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- ε2695Ἐπιτίμησιςcriticism, objectionIn Aristotle there are 5 [sc. kinds of 'criticism']. For he says that the same criticisms [are] not [applied] to an argument when it is being examined and when it is being propounded. The …
- ε3579ΕὐμένηςEumenes… reputation for wisdom than the rest of the Macedonians, and beyond criticism in matters of strategy, so that he has handed on his name even to later times.
- ει143ΕἱμαρμένηfateThe [existing] things that lie beyond the [sphere of the] moon [exist] on account of the [following] four causes: according to god, according to fate, according to our choice, according to chance. For example, …
- ε3776ΕὐτρόπιοςEutropius… pointless nonsense and babble." And the historian pours out much criticism about this eunuch, criticism quite worthy of his life.
- ε1454Ἐντελέχειαactuality, complete reality, entelechy… meaning] the separated [form]. [Note] that actuality is the form beyond unity and what is fulfilled and what is held together. For the form is the cause of unity and fulfilment for matter; in …
- κ2199Κούφοιςlight… long sea-voyages, as profit stimulated him, and having weighed anchor beyond Maiotis, purchases a Colchian girl, who had been kidnapped by the Makhlues, a tribe of the local barbarians."
- α3860Ἄρρητονaccursed… or even done something more unspeakable than unspeakable things and beyond evils. "Who then would not hate an excess of unspeakable behaviour which surpassed [all] others?" The word is applied also to that which …
- α793ἈκαμάτιοςAkamatios, Acamatius… anything other than 'the philosopher'. Let this accordingly be a criticism of man's lack of education; but when we had come to be in Heliopolis, this delusion of the philosophy of Akamatios had virtually …
- β486Βωμολοχεύεσθαιaltar-ambusher… and pleaded disarmingly [for a share of the offering], but beyond that [sc. the term is applied to] the pipers and seers who were associated with the sacrifices. As a metaphor from these, "altar-ambushers" …
- α939ἈκούωI listen… sound of praise than to be the interpretor of things beyond my ability." On the other hand [here is] an example of the I hear [sense] from the same theologian. "Since I myself listened …
- α4289ἈσσύριοιAssyrians… the whole world, whatever was not inaccessible, for forty-five years beyond seven hundred -- until the consuls were Claudius Nero (for the second time) and Calpurnius Piso -- having no rival.
- α4173ἈσκληπιάδηςAsclepiades, Asklepiades… Eumenes, the kings of Pergamum. He wrote on the textual criticism of philosophical books. He also taught in Rome in the time of Pompey the Great, and spent time in Alexandria under Ptolemy IV …
- κ1620ΚίμωνKimon, Cimon… limitations to the barbarians: no Persian ship was to sail beyond the Kyaneaian and Chelidonian [islands] and Phaselis -- a city in Pamphylia -- in military action, nor were Persian kings to travel within …
- γ452ΓρηγόριοςGregorios, Gregorius, Gregory… of various kinds, as well as performing signs and miracles beyond human power, when he became bishop. He died in the reign of Aurelian. Gregory and Athenodorus [were] relatives, but one was a miracle-worker, …
- α4694ἈχίαςAhijah, Achias, Akhias… banished from the good land and scattered into the regions beyond the Euphrates, because they followed your impieties. And you will find your son dead." And this is just what happened.
- ε3116Ἐσάλευεwas riding… number of them, and the larger ones, were riding high beyond the shallows." Applied to people, as in the following: "he was riding high on one of his children." The expression means that he …
- α3897ἈρίσταινοςAristainos, Aristaenus… not able willingly to comply with such [requests] as were beyond [the laws and treaty arrangements], but said that it was necessary for the officials to argue their point of view and first and …
- ει83Εἰκόςprobable… of nature, he did not exceed in prosperity what went beyond the customary. "For it is probable that one who undertakes the deed will suffer harm;" like Pindar's phrase, "doing something also to suffer …
- μ365Μεγαλομερίαlavishness, munificence, greatness of parts… and the same as the godhead. Or [he also writes] 'beyond great,' because of not being circumscribed by a certain quantity or magnitude or size.
- β437Βούλησιςwish, rational desire… of reason. For when the soul is out of [or beyond] becoming, it operates only according to wish, for [in this case] it is only in the good. But when it is in becoming, …
- κ2284ΚωνσταντῖνοςConstantine the Great, Constantine I… Constantius who was living abroad among the races that dwelt beyond the Alps and near Britain. After his father had seen him in action, he appointed him as [his successor as] emperor and disregarded …
- γ4ΓάγγηςGanges… founding a city, it is not. Once when Scythians from beyond the Caucasus invaded this land, he drove them out. To appear a good man by freeing one's own land is much nobler than …
- μ133ΜανασσῆςManasseh, Manasses… He became most abominable and most sacrilegious and most lawless beyond all men through idolatry and bloodshed; and he provoked the great Isaiah and filled Jerusalem with the blood of the innocents, and he …
- η39Ἡγεμονία δικαστηρίουpresidency of a jurycourt… any suits against a freedman for having forsaken his patron. Beyond this, all that the Archon attended to among the citizens, the Polemarch attended to among the resident aliens. The Lawgivers (qesmoqe/tai) [handled cases] …
- κ912Κατεγλωττισμένονtongued-down (?tongue-engaged); (sunk) under too many glosses (far-fetched).… (web address 2: LSJ II 2). It was a frequent criticism of the linguistic style of 'new dithyramb' (delta 1029, kappa 2647, and notes there) that it used absurd compound words, illustrated at Aristophanes, …
- ε1858Ἐξπλοράτωρscout… Constantini Porphyrogeniti) presumably comes from late historiography, but is unidentifiable beyond that. [1] A deliberate misspelling of 'scouts' to reflect the incorrect form (exploratoi) used here, uniquely, for the plural of the headword. (The …
- μ1305ΜουσώνιοςMusonius (Rufus)… him to Apollonius. Of course for his outspokenness and his criticism and his excess of freedom he was killed by Nero. There are a variety of speeches about philosophy bearing his name, and letters …
- ε3737ΕὐσέβιοςEusebios, Eusebius… two lifestyles and thus two paths: the one extraordinary and beyond the pale of everyday society, such as is the monastic life. The other, inferior and mundane by comparison, presupposes participation in marriage.
- α1023Ἀκροχειρίζεσθαιto struggle at arms length… entry at lambda 258, where it is stated - going beyond what Pausanias actually warrants - that he too was known as Akrokhersites. [4] Attested only here and, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian …
- α905Ἀκμὴ καλεῖa moment is calling[1] The headword is a proverbial-sounding phrase which, beyond this opening gloss (also in Photius and other lexica), is lost sight of in the entry which follows. It comes from Euripides, Hecuba 1042. [2] …