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χ474Χρῆμαthing; matter… cows." The phrase [is] about barbarian troop-marshalling. Herodotus [writes]: "the matter of the storm was unbearable." Aristophanes [writes]: "how long the matter of nights is!" [This means] the length, the stretch. It was customary …Matched in translationhighmedium
χ473Χρῆμαmatter; thing… And Eunapius [writes]: "he mustered his strength, urging on the matter of passage and forcing himself even though he did not have a body [to match] his good spirit."Matched in translationhighmedium
α4374Ἀτοπίας πλέων πρᾶγμαa matter full of absurdity… at nu 222). The phrase "full of absurdity" (without "a matter") comes from Aristophanes, Frogs 1372, where "of a marvel" is a scholiast's gloss. [2] Part of Menander Protector fr. 9.1 Blockley (102-103), on …Matched in noteshighmedium
μ952Μῆνιγξdura mater; meninx[The term for] a membrane covering the brain. With the so-called meningophylax ["meninx-guard"] covering the membrane, the living tissue becomes insensate and unmoving. [Note] that the senses beginning from the brain proceed through the …Matched in headwordhighmedium
α2629Ἀντεπιχειρεῖνto make a counter-attack, to make a counter-argument… soul [is] not deathless, because its form is implicated in matter, and nothing which has a form implicated in matter is separable from that material: this was not an objection, but an attempt to …Matched in translationhighmedium
χ317Χιώνsnow… the nature of snow. For if whiteness is not the matter or the form of snow, then it is not in the essence of snow. But [whiteness] being incidental to the matter [of snow] …Matched in translationhighmedium
α3477Ἀπόπειραtrial… any rate it hindered, as it was a most difficult matter." Also [sc. attested is the related verb] a)popeirw=mai ["I make trial of"]; [used] with a genitive.Matched in translationhighmedium
χ477υνκνοων—Χρήματα χρήματ' ἀνήρ πενιχρὸς δ' οὐδέποτ' ἐσθλόςmoney money (is the) man but a pauper (is) never noble… who are always catering to the masses." Sophocles [writes]: "'what matter [xrh=ma] do you attend to, Ajax? Why do you set out on this attempt neither summoned by messengers nor hearing any trumpet? In …Matched in translationhighmedium
α1763Ἀμφισβητεῖνto dispute… disputing with the others". "So it was no longer a matter of dispute but that this was the man who had died."Matched in translationhighmedium
α1764Ἀμφισβητεῖνto claim… with one side maintaining that the estate is [not] a matter for litigation, as there is a son of the deceased either by descent or by adoption, while the other side say that because …Matched in translationhighmedium
α2048Ἀνάριστοςunbreakfasted… the cithara straightway unbreakfasted." Timocles in Neaira [writes]: "secondly, the matter of being unbreakfasted on account of these things." But Menander [writes] a)na/riston. Also [sc. attested is the accusative plural] a)nari/stous, [meaning men] not …Matched in translationhighmedium
α3080Ἀπετάφρευονthey fenced off with a ditch… he had noticed that their idleness made necessary. For the matter had been one that the Romans did not want and it had sunk into oblivion. For labour [is] enemy to hesitation."Matched in translationhighmedium
α1458Ἅμαas soon as, at the same time… same meaning. For he says in Proems: "but if the matter seems better for me then, and at the same time I shall provide testimonies of excellence". And in Demosthenes in the [speech] On …Matched in translationhighmedium
α904Ἀκμήmoment, point, still… sharpness, the exact decisive moment of the intensity of the matter, and power, and youth. But "akme of opportunity" [means] good fortune. Thus Isocrates [writes]: "[it is best] to grasp the akme of the …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ2498ΚροῖσοςCroesus, Kroisos… and had somehow incurred his father's displeasure. Wanting in this matter to be free of the blame and at a loss for a source of mercenaries to hire -- for they used hired [troops] …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ2147Κόσμοςcosmos, kosmos; order, ornament, decorum, universe… remain the same in number, since they were originate and perishable, but these things partake in eternity as they are able, because all things desire the eternity of the first [dawn] as their own …Matched in translationhighmedium
χ302ΧιβούλδιοςChilboudios, Chilbudius… from the household of the emperor Justinian, extremely efficient at matters of war, but above material things to such an extent that instead of a large acquisition in his estate he had been able …Matched in translationhighmedium
α1423ἈλυάττηςAlyattesKing of the Lydians, who was suited by birth to matters of war, but in all else without restraint; for he once dishonored his own sister. He was the father of Alyattes, who while …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ337ΔεινοκράτηςDeinokrates, Deinocrates… competent manner, but he was counterfeit and tawdry. For in matters of war he much surpassed the rest with regard to his readiness and daring and he was distinguished in circumstances of personal danger. …Matched in translationhighmedium
α2149Ἄνδραman… man brash because of youth, ignorant because of inexperience of matters, and trustworthy to the masses on account of strength of body and [a habit of] rushing headlong into battle; for not even what …Matched in translationhighmedium
α4303Ἄσχολοςleisure-less… my relation to those with whom I live, citing the matters which occupy [me]." Also [sc. attested is the related verb] a)sxolou=mai ["I am busy with"]: [used] with an accusative. Also [attested are its …Matched in translationhighmedium
χ191Χελώνη μυιῶνa tortoise [uncaring] of flies… also outspoken among the Greeks; but the frankness of Thersites mattered less to Agamemnon than flies to a tortoise, as the proverb has it." When a tortoise being carried by an eagle was thrown …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ2078ΚόρηmaidenSimilar material, variously, in other lexica and grammars. [1] cf. kappa 2076. [2] Largely from John Philoponus, Commentary on Aristotle's de anima 366.10-13 and 368.2-7 Hayduck. [3] Similar material in late historiography, e.g. John …Matched in noteshighmedium
α905Ἀκμὴ καλεῖa moment is calling… was contemptuous of these things and ignorant of them and materialistic." "At the instant of the evil came some memory of the Samothracians: for that is where the two were initiates." Instead of u(ph=rxon …Matched in translationhighmedium
χ445Χωρὶς τὰ Μυσῶν καὶ Φρυγῶν ὁρίσματαseparate are the boundaries of Mysians and Phrygians"[Kreon:] Speaking a lot and speaking appropriately are separate matters. [Oedipus:] You talk as if you are speaking briefly but appropriately." That is, it is one thing to talk nonsense and another to say …Matched in translationhighmedium
α1173Ἀληθέστερα τῶν ἐπὶ Σάγρᾳtruer things than those at Sagra… Hence the story became a proverb in reference to truthful matters.Matched in translationhighmedium
α3460Ἀπόνοιαsenselessness… to foresee what is possible and what is impossible in matters is a sign of the utmost senselessness."Matched in translationhighmedium
χ90Χαραδριόςcharadrios, plover… It is a type of bird, changing into the preceding matters. And in reference to the bird the accent is oxytone, but in reference to the ravine [charadra] it is barytone. Since plovers also …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ89ΔᾶτιςDatis… "I am being gladdened" instead of "I am glad". This material (revisited later in the entry) comes from the scholia to Aristophanes, Peace 289-91, which mentions Datis and cites xai/romai as one of three …Matched in noteshighmedium
α2077ἈναστάσιοςAnastasios, Anastasius… at De imperatoribus Romanis: web address 1. The present entry's material is John of Antioch frs.215-216 FHG (4.621), now = frs. 312-313 Roberto, with additional material (for which see notes 2-5 below). [1] What …Matched in noteshighmedium