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Βουλεύοντι
[to him] taking counsel
[1]
Thucydides
3.42.5 (web address 1 below); Diodotus outlines the duties of a good citizen.
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Βουλής
councillor
From the scholia to
Thucydides
3.70.5, a parenthetical phrase attached to the name Peithias (of Corcyra): e)tu/gxane ga\r kai\ boulh=s w)/n. But the scholiast got the wrong end of the stick: boulh=s is simply …
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Βαλεῖν
to hit, to throw
… Dialect, and Dyer 660-61 (Bibliography below, citing A.W. Gomme on
Thucydides'
use of the word, A Historical Commentary on
Thucydides
III 488-89). It probably originally meant "hit the mark, succeed," an antonym for a(marta/nw …
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Βαλανάγρα
bolt-hook
… (balanos) appears. Similar material appears in other scholia, e.g. to
Thucydides
2.4.3 and to Aristophanes, Birds 1159 (where bebala/nwtai occurs). The headword itself, balanagra, first appears in Herodotus (3.155).
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519
Βρασίδας
Brasidas
… the Spartan signatories to the Peace of Nikias in 421
(Thucydides
5.19.2). Brasidas' mother was named Argileonis (Plutarch, Moralia 240C). [2] Contrary to the impression given here, Methone never revolted against Sparta. It was …
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559
Βρόχοις
with nooses, with slip-knots
… 558. [1] For this glossing Adler adduces a scholion on
Thucydides
2.76.4, but the headword is accusative plural there. The Suda's dative plural must be quoted from somewhere else; there are numerous possibilities. [2] …
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589
Βύζην
tightly
… similarly in other lexica, and cf. also the scholia to
Thucydides
4.8.7, where the headword adverb occurs. [2] An approximation of Arrian, Anabasis 1.19.3 (on Nikanor and his fleet at Miletos, 334 BCE). [3] …
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