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αι77ΑἴγυπτοςAigyptos, Aegyptus, Egypt… that exist, and later Plato did so as well, as Plutarch says in his Parallel Lives. Indeed, Egyptians were the first to name the sun and the moon gods: they called the sun Osiris, …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ1319Δογματίζειdogmatizes, sets forth dogma… that exist, and later Plato did so as well, as Plutarch says in his Parallel Lives. Indeed, Egyptians were the first to name the sun and the moon gods: they called the sun Osiris, …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε157Ἐγγώνιος τράπεζαright-angled table… at such sheer flattery, as was likely, laughter broke out. Plutarch [sc. says this]."

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Αἴγυπτος

Aigyptos, Aegyptus, Egypt

A personal name. Also the country of the Egyptians. [Note] that when Hermes, the son of Pekos who is also Zeus, arrived, Mestrem was the king of those there; his was the name they changed to Aigyptos, and from him the…

Αἴγυπτος· ὄνομα κύριον. καὶ ἡ χώρα τῶν Αἰγυπτίων. ὅτι ὅτε ἀφίκετο Ἑρμῆς, ὁ υἱὸς Πήκου, τοῦ καὶ Διός, Μεστρὲμ ἐβασίλευε τῶν ἐκεῖ· ὃν μετωνόμασαν Αἴγυπτον, ἀφ' οὗ καὶ Αἴγυπτος ἡ…

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α3903ἈριστείδηςAristides, Aristeides… in OCD(4) p.154, under 'Aristides(1)'. [1] This is paraphrased from Plutarch, Life of Aristides 25.6 [2] Probably a paraphrase of Plutarch, 8.3. [3] Related by Plutarch in 7.5-6. [4] A Persian coin. See delta …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ451Δημοποίητοςnaturalized citizen… on Aelian fr. 71 Domingo-Forasté, 68 Hercher (which itself reflects Plutarch, Perikles 37). [1] For Perikles see pi 1179, pi 1180, pi 1181. [2] Perikles' sons by his first wife, Paralos and Xanthippos, died …Matched in noteshighmedium

α4446Αὖλος ΠοστόμιοςAulus Postumius… on the Capitoline (Cicero, Academica 2.137; Gellius, Attic Nights 6.14.8-10; Plutarch, Cato the Elder 22). The philosophers had come to Rome to seek relief for the Athenians from the fine imposed by the Sikyonians …Matched in noteshighmedium

β488Βωμολοχεύσαιτο(if one) were to play the wit at the altar… certain Iortius in Aelian (fr. 111c Domingo-Forasté, 108 Hercher, citing Plutarch as his source: cf. epsilon 157, iota 423, mu 321). Iortius (RE 9.1929-30) was a parasite (hanger-on) of Maecenas, the prefect of Rome …Matched in noteshighmedium

α165Ἄγγαροιmessengers… Commentaries on Homer's Odyssey vol. 2 p. 189.6; Hesychius alpha7814; Plutarch, Alexander 18 (bis); De Alex. fort. virt. 326E; 340C. [3] Aeschylus, Agamemnon 282f. (web address 4), where the mss have a)gge/lou, an obvious …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1026ἌκρωνAkron, AcronAccording to Plutarch (On Isis and Osiris 383C-D), Akron stopped the plague at Athens in 430 BCE by setting a great fire to purify the air. The same accomplishment is elsewhere attributed to Hippocrates. …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1280ἈλκιβιάδηςAlcibiades, Alkibiades… tau 661. [7] lambda 852. [8] For Alkibiades' end cf. Plutarch, Alcibiades 38-39. The Suda's version of this dream is an abbreviated version of what we are told in Plut. Alc. 39: e)do/kei perikei=sqai …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1510Ἅμματα[Kasiotic] knots… applies to alpha 1459. [2] This doesn't make sense. In [Plutarch], On the proverbs of the Alexandrians, there is an entry (fr.48) for *kasiwtiko\n a)/mma "Kasiotic knot" with similar information on using knots to …Matched in noteshighmedium

α2082Ἀνάστατοιanastatoi… (It is even worse at chi 121, q.v.) [3] cf. Plutarch, Moralia 349F. [4] What now follows has already appeared, more briefly, at alpha 1781. [5] cf. phi 507. [6] Euripides fr. 350; cf. …Matched in noteshighmedium

α2371Ἀνεῖλενprophesied, took up, took away, killed… estate is not found in Herodotus, but comes probably from Plutarch, Themistocles 2. [4] Ephorus FGrH 70 F150 (quoted in Strabo 8.6.14) and Pausanias 2.33.2. The text there has Kalaureian for Kalabrian. See web …Matched in noteshighmedium

α3508Ἀπορρῶγαςprecipices… tau 632. [5] Neanthes FGrH 84 F35; cf. sigma 797. Plutarch [Antonius 70.3] records that Timon was buried 'at Halai near the sea'. There were two Attic demes of this name, H. Aixonides on …Matched in noteshighmedium

α3566Ἀποστυγοῦντεςabhorring, loathing… is attested in Josephus (or indeed anywhere else). [3] cf. Plutarch, Pyrrhus 21; Eutropius, Breviarium 2.14; and John of Antioch, Fragmenta ex Historia chronica fr. 109 Roberto (180-181); cf. upsilon 734 and esp. phi …Matched in noteshighmedium

α3658Ἀποψηφισθένταvoted-off, voted-out… text see web address 1 below. See also Dinarchus 1.63; Plutarch, Demosthenes 14.5; I. Worthington, A Historical Commentary on Dinarchus (Ann Arbor 1992) 227-8. [3] delta 850, delta 851.Matched in noteshighmedium

α4102ἈρχιάδαςArchiadas… (page 251 note 277), this Archiadas was the grandson of Plutarch and Proclus' closest friend. For another Archiadas see epsilon 3650. [1] sc. In Athens. See generally pi 151, pi 152.Matched in noteshighmedium

β451ΒουολοῦσκοιVolsci… which seems to have conflated the two attested spellings *ou)olou=skoi (Plutarch, Dionysius of Halicarnassus) and *bolou=skoi (Appian). On this alleged episode (of 493 BCE) see OCD(4) p.897, s.v. Marcius Coriolanus. The source of the …Matched in noteshighmedium

β519ΒρασίδαςBrasidas… Nikias in 421 (Thucydides 5.19.2). Brasidas' mother was named Argileonis (Plutarch, Moralia 240C). [2] Contrary to the impression given here, Methone never revolted against Sparta. It was a perioikic town on the Messenian coast, …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ243Δέονnecessary… from the scholia there. cf. Thucydides 1.114.2, 2.21.2 and 5.16.3; Plutarch, Pericles 22-23. For discussion of the incident see Donald Kagan, The Archidamian War (Cornell UP 1974) 92 n.64. The remark 'necessary', 'for necessary …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ421Δήμαρχοιtribunes, demarchs, leaders of the people… Brutus and C.Sicinnius Vellutus (cross-referenced at sigma 397) see e.g. Plutarch, Coriolanus 7 and 13; Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 6.89.1. [2] The topic now shifts from Rome to Athens. On Athenian demarchs see …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ455ΔημοσθένηςDemosthenes… cf. delta 456. [1] Again at epsiloniota 57. [2] cf. [Plutarch], Lives of the Ten Orators 847C-E.Matched in noteshighmedium

δ559Διαθέσειςdispositions… “a consistent disposition of the commanding part of the soul” (Plutarch, Moralia 441C-D; Diogenes Laertius 7.89; alpha 3830). However, unlike Aristotle, for the Stoics the more stable is the disposition (dia/qesis), not the state …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ1674Δυσωπεῖσθαιto look askance at… ashamed) are mainly not Attic writers: Chariton, Heliodorus, Polybius, Philo, Plutarch, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Dio Chrysostom, the emperor Julian, Libanius (see Francisco Adrados, 2002 s.v.) [6] This definition refers to the active form, duswpei=n; …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε238Ἐδικαιώθησανthey were justified, they were adjudged… (cos.222 and four more times), capturer of Syracuse in 212. Plutarch, Marcellus 23 describes the episode, two years later, when the Syracusans tried to bring charges against Marcellus for breaking the surrender-terms but the …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε1293Ἔνη καὶ νέαold and new… of the backwards calendar is numbered among Solon’s reforms by Plutarch, Solon 25. [5] The sense of this complex explanation rests on two particular features of the Athenian calendar, which was based on a …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε1949ἘπαμινώνδαςEpaminondas, Epameinondas… era. See also under pi 3120 and phi 409. (The Plutarch Life of him has not survived, but the one written by Cornelius Nepos may be found at web address 1.) See generally J.F. …Matched in noteshighmedium

χ369ΧόεςChoes, Pitchers… Orestes speaks of a monotrapeza ('individual table') for himself; and Plutarch, Moralia 643A refers to a personal table (trapeza idia) for Orestes. People at the Choes were supposed to sit alone when they drank, …Matched in noteshighmedium

χ504Χρησμόςoracle… different words (and more fully) at sigma 616. However, if Plutarch, Moralia 88A (from the De capienda ex inimicis utilitate: 'How to profit by one's enemies') is to be believed, it was actually 'Nasica', …Matched in noteshighmedium