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δ1370Δοξάσαιto suppose… fr.118). [2] An approximation of Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 911-913 (Jocasta talking to the magistrates of Thebes); it contains not the headword verb but the related noun. [3] Stoic doctrine: an approximation of Diogenes Laertius …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1504Δραπέτης κλῆροςrunaway lot… was simply limp and soggy). Teucer, in Sophocles' play, is talking of the lots that the Greek heroes cast in a helmet at Homer, Iliad 7.175ff. (web address 2), to choose one to fight …Matched in noteshighmedium
χ5Χάλαζαhail, hailstorm… Life of Pythagoras (so Adler). [3] Aristophanes, Frogs 852 (Dionysus talking about Aeschylus), with comment from the scholia there. The negative ou)k is not in Aristophanes' text.

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Δοξάσαι

to suppose

[Meaning] to suspect, to fancy. Aristophanes [writes]: "[you are free] to suppose, girls, [sc. that I love you], but the truth I am not in a position to say". And Sophocles [writes]: "I had the idea of going to the…

Δοξάσαι· ὑπονοῆσαι, εἰκάσαι. Ἀριστοφάνης· δοξάσαι ἐστὶ κόραι, τὸ δ' ἐτήτυμον οὐκ ἔχω εἰπεῖν. καὶ Σοφοκλῆς· δόξα μοι παρεστάθη ναοὺς ἱκέσθαι δαιμόνων τάδ' ἐν χεροῖν στέφη λαβούσῃ.…

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