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χ303Χιλήfodder… 811.47. [1] Xenophon, Anabasis 4.5.25 (web address 1 below). [2] Herodotus 4.140.3 (web address 2). The text of Herodotus reads sfete/rhs for the Suda's e(te/rhs ("other"). [3] Quotation and context unidentifiable. [4] cf. Etymologicum …Matched in noteshighmedium
α463Ἄδηνenough, to excess… to that passage; see also Photius and other lexica. [2] Herodotus 9.39.2 (web address 2 below). [3] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable. [4] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, …Matched in noteshighmedium
α937Ἀκούει καλῶςhas a fine hearing… lexica. In fact this exact phrase does not occur in Herodotus, but for close equivalents see 2.173.2, 6.86.a2, 7.16.a2, 8.93.1. [2] Philoponus, Commentary on Aristotle's de anima 367.7-13 Hayduck. [3] mu 952.

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fodder

[Meaning] food. Also [sc. attested is] xilo/s, masculine, [also meaning] food. Xenophon [writes]: "the herds were all fed indoors with fodder." "[...] through their own country, where there was fodder and water for…

Χιλή· τροφή. καὶ Χιλός, ἀρσενικῶς, ἡ τροφή. Ξενοφῶν· τὰ δὲ κτήνη πάντα χιλῷ ἔνδον ἐτρέφοντο. διὰ τῆς ἑτέρης χώρης, τῇ χιλός τε ἵπποις καὶ ὕδατα ἦν. Ἡρόδοτος. ὅσος τε σῖτος καὶ…

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α1140Ἀλεξόμενονwarding off, resisting… of Isidore. Zintzen makes it fr. 372, incertae sedis. [2] Herodotus 1.211.2 (web address 1), with comment from a gloss there. [3] Quotation unidentifiable. [4] Xenophon, Anabasis 1.9.11 (web address 2).Matched in noteshighmedium

α2202Ἀναιρεθείςhaving been taken up… Orsini, 1529-1600) attributed this fragment to Polybius (p. 528). [9] Herodotus, The Histories 6.69.4 (web address 3).Matched in noteshighmedium

α2929Ἀπαρτίανchattels, household utensils, moveables… Carey), from the lost speech In Reply to Aresandros. [6] Herodotus 7.29.2. The noun a)partilogi/h occurs in the clause following the one quoted here. See web address 1.Matched in noteshighmedium

ε257Ἑδωλιάσαιto floor… [1] Similar material in other lexica. [2] From glosses on Herodotus 1.24.4. For this "quarterdeck" usage (also in the Sophocles passage about to be quoted) see LSJ s.v. e(dw/lion, II. [3] Sophocles, Ajax 1277-8 …Matched in noteshighmedium

χ474Χρῆμαthing; matter… [2] Despite this helpful gloss, the quotation is unidentifiable. [3] Herodotus 7.188.3 (web address 2). [4] Aristophanes, Clouds 2 (web address 3); what follows in this entry is from the scholia to this line. …Matched in noteshighmedium

β185ΒάττοςBattos, BattusFrom Herodotus 4.154-155; see further in the notes below. cf. alpha 1584, alpha 1832, alpha 4639, theta 116, pi 1118. [1] According to Herodotus (4.155), "Battos" was either the name or the title of …Matched in noteshighmedium

α2371Ἀνεῖλενprophesied, took up, took away, killed… See also Photius, Lexicon alpha1808. [2] This story derives from Herodotus, and the quoted passage is from 7.141. See web address 1 for that text, and again briefly at tau 1133; and cf. the …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ89ΔᾶτιςDatis… of Carcinus. [2] To Delion in Boeotia; a quotation of Herodotus 6.118.1-2 (web address 2). [3] "I am pleased", "I am being gladdened", "I am delighted". These are the three Datisms given in Aristophanes, …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ929Διεξιφίσωyou fought to the death… Battle of Marathon, 490 BCE, immortalised in book 6 of Herodotus. For Marathon cf. mu 177; for Miltiades, mu 1067, mu 1068. [1] No, Artaphernes: see delta 89 (and Herodotus 6.119.1). [2] Something is …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε2406ἘπίκουροςEpicurus, Epikouros… maxims preserved by Diogenes Laertius. [2] See Epicurus, Letter to Herodotus, passim; Lucretius 2.63-597. See also alpha 4373. [3] This is not Epicurus' position on the role of providence (pronoia) in the universe. Rather, …Matched in noteshighmedium

α165Ἄγγαροιmessengers… See also alpha 162, alpha 163, alpha 164. [1] cf. Herodotus 3.126 (web address 2) and esp. 8.98 (web address 3). [2] cf. alpha 4420. The word appears also at Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 3.122A (3.94 …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1289ἈλκμάνAlkman, Alcman… "Sadyattes" for the reading "Alyattes" in the mss. According to Herodotus (1.16.1), Ardys' son was Sadyattes, who passed the kingship on to his son Alyattes. For a full discussion of the problem with the …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1423ἈλυάττηςAlyattes… a mistake for niece. [2] See generally alpha 521. [3] Herodotus 1.15 gives the taking of Priene to Ardys, father of Sadyattes, father of Alyattes. Be that as it may, is the source of …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1685Ἀμύσσεινto mangle… is paralleled in other lexica, and also in glosses on Herodotus 3.76.3 (which has the participle a)mu/ssonta). See web address 1. [2] Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 15.1.2. [3] John of Antioch fr. 49 …Matched in noteshighmedium

α2130ἈνάχαρσιςAnacharsis… Gagarin in OCD(4) s.v. (p.77). Anacharsis is first mentioned in Herodotus (4.46 & 76-77). Most of the present entry's material is taken from Diogenes Laertius 1.101-105. (Some has already appeared under alpha 258.) [1] …Matched in noteshighmedium

α2733Ἀντιτυπῆσαιto resist, to strike against… below), and these are the glosses of scholiasts there. [5] Herodotus 1.67.4 (web address 2 below); Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Tegea.Matched in noteshighmedium

α3201ἌπιδεςApides… of the first sentence of the gloss. cf. alpha 3217. Herodotus (3.27ff.: see web address 1) tells how Cambyses killed an Apis-bull. [1] Compare Nonnus' commentary on stories mentioned by Gregory of Nazianzus in …Matched in noteshighmedium

α3886ἈρίωνArion… means to 'make a chorus sing a stasimon'." [7] Compare Herodotus 1.23 [web address 1]: Arion "was the first man we know to have composed the dithyramb and given it a name." According to …Matched in noteshighmedium

α3947ἈρκαδίαArkadia, Arcadia… "arch-general" would be the Archangel Michael. [4] See on this Herodotus 1.66: a Delphic oracular response given to the Spartans in respect of their territorial designs on Arkadia in the mid C6 BCE. For …Matched in noteshighmedium

α4639Ἀφοσιούμεθαwe make atonement, we fulfill (an obligation), we do (something) for form's sake… is evidently quoted from somewhere. [2] A garbled version of Herodotus 4.154.4; see in context at beta 185. [3] cf. the scholia to Plato, Laws 873B, where a)fosiou/tw occurs. [4] John Chrysostom, Homilies on …Matched in noteshighmedium

αι334ΑἴσωποςAesop… and generally OCD(4) s.v. (p.28). For the present material cf. Herodotus 2.134.3-4 and the scholia to Aristophanes, Birds 471 (where he is mentioned). [1] Actually Euagon of Samos: FGrH 535 F3. [2] Here, ungrammatically, …Matched in noteshighmedium

αι357ΑἰσχύλοςAiskhylos, Aischylos, Aeschylus… not a relation, because he came from a different deme (Herodotus 8.84): see M.R. Lefkowitz, The Lives of the Greek Poets (London 1981) 69. [2] See epsilon 3800. [3] So the transmitted numeral, equating …Matched in noteshighmedium

β229Βεκεσέληνεbekeselene… alphaiota 68 and pi 2634. The story is told by Herodotus 2.2 (see web address 1).Matched in noteshighmedium

δ417ΔημάρατοςDemaratos, Demaratus… cf. delta 418, kappa 860, tau 547, and see generally Herodotus 5.75ff. [1] For Hippias see iota 544, iota 545.Matched in noteshighmedium

ε360ἙκαταῖοςHekataios, Hecataeus… Perseus Encyclopedia entry at web address 1, with links to Herodotus and Pausanias. [1] 520-516 BCE. For this Dionysios see delta 1180. [2] This explanatory phrase is lacking, Adler reports in mss VM. [3] …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε1952Ἐπανάκρουσαι πάλινto put back again… a similar phrase occurs). For this manoeuvre see also e.g. Herodotus 8.84.1. [2] Aristophanes, Birds 648, with comment from the scholia there.Matched in noteshighmedium

χ162Χαίρεινcheers, hail, take joy… chi 165. [1] cf. Appendix Proverbiorum 5.20. [2] cf. generally Herodotus 3.40. [3] cf. Moeris 213.31, Thomas Magister 398.6, the scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 609 (web address 1 below) and Wealth [Plutus] 322 (web …Matched in noteshighmedium

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