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Δαμασίφρων
heart-conquering
[Meaning] he who/that which is able to deceive.
Pindar
[writes]: "heart-conquering gold".
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Διαγόρας
Diagoras
… applied himself to the lyric art, being in time after
Pindar
and Bacchylides, but older than Melanippides: he flourished in the 78th Olympiad. And he was called Atheos since he held such an opinion, …
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1496
Δράκων
Drakon, Dracon, Draco
… According to Conjugation; On Antonyms; On Metres; On Satyrs; On
Pindar's
Lyric Poems; On Sappho's Metres; On Alcaeus' Lyric Poems.
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Δαιμονίᾳ
by a miracle, by a miraculous (fate)
… in the feminine dative singular; according to the scholia on
Pindar,
Olympians 9.110, from where it is probably quoted, the noun presupposed is moi/ra|. See generally LSJ s.v. daimo/nios, III. [2] Damascius, Life of …
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292
Δεύτατος
most inferior, very inferior
… Iliad 19.51, where the headword appears; cf. the scholia to
Pindar,
Olympian 1.80b.
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497
Δί
to Zeus
The monosyllabic dative of *zeu/s occurs at
Pindar,
Olympian 13.106 (web address 1) and elsewhere (see LSJ s.v.). The iota is long, as being a contraction of two iotas. cf. delta 498.
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807
Δίαυλος
diaulos
… period, runners carried a round shield, possibly covered with bronze
(Pindar,
Pythian Odes 9.1-4), and wore a helmet and shin guards. All ran in the nude, the custom for athletes in all contests except …
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1030
Διθύραμβος
dithyramb
… the right arrow to continue through the surviving fragments) and
Pindar
(pi 1617); but see also Sutton's collection. [1] Likewise in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon and in Glosses on Herodotus 1.23; similarly in the scholia …
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1109
Δικροῖς
bifurcated, forked, two-pronged
… fr. 9 Kock and K.-A.). See also the scholia to
Pindar,
Nemean 6, 50b (3.112.7 Drachmann): di/kroun ga\r, w(/ste du/o a)kma\s e)/xein kai\ mia=| bolh=| dissa\ ta\ trau/mata a)perga/zesqai. "(Achilles’ sword is) forked, so …
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1189
Διοπομπεῖσθαι
to escort [evil] away
… every kind of negative, ill-omened events or things (scholion on
Pindar,
Nemean 10 th\n e)/rin th\n pro\s tou\s krei/ttwnas; scholion [both the vetus and Tzetzes] on Aristophanes, Frogs 1340 tou\s xalepwta/tous tw=n o)nei/rwn; Clement …
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1232
Διώκω σε
I am pursuing you
… d. be/los xeri\, "wield a weapon with the hand" in
Pindar,
Isthmian 8.35; fo/rmigga pla/ktrw| "sweep the lyre with a plectrum"; id. Nemean 5.24. [2] The quotation of the following passages from Demosthenes' oration …
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1243
Διώνυμον
well-known
… 1.403, 15.336 (Eriopis-Alkimache), 20.40b2, 20.73-74; Odyssey 5.334 (Ino/Leukothea); scholion on
Pindar,
Olympian 9, 79d (Deucalion/Opountes; Arnaea/Penelopes); Pythian 3.177b. "Term with a double meaning" is the sense of diw/numos in kappa 151, q.v. A scholion …
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1569
Δύμας
Dymas
… Stephanus of Byzantium), Dymainai or (in Sparta) Dymanis (scholia on
Pindar,
Pythian 1.121) or Dymanatai (Herodotus 5.68.13), a certain Dymas (stem Dyman-; erroneously Dymant- at Pausanias 7.17.6. and Lycophron, Alexandra 1388), son of Aigimios …
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1605
Δυσδιάλλακτον
hard to reconcile
… a lyric composition, the qrh=nos was developed by Simonides and
Pindar
and, later, in tragedy, where it acquired an important function.
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1620
Δύσεριν
quarrelsome
… In the literature du/seris and filo/neikos frequently occur together: e.g.
Pindar,
Olympians 6.19; Isocrates 1.31; Plutarch, Philopoemen 17.7. [2] As in Hesychius delta2563. See also Etymologicum Magnum: *du/serin: filo/neikon. para\ to\ *d*u*s mo/rion, kai\ …
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1680
Δυσπάλαιστος
hard to wrestle with
… Aeschylus, Supplices 468 and Choephori 692. [2] Perhaps quoted from
Pindar
(Olympians 8.25 or Pythians 4.273).
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