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- α3422ἈπολλώνιοςApollonius [Dyscolus], Apollonios [Duskolos][Apollonius] of Alexandria, called Dyscolus ["Curmudgeon"]; father of Herodian the technical writer. Grammarian. He wrote the following works: On the Division of the Parts of Speech (4 books); On the Syntax of the Parts …
- ε3605ΕὔξενοςEuxenos, Euxenus… the earth because of the smell of meat: so also Apollonios attended to Euxenos while he was still a child and was led by him walking towards elementary education, but advancing to the age …
- β171Βάσσος ΚορίνθιοςBassos the CorinthianApollonios had a dispute with this man. "For this man was thought and believed to be a parricide, but he pretended to a wisdom of his own, and no bridle could be set upon …
- α2245Ἀνελέγετοused to read through… to practice. "Simonides had as good a memory as anyone. Apollonius the Tyanian was like him. He kept his voice silent, but used to read through quite a lot. And his memory remained stronger …
- δ46ΔάμιςDamis… of ancient Nineveh. This man was a philosophical associate of Apollonius and wrote up his travels, which he says he, too, shared. He wrote up his opinions and words and whatever he said by …
- α2634ἈντέρωςAnteros[Anteros], also [called] Apollonius, of Alexandria. Grammarian. He taught in Rome under Claudius, who was emperor after Gaius; Heraclides of Pontus also lived in his time. He was a pupil of Apion Mochthus. Extant …
- ε3890Ἔφηβοςadolescent, ephebe… to? [Is it] against the adolescent?' It was said of Apollonius and it had the force of a proverb. The law allows only the free to become ephebes. It was necessary for the ephebe …
- μ678Μετάwith, afterApollonius [son] of Archibius says [meta/] has five meanings: there and with all. [Meaning] for: "to Temese for bronze." [Meaning] (?)not: "behind the dark-prowed ship." [Meaning] under/by: "his locks were made to flow by …
- α1981ἈναξαγόραςAnaxagoras… Clazomenae, gave over his property to both cattle and camels. Apollonius of Tyana said of him that he was more a philosopher for beasts than for human beings. Crates of Thebes threw his property …
- μ9Μαγείαmagic… for the production of something good; like the oracles of Apollonius of Tyana. [sc. By contrast] sorcery [gohtei/a] is an invocation of maleficent spirits which takes place around the graves. But [the term] witchcraft …
- ε3504ΕὐθύδημοςEuthydemos, EuthydemusTeacher of Apollonius of Tyana, from Tarsus of Cilicia. "For Apollonius, advancing into the age for learning grammar, was showing strength in memory and fortitude in studying, and his language was Attic, and he …
- α3215ἈπίωνApion… (but according to Heliconius, a Cretan). Grammarian. A pupil of Apollonius son of Archibius; he also attended Euphranor's lectures when he was an old man, more than 100 years old; he was a slave …
- ε1003ἘμπεδοκλῆςEmpedocles, Empedokles… the Agrigentian Empedokles followed in the steps of Pythagoras, as Apollonius of Tyana also did. For [they say that] he associated with the gods and learned from them what in men they find pleasing …
- μ1305ΜουσώνιοςMusonius (Rufus)… Stoic, alive in the time of Nero, an acquaintance of Apollonius of Tyana and many others; there are even letters purporting to be from Apollonius to him and from him to Apollonius. Of course …
- γ365Γοητείαsorcery, wizardry… for the production of something good, like the oracles of Apollonius of Tyana. But sorcery [refers] to raising a dead person by invocation, whence [the word] is derived from the wailing [go/oi] and lamentations …
- κ2254Κωμάσαιto carouse… to carouse his way into the women's apartments." And elsewhere: "Apollonius said, 'Let us vote for him to be crowned thus for temperance, and in preference to Hippolytus son of Theseus: for he [Hippolytus] …
- μ274Μασχαλισθῆναιto put under the armpits, to mutilate… become too weak to punish the murderer in return. So Apollonius [wrote]: "you were cutting off the first sacrificial extracts of the dead". [This is said] about Jason. Or, that those waging a civil …
- ε3955Ἔφοροιephors… Klearchos ephor to return them to harmony". And elsewhere: "he [Apollonius] wrote to the ephors to proclaim in public the removal of pitch from the baths and the expulsion of the hair-pluckers in order …
- μ194ΜαριανόςMarianos, Marianus… books: Paraphrase of Theocritus in iambics, 3150 [lines]; Paraphrase of Apollonius' Argonautica in iambics, 5608; Paraphrase of Callimachus' Hecale and hymns and Aitia and epigrams in iambics, 6810; Paraphrase of Aratus in iambics, 1140; …
- κ227ΚαλλίμαχοςCallimachus, Kallimachos, Kallimakhos… who was an enemy of Callimachus: he was in fact Apollonius, who wrote the Argonautica); Museum; Tables of Men Distinguished in Every Branch of Learning, and their Works (in 120 books); Table and Description …
- κ912Κατεγλωττισμένονtongued-down (?tongue-engaged); (sunk) under too many glosses (far-fetched).… a 'tongued-down' is the tongue-in kiss. And Philostratus [writes]: "But Apollonius cultivated a style of discourse not dithyrambic and swollen with poetic words nor sunk under too many glosses and full of affected Atticisms; …
- γ4ΓάγγηςGanges… cubits tall.." on, is a quotation from Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 3.20.2-3, in a story about how the Ethiopians supposedly came to leave their original homeland in India and move west. In …
- α4173ἈσκληπιάδηςAsclepiades, Asklepiades… but by his original descent, of Nicaea. A pupil of Apollonius. He lived in the time of Attalus and Eumenes, the kings of Pergamum. He wrote on the textual criticism of philosophical books. He …
- μ230ΜαρσύαςMarsyas… events concerning Jason and the Argonauts also took place, as Apollonius of Rhodes says. A tale is told that he was skinned by Apollo. A story is told about Hormisdas the Persian [sc. king], …
- κ2341ΚράτηςKrates, Crates… sea, as Philostratus the Lemnian says in his Life of Apollonius of Tyana. See also under 'Anaxagoras'.
- λ634Λοβόςlobe[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon, and cf. a scholion on Homer, Iliad 14.182. [2] cf. Hesychius lambda1187. [3] Likewise, according to Adler, the Ambrosian Lexicon. [4] Similarly in …
- α211Ἀγείρειcollects… a)gei/rousin, from the quotation which follows. [3] Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 4.39. [4] Aelian fr.124c Domingo-Forasté (121 Hercher); see also pi 2900, sigma 293.
- α4036Ἄρτιαeven, exact[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon, and cf. also the scholia to Homer, Iliad 5.326, where this neuter plural occurs. [2] Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 816, abridged (web address …
- ε3682Εὕρημαfind… or the like; see LSJ s.v. [3] Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 1.18.5. For the Magi cf. mu 28.
- ν98Ναὶ μὰ τόνyes by the ...… 51-52, with comment from the scholia there; cf. scholion on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.669 (and sigma 1694). [2] Menander [the comic poet] fr. 740 Kock, 801 Koerte, now 884 K.-A. [3] Homer, Iliad 1.234; …