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668
Ἰσότης φιλότης
equality amity
… 378] no.432. In Hesychius, i)so/ths is a headword glossed by
filo/ths,
with the comment dia\ to\ i)so/thti th\n fili/an e(/pesqai "because amity follows equality." For amity see phi 425.
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400
Καρνεάδης
Karneades, Carneades
… generally Gisela Striker in OCD(4) s.v. Carneades; Internet Encyclopedia of
Philosophy
at web address 1. [1]
Philokomos
or Epikomos (Diogenes Laertius 4.62). [2] Karneades was the most recognized member of the "New" or "Skeptical" …
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462
Ἡρακλείδης
Herakleides, Heracleides, Heraclides
… logos, which leaves us little the wiser. [3] Ptolemy VI
Philometor,
reigned 180-145 BC. [4] See generally RE Herakleides(44); PIR2 H87. [5] This proverbial phrase (from
Philostratus,
Lives of the Sophists 1.19) is quoted …
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568
Χρύσιππος
Chrysippus, Chrysippos
… (p.316), also MacTutor at web address 1, Internet Encyclopedia of
Philosophy
at web address 2, and cf. chi 567, chi 569. Chrysippus was the principal systematizer of Stoicism. He is considered to have been, …
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2342
Κράτης
Crates, Krates
… Crates and the Kritikoi/, as revealed through their influence on
Philodemus,
see R. Janko's edition 128-34. [3] alpha 3892. [4] Ptolemy VI (reigned 180-145). [5] See Pfeiffer 238-9 on the nature and scope of …
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4394
Ἄτρυτος
unabating
… Life of Isidore fr. 240 Zintzen (142 Asmus); the Suda's
philologia
should be
philoponia
"love of toil." [3] Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 187 Zintzen (216 Asmus). [4] Aelian fr. 31 Domingo-Forasté (28 Hercher). …
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833
Ἀκέραιον
unblemished
… frailty in Plutarch (Moralia 464B, 484C, 784A, 819F, etc.) and
Philo
Judaeus (LA 3.193, Sac. 15-16, etc.). The entry perahps suggests an etymological relationship between the adjective and this noun (cf. a)kh/ratos, and the …
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1043
Κατηδολέσχησά σου
I wearied you with my prattling
… 32 (p.40.9 Bidez-Cumont). For a similar phrase, again in a
philosophical
context, see Plutarch, Moralia 503B (from the de Garrulitate), an anecdote about Aristotle wearied with the talk of an interlocutor. As in Julian's …
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39
Δαμάσκιος
Damaskios, Damascius
… on the Parmenides, the Phaedo, and the Philebus. [5] The
Philosophical
History, also known as Life of Isidore, is reconstructed from extensive quotations in the Suda and Photius. See bibliography below.
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ι
464
Ἰωάννης
Ioannes, John
c. AD 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.
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λ
297
Λεπτολογία
subtle argument
[1]
Philostratus,
Life of Apollonius of Tyana 1.17; see also delta 519, kappa 912. [2] Hermippus fr. 22 Kock, now 21 K.-A.; also in other lexica. [3] Aristophanes, Clouds 320 (web address 1), with …
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2657
Ἀντιγενίδης
Antigenides, Antigenidas
… aulode -- no doubt a mistake for "aulete" -- of
Philoxenos
[the dithyrambist Ph. of Kythera, c.435-c.380 BC: see phi 393]; perhaps it was he [= Antigenidas] who had to accompany the chorus through …
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802
Λύκειον
Lykeion, Lyceum
… fact not mentioned here: being the chosen location for the
philosophical
school founded by Aristotle in the C4 BCE. See generally OCD(4) pp.160 (under 'Aristotle') and 1108 (under 'Peripatetic school'). [1] Theopompus FGrH 115 …
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1080
Δικαίωμα
act of justice
… context it is probably better to render the word by
"philosophical
school", insofar as Archelaus, after being a disciple of the natural
philosopher
Anaxagoras (Simplicius, In Phys., 27, 23-24), seems to have become a …
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2654
Ἐπὶ σχολῆς
at leisure
… (noted by Adler): nothing is more advantageous to mankind than
filosofei=n
e)pi/ sxolh=s a(pragmo/nws. The source could also [WH] be a comment on Cassius Dio 61.10.5 (= Constantine Porphyrogenitus, Excerpta de virtutibus 2.348) where …
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1273
Κεκρύφαλον
hairnet
… 1273. [5] Greek Anthology 6.206.3-4 (Antipater of Sidon). The adjective
filo/plektos
"tending to be braided" is usually taken to be a corruption of
filo/plagktos,
"errant, straying". The phrase "dyed with flowers of the grey …
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1620
Δύσεριν
quarrelsome
… note); evidently quoted from somewhere. In the literature du/seris and
filo/neikos
frequently occur together: e.g. Pindar, Olympians 6.19; Isocrates 1.31; Plutarch,
Philopoemen
17.7. [2] As in Hesychius delta2563. See also Etymologicum Magnum: *du/serin:
filo/neikon.
…
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1252
Κεκομψευμένος
ingenious
… passive sense) (LSJ s.v.). The former sense is exemplified by
Philo
Judaeus, De migratione Abrahami 75.6: oi( ta\ politika\ kekomyeume/noi, "those who are smart about politics". The latter is exemplified by Plato, Philebus 56C: …
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1640
Ἀμμώνιος
Ammonios, Ammonius
… omega 182). See web address 1 below (Internet Encyclopedia of
Philosophy),
and cf. sigma 33 (end). [1] 'The nickname Saccas (sack-carrier? wearer of sackcloth?) would seem to imply a humble origin, though other interpretations …
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2973
Ἀπέδει
fell short of
… s.v. a)pode/ontes. [2] Pausanias 8.49.3 (web address 1 below). For
Philopoimen
see generally phi 409.
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478
Βούχετα
Boucheta, Bucheta
… [2] So the transmitted Suda text, but Harpokration s.v. says
"Philostephanos
in his Matters Epeirote" (fr. 9a FHG). [3] delta 283. The Barrington Atlas gives four possible forms; Bouchetion?, Bouchaition, Boucheta, Boucheton. (The Latin …
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487
Ἴων
Ion
… Athens, who also practiced other forms of poetry and wrote
philosophical
works in prose. The treatise "On the Sublime" calls his plays faultless and elegant but less inspired than those of Sophocles. [1] Possibly …
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543
Ἱππίας
Hippias
C5 BC. See generally Diels-Kranz 86;
Philostratus
Lives of the Sophists 1.11; RE Hippias(13); W.K.C. Guthrie, The Sophists (Cambridge 1971) 280-5; OCD4 Hippias(2). [1] Mentioned only here. Guthrie 283 compares the story in Plato, …
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λ
659
Λογοτόπος
summary syllogism
From Diogenes Laertius 7.77, presenting the terminology of the Stoic
philosopher
Crinis (C2 BCE). Cf. tau 1055. [1] The headword, transmitted as logoto/pos, should actually be logotro/pos. [2] Both lo/gos and tro/pos, previously defined …
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775
Ἀκαδημία
Academy
… J. Glucker's rehabilitation of Aemilius Portus' correction of 'school of
philoi'
to 'school of
philosophers'
and cites by way of confirmation a scholion on Aristophanes, Clouds 1005 (p. 195 Holwerda). A simple misunderstanding of …
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3855
Ἀρήτη
Arete
… the present entry is surely A. the daughter of the
philospher
Aristippos (and a
philosopher
herself); see under alpha 3908.
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4092
Ἀρχή
principle
… (somata), and this reading is probably better according to the
philosophical
context. Certainly according to the Stoic orthodoxy, the incorporeals (time, void, "sayables" and place) are inexistent (or rather "subsistent"), and for this reason …
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339
Δεινομάχη
Deinomache
… 1280): Plutarch, Alcibiades 1, etc. [2] That of a Stoic
philosopher
in Lucian's
Philopseudes.
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469
Δημοφάνης
Demophanes
… must be D. of Megalopolis (C3 BCE), a politically active
philosopher:
see Polybius 10.22.2, Plutarch
Philopoimen
1 ('Megalophanes' there) and generally R.M. Errington in OCD(4) s.v.; cf. phi 409.
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1161
Διόμεια
Diomeia
… (6.26 Kaibel); Plutarch, Themistocles 12); it was also where the
philosophical
school of the Cynics was founded by Antisthenes (Diogenes Laertius 6.16; alpha 2723). Pausanias 1.19.3 describes the altars devoted to mythological figures related …
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