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α2702Ἀντιπαρέξεινto be about to supply against… the present a)ntipareca/gein it is in other lexica; "lead on against the enemy" (LSJ s.v.).Matched in noteshighshort
ε232ἘδιδαξάμηνI had [someone] taught… instruction in sophistry: "so I had you taught to speak against what is just". (The headword also occurs, independently of that, in Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.6.2.) The remainder of the entry comes from one of …Matched in noteshighshort
μ690Μεταδιδάξαιto teach something new, to change someone's mind… of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 9.3.5 (referring to Roman soldiers mutinying against Kaeso Fabius Vibulanus).Matched in noteshighshort
ε3191Ἐσπείσατοmade libations [with someone]… possibilities.) The middle voice is used for pouring libations with someone, as a way of making a treaty or agreement; cf. epsilon 3192, sigma 191, sigma 920. [2] Aorist active of the same verb, …Matched in noteshighshort
λ326Λευκή τις ἀνεπήδησ' ὅμοιος Νικίᾳsomeone white like Nikias sprang upA misquotation of Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 428 (where the "someone" is not feminine, as here, but masculine, after the noun "youth"; see web address 1). Comment from the scholia on the line follows. This early-fourth-century …Matched in noteshighshort
α3520Ἀποσιμῶσαιto moon [someone]; to make ships swerve… active infinitive of the rare verb a)posimo/w, literally 'I make [someone or something] flat-nosed' (cf. sigma 437). [1] See generally on this J. Henderson, The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 181. [2] Philippus fr. …Matched in noteshighshort
κ955Κατεξαναστάντες τοῦ μέλλοντοςon their guard against the future… as no forms of the verb katecani/stamai (I rise up against, am on my guard against; cf. LSJ s.v., web address 1) occur elsewhere in Polybius, both Schweighäuser and Dindorf maintained doubts about the …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1723ΚλεομένηςKleomenes, Cleomenes… to Alexandria, meeting his death in 219 after a failed plot against the Macedonian king of Egypt, Ptolemy IV Philopator, named here. [1] alpha 2345.Matched in noteshighshort
χ307Χιλιωθένταthousanded… of xilio/omai. [1] Lycurgus fr. 11 Conomis, from the speech Against Aristogeiton. The Suda text (sofa\ o)/nta, 'being wise') is corrupt here; read o)flo/nta from Harpok. [2] Lycurgus fr. 60 Conomis, from the speech …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2387Ἐπίκλητοςextraneous; far-fetched… (Amos 1.5). [2] Polybius 8.11.2, in one of his tirades against Timaeus (tau 602).Matched in noteshighshort
ε3891Ἐφήγησιςephegesis, arrest-by-magistrate… (and Photius s.v.); but others have not apo but epi, 'against', which besides making better substantive sense is also correct with the accusative case.Matched in noteshighshort
ε2612Ἐπιστάτηςchairman… material (Aeschines 3.14 & 29, ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 44.2-3; Hyperides, Against Demosthenes 12). See also epsilon 2610, epsilon 2611, epsilon 2613, epsilon 2614, epsilon 2615; and cf. epsilon 2616, epsilon 2617.Matched in noteshighshort
ε2701Ἐπίτιμονworthy, enfranchised… be from that era (the closest surviving parallel is Lycurgus, Against Leocrates 41), but it could equally well be from a sophistic reworking of the argument (cf. Valerius Apsines 342, Rhetores Graeci (Walz) 4.707-8, …Matched in noteshighshort
δ461Δημοσίων πραγμάτων διοικητήςadministrator of public affairs… in the form of marketplace informers, who threaten legal action against Dikaiopolis, the comedy’s protagonist, for violating Athens’ ban on the import of goods from hostile states. In his Birds (414 BC), Aristophanes introduces …Matched in noteshighshort
β143ΒασιλεύωI reign… Judges 9.6, 1 Kingdoms 8.22, 12.1. [3] Gregory of Nazianzus, Against the Emperor Julian, PG 35.533a, reading tou=to mo/non "this kindness alone of all he performed inappropriately."Matched in noteshighshort
ε770Ἑλλεβοριᾶνto need hellebore… is present infinitive of a desiderative verb e(lleboria/w. [1] sc. against madness; cf. Aristophanes, Wasps 1489. [2] Callias fr. 28 Kock (35 K.-A.). Entry thus far = Photius, Lexicon epsilon640 Theodoridis. [3] And so …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1507Κηλητήρια ᾄσματαcharming songs, enchanting songs… Nicetas Eugenianus, Drosilla and Charicles 6.590-591 "Who will say that someone who drank a vessel of poison will take part in a charming song?" [1] Quotation unidentifiable. (Adler suggests Aelian.)Matched in noteshighshort
λ344Λευστήρstone-thrower, oppressor… execution by stoning with mob rule, so a leusth/r is someone who takes the law into his own hands. [3] Aelian fr. 118b Domingo-Forasté (part of 115 Hercher), referring to Cleander, Commodus' protégé; cf. …Matched in noteshighshort
κ428Καρτερόςmighty… phrases like karterw/teros ma/xh|, 'more mighty in battle' (Aeschylus Seven against Thebes 517: web address 2).Matched in noteshighshort
ε2201Ἐπῇρενexcited, incited, stirred up, urged on… tyrant Phalaris is told by Aelian, Varia Historia 2.4. The plot failed, but Phalaris displayed clemency by allowing the lovers to live in exile. Phalaris ruled Akragas c.570-554 BCE. See alpha 1812, alpha 2634, …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2727Ἐπιτριβείηmight be rubbed… epsilon 2731. This verb can mean rubbing two objects one against the other, hence crushing and destroying or smoothing them by repetition, and a transferred sense from this is producing experience: see Chantraine s.v. …Matched in noteshighshort
β358Βοήθοονhastening to the battle cry; aiding… with ma/xomai, 'I fight', refers to the person being fought against. [3] Aristophanes, Lysistrata 353 (see web address 1 below for the text), with comment from the scholia there. Henderson in his edition ad …Matched in noteshighshort
γ157Γένυςhatchet; lower jaw… Sophocles, Electra 195-6 (web address 1 below: it has oi( ["against him"] for the lexicon's soi ["against you"] and w(rma/qh for a(rmo/qh here). [2] cf. already gamma 156, and again gamma 158.Matched in noteshighshort
λ660Λόγου τυχεῖνto get a wordDemosthenes 18.13 (web address 1). "Against" Ktesiphon here should of course be "For." The error postdates the Suda's immediate source, Harpokration s.v.Matched in noteshighshort
ι464ἸωάννηςIoannes, John… 490-570s. See generally RE Ioannes(21); OCD4 Philoponus. [1] The work against Proclus is the treatise Against Proclus on the Eternity of the World; the work against Severus is unidentified.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1573Κιβδηλίαadulteration, dishonesty… silver content; debasing coinage is in turn the action of someone wicked (though not obviously envious) --- hence the metaphorical use of the term in Aristophanes, noted below. [2] A distortion of the folk …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1202ΚαισάριοςKaisarios, Caesarius… Gregory of Nazianzus (gamma 450). [2] That is to say, against the pagans.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1038Κατηγορευκόταhaving accused… from its only extant occurrence outside lexica (Cyril of Alexandria, Against Julian, prologue 5). cf. kappa 509 (and, for headword and gloss reversed, kappa 1034 and kappa 1035).Matched in noteshighshort
ε2736Ἐπιτυχοῦσινto just any people; to those who happen to be there; to people of no consequence; to those who happen to succeed… 1234, eta 286 and refs.). It may be used of someone accurately hitting a target (with a bit of luck), all the way to the sort of person you happen to run into on …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1228Διώκεινto prosecute… is self-evident, but such idioms as ei)s a)gora\n e)mba/llein (Lycurgus, Against Leocrates 5) are also used in the sense of "being a citizen"; and in the present instance the use of diw/kein highlights the …Matched in noteshighshort

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