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αι117Αἰθεροβατεῖνto aether-tread, to tread the aether… Eunapius. But this rare verb is used far more by Philo Judaeus than any other author.)Matched in noteshighshort
αι285Αἵρεσιςcapture, taking… perhaps, "dear to God." [3] Tittman attributes this passage to Philo Judaeus, Adler to Damascius (now adopted as fr. 292 Zintzen).Matched in noteshighshort
αι286Αἵρεσιςschool, sect… made significant contributions to modal logic. [5] The most representative philosopher of this school was Menedemus of Eretria (345-260; see Diogenes Laertius 1.19). [6] The Cyrenaic school was given its name by Aristippus of …Matched in noteshighmedium
αι79ΑἰδεσίαAidesia, Aedesia… in reading e(/ws for w(s, "until they began to study philosophy". [4] pi 2473. [5] alpha 1639.Matched in noteshighlong
αι116ΑἰθέριοςAitherios, Aetherius, Etherius… identification of his brother, mentioned here, with Simplicius the Neoplatonist philosopher: sigma 448). cf. also pi 204.Matched in noteshighshort
αι296Αἱρεῖtakes… headword is presumably extracted from the quotation given. [1] Sophocles, Philoctetes 436-7 (web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort
αι178ΑἰλιανόςAelian, Aelianus, Ailianos… wrote in Greek and was admired for it; according to Philostratus, (Lives of the Sophists 624-5), “he wrote Attic as correctly as the Athenians in the interior of Attica” (trans. by Wright). Aelian’s major …Matched in noteshighshort
αι24Αἰγαῖος κόλποςAegean gulf… -- are of the pars pro toto kind. (See e.g. Philostratus, Imagines 2.13.1, describing the Gyrai rocks as being tou= *Ai)gai/oun ko/lpou; Hesychius gamma1024 says, more precisely, that they are in the Ikarian Sea …Matched in noteshighshort
αι119Αἴθεινto set ablaze… Other possibilities include line 823 of that play, and Sophocles, Philoctetes 1033. See also the next note. [2] A close approximation of Xenophon, Anabasis 4.7.20.Matched in noteshighshort
αι300Αἱρεῖςyou take… Hesychius, who names its source: Euripides fr. 802 (from his Philoctetes). Plato also uses the verb ai(re/w in the sense of "grasp with the mind, understand": see LSJ s.v. A.III. [2] Gregory of Nazianzus, …Matched in noteshighshort
αι115Αἰθέριον ὕψοςetherial height… shows several attestations of it, one of them recurrent: a philosophical passage (variously credited to Theophrastus, Zeno and Posidonius) which includes the phrase ai( pro\s ai)qe/rion u(/yos u(perbolai (of mountains).Matched in noteshighshort
αι313Αἱρούμενοςchoosing… not identified by Adler, is identifiable via the TLG as Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 4.39. [3] Quotation unidentifiable.Matched in noteshighshort
αι347ΑἰσχίνηςAeschines, Aischines, Aiskhines… 346/alphaiota 349.] See generally RE Aischines(15); NP Aischines(1); OCD4 Aeschines(1); Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists 1.18. [1] [alpha 1283] Alcidamas. [2] Again as a tailpiece to epsilon 226. Manifest nonsense, at least as far …Matched in noteshighmedium
αι349ΑἰσχίνηςAeschines, Aischines, AiskhinesPhilostratus, Lives of the Sophists 1.35 [1] See already alphaiota 346. [2] See generally delta 1178. [3] For Charybdis see generally chi 144. The present phrase is a flowery way of referring to Plato's …Matched in noteshighmedium
αι245Αἰόλανdarkening, discolouring… black and blue discoloration) of a potentially mortal wound (Sophocles, Philoctetes 1157, with scholia); cf. alphaiota 247 (of night). For the idea of a shadowy journey to shadowy Hades cf. the scholia to Aeschylus, …Matched in noteshighshort
αι370ΑἴτιονcauseFor the first sentence here cf. John Philoponus, Commentaries on Aristotle's de anima 273.8-9 Hayduck. [1] Aristotle distinguished four kinds of causes or explanations (Posterior Analytics 94a21-3; Physics 194b24-33 = Metaphysics 1013a24-33; Metaphysics 983a27-32; …Matched in noteshighshort
αι326Αἰσθήσεις5 sensesThe first part of this entry is taken from John Philoponus, Commentary on Aristotle's de anima 229.12-24 and 262.29-263.11 (with some minor variations); the second from 311.8-32. cf. tau 905. [1] mu 952. [2] …Matched in noteshighlong