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δ1533ΔρομοκήρυκεςcouriersCassius Dio 78.35.1. See also e.g. Aeneas Tacticus 22.3; Aeschines 2.130 (which generates the entry s.v. in Harpokration -- whom, for once, the Suda does not echo).Matched in noteshighshort
δ1239ΔίωνDion, DioAD c.164-after 229. See generally OCD(4) 288 'Cassius Dio'. [1] On this name see kappa 1914. [2] In Bithynia; present-day Iznik in Turkey. [3] The emperor (ruled 222-235) Severus Alexander; see alpha 1124. [4] …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1003Διῆκανthey drove through… quoted from somewhere. (There are extant possibilities in Plutarch and Cassius Dio.) cf. delta 1038.Matched in noteshighshort
δ189ΔεκέβαλοςDekebalos, Decebalus… and 106 CE (when his kingdom became a Roman province). Cassius Dio 67.6.1, etc. See generally OCD(4) 419. [2] delta 344.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1023Διήσεινto be about to let go through… is the future active infinitive of the verb dii/hmi. [1] Cassius Dio 71.11.3. For 'they had sworn' see again omega 99.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1371Δοξασίαςopinion… singular of the rare noun doxasia. [1] An approximation of Cassius Dio 53.19.6 (from remarks prefacing his account of the principate of Augustus).Matched in noteshighshort
δ963ΔιεσπευσάμηνI worked zealously… diaspeu/dw notes instances of this verb in Isaeus, Polybius, and Cassius Dio. The present headword is its aorist indicative middle, in the first person singular. For this with the same glosses see Photius s.v. …Matched in noteshighshort
δ791Διατιτρᾶνto bore through… other lexica. [2] Quotation unidentifiable. Adler notes Toup's attribution to Cassius Dio (who has an instance of diati/trantes a)/nw: 69.12.3), alongside her own suggestion: Arrian. [3] Again, quotation unidentifiable (in this precise form, but …Matched in noteshighshort
δ948Διέρριψανthey scattered… or scatter (web address 1). It is quoted here from Cassius Dio 8.36.8 (where the present finite verb is a participle: diarri/yantes). [1] Literally "since he had anticipated them in killing himself" (proapoxra/omai A.2, …Matched in noteshighshort
δ935Διέπεσενcollapsed, fell through… quotation is conventionally assigned to a lost passage of Dio Cassius' Book 21 preserved in Zonaras' epitome. (See beta 283 for the role of Bithias in aiding Hasdrubal during the siege of Carthage in …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1588Δυσαλθέςhard to cure… frequent thereafter; first in medical literature (Philumenus Medicus, Galen, Aretaeus, Cassius Iatrosophus) and later, in the Byzantine era, in theology, philosophy, and philology.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1157Διοκωχήrespite, armistice… two severe outbreaks: 430-429 and 427 BCE). By the time Cassius Dio uses the word, four times, it has taken on the more limited sense of an armistice during military conflict. cf. alpha 1913, …Matched in noteshighshort
δ344Δεινόςterribly clever[1] Cassius Dio 67.6.1. See also delta 189, kappa 1187 and alpha 2603. [2] cf. delta 343, delta 346.Matched in noteshighshort
δ620ΔιαλλάττωI reconcile, I exchange… Matthew 5:24 (web address 2). [3] Quotation unidentifiable. (Adler suggests Cassius Dio.)Matched in noteshighshort
δ654Διαμησάμενοςhaving cut through… as a version of a sentence in Zonaras' epitome of Cassius Dio (vol. I p.297.11-12 Boissevain). See in brief C. Theodoridis in his Photius edition, vol.II p.LXXXIX. Favuzzi (below) 219-221 takes up the matter …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1295Διφροφόροιstool-carriers… -- though the participle i(zh/sas (iota 211) is favoured by Cassius Dio. [4] cf. delta 1292.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1080Δικαίωμαact of justiceFor this headword cf. generally delta 1081, delta 1082. [1] Cassius Dio 61.1.2, already at gamma 340. [2] See generally Diogenes Laertius 2.16-17 (and alpha 4084). [3] The Greek ai(/resis means both “choice” and …Matched in noteshighshort
δ500Διαβάλλεινto bring across, to cross, to mislead, to slander… of Codex Laurentianus 59.16. The quotation is an approximation of Cassius Dio 46.8.3. In the original the verb is second person and the adverb word "always" modifies the verb ("always...you slander"), rather than the …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1351ΔομετιανόςDomitianos, Domitianus, Domitian… nisi aureas et argenteas poni permisit ac ponderis certi." and Cassius Dio 67.8.1. There is a problem with the Greek text here because the sense wants something like an "h)/" before "e)k xrusou=". [7] …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1586ΔυρράχιονDyrrachion, Dyrrachium… mythological element that could be related to the Illyrian civilization. Cassius Dio 41.49 (web address 3 below) reports, as in Pausanias, the tradition of a founder called Dyrrach(i)us but he gives no basis for …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1108Δίκροταdikrota, two-banked… two or three banks"). [2] Here begins a quotation from Cassius Dio 75.11.3 (not Adler's '74'), describing the three-year siege of Byzantium by the Roman army of the emperor Septimius Severus. The Suda has …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1189Διοπομπεῖσθαιto escort [evil] away… tou\s filoso/fous e)k th=s po/lews) or "chase away" a pollution (Cassius Dio 37.46.1 mi/asma, a damage (Iamblicus, On the Mysteries 1.13.21 bla/bhn, every kind of negative, ill-omened events or things (scholion on Pindar, Nemean …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1205ΔιοσημείαZeus-omen, Zeus-sign… also written dioshmi/a: Aelius Aristides, Pros Platona, p.105 Jebb, 22; Cassius Dio 38.13.4, al. One frequently finds the ending -ei/a in manuscripts as an orthographic variant (an accepted form in later Greek; see Hesychius …Matched in noteshighmedium

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