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δ758Διασκηνητέονseparate quarters should be occupied… not commmon but, where they occur, occur most frequently in Xenophon. [1] Xenophon, Anabasis 4.4.14 (web address 1). Modern editions delete 'in the villages'.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1518Δρεπανηφόροςscythe-bearing… 4005. [2] Masculine nominative plural, so not extracted from the Xenophon passage about to be quoted (which has neuter plural); in fact, found only here. [3] An approximation of Xenophon, Anabasis 1.8.10.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1574Δυνατήνable… feminine accusative singular, is extracted from the quotation given. [1] Xenophon, Anabasis 4.1.24 (web address 1). In Xenophon the infinitive is the future h(gh/sesqai, rather than the Suda's aorist: "said that he would lead …

δ758

Διασκηνητέον

separate quarters should be occupied

[sc. a single encampment] should be dissolved. Xenophon [writes]: "it was decided that separate quarters should be occupied in the villages under cover".

Διασκηνητέον· καταλυτέον. Ξενοφῶν· ἐδόκει διασκηνητέον εἶναι εἰς τὰς κώμας εἰς στέγας.

gender and sexuality2

gender and sexuality2

trade and manufacture2

trade and manufacture2

meter and music1

meter and music1

Nicholas Wilshere1

Nicholas Wilshere1

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δ82Δασμόςdasmos, tribute… 83. [1] From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 1.166. [2] Xenophon, Anabasis 4.5.24 (web address 1 below). [3] Attributed to Nicolaus of Damascus by Bernhardy. In any event, the topic is evidently the youths-and-maidens …Matched in noteshighshort

δ314Δείλη ὀψίαlate afternoon… at delta 306. [1] On a)/riston see LSJ s.v. [2] Xenophon, Anabasis 1.8.8 (web address 1 below); cf. delta 315.Matched in noteshighshort

δ517ΔιαγγέλλωI give notice by a messenger… headword verb; presumably extracted from the quotation to follow. [3] Xenophon, Anabasis 3.4.36 (web address 1 below). [4] These alternative glosses appear to construe diaggellome/nous as passive rather than middle.Matched in noteshighshort

δ1001Διηγκυλημένονthong-secured… intrusive words 'or thus' appear in certain manuscripts only. [2] Xenophon, Anabasis 5.2.12 (web address 1).Matched in noteshighmedium

δ1676ΔυσωποῦμαιI am timid… found in one manuscript but not printed in Butcher's OCT); Xenophon Memorabilia 2.1.4 (web address 1); both cited from Harpokration (and Photius) s.v. See also under upsilon 139. cf. delta 1674 (and delta 1677).Matched in noteshighshort

δ1682Δυσπάριτονhard to pass… -- Procopius, On Buildings (of Justinian) 4.8.5, 4.10.27, 5.1.3. [1] Xenophon, Anabasis 4.1.25 (web address 1; here slightly abridged).Matched in noteshighshort

δ234Δεξιόςclever… [3] For this material see already alpha 3764. [4] See Xenophon, Hellenica 1.7.4-35. [5] cf. Lysias 12.72-77 and Xenophon, Hellenica 2.3.1-2, 11-56. [6] A summary of this sentence reappears at kappa 2448 (under a …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ258ΔερκυλλίδαςDerkyllidas, Dercyllidas, Derkylidas, Dercylidas… military commands during the late fifth and early fourth centuries. Xenophon reports that he won a reputation for cleverness and deception which earned him the nickname "Sisyphos" (Xenophon, Hellenica 3.1.8). Derkylidas first appears in …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1108Δίκροταdikrota, two-banked… already evident in Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 408, and in Xenophon, Hellenica 2.1.28 it specifically means one with two banks of oars (web address 1); see also e.g. Duris FGrH 76 F66, who gives …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1188ΔιοπείθηςDiopeithes… seem to have avoided its consequences, as (if references in Xenophon, Hellenica 3.3.3 [web address 1] and Plutarch, Agesilaus 3 refer to the same interpreter of oracles) he was still alive in the fourth …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1228Διώκεινto prosecute… Herodotus 6.82; Aeschylus, Eumenides 583) and o( diwko/menos (Antiphon 2.1.5; Xenophon, Apology 21); cf. also diw/kein tina\ peri\ qana/tou Xenophon, Hellenica 7.3.6; turanni/dos Herodotus 6.104. *diw/kw is also used in the sense of avenging …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1614Δυσέμβολοςhard to enter… headword is an adjective used in military contexs by (e.g.) Xenophon, Aristotle, Polybius, Plutarch, Josephus, Diodorus Siculus. (Nonetheless its earliest attestation is in medical language: Hippocrates, Fractures 38, writing about dislocations 'hard to reduce'.). …Matched in noteshighshort

δ83ΔασμοφορῶI pay dasmos, I pay tribute… 82. [1] Of the recipient; LSJ cites an instance from Xenophon.Matched in noteshighshort

δ157Δεδοκιμασμέναapproved (ones), tested (ones)… not have it, and there are other possibilities in e.g. Xenophon (Oeconomicus 6.14, later quoted by Stobaeus) and Polybius (9.32.8). [2] Eusebius of Caesarea: see epsilon 3737, from which this phrase comes. Eusebius' Commentaries …Matched in noteshighshort

δ172Δεκαδαρχίαιtenfold-regimes… victory in the Peloponnesian War. A variant term, in (e.g.) Xenophon, is dekarxi/a (cf. mu 627). [2] This "And" is a clumsy connection between two parts of the longer entry in Harpokration. [3] Demosthenes …Matched in noteshighshort

δ184Δεκατευτήριονtithe-station, customs-house… It was ideally positioned to tax passing shipping; compare e.g. Xenophon, Hellenica 1.1.22 (web address 1) on the dekateuterion at Chrysopolis (opposite Byzantium) in the late C5 BCE. [2] Agathias, Histories 5.12. In 559 …Matched in noteshighshort

δ377Δῆθενindeed… an attribution to John of Antioch. [3] A paraphrase of Xenophon, Anabasis 1.2.1 (web address 1 below). See also xi 48 and pi 1643. [4] Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the …Matched in noteshighshort

δ422ΔημαίνετοςDemainetos, Demaenetus… is mentioned retrospectively in Aeschines 2.78 as well as in Xenophon, Hellenica 5.1.10 & 26.Matched in noteshighshort

δ458Δημοσιεύωνbeing a public [doctor]… But for simple transitive uses of dhmosieu/w itself see e.g. Xenophon, Hellenica 1.7.10 (to confiscate -- literally make public -- money), and generally LSJ s.v.I.1-4. [2] Aristophanes, Acharnians 1030 (web address 1). This meaning …Matched in noteshighshort

δ518ΔιαγελῶI laugh at, I mockLikewise in syntactical lexica. LSJ s.v. gives examples from Euripides, Xenophon and others.Matched in noteshighshort

δ659Διαμπάξthrough and through… in other lexica. The headword adverb is found in tragedy, Xenophon, and later prose.Matched in noteshighshort

δ697ΔιαπηδῶI leap acrossLikewise in syntactical lexica. A favourite verb of Xenophon's when writing of horses jumping ditches etc.Matched in noteshighshort

δ813Διαφαίνειclarifies… other lexica. The headword must be quoted from somewhere; perhaps Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.10.5 (also picked up by Stobaeus). cf. generally delta 810, delta 811, delta 812.Matched in noteshighshort

δ837Διαφρυκτοῦνto use a roasted [bean]… officials by lot. See e.g. Thucydides 8.69.4 (web address 1); Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.2.9 (web address 2); and generally Staveley (below) 61-2. cf. kappa 2575, kappa 2577, kappa 2578.Matched in noteshighshort

δ889Διαιτητήριονdwelling-place, living-room… ("lead one's life", "dwell"; LSJ at web address 1). See Xenophon, Oeconomicus 9.4 (plural), possibly the genesis of the entry; Procopius, On Buildings 1.9.9 (singular).Matched in noteshighshort

δ900Διέθειwas coursing through… other lexica. The headword must be quoted from somewhere; perhaps Xenophon, Hellenica 6.5.36 (of uproar in the Athenian assembly), though there are other possibilities. For the simple verb qe/w, cf. epsilon 316, epsilon 317.Matched in noteshighshort

δ957Διεσκεδασμένονdispersed, disseminated, scattered (?)… but if quoted from somewhere it is perhaps from [DW] Xenophon, Hellenica 4.1.19, or (AI) Plutarch, Sulla 13.4. But there are numerous other possibilities.Matched in noteshighshort

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