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4643
Ἄφρακτος φίλων
unguarded by friends
[Meaning] not be-fenced and be-walled with friends because you left them behind deceived.
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1091
Ἐναγῆ φίλων
accursed of friends
[Meaning] he who is never held responsible by his friends for a cause which does not appear, but who is pure. We [the chorus] ask not to make [him] dishonored in words, but to …
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142
Εἱμαρμένη
fate
… during this present light of day," he is averting fate.
Philosophers
say that "divinity, intelligence, and fate are all one" and that "[this] is also called by other names". Fate is the "concatenated cause …
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291
Εἰς λατομίας
into (the) quarries
Philoxenos
the dithyrambic poet could not stand the poetry of the tyrant Dionysius because it was so bad. On one occasion Dionysius sent him to the quarries, but later decided to have him brought …
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45
Ἐγγαστρίμυθος
ventriloquist
… [call] a Python, but Sophocles [calls] a chest-diviner, and the
philosopher
Plato [calls] a Eurycles, from a diviner of such a kind [named] Eurycles. Aristophanes in Wasps [writes]: "mimicing the oracle and device of …
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3695
Εὐριπίδης
Euripides
… was a vegetable-hawker; she was actually of high-born parentage, as
Philochorus
reports. His mother conceived at the time Xerxes made his crossing, and Euripides was born on the day the Greeks defeated the Persians. …
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445
Χωρὶς τὰ Μυσῶν καὶ Φρυγῶν ὁρίσματα
separate are the boundaries of Mysians and Phrygians
… And elsewhere: "it is not the part of one doing
philosophy
to profess and practice the art of prophecy nor any other sacred discipline; for the boundaries of the
philosophers
and those of the …
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487
Ἴων
Ion
[Ion,] of Chios, tragedian and lyric poet and
philosopher,
son of Orthomenes, but also known as [son] of Xouthos. He began to produce tragedies in the 82nd Olympiad. There are 12 dramas of his, …
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2647
Κυκλίων τε χορῶν ᾀσματοκάμπας
and tune-benders of cyclic choruses.
… is hinting at the associates of Cinesias and Cleomenes and
Philoxenos,
who composed dithyrambs. He means that the composers of dithyrambs were also sophists; for these men were the producers of the cyclic choruses. …
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296
Χιάζειν
to play the Chian
… musician Democritus of Chios (RE 5.140, a contemporary of the
philosopher
of the same name), and that of the Siphnian style to an otherwise unknown citizen of that island named Theoxenides (but
Philoxenides
or …
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653
Ἰσοκράτης
Isocrates, Isokrates
Son of Amyclas the
philosopher,
of Apollonia in Pontus (or Heraclea, according to Callistratus); the orator. Pupil and successor of the great Isocrates; he also studied with the
philosopher
Plato. This Isocrates took part …
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1019
Ἀκροσφαλεῖς
precarious
… in the [act of] walking. That is the Huns. In
Philoctetes:
"...that all things are awful for mortals and uncertain: to fare well or to fare otherwise. It is necessary for one who is …
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4554
Ἄφαντον φῶς
secret light
[Meaning] that [made] out of a fire-producing stone. Sophocles in
Philoctetes
[writes]: "but rubbing stone on stones I laboriously brought forth a secret light, which preserves me always. For a roof to house [me] …
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590
Διάκονος
deacon, messenger
… "He was a clergyman, with the rank of deacon." And
Philoctetes
[in Sophocles says]: "but either they have died, or, as I think likely, the messengers considering me unimportant hastened their voyage home." Also …
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4397
Ἀτυζομένη
distraught
… with grief, the messenger of Zeus," Electra likens herself to
Philomela.
In the Attic version of the myth,
Philomela
was raped by her brother-in-law Tereus, who cut out her tongue to prevent her confession …
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2807
Ἐποποῖ
epopoi (in hoopoe-ese)
… pastiche of tragic laments (cf. its later use at Sophocles,
Philoctetes
743, 790). See also iota 56. Modern texts read the same phrase twice: a)ttatai\ a)ttatai/. The prefix para- is used in Byzantine literary …
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121
Βάρος
weight, influence, gravitas, dignity
… follows (p. 517) Dindorf in opting for the alternative spelling
filo/nikon
instead of the Suda's
filo/neikon.
[3] Polybius 30.10.4. [4] Diodorus Siculus 33.28a (28b in Loeb edition); cf. iota 111. [5] Sophocles, Oedipus at …
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1142
Διογένης
Diogenes
… the works attributed to Diogenes of Sinope the well-known Cynic
philosopher
(delta 1141, delta 1143, delta 1144); however, D.L. himself notes that the attribution is questionable. So the present entry exhibits only one definite …
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74
Ἠγρίωσαι
you have become cruel
… also attested in Euripides, Orestes 226 and 387). [1] Sophocles,
Philoctetes
1321-3 (Neoptolemos addresses
Philoctetes:
see web address 1).
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504
ᾙρήκασι
they have taken
… It must be quoted from somewhere: extant possibilities include Aeschylus,
Philostratus,
and Cassius Dio. [2] Perfect active participle of the same verb, masculine nominative plural. Again, evidently quoted from somewhere; extant possibilities include Thucydides, …
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165
Κακοπινέστατον
filthiest, most filthy, very filthy
… (where the headword appears: web address 1 below). [3] Sophocles,
Philoctetes
945-949 (web address 2 below); cf. kappa 346. The quoted lines do not contain the headword, so the reason for their inclusion in …
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124
Ἀγάθων
Agathon
… was set at a dinner party of his, with many
philosophers
introduced all together. A comic poet [sic] of the school of Socrates. He was lampooned in comedy for womanliness.
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249
Ἀγκών
elbow
… proverbial expression: wiping one's nose with the elbow. Bion the
philosopher
said: "my father was a freed slave, wiping his nose with his elbow;" it indicated clearly the saltfish-importer. See another proverbial expression, 'sweet …
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3224
Ἄπλαστος
unfashioned, unfeigned
… upon them together sweet dignity and unfeigned modesty informed the
philosopher
sufficiently and already made the young man known to him." But a)/plastos [also means] large. "Him a great destiny holds." That is, madness.
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4264
Ἀστυδάμας
Astydamas, Astudamas
[Astydamas] the elder, son of Morsimus the son of
Philocles,
both tragic poets; an Athenian, a tragic poet. He wrote 240 tragedies and won with 15. He was a pupil of Isocrates and turned …
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4556
Ἀφαρεύς
Aphareus
… in the 95th Olympiad, at the same time as the
philosopher
Plato.
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786
Ἐλελεῦ
eleleu, war-cry
… rhythmic movement; just as Achaeus of Eretria, too, in the
Philoctetes
makes Agamemnon announce to the Acheans: "it is time to help: and I will lead. Let someone take the grip of a sword …
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1368
Ἔνθ' οὔτε μίμνειν ἀνέμους οὔτ' ἐκπλεῖν ἐᾷ
the wind allows neither staying there nor sailing out
… in reference to those who have fallen into difficult circumstances.
Philoctetes
in Aeschylus speaks it.
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358
Ἢ Μορσίμου τὶς ῥῆσιν ἐξεγράψατο
or (if) someone has copied out a passage of Morsimos
… Morsimos was a tragedian, a rather frigid writer, son of
Philokles,
ophthalmologist, small; he had a son, Astydamas.
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112
Καθιππάζεσθαι
to trample underfoot
… who had given much ammunition to those wishing to trample
philosophy
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