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521
Διαγνώμη
decree, resolution
… like, also, an outcry. The word [is] a peculiarity of
Thucydides.
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207
Δελφίς
dolphin
… [sc. intended] for a sea-battle. Whence also 'a dolphin-bearing ship'.
Thucydides
[book] 7 says : "at that point the dolphin-bearing spars suspended from the merchantmen over the entry channels hindered them".
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500
Διαβάλλειν
to bring across, to cross, to mislead, to slander
[Meaning] to deceive and to lead astray.
Thucydides
[in Book] 1 and Crates [sc. use the word]. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "to cross the sea", [meaning] to pass over it. "Thereupon he …
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510
Διαβούλομαι
I thoroughly wish
[Meaning] I will convince.
Thucydides
[sc. uses the word].
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657
Διαμώμενος
cutting through
… is the plural] diamw/menoi, [meaning they] digging through, searching for.
Thucydides
[writes]: "cutting through the gravel by the sea, [most] drank whatever was likely [to be] water". And elsewhere: "they pitched camp on the …
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827
Διάφορα
differences
[Meaning] expenses.
Thucydides
[uses the word].
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1626
Δυσείκαστον
hard to make out
… singular, evidently quoted from somewhere; perhaps Dionysius of Halicarnassus, On
Thucydides
29, applying this term to
Thucydides'
phrase kai\ ta\ e)fusteri/zonta/ pou (Thuc. 3.82.3). The adjective features prominently in DH's critical vocabulary, esp. where …
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234
Δεξιός
clever
… not to be a genuine son of Hagnon, but adopted.
Thucydides
praises him. And [Aristophanes] attacks them as robbers.
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428
Δημήτρειος καρπός
Demetrian fruit
… shrine of Apollo. This is the correct reading also in
Thucydides.
Also Poseidonion, the [shrine] of Poseidon, as Athenaion, the [shrine] of Athena; and Dionysion and Demetrion and all such [shrines] that have names …
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625
Διαλέγουσαν
enlarging, picking open
… Also [sc. attested is the imperative] diale/gou, [meaning] dig through!
Thucydides
[sc. uses the word].
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901
Διεθρόησαν
they spread the word
Thucydides
[writes]: the Athenians' envoys "spread the word that they had seen lots of money." Meaning they talked about [them], they made an uproar about [them].
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980
Διέφερον
they bore through, they bore to the end
[sc. This verb occurs] in
Thucydides
meaning they endured or they survived or they carefully outlasted. "But the Athenians bore the war through."
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1085
Δικαιώσεις
justifications
Lysias calls pleas of justification [this], and
Thucydides
punishments.
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1324
Δόκησις ἀληθείας
grasp of truth
A roundabout way of saying 'truth' in
Thucydides.
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1440
Δωδεκάκρουνος
Twelve Spouts
It was a spring at Athens.
Thucydides
[calls it] Nine Spouts.
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1473
Δώρων δόκησιν
receiving of bribes
[Meaning] bribe-taking.
Thucydides
[sc. uses the phrase].
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910
Διέκπλοι
breaks-through, sailings-through
From the scholia to
Thucydides
1.49.3 (web address 1) and 2.89.8 (web address 2), where the headword appears. It refers to a naval maneuver in which the attacking ship sails into and through the …
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1188
Διοπείθης
Diopeithes
… error by Aelian. These considerations, together with the silence of
Thucydides
and other sources, suggest that Aelian's story may well originate from a comic play, and lack historicity. Nevertheless, *if* the incident is not …
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206
Δελφίνιον
Delphinion, Delphinium
… s.v., intially commenting on the appearance of the word in
Thucydides
8.38.2 (Chios, web address 1) but going on to cite the Athenian one mentioned in Demosthenes 40.11 (web address 2). [1] Besides
Thucydides
…
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346
Δεινότητα
cleverness
For the first part of this cf. the scholia to
Thucydides
3.37.5, where the headword noun occurs in the dative case. (It is in the accusative, as here, in (e.g.)
Thucydides
3.59.1.) cf. generally …
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1081
Δικαιώματα
acts of justice, things done as of right
… pro/s with the accusative in this sense after dikaiw/mata cf.
Thucydides
1.41.1, quoted by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, On the Idioms of
Thucydides
5.4.)
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1205
Διοσημεία
Zeus-omen, Zeus-sign
… bloody behaviour of the Thracians see Aristophanes, Lysistrata 563f; cf.
Thucydides
7.29.4, describing a savage attack of the mercenaries on Mycalessos. [4] cf. Eustathius on Homer, Iliad 1.34 to\ a)stra/ptein to\n *di=a, h)/toi to\n …
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1586
Δυρράχιον
Dyrrachion, Dyrrachium
… delta 1585, and the OCD(4) entries under both names. [1]
Thucydides
1.24 (web address 1) explains that Epidamnos was a town 'founded by people from Korkyra' (present-day Corfu) in c.625 BCE, but with (as …
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874
Δίδυμος
Didymus, Didymos
Surnamed Claudius. Grammarian. [He wrote] On Violations of Analogy in
Thucydides;
On Analogy among Romans; Epitome of Heracleon; and certain other works.
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892
Διέβαλεν
misled
[Meaning he/she/it] deceived. Both
Thucydides
used it thus and Aristophanes in Thesmophoriazusae. "The old woman misled me." Meaning [she] deceived [me].
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64
Δαπανᾶν
to spend
… See e.g. Demosthenes 7.16. [4] See e.g. Andocides 4.32. [5]
Thucydides
4.3.3 (web address 1 below).
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208
Δελφίς
dolphin
… by comment from the scholia there. See further below. [3]
Thucydides
7.41.2 (web address 2); see already delta 207. [4] The chorus in Aristophanes' Knights uses the metaphor of a naval battle to warn …
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237
Δέξιππος
Dexippus, Dexippos
… his principal claim to fame, as an historian (in the
Thucydidean
tradition). [1] Incorrect: according to a surviving honorific inscription (T4 in Jacoby), his father's name was Ptolemaeus.
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243
Δέον
necessary
Aristophanes, Clouds 859, with comment from the scholia there. cf.
Thucydides
1.114.2, 2.21.2 and 5.16.3; Plutarch, Pericles 22-23. For discussion of the incident see Donald Kagan, The Archidamian War (Cornell UP 1974) 92 n.64. …
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258
Δερκυλλίδας
Derkyllidas, Dercyllidas, Derkylidas, Dercylidas
… strategic city of Abydos on the Hellespont from the Athenians
(Thucydides
8.61-62). He then apparently stayed at Abydos as harmost, or governor, but was disgraced in some argument with the Persian satrap Pharnabazos in …
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