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109
Ἀγάθαρχος
Agatharkhos, Agatharchos, Agatharchus
… other primary sources on A. (translated in Pollitt, below) are
Plutarch,
Life of Pericles 13.2 (web address 2);
Plutarch,
Life of Alcibiades 16.4 (web address 3); Vitruvius, On Architecture 7, praef. 1l (web address …
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Ἀβίωτον
unlivable
… Euripides, Alcestis 242.) [2] Quotation unidentifiable -- but perhaps from
Plutarch,
who has several instances of the idiom a)biw/tws e)/xein. [3] For this word see also alpha 50.
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165
Ἄγγαροι
messengers
… Commentaries on Homer's Odyssey vol. 2 p. 189.6; Hesychius alpha7814;
Plutarch,
Alexander 18 (bis); De Alex. fort. virt. 326E; 340C. [3] Aeschylus, Agamemnon 282f. (web address 4), where the mss have a)gge/lou, an obvious …
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621
Ἄεικες
unalike
… Athens after his victory, c.476 BCE, at Eion (Aeschines 3.185;
Plutarch,
Kimon 7). Eion is at the mouth of the River Strymon, where it empties into the Aegean Sea from Thrace (Barrington Atlas map …
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2082
Ἀνάστατοι
anastatoi
… (It is even worse at chi 121, q.v.) [3] cf.
Plutarch,
Moralia 349F. [4] What now follows has already appeared, more briefly, at alpha 1781. [5] cf. phi 507. [6] Euripides fr. 350; cf. …
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3967
Ἁρμάτειος τροχός Ἁρμάτειος
chariot wheel
… The "chariot nome" (played on the aulos) is mentioned by
Plutarch,
Moralia 335A and 1133A, and the "chariot tune" is an intrusive stage-direction (which generated a scholion) in Euripides, Orestes 1384.
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1108
Δίκροτα
dikrota, two-banked
… di/kroton (e.g. Polybius 5.62.3) is used especially in imperial prose:
Plutarch,
Lucullus 2.4; Appian, Mithridatica 17. Appian also (Illyrica 7) identifies the di/krota with the Roman naves Liburnicae, as [Lucian], Amores 6 tw=n dikro/twn, …
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1627
Δυσείμων
ill-clad
… austerity: Socrates in Xenophon, Agesilaus in Aelian, Cato Minor in
Plutarch,
Gelon in Diogenes Laertius. And note especially the case of Diogenes of Sinope (delta 1141, delta 1143, delta 1144, delta 1145), who according …
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2015
Ἔπαισεν
hit
… a paraphrase or alternative account of an incident described in
Plutarch,
Pyrrhus 16.15 (the Italian cavalry-commander Hoplax strikes P.'s horse: pai/ei me\n au)to\s tw=| do/rati tou= basile/ws to\n i(/ppon).
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2896
Ἐρασίστρατος
Erasistratos, Erasistratus
… succession. The tale of the lovesick Antiochos is told in
Plutarch's
biography of Stratonike's father (Demetrios 38) and also in Appian, Syriaca 308-313, and Lucian. Shipley (below) 71: 'the episode was embellished as a …
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3248
Ἔσχατα ἐσχάτων κακὰ διαπέπρακται
evils ultimate of ultimates have been perpetrated
… the comparison; in the Proverbs of the Alexandrians attributed to
Plutarch,
the present proverb is cited under the one the Suda gives as alpha 123 (q.v.).
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3570
Εὐλόφως
strongly, patiently
… to is Oeconomicus 1.15. (It was also cited, twice, in
Plutarch's
treatise How to profit by one's enemies: see Moralia 86C-E.) [2] Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 152 Zintzen (89 Asmus); cf. Photius, Bibliotheca …
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3729
Εὐρύσακες
Broadshield, Eurysakes, Eurysaces
… in the vocative, from the quotation which follows. See also
Plutarch,
Solon 10 (and epsilon 3730). [1] Similarly already in Hesychius. [2] Sophocles, Ajax 574-6 (web address 1); cf. pi 2089.
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3944
Ἐφόλκια
tenders, towed-boats
… and that the passage has a connection with one in
Plutarch's
Life of Marcellus (29.2-6 [2-3 Loeb], which ends pepeisme/nos e)pa/cesqai di' eu)fui/an au)ta\ ta\ xwri/a tou\s *(rwmai/ous); this and several other passages in …
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83
Εἰκός
probable
… ('towards a point of least resistance'; for the idiom cf.
Plutarch,
Fabius 16.2) for the Suda's pro\s to\ ei)ko/s. See web address 4, and Theodoridis' Photius edition, vol.II p.LXXXV.
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653
Ἰσοκράτης
Isocrates, Isokrates
This Isocrates is not in the OCD (or the RE). He was also known simply as the Apollonian. See theta 138; Harpocration s.v. e)pakto\s o(/rkos. ([1] Ignore this automatic link, which refers to the …
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758
Καταρτύσων
intending to prepare
… Sophocles, Antigone 478; Plato, Laws 808D; Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.392;
Plutarch,
Moralia 38D. [2] Homer, Odyssey 11.439 (web address 4). The context is Odysseus' conversation with Agamemnon in the Underworld. In place of do/lon …
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Κατασπείρας
having sown
… and 2.II. Other uses of the verb: Euripides, Hercules 469;
Plutarch,
Theseus 3.2, Demetrius 4.2, etc.
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369
Χόες
Choes, Pitchers
… Orestes speaks of a monotrapeza ('individual table') for himself; and
Plutarch,
Moralia 643A refers to a personal table (trapeza idia) for Orestes. People at the Choes were supposed to sit alone when they drank, …
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