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ε2426ἘπικύδηςEpikydes, Epicydes… the Roman siege; but he died of the pestilence that destroyed the Punic troops. See Polybius 7.2: "after the plot against king Hieronymos of Syracuse [iota 200] ... Zoippos and Andranodoros persuaded Hieronymos to …Matched in noteshighmedium
μ724Μεταπήδαhop about, leap about, spring about… evidently extracted from somewhere. This is not the Aristophanes passage about to be quoted (which has the simple rather than this compound verb); but note that the only other extant instance occurs in an …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3006Ἐρριπτασμένονtossed about, prostrated again and again… exercise," but the dominant sense here must have been "tossed about by exercise." [2] See note 4 at kappa 2602, citing Greek Anthology 5.25.3-4 (cf. alpha 2310, alpha 2383, kappa 1633, kappa 2601). [3] …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ739ΛώτLot… of the visit of the angels to Abraham and the destruction of the cities of the plain, see Genesis 18-19. At the beginning of the story the Septuagint says "God appeared" to Abraham in …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ1189Καιρόςopportune time… Quotation unidentifiable. (At iota 436, a similar allegation is made about Julian of Halicarnassus.)Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3154Ἐς κόρακαςto the crows… oracle to settle where they see white crows. The part about the young men chalking up some birds and letting them loose occurs in Eusthathius' version also. The same version is found in the …Matched in noteshighmedium
β10ΒαβύλαςBabylas… under Decius, emperor 249-51, but also (6.34.1) relates a story about an unnamed church leader forbidding entrance to the church to Philip the Arab (emperor 244-249). For a similar doublet see Chronicon Paschale 503-4, …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3139ἘσθήρEsther… it appears in the Book of Esther. What is said about the edict does not correspond with any evidence in the text, where the king orders all of his subjects to perform a proskynesis …Matched in noteshighmedium
μ35Μᾶζαbarley-cake… is a thinly disguised version of General Demosthenes is speaking about Kleon (kappa 1731). [8] At mu 549 this phrase (from the scholia) appears before the quotation from Knights instead of after. [9] Thucydides …Matched in noteshighmedium
γ482Γυμνῆταιlight-armed [troops]… headword is in the nominative plural (a form that is about to be repeated). The word literally means 'one who goes nude'. [2] This first sentence is omitted by mss FV (so Adler) and …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ771Λυγιζόμενοςbending oneself, twisting oneself… de/ fhsin a)gnow=n: 'lu/gos r(a/bdos.' i)/sws ou)=n mastigw/sein "to be about to bend ... Amerias says this is from chaste-trees. 'a withy is a young sapling.' Thus perhaps [it means] to be about to …Matched in noteshighmedium
α18ἌβαριςAbaris, Avars… manuscript, 'Skythian'. [2] Perhaps from a scholion on the passage about to be cited (so Adler). Cf. Herodotos 4.36.1 (web address 1). [3] Gregory of Nazianzus PG 36.524b. [4] This material is from Harpokration …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3428ΕὐδόξιοςEudoxios, Eudoxius… see web address 1. Here, oddly, the Suda reports more about his father than about him, but Photius has more information (also from Philostorgius) about Eudoxius himself. [1] Barrington Atlas map 64 grid D4; …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2492Κρώζειis croaking… quotation from the same passage (see previous note). Here ou(= ('about what') is read for su/ ('you'). Again at omicron 899. [6] Aristophanes, Lysistrata 506 (web address 4).Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3971Ἔφυγον κακόν εὗρον ἄμεινονthey escaped a bad thing [and] found a better… says that the proverb is spoken by a third party about the bride and groom, it seems preferable to translate 'they' (so Oakley and Sinos 29). [1] The saying was not in fact confined …Matched in noteshighmedium
ι545ἹππίαςHippias… of Susa (Sousa) was located in the lower Zagros Mountains, about 240 km. north of the Persian Gulf, the site of modern-day Shush, Iran; cf. Barrington Atlas map 93 grid E1. As to epigram's …Matched in noteshighmedium
η174Ἥκισταleast, very little… must be extracted from somewhere (not necessarily the Libanius passage about to be quoted); cf. generally eta 175, eta 598, eta 626, eta 630. [2] Libanius fr.67 Foerster, also in the scholia to Plato, …Matched in noteshighmedium
α3198ἈππιανόςAppianos, Appianus, Appian… Roman conquests, ethnographically arranged and in 24 books, of which about half survive. His work is important to historians partly because of the range of sources he used (some of them now lost, such …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1205ΔιοσημείαZeus-omen, Zeus-sign… scholia there. A discussion is taking place in the Assembly about paying the wage the Thracian mercenaries are asking to ransack Boeotia. Dicaeopolis takes his advantage from a drop of rain, interpreted as a …Matched in noteshighmedium
β150ΒασίλειοςBasil, Basilius, Basileios… Gain.) Even more important, however, is that they reveal much about the role of a bishop, his connections with other bishops and officials of the secular realm and members of his community. A brilliant …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ1996Κομῆταιcomets… he uses the verb e)rina/zw, and discusses at length theories about why this process is successful. He differentiates it clearly from the similar process that allows male date palms to fertilize female ones, a …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1029Διθυραμβοδιδάσκαλοιdithyramb-directors… in the politics of the time) when Cinesias helped bring about legislation in Athens that deprived comedy of its right to public choregiai (OCD(4) pp.311-12; pi 3225, cf. scholia to Aristophanes, Frogs 404). The …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1319Δογματίζειdogmatizes, sets forth dogma… If this second gloss, fusiou=tai, means simply 'sets forth notions about physis', that would be a sense of the first verb unrecognised by LSJ. More probably, therefore, the sense is the one translated above. …Matched in noteshighmedium
α1280ἈλκιβιάδηςAlcibiades, Alkibiades… An odd characterisation, despite his association with Sokrates (sigma 829), about to be mentioned. [3] Factually nonsense, of course. Political abuse, if correctly located here; but Adler (addenda) notes Bernhardy's suggestion that it belongs …Matched in noteshighmedium
γ461Γρῦgrunt, ugh… the scholia to Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 17 (web address 1), about to be quoted, and to Knights 877 (where a personage with the name 'Gruttos' is referred to: web address 2); Hesychius gamma938; Anecdota …Matched in noteshighmedium
α4446Αὖλος ΠοστόμιοςAulus Postumius… a foreigner, was a mark of sheer folly and just about as useless as a man. . . . Walbank (727) suggests Cato's "remark may reflect disapproval of the senatorial tradition of writing Roman …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ257Λεόντιος μοναχόςLeontios the monk… Philip distrusts for this reason. A similar story is told about King Archidamus of Sparta and a man from Chios (Aelian, Varia Historia 7.20) or Keos (Stobaeus, Florilegium 3.12.19).Matched in noteshighmedium
η544ἩρώδηςHerodes, Herod, Herod the Great… of Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 2.9. Eusebius referred to Acts 12:1-2 ("About that time King Herod laid violent hands upon some who belonged to the church. He had James, the brother of John, killed with …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3953ἜφοροςEphoros, Ephorus… this context: Plato is reported to have said the same about Aristotle and Xenocrates (Diogenes Laertius 4.6), and Aristotle -- echoing Plato -- about Theophrastos and Kallisthenes (Diogenes Laertius 5.39). For arguments that the …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3070Ἔρωςlove… reproach, such as in the case of a person crazy about sexual love. Now the [excellent] erotic love is [for friendship] (see Stobaeus, Eclogae 2.65.17-20, ed. Wachsmuth). The problem here is that the sentence …Matched in noteshighmedium