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- α1122Ὅτι Ἀλέξανδρος φιλήκοος ἦνAlexander, Alexandros… fond of listening to music as anyone. For, even earlier, Timotheos the piper, whom they say once piped the so-called orthios nomos of Athena, so greatly amazed Alexander with his melodies that in the …
- α473Ἀδιάλειπτονincessant, unremitting… this adjective, quoted from somewhere -- perhaps the NT (2 Timothy 1.3), though there are numerous other possibilities.
- α2048Ἀνάριστοςunbreakfasted… in Leukadian [writes]: "he will play the cithara straightway unbreakfasted." Timocles in Neaira [writes]: "secondly, the matter of being unbreakfasted on account of these things." But Menander [writes] a)na/riston. Also [sc. attested is the …
- α3558Ἀποστησάμενονhad [it] weighed outDemosthenes in the [speech] Against Timotheos [says this] to mean took [it] for weighing. Also [sc. attested is] a)posth/sontai ["they will weight out"], the equivalent of saying they will take by weight. Also [sc. …
- α3508Ἀπορρῶγαςprecipices… there was no sort of way-up." "There was a certain Timon, a vagabond, encompassed by unpassable thorns, an off-shoot of the Furies." He was a so-called misanthrope, who Neanthes says fell from a pear-tree …
- α1204Ἁλιάδαςfishing-boats… a fishing-boat). Evidently quoted from somewhere; the possibilities include Plutarch (Timoleon 19.6, Antony 29.6) and Josephus.
- α3912ἈριστογείτωνAristogiton, Aristogeiton… to Demosthenes the general, In reply to Lycurgus, Prosecution of Timotheus, Prosecution of Timarchus, Prosecution of Hyperides, Prosecution of Thrasyllus. Orphan Speech. Investigate this Aristogiton: perhaps he is the comrade of Harmodius.
- α1810Ἀναβολάςovertures… dithyramb as a whole." The long fragment of Persians of Timotheus (tau 620), edited by Wilamowitz and now by J. Hordern (The Fragments of Timotheus of Miletus, 2002), is then to be regarded as …
- α2905Ἅπαξall at once, once only… alpha 1990] 54. [3] Likewise in the scholia to Lucian, Timon 19, where the headword occurs.
- α3745ἌρατοςAratus, Aratos… of the grammarian Menecrates of Ephesus, and of the philosopher Timon and of Menedemus, having lived in the 124th Olympiad, when the king of Macedonia was Antigonus, Demetrius Poliorcetes' son, who was called Gonatas. …
- α2115Ἀναυμαχίουfor anaumachion, for non-naval-fightingJust as there were penalties prescribed in the laws for not going on an expedition and for leaving one's post [ta/cis] and for throwing away one's arms, so also for fighting at sea. This …
- α4214Ἀσπονδείwithout libation, without a truce… is taken to be quoted from the New Testament (2 Timothy 3.3). [2] Presumably Thucydides 2.22.2 (web address 1 below). [3] Quoted from alpha 4245, q.v.
- α3698Ἀπρόσιτοςinaccessible… as generated by neuter a)pro/siton in the New Testament (I Timothy 6.16). This entry is cross-referenced at alpha 810. [2] John Chrysostom, Homily 3 on the incomprehensible, PG 48.721b.
- α4420Αὔειςyou call… fragment was registered by Nauck. In fact it comes from Timotheus of Miletus (tau 620): fr. 11 Page (PMG). [3] This whole paragraph draws on Diogenes Laertius 7.28; cf. zeta 79. Most of the …
- α3438Ἀπὸ μηχανῆςfrom a machine… the proverbiality of the phrase see also e.g. Demosthenes 40.59: "Timocrates alone, as if from a machine, testifies that..." [1] cf. theta 181.