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Δημήτριος
Demetrios, Demetrius
… mu 1136.) This adjective is unattested outside lexicography, but Plutarch,
Demetrius
(sic) 41.6 has dimitros.
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858
Ἀκή
Ake, Acre
… the old name for the one now called Ptolemais, though
Demetrius
[says this] not of the [whole] city but of its acropolis.
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Ἀνεπόπτευτον
not-fully-initiated
… things and all the epoptic things". And elsewhere: "so for
Demetrius
something special and unique happened: becoming a semi-initiate [mystes] at the same time as a full-initiate [epoptes] and side-stepping the traditional times of …
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Ἀρχίας
Archias
"This man, who wanted to betray Cyprus to
Demetrius,
was caught and brought to trial, but hanged himself on a rope taken from the curtain-hangings. For in fact, because of their desires 'empty people …
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1296
Ἔνην καὶ νέαν
old-and-new
… maintains that once he called it Demetrias in honor of
Demetrius
the Macedonian. They call "of the day after tomorrow" and "to the day after tomorrow" the [period] to the third; and by itself …
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2545
Ἀνοδίᾳ
roadlessly, without using roads
… that in the morning they might ambush the defenders under
Demetrius
of Pharos (cf. OCD(4) s.v.
Demetrius(7)).
The surprise attack was successful, and this passage describes the flight of
Demetrius's
troops after the rout.
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1047
Διισθμήσαντα
having di-isthmusized
… Taurion (Macedonian governor of the Peloponnese) and the dynast Demetrios
(Demetrius,
cf. OCD(4) s.v.
Demetrius(7))
of Pharos (Pharus, Barrington Atlas map 20 grid D6) in 220 BCE. The verb is unique to this passage …
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197
Δέλεαρ
bait
… subsequent piece of bait, encouraging him to sail off to
Demetrius."
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2459
Ἐπιμαχεῖν
to fight in defence
[Demetrius
and Ptolemy agreed] that there would be a formal treaty of friendship between them, designed to make them fight in defence of each other's [territory]; and there was a competition between the pair …
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3500
Ἀπορησία
difficultness
… his intention to back out of a marriage-alliance with king
Demetrius
I of Syria. See Favuzzi [cited under alpha 1990] 54-55. [5] So in (e.g.) Plutarch, Themistocles 2.8 (= 2.6 Loeb): the story -- …
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250
Αἰολομίτρης
agile with a waistband [or: having a multicoloured or twisted or flashing waistband]; having a multicoloured diadem
… fr. 31 Mette, FGrH 76 F14), on the mitre of
Demetrius
Poliorcetes, and Curtius Rufus (OCD(4) p.400) 6.6.4, on Alexander's.
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93
Βάναυσος
vulgar, mechanical, banausic, plebeian
… 602) of the complaints made by Demochares (delta 472) against
Demetrius
of Phaleron (delta 429), benign dictator of Athens 317-307 BCE.
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799
Ἑλεπόλεις
city-destroyers, helepoleis
… late C4 BCE, with the engineers and designers serving King
Demetrius
Poliorcetes ("The Besieger"). Marsden 84-5 suggests that the name was suggested by the application of the adjective e(le/ptolis in tragedy to Helen (Aeschylus, …
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3344
Ἔτυχον
hit (the target), succeeded (through preparation) in obtaining, achieving or winning, met; coincided, happened (to hit), chanced
… noun developed in Greek philosophy (e.g. the lost treatise of
Demetrius
of Phalerum) and popular thought, from the 4th. Century B.C. on, the meaning of pure chance and the trappings of a goddess, so …
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41
Εἴδω
I place
Cf. post-Suda the scholia of Thomas Magister and
Demetrius
Triclinius on (?)Aeschylus Prometheus Bound 451, where however the accepted reading is h)=|san rather than ei)=san. [1] Perhaps this should be i(/zw, which has the …
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κ
303
Κάνδυλος
kandulos, kandylos
… ka/ndulon in place of ko/ndulon ('knuckle') at Aristophanes, Peace 123
(Demetrius
(?)of Phaleron; cf. scholia ad loc.), and some of the commentary may arise from that source. cf. generally theta 489, omicron 251. [1] …
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781
Κατασπείρας
having sown
… uses of the verb: Euripides, Hercules 469; Plutarch, Theseus 3.2,
Demetrius
4.2, etc.
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χ
140
Χαρώνειος θύρα
Charon's door
… prison see L. O'Sullivan, "Philochorus, Pollux, and the nomophylakes of
Demetrius
of Phalerum", Journal of Hellenic Studies 121 (2001) 51-62; and cf. omicroniota 124. [2] Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 278: web address 1.
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