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δ71ΔαρετίουDaretianGreek Anthology 6.214.2-4 (Simonides) -- but the headword Daretiou, extracted from it, is otherwise unattested, and problematical. Beckby's text of the Anthology prints dareikou= (cf. delta 72, delta 73). Arguably more attractive, though, is …Matched in noteshighshort
δ85Δασπλῆταfrightful, hellish, horrible… from the epigram about to be quoted but, rather, from Simonides fr. 17 PMG (on Charybdis, chi 144). [2] Greek Anthology 5.241.3-4 (Paul the Silentiary), on the anguish of parting from a lover. See …Matched in noteshighshort
δ238ΔέξιπποςDexippos, Dexippus… considerable intellectual coterie at the Hecatomnid court; see in brief Simon Hornblower in The Cambridge Ancient History (second edition) 6.231. For Hecatomnus see epsilon 367.

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"[I say Gelon, Hieron, Polyzelus and Thrasybulus] dedicated a tripod of a hundred litrae and fifty talents' [weight] of Daretian gold, the tithe of a tithe."

Δαρετίου· τὸν τρίποδ' ἀνθέμεναι ἐξ ἑκατὸν λιτρῶν καὶ πεντήκοντα ταλάντων Δαρετίου χρυσοῦ τὰς δεκάτας δεκάταν.

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δ705Διαπλώσαςhaving sailed through… 437, tau 393, and chi 518) and 7.24 (attributed to Simonides; see gamma 192, eta 304, and lambda 126); cf. Gow and Page (43). On whether the couplet should be appended to 7.23 and …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1405ΔοσίθεοςDositheos, Dositheus… (a.k.a. Nathaniel) the Samaritan and Gnostic, reputedly the teacher of Simon Magus - St Dositheos of Gaza, a monk of the sixth century CE - an object of erotic love in Greek Anthology 12.130Matched in noteshighshort

δ1605Δυσδιάλλακτονhard to reconcile… onwards. As a lyric composition, the qrh=nos was developed by Simonides and Pindar and, later, in tragedy, where it acquired an important function.Matched in noteshighshort