστολος, ὁ ἀποστελλόμενος μετὰ στρατιᾶς εἰς πόλεμον παρασκευῆς. τῶν δὲ πλοίων τὰ μὲν συντριβόμενα ταῖς ἀποστολαῖς. τουτέστι ταῖς ἀποπέμψεσι. καὶ…

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α383Ἀγυιαίhighways… (7.7ff. Dindorf, A22 Keaney), commenting in the first instance on Demosthenes 21.51. See also alpha 382. [1] Literally, they have no limbs, as if aguia was from guia, meaning limbs. In fact it is …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1082Ἀλάστωρalastor… (ibid.). [3] This supernumerary paragraph abridges Harpokration s.v., commenting on Demosthenes 18.296 (and adding that the term is common in tragedy).Matched in noteshighshort

α2596Ἄνω ποταμῶν χωροῦσι πηγαίstreams are flowing up rivers… other paroemiographers); also in Photius, who cites the instance in Demosthenes 19.287. An earlier one still is Euripides, Medea 410. See generally Tosi (cited under alpha 378) no.1890.Matched in noteshighshort

α3438Ἀπὸ μηχανῆςfrom a machine… scholia). For the proverbiality of the phrase see also e.g. Demosthenes 40.59: "Timocrates alone, as if from a machine, testifies that..." [1] cf. theta 181.Matched in noteshighmedium

α4096Ἀρχὴ ἄνδρα δείκνυσινoffice exposes a man… -- is quoted in one of the Exordia (Proems) of Demosthenes (48.2). The present entry is a cut-down version of the one in Harpokration, where Sophocles (among his elegies: fr.2 West) is cited for …Matched in noteshighshort

αι359Αἰσχύνη πόλεως πολίτου ἁμαρτίαthe citizen's error (is) the city's disgraceAdler draws attention to Aeschines 3.241, where Demosthenes is described as 'a fellow who is a disgrace of the city'. The present four-word lemma as a whole appears as proverbial in the C15 paroemiographer …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1190Δίοποςcaptain[1] From Harpokration's entry on the participle diopeu/wn (Demosthenes 35.20 & 34). [2] cf. sense A (attested in tragedy) in LSJ s.v.Matched in noteshighshort

ε982Ἔμμηναmonthly… there. [2] From Harpokration s.v., commenting on that phrase in Demosthenes (33.23, 37.2) and Hyperides (fr. 240 Jensen); cf. epsilon 2891. For eranoi see epsilon 2892, epsilon 2893.Matched in noteshighshort