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- ε795Ἐλέου βωμόςPity's altar… a cult of personified Pity at Athens, but cf. also Timocles fr. 31 Kock (now 33 K.-A.) for P. as 'kindly god'; and for something similar in Epidaurus see LSJ s.v. e)/leos.Matched in noteshighshort
- ε2616Ἐπιστάτιςchairwoman, lady president… war or peace or something else. Aristophanes in Thesmophoriazusae [writes]: "Timokleia in the chair, Lusilla as secretary". And Sophocles [writes]: "to presidents of flocks". That is, to the dogs. Dio Coccianus says: "the elephants, …Matched in translationhighshort
- δ1227Δίωκε ἀρετήνpursue excellence… the lemma might be related to Paul's First Epistle to Timothy 6.11: *su\ de\, w)= a)/nqrwpe *qeou=, [...] di/wke de\ dikaiosu/nhn, eu)se/beian, pi/stin, a)ga/phn, u(pomonh/n, prau+paqi/an; "But you, man of God, [flee the love …Matched in noteshighshort
- ε3819ΕὐχάvowThe unglossed headword (in mss FV only, Adler reports), nominative singular, is the Doric form for eu)xh/. It is very rarely attested, but see e.g. Aeschylus, Suppliant Women 657: filo/timos eu)xa/ (web address 1). …Matched in noteshighshort
- μ1004Μητραλοίαςmother-striker… Hesychius mu1292. The secondary headword mhtrolw/|as (attested in e.g. 1 Timothy 1:9), translated here as "mother-beater", is in fact an orthographic variant for the primary one, mhtraloi/as (attested in e.g. Aeschylus, Lysias and Plato). …Matched in noteshighshort
- ε1107Ἐνάλιαof the sea… poetry (Critias fr. 2.7 D., Euripides, Helen 1130, Electra 1348; Timotheus, Persians 109); in prose cf. Sextus Empiricus, Against Mathematicians 7.414.Matched in noteshighshort
- α3438Ἀπὸ μηχανῆςfrom a machine… 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