Search | ReadSuda

72 entries for hero

δ210ΔελφοίDelphi, Delphoi… then snatched babies from mothers in Argos until the Argive hero Coroebus killed her. Pausanias 1.43.7-8 (web address 1) provides more background to the epigram's story and describes the tomb of Coroebus in the …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1029Διθυραμβοδιδάσκαλοιdithyramb-directors… of the scholia, seems a likely lectio difficilior, for "air-roaming" (h)ero/foitos, h)ero/foitis) is elsewhere attested of the moon (web address 4). The word usually means 'month' (see LSJ I 2 and II mei/s, web …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1524Δρησμόςrunning-awayIonic dialect version of drasmo/s (delta 1509). Seven instances in Herodotus (and three in the Plutarchean de Herodoti malignitate).Matched in noteshighshort
δ1252Διώρυξconduit… diw/ruxos for the genitive is also attested, esp. (consistently) in Herodotus and Plato; see web address 1. The declension pattern with g is used in later Greek. In a similar way, the word katw/ruc …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1405ΔοσίθεοςDositheos, DositheusLikewise in Herodian and, according to Adler, the Ambrosian Lexicon; and note also delta 1481, which has the more common spelling with omega as first vowel. However the name is spelled, there is no …Matched in noteshighshort
δ862Διδαχήdoctrine, teachingSame entry in Photius. [1] Herodotus 3.134.4 (web address 1). The word is also used by Thucydides, Plato, et al. In the Suda cf. alpha 4488.Matched in noteshighshort
δ442ΔημοκήδηςDemokedes, DemocedesC6 BCE; OCD(4) 434 'Democedes'. See generally Herodotus 3.125.1 (web address 1) and esp. 129-137, the ultimate source -- and named as such -- of most of the material in the present entry. See …Matched in noteshighlong
δ1586ΔυρράχιονDyrrachion, Dyrrachium… Addenda in Etymologicum Gudianum and in Etymologicum Magnum = Aelius Herodianus et ps.-Herodianus, *peri\ o)rqografi/as (A. Lentz, Grammatici Graeci), through the Etymologicum Gudianum. On Epidamnus/Dyrrachium -- present-day Durazzo in Albania -- see already delta …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1521Δρέπουharvest!… the verb cf. delta 1519, delta 1520, delta 1522. [2] Herodotus 8.115.2 (web address 1), with the compound verb katadre/pw; on Xerxes' army in retreat from Greece.Matched in noteshighshort
δ76Δάσασθαιto divide out, distribute… the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 3.66 (where dassa/menoi occurs). [2] Herodotus 7.121.2, with the aorist participle dasa/menos. See generally LSJ s.v. date/omai, II, where this passage is cited for this sense of simply dividing; …Matched in noteshighshort
δ111ΔαιδάλλωI work artfullyEpic/poetic verb (see LSJ s.v.) evidently connected with Daedalus (delta 109 etc.) Likewise in ps.-Herodian.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1717Δυσχείμεροςwintry, with harsh winters… in the Iliad (web address 1); also used by Aeschylus, Herodotus, Aristotle and others.Matched in noteshighshort
δ774Διασφάξcleft… Philoxenus and the Lexicon Vindobonense that dia/sfac is extracted from Herodotus (7.199). [2] From glosses on Herodotus 3.117.1 (web address 1), where this nominative plural occurs.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1295Διφροφόροιstool-carriers… cf. sigma 1178, where this title is, correctly, singular. [2] Herodotus 3.146.3 (web address 1), with gloss; cf. delta 1294. Entry thus far = Photius, Lexicon delta672 Theodoridis. [3] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1679ΔύσωρονDysoron, Dysorum, DusoronWest of the River Strymon, in Thrace. Herodotus 5.17 (Web address 1). Present-day name still the same. Barrington Atlas Map 50 Grid C2.Matched in noteshighshort
δ41ΔαμάστηςDamastes… written c.342 BCE, in which he named Damastes along with Herodotus as authorities on the Persian Wars. Epist. Socrat. 30.4 (Orelli; Hercher) = 28.4 (Kohler). [4] According to pi 2170 this work was also …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1490Δράγματαhandfuls of uncut corn, trusses… of Greek Anthology 6.44.2-4 (perhaps by Leonidas of Tarentum), on Heronax's libations to Satyrs and Dionysus; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 137), (vol. II, 391-392), and other extracts from this epigram at kappa …Matched in noteshighshort
δ367Δείσαντεςfrightened… demonstrably) from one of the three quotations given here. [2] Herodotus 7.163.1. [3] Appian, Celtica fr. 20 Viereck-Roos-Gabba. [4] Procopius, History of the Wars of Justinian 2.20.2 (web address 1), on the distress of …Matched in noteshighshort
δ973Διετήςlasting two years, two years old[1] Matthew 2:16 (children massacred by Herod: web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort
δ1384ΔορίσκοςDoriskos, Doriscus… Hebros. From Harpokration s.v., citing its mention in Demosthenes and Herodotus.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1484Δωτίνηpresent… headword is also found elsewhere in Homer, and in (e.g.) Herodotus 1.61.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1421Δουλοσύνηservitude, slavery… noun, dative case, is extracted from the quotation given. [1] Herodotus 1.164.2. Again at pi 1154: see the note there.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1523ΔρῆσοςDresos, Dresus… [2] Not independently attested as such. Perhaps a misunderstanding of Herodian, where, in a list of -esos names, 'Kesos' is a river name (kappa 1554) and Dresos precedes it.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1665Δυσοδίαbadness of roadsSame glossing in ps.-Herodian and, according to Adler, the Ambrosian Lexicon. LSJ registers generic usage (e.g. in Appian) as well as this concrete one, and figurative (i.e. difficulties) as well as literal ones. cf. …Matched in noteshighshort
δ198ΔελεάζωI catch with bait, I entice, I lurecf. delta 196, delta 197, delta 199, delta 200. [1] Likewise in syntactical lexica. [2] Likewise in ps.-Herodian and other lexica.Matched in noteshighshort
δ471ΔημοφῶνDemophon… figures, a son of Theseus and a nurseling of Demeter heroized at Eleusis: for both see OCD(4) s.v. (pp.438-9). Also (e.g.) one of Demosthenes' wicked uncles (see under delta 456); and Alexander the Great's …Matched in noteshighshort
δ117Δαιμόνιος ὁρμήdivine impulse… is perhaps a reflection of daimoni/h tis gi/netai o(rmh/ in Herodotus 7.18.3 (Artabanus' vision). [1] Likewise, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1506ΔράπωνDrapon, Drapo… for drape/ths, 'runaway slave' (delta 1503) by the following sources: Herodian Gr. 1.34 (cf. LSJ); Zonaras, Lexicon delta p.570.19; Arcadius, de Accentibus p.13.22; Theognostus, Canones §186.7. There seems no reason to doubt them.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1347ΔολώνειαDoloneia, Dolonia… is used in the scholia to Homer and by Aelian, Herodian, Eustathius and others for the "lay" of Dolon in Iliad book 10 (delta 1345); cf. e.g. Odysseia (Odyssey), Diomedeia, Giganteia, Heracleia. (Still commonly …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1357ΔόμορdomorComparable entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (920). This enigmatic unglossed headword is otherwise unattested, but compare Hesychius delta2182, do/mortis: gunh/, and especially ps.-Herodian, do/mortis: gunh/ tis. The latter suggests (to DW) …Matched in noteshighshort