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δ872ΔίδυμοςDidymus, DidymosC1 BC. See generally RE Didymos(8); NP Didymos(1); OCD4 Didymus(1). [1] [alpha 3892] Aristarchus. [2] (Again at chi 29.) Other sources put the figure even higher, at 4000. Another of his nicknames, Bibliolathas ("Book-forgetting"), …Matched in noteshighshort
δ871ΔίδυμοςDidymos, DidymusPossibly Arius Didymus, date uncertain (1st – 3rd c. CE?); not the "otherwise unknown Aëtius, who is mentioned several times by Theodoret" (according to Jaap Mansfeld).Matched in noteshighshort
δ874ΔίδυμοςDidymus, DidymosC1 AD. See generally RE Didymos(10); NP Didymos(3); OCD4 Didymus(2). [1] [eta 455] Heracleon.

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Δίδυμος

Didymus, Didymos

Son of Didymus, a fishmonger. A grammarian of the school of Aristarchus; of Alexandria. He lived in the time of Antony and Cicero, and until Augustus. He was called 'Bronze-guts' [Khalkenteros] because of his…

Δίδυμος, Διδύμου ταριχοπώλου, γραμματικὸς Ἀριστάρχειος, Ἀλεξανδρεύς, γεγονὼς ἐπὶ Ἀντωνίου καὶ Κικέρωνος καὶ ἕως Αὐγούστου· Χαλκέντερος κληθεὶς διὰ τὴν περὶ τὰ βιβλία ἐπιμονήν·…

trade and manufacture

trade and manufacture

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δ875Δίδυμος ὁ τοῦ ἩρακλείδουDidymus the son of HeraclidesPossibly = RE Didymos(11); NP Didymos(4); OCD4 Didymus(3).Matched in noteshighshort

δ1256Δίπαλτοςdoubly-brandished, twice-brandished… 1). The scholia there attribute the gloss panti\ sqe/nei to Didymus, the alternative one to the lesser-known grammarian Pius. Didymus' interpretation is preferred by Kamerbeek, who suggests a sense of the passage close to …Matched in noteshighshort

δ182Δεκατεύεινto tithe… prompted by Demosthenes 22.77 (and also citing other oratory, and Didymus). See also delta 181.Matched in noteshighshort

δ261Δερμιστήςskin-eater… Harpokration, Lysias merely used the word, without explanation. It was Didymus, commenting on Sophokles (fr. 449 Radt), who attempted to gloss it. [2] For Aristarchus see generally alpha 3892. [3] From the Milesian Histories …Matched in noteshighshort

δ368Δεισιδαιμονίαfear of the gods, piety, superstition… not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as Didymus Caecus, On Genesis 27. [7] Quotation unidentifiable. [8] Appian, Samnitica 12.4; cf. pi 3232.Matched in noteshighmedium

δ515Διαγεγονότοςelapsed, gone through, surviving… of the 4th-5th centuries (Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory of Nazianzus, Didymus Caecus, Cyril of Alexandria). In the classical period, for the same sense, writers prefer the aorist tense. Thus it is probable that both …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1126Διμοιρίτηςdouble-pay soldier, half-file commander… subject of an anathema by Pope Damasus in 381. See Didymus Caecus, In Psalm. 3; Epiphanius, Anchoratus, 13.8.5, 63.7.1; Panarion, Adv. Haereses v. I, p. 159, 6 M; I, 161, 13; 3, 416, 4; …Matched in noteshighshort