Skip to content

Browse Topics Random About

Searching…

The Byzantine encyclopedia of the ancient world, in English and Greek.

Read

Browse Α–Ω
Topics
Random entry

Project

About & credits
Report an error
Original SOL ↗

Follow

@ReadSuda
@readsuda.org

A new reader for the Suda On Line translation, made by 200+ volunteer translators and editors. Greek text after Adler’s edition. Translations © their translators and SOL, licensed CC BY-NC-SA.

Free · non-commercial · no ads · no accounts[email protected]Maintained with ❤️ by Rick Lithan

⌕Search ΑLetters ⤨Random

Keyboard shortcuts

j: Next entry
k: Previous entry
g: Toggle Greek
/: Search
?: Show shortcuts

Search

Search the Suda

All Headwords Translation Greek Notes

Keyword

definition10
biography9
dialects, grammar, and etymology6
geography6
historiography6
history6
military affairs5
trade and manufacture4
law3
rhetoric3
science and technology3
botany2

14 more

daily life2
economics2
ethics2
mythology2
poetry2
Christianity1
comedy1
epic1
food1
imagery1
philosophy1
proverbs1

Letter

Ε epsilon6
Α alpha4
Β beta1
Δ delta1
Γ gamma1

Vetting status

high13

Length

Short13

Translator

Jennifer Benedict4
David Whitehead3
Catharine Roth2
Craig Gibson1
Elizabeth Vandiver1
Marcelo Boeri1

1 more

William Hutton1

Filters (1)

Keyword

definition10
biography9
dialects, grammar, and etymology6
geography6
historiography6
history6
military affairs5
trade and manufacture4
law3
rhetoric3
science and technology3
botany2

14 more

daily life2
economics2
ethics2
mythology2
poetry2
Christianity1
comedy1
epic1
food1
imagery1
philosophy1
proverbs1

Letter

Ε epsilon6
Α alpha4
Β beta1
Δ delta1
Γ gamma1

Vetting status

high13

Length

Short13

Translator

Jennifer Benedict4
David Whitehead3
Catharine Roth2
Craig Gibson1
Elizabeth Vandiver1
Marcelo Boeri1

1 more

William Hutton1

13 entries for Polyaenus

Relevance Adler order Longest first

Length: short ×
Clear all

γ25Γαλεάγραweasel-trap, iron-maiden… reflection of what we find in Appian, Libyca 15, and Polyaenus 8.12 (both in reference to the death of Regulus at the hands of the Carthaginians), or Cassius Dio 59.10 (on the abuses of …Matched in noteshighshort
α103Ἀβυρτάκηsour-sauce, aburtake, abyrtake, abyrtace… Kings (allegedly seen in Babylon by Alexander the Great) in Polyaenus 4.3.32 there is a mention of salted capers "from which they make abyrtakai". [2] Menander fr. 280 Kock, 247 Koerte, now 217 Kassel-Austin. …Matched in noteshighshort
α869Ἀκήρατοςunmixed… alpha 836. [2] Used of e.g. a writing tablet in Polyaenus 2.20; cf. alpha 833 note 1.

γ25

Γαλεάγρα

weasel-trap, iron-maiden

[Meaning a] device for punishment. "As a finale they threw [him?] into a weasel-trap all shut up with iron bolts and rolled it on rough ground." And elsewhere: "but he threw [him] into an iron weasel-trap and killed…

Γαλεάγρα· ὄργανον τιμωρητικόν. καὶ τελευτῶντες εἰς γαλεάγραν ἐμβαλόντες περόναις σιδηραῖς διειργμένην πᾶσαν ἐν δυσχωρίαις ἐκύλιον. καὶ αὖθις· ὁ δὲ ἐν γαλεάγρᾳ σιδηρᾷ βαλὼν…

religion

religion

1

1

Matched in noteshighshort

α1756Ἀμφιπρύμναιςdouble-sterned… "double-sterned" vessels were perhaps like the ones which, according to Polyaenus 3.11.14, the Athenian general Chabrias (chi 1) used in the mid C4 BCE: with a second pair of steering oars, for rough water.Matched in noteshighshort

α3013Ἀπελογίζετοgave an account of… cf. tau 112). On him, and this epsiode, see also Polyaenus 5.17.2.Matched in noteshighshort

β279Βίαιοιviolent… "tyrant of the Cassandreians" (formerly Poteidaians) is Apollodorus. According to Polyaenus, Stratagems 6.7, Apollodorus "became the most murderous and cruel tyrant of all who had been tyrants both among the Greeks and the barbarians" …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1215ΔιότιμοςDiotimus, Diotimos… called an 'admiral' (nauarchos) in the dossier of stratagems in Polyaenus 5.22.Matched in noteshighshort

ε49Ἐγένετο καὶ Μάνδρωνι συκίνη ναῦςeven Mandron got a fig-wood ship… Bebrycians, near Lampsacus, see Plutarch, Moralia 255 (Mulierum Virtutes #18); Polyaenus 7.31. The Mandros of the proverb can hardly be him; nevertheless there is a tantalizing link between the geographical location of his kingdom …Matched in noteshighshort

ε96Ἔγκειταιbears down upon… ignored in Zintzen's collection of the fragments). She rightly compares Polyaenus 3.7.1, where just this ruse enables the Athenian general Lachares to flee Athens when it was captured by Demetrios Poliorketes in c.295 BCE; …Matched in noteshighshort

ε202Ἐδεδίξατοwas frightened… one instance of the corresponding third person plural (as does Polyaenus, Stratagems 1.12, on an early war between the Boeotians and the Thessalians).Matched in noteshighshort

ε1233Ἐνελόχισανthey lay in ambush… is attested only here. (For the third person singular see Polyaenus 3.1.2, on the Athenian general Demosthenes in Acarnania in 426 BCE.)Matched in noteshighshort

ε3548ΕὔκριτοςEukritos, Eucritus… Carey OCT); a fourth-century-BCE Pythagorean philosopher in an anecdote in Polyaenus 5.2.22; and characters in Theocritus' 7th Idyll and Lucian's Symposium.]Matched in noteshighshort

ε3732ΕὐρυσθεύςEurystheus… either son or, more generally, descendant of Eurystheus. See e.g. Polyaenus 1.10.1 (war between the Eurystheidai and the Herakleidai).Matched in noteshighshort