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- α760Ἀθροίζειgathers together… must be quoted from somewhere; there are numerous possibilities. [2] Josephus, Jewish Wars 5.75 (web address 1): "Gathering together, with these words they encouraged one another" (reading tou/tois instead of tou/tous). Again at pi …
- α3759ἈργαριζίνArgarizinIn Syria; the toponym Argarizein (sic) occurs in Josephus, Jewish War 1.63.
- α2294Ἀνεπικλήτωςblamelessly… to be quoted. [2] Thucydides 1.92.1 (web address 1). [3] Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 18.337 (web address 2).
- α3519Ἀποσημήνασθαιto announce, to explain, to indicate[1] Same glossing in other lexica. [2] Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 5.309 (web address 1 below), referring to Delilah. [3] Quoted from pi 64. The spelling with iota is more common than that with eta.
- α2905Ἅπαξall at once, once only… given. [1] Quotation unidentifiable. [2] Adler declared this attribution to Josephus mistaken, but the mistake was hers: this is Jewish Antiquities 5.226 (with the singular 'confusion'); see Favuzzi [cited under alpha 1990] 54. [3] …
- α447Ἄδειαimpunity… a)ntipoli/zontos, "building itself up as an opposing city" -- of Josephus, Jewish War 5.72-3 (web address 1 below); cf. pi 1884.
- α3283Ἀποδέονlacking, needing… Illustrated by the two quotations about to be given. [4] Josephus, Jewish War 3.95 (web address 1 below). [5] Arrian, Parthica fr. 48 Roos-Wirth.
- α3039Ἀπερείδομαι τὸν πόκονI put forward the fleece… this second gloss cf. alpha 3178. [2] Quotation unidentifiable. [3] Josephus, Jewish Wars 2.642 (web address 1 below). [4] Quotation unidentifiable. (Adler notes Toup's suggestion that it might be Polybius.)
- α1056Ἀλαζονείαboastfulness… 508. (For a)lazo/nes, cf. alpha 1057 and alpha 1058.) [4] Josephus, Jewish War 6.364. The passage in full is: "For the latter (the rebels) showed no remorse for their evils, but rather bragged of …
- α767Ἄθυρμαplaything… in Photius (Lexicon alpha492 and alpha493 Theodoridis) and elsewhere. [2] Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 12.212 (web address 1 below) on Tryphon. [3] Quotation unidentifiable; a proverb? [4] Greek Anthology 6.37.3 (on an oak bough). The …
- α4195ἈσωχαῖοςAsochaios, Asochaeus[1] A king of Egypt, mentioned in Josephus, Jewish War 6.436, for his capture of Jerusalem. [2] In this form, only here -- but see next note. [3] Asochis was in Galilee (present-day Israel); …
- α3122Ἀπειλημμένοςthreatened… from somewhere. There are instances in Attic oratory (Antiphon, Aeschines), Josephus, and elsewhere. cf. generally alpha 3121, alpha 3123.
- α816Ἀκαταιτίατοςunaccusable… accusative). LSJ s.v. (web address 1) cites 2 passages of Josephus, Jewish War, for this adjective; there are in fact 6 in all.
- α2278Ἀνεξερεύνητονnot to be searched out… adjective, evidently quoted from somewhere; there are numerous possiblities, including Josephus (Jewish War 5.569) and Cassius Dio.
- α2327Ἀνεσταυρώθηwas impaled… is quoted from somewhere, the possibilities include Thucydides, Polybius and Josephus.
- α2394Ἀνεῖτο δὲ αὐτῷ ἡ κόμη καὶ ποτὸν ὕδωρ ἦνhis hair was left free and his drink was water[1] Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 5.347 (web address 1 below). [2] Menander Protector fr. 3.2 Blockley (44-45). Agreeing with Baldwin (121) that this unattributed fragment is Menandrian in style, Blockley places it here because it …
- α3566Ἀποστυγοῦντεςabhorring, loathing… Testament: Romans 12.9). [2] No such phrase is attested in Josephus (or indeed anywhere else). [3] cf. Plutarch, Pyrrhus 21; Eutropius, Breviarium 2.14; and John of Antioch, Fragmenta ex Historia chronica fr. 109 Roberto …
- α4493Αὐτόθενfrom this very place, from that very place… identifiable via the TLG as Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 2.10.1. [4] Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 12.199. [5] Quotation unidentifiable. (Adler notes the attribution to Polybius by 'Dr.' = A.B. Drachmann, 1860-1935.) [6] Thucydides 6.71.2.
- α956Ἀκρασίαςof incontinence, of lack of restraint, of want of self-control… here) or accusative plural of the feminine noun a)krasi/a. [2] Josephus, Jewish War 5.122: web address 1 below. [3] Alexander of Aphrodisias, Commentaries on Aristotle's Topica 121.29-31; cf. Van Ophuijsen (131). The distinction is …
- α520ἈδωρεόςAdoreos… city more usually called Adora, near Hebron in Judaea; cf. Josephus, Jewish War 1.166.
- α2584Ἀνωδύρετοwas bemoaning… extracted from the quotation given, thiough there are instances in Josephus and elsewhere. [1] Quotation unidentifiable.
- α4055ἈρτώριοςArtorios, Artorius… of Philippi (Plutarch, Brutus 41); but for another Artorios see Josephus, Jewish War 6.188; and Clement of Alexandria mentions a writer, author of a treatise On Longevity, with this name.
- α4702ἌχθομαιI am sick [of], I am grieved by… as dubious). [4] Aristophanes, Acharnians 1100 (web address 2). [5] Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 6.142 (web address 3). [6] Procopius, History of the Wars of Justinian 2.18.18 (web address 4). Outside the Persian-held …
- α1326Ἁλλόμενον ὕδωρleaping water… water". [1] Presumably quoted from somewhere (the possibilities include Xenophon, Josephus and Lucian); and cf. generally alpha 1301.
- α1919Ἀνακροτῆσαιto clap… of a)nakrote/w, is presumably extracted from the quotation given. [1] Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 12.214 (web address 1 below); cf. epsilon 3771, pi 3040.
- α2635Ἀντέσχεwithstood… perhaps (though not demonstrably) extracted from the quotation given. [1] Josephus, Jewish War 3.321 (quoted approximately: see web address 1 below).
- α1204Ἁλιάδαςfishing-boats… somewhere; the possibilities include Plutarch (Timoleon 19.6, Antony 29.6) and Josephus.
- α3141Ἀπηγγέληwas announced, was reported… the Septuagint and other authors such as Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Josephus and Plutarch. cf. eta 35.
- α1785Ἀμφορεαφόρουςamphora-bearers, amphora-carriers… [5] From Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 1119; again at mu 581. [6] Josephus, Jewish War 2.592. [7] Aristophanes, Peace 202 (web address 1). [8] Aristophanes, Clouds 1201-3, abridged (see web address 2); again at nu 179.
- α210Ἀγείραςcripple, beggar… the Ambrosian Lexicon -- and generated (as she notes) by Josephus, Jewish War 5.474, where this headword appears (spelled with i, not ei: agiras) and is given precisely this gloss. (Perhaps a nomen agentis …