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Ἀσωπός
Asopos, Asopus
… and emptying into the strait of Euboia near Oropos. See
Pausanias
9.4.4 (web address 1). There was also a river of this name in the NE Peloponnese
(Pausanias
2.5.2-3; web address 2).
Pausanias
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239
Ἄγις Ἄγιδος
Agis, (genitive) Agidos
… I (reigned 395-380 BCE). The source, followed very closely, is
Pausanias
8.8.7-8 (web address 1); again at pi 1777. [2] The R.Ophis.
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4205
Ἀσπάσιος
Aspasius, Aspasios
… emperor M. Aurelius Severus Alexander (ruled 222-235). [3] [pi 819]
Pausanias.
[4] RE Hippodromos(4); Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists 2.27.
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Ἀλίφειρα
Alipheira, Aliphira
… 1). Together with several other cities in the region (cf.
Pausanias
8.27.4, web address 2), Alipheira belonged to the Kynourian tribal state (T.H. Nielsen in Hansen & Nielsen 509-510 #266; cf. Walbank 531). A …
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1502
Ἀμαρυγκεύς
Amarunkeus, Amarynkeus, Amarynceus
… Pyttios; helper of King Augeas of Elis against Heracles; see
Pausanias
5.1.11 (web address 1), and next note. [2] Amarynkeus' son Diores is named in this way in Homer, Iliad 6.622, a passage cited …
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70
Αἰγοφάγος
Goat-eater
… Nicander fr. 99 (Etymologicum Magnum 27.51); of Hera at Sparta,
Pausanias
3.15.9 (web address 1) and Hesychius alpha1737. J.G. Frazer on the
Pausanias
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210
Δελφοί
Delphi, Delphoi
… mothers in Argos until the Argive hero Coroebus killed her.
Pausanias
1.43.7-8 (web address 1) provides more background to the epigram's story and describes the tomb of Coroebus in the agora at Megara (mu …
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1210
Διὸς κῴδιον
Zeus' ram-fleece
Same entry in Photius, Lexicon delta657 (=
Pausanias
the Atticist delta18); similar material elsewhere. cf. generally kappa 2216. [1] So DW; the translator prefers 'where' for this opening ou(=. [2] The transmitted text has …
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1586
Δυρράχιον
Dyrrachion, Dyrrachium
… Dyrrachion homonymously with the peninsula on which it is situated'.
Pausanias
6.10.8 (web address 2) records the coexistence of both names, arguing that in fact we have two different towns: Epidamnos the ancient one …
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420
Ἐκκεχιλωμένην
grassed-over
… similar glosses, but in the nominative, occur in previous lexica:
Pausanias
the Atticist epsilon23 Erbse; Hesychius epsilon1438 Latte). See further, next note. The word is unattested outside lexicography. cf. chi 303. [1] Hesychius has …
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572
Ἱππόμαχος
Hippomakhos, Hippomachos, Hippomachus
From
Pausanias
6.12.6 and (for Polites) 6.13.3. [1] In an Olympic boxing competition for boys. [2] The words "in Thrace" are a nonsensical addition to what
Pausanias
says.
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15
Ἀβάντειος
Abanteios, Abantius, Abantian
… after Danaos and father of the twins Akrisios and Proitos
(Pausanias
2.16.2 (web address 1); Apollodorus, Library 2.2.1 (web address 2)). [3] This term is used by (e.g.) Ovid both for an actual son …
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101
Ἄβυδος
Abudos, Abydos, Abydus
… and generally OCD(4) s.v. [2] = the first sentence of
Pausanias
the Atticist alpha3 and Photius alpha63 Theodoridis; cf. also Zenobius 1.1, s.v. *)abudhno\n e)pifo/rhma (alpha 100), and Kassel-Austin, PCG III.2 p.376 on Aristophanes …
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257
Ἄγκυρα
Ankyra, Ancyra, Ankara
… about 125 miles south of the Black Sea. According to
Pausanias
(1.4), Ankyra was founded by Midas. Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Ankyra ( = Apollonius of Aphrodisias FGrH 740 F14) traces the name of …
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267
Ἀγλαοφῶν
Aglaophon
Pausanias
(10.27.4, see web address 1) quotes an epigram of Simonides, naming Aglaophon as the father of the painter Polygnotos. See also pi 1948.
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339
Ἄγρα
Agra
… Theodoridis), similar ones elsewhere. The toponym is more accurately, Agrae/Agrai:
Pausanias
1.19.6. The "Lesser Mysteries" were celebrated there each spring.
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371
Ἀγροῦ πυγή
rump of the country; fat of the land
… (Arsenius 1.24b), but the pugh/ version is otherwise standard: see
Pausanias
the Atticist alpha21; Hesychius alpha837; Photius, Lexicon alpha272 Theodoridis; Appendix Proverbiorum 1.4; Macarius Chrysocephalus 1.3. The phrase itself is taken to come from …
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780
Ἀκακήσιον
Akakesion, Acacesium
In western Arcadia (Peloponnese, central Greece).
Pausanias
8.36.9-10 (web address 1 below) mentions both it and the city -- defunct by his day -- to which it had given its name; cf. Stephanus of …
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781
Ἀκάκητος
guileless; of Akakesion
… be not a)ka/khtos but *)akakh/sios. See alpha 780 and the
Pausanias
passage cited there, in which Hermes Akakesios is mentioned; and cf. LSJ s.v.
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791
Ἀκαμαντίς καὶ Ἀκάμας
Akamantis and Akamas, Acamantis and Acamas
Abbreviated from Harpokration s.v. Akamantis. [1] cf.
Pausanias,
Description of Greece 1.5.2. For Theseus see theta 364.
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858
Ἀκή
Ake, Acre
… confusion with the Arcadian city of that name mentioned by
Pausanias
in the wanderings of Orestes (8.34.2) and clearly in the neuter plural.
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1357
Ἁλουργά
sea-wrought
… purple dye produced along the Laconian coast, surpassed in quality--as
Pausanias
explains (3.21.6, web address 1)--only by that from shellfish harvested from the Phoenician sea. Gow and Page observe (vol. II, 289) that goddesses …
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1534
Ἀμβούλιος
Amboulios, Ambulius
Epithet ("Counsellor") of Zeus, Athena and the Dioskouroi in Sparta:
Pausanias
3.13.6.
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1781
Ἀμφιφῶντες
double-lights
From
Pausanias
the Atticist alpha105. [1] Offered to Artemis Mounichia: see LSJ s.v. (web address 1). [2] FGrH 244 F152. See also alpha 2082.
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2499
Ἀνθ' Ἑρμίωνος
instead of Hermione
A version of
Pausanias
the Atticist alpha124, where the headword phrase is spelled a)nq' *(Ermi/onos and the city-name *(ermiw/n; also, Erbse's edition suppresses the dubious o(moi/ws i(era/ and adds instead tou\s i(ke/tas from Zenobius …
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2504
Ἄνθεια
Antheia, Flowery
At Argos [Myth, Place]
(Pausanias
2.22.1) and Miletos: see LSJ s.v.
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2676
Ἀντικυρίας σοι δεῖ
you are in need of hellebore
… of Antikyra (alpha 2675), where it grew abundantly (so e.g.
Pausanias
10.36.7). The gloss does not seem very cogent as it stands; one would have expected something about purging the bowels. Possibly exousia can …
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2973
Ἀπέδει
fell short of
… and elsewhere. [1] Similar glossing in Hesychius s.v. a)pode/ontes. [2]
Pausanias
8.49.3 (web address 1 below). For Philopoimen see generally phi 409.
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2981
Ἀπέδοξεν
it seemed good not, it was resolved not
… be quoted from somewhere: there are instances in Herodotus, Xenophon,
Pausanias
and Philostratus. Impersonal a)pe/docen is the opposite of e)/docen as a decision-making formula: see LSJ s.v. a)podokei=.
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3205
Ἀπιθής
inflexible, unyielding
… 9.2.36 calls a small polis situated in a plain, though
Pausanias
9.33.5 classified it as a mere 'village'. There was also, however, an Al(al)komenai on the island of Ithaka (Barrington Atlas map 54 grid …
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