Skip to contentFilters (1)
- ε1544ἘξανθρωπίζωI humanizeExamples in Plutarch as well as Christian writers.Matched in noteshighshort
- ε1207ἘνεαρίζωI spend spring inLikewise in syntactical lexica. Example in Plutarch, Moralia 770B.Matched in noteshighshort
- ε3222ἙστιεῖςHestieis… epsilon 3220), on the Aegean island of Euboea (epsilon 3382); Plutarch, Pericles 23.4.Matched in noteshighshort
- ε1072Ἐμφέρειαresemblance… similar entry in other lexica. For the headword see e.g. Plutarch, Tiberius Gracchus 2.1. cf. generally epsilon 1073, epsilon 1074.Matched in noteshighshort
- ε3343ἘτυμοκλῆςEtymokles, Etymocles… Spartan prominent in the 370s BC; mentioned by Xenophon and Plutarch. (Also attested as a Spartan name in Greek Anthology 7.720.)Matched in noteshighshort
- ε157Ἐγγώνιος τράπεζαright-angled table… 108 Hercher (quoted also at iota 423 and mu 321). 'Plutarch' is his fr. 180 Sandbach.Matched in noteshighmedium
- ε1634Ἐξ ἐπιπέδουon level ground… the equivalent of the Latin de plano -- see e.g. Plutarch, Pyrrhus 21.9.Matched in noteshighshort
- ε1968Ἐπανῃρημένοςhaving taken upon oneself… -- must be quoted from somewhere. (Extant instances begin with Plutarch, Comparison of Alcibiades and Coriolanus 2.7.)Matched in noteshighshort
- ε2155Ἐπηβολώτατοςmost capable, most skilled… singular. It must be quoted from somewhere: extant possibilities include Plutarch (Aratus 10.3) and Synesius (Epistle 148).Matched in noteshighshort
- ε2971Ἐρήριπτοhas fallen in ruins… quoted from somewhere; there are instances in historians (Josephus, Arrian, Plutarch, Agathias).Matched in noteshighshort
- ε3615Εὐόργητοςgood-tempered… in (e.g.) Aristotle, Magna Moralia 1186a (noted by Theodoridis), and Plutarch, Moralia 413C. For the related adverb see epsilon 3616.Matched in noteshighshort
- ε773Ἐλεγεῖονelegaic, elegiac… (And, here, the accusative case.) For this equivalence see e.g. Plutarch, Solon 8.2.Matched in noteshighshort
- ε3085ἙρσηλίαHerselia, Erselia, Hersilia… mentioned in accounts of the Rape of the Sabine Women (Plutarch, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, et al.)Matched in noteshighshort
- ε2588Ἐπισκότησιςdarkening, obscurity… sun in an eclipse; there are well-known instances in (e.g.) Plutarch's lives of Pericles and Nicias. In ps.-Zonaras this headword does have a gloss (evidently drawn from a source other than the Suda): "to …Matched in noteshighshort
- ε1008Ἐμπεδωθῆναιto be grounded, to be ratified… must be quoted from somewhere else; extant possibilities begin with Plutarch. cf. generally epsilon 1005, epsilon 1009.Matched in noteshighshort
- ε2192Ἐπῃωρεῖτοwas being lifted up… ai)wre/w. It must be quoted from somewhere -- perhaps from Plutarch, whose four instances of it are the only ones attested outside the present entry. cf. alphaiota 264, alphaiota 265, epsilon 1896, epsilon 1898; …Matched in noteshighshort
- ε2196Ἐπηράσαντοthey called down curses… epsilon 3584. The 'him' is Alkibiades (alpha 1280); cf. generally Plutarch, Alcibiades 22 and 33 (and Nepos Alcibiades 4.5).Matched in noteshighshort
- ε556Ἐκ παραλλήλουby comparison, parallelwise, side by side… be quoted from somewhere; extant possibilities begin, perhaps appropriately, with Plutarch (Comparison of Agis & Cleomenes and the Gracchi 1).Matched in noteshighshort
- ε2099Ἐπευωνίζωνlowering a price… (PG 29.269b) but there are several other possibilities (in e.g. Plutarch, Philo Judaeus, Cassius Dio). The gloss assumes a (common-sense) principle that lowering the price increases sales volume.Matched in noteshighshort
- ε2927Ἐρέμβοντοthey were roaming… It is presumably extracted from the quotation given here (though Plutarch has another instance). [1] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.Matched in noteshighshort
- ε979Ἐμήδισανthey medized… from 490 BCE, see generally Herodotus 7.174 (cf. 7.172); cf. Plutarch, Moralia 868D.Matched in noteshighshort
- ε3729ΕὐρύσακεςBroadshield, Eurysakes, Eurysaces… in the vocative, from the quotation which follows. See also Plutarch, Solon 10 (and epsilon 3730). [1] Similarly already in Hesychius. [2] Sophocles, Ajax 574-6 (web address 1); cf. pi 2089.Matched in noteshighshort
- ε2023Ἐπέβρισενpressed down, pressed on… of this form, with or without the nu-moveable, is in Plutarch, De fortuna Romanorum 321F (where the sense is figurative -- as, of course, it may also be here). cf. epsilon 2250, epsilon 2251.Matched in noteshighshort
- ε3225Ἔστιξανthey tattooed… well-known passage of Herodotus, 7.233.2: web address 1), quoted in Plutarch's On the Malignity of Herodotus 866F, so it might be extracted from there. Alternatively, from some account of a notorious (but possibly apocryphal) …Matched in noteshighshort
- ε66Ἐγκαθειργνύντεςshutting up… period; rarer earlier but some instances in e.g. Josephus and Plutarch; see LSJ s.v.Matched in noteshighshort
- ε2215Ἐπήσπαιρενwas panting, was struggling against… person singular, of e)pispai/rw), which is itself attested only at Plutarch, Alexander the Great: Luck or Virtue? 327C (at the time of A's departure for the East Hellas 'was still panting' over the wars …Matched in noteshighshort
- ε413Ἐκκεκυμασμένουςhaving been washed out… see LSJ s.v., with examples from Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Plutarch.Matched in noteshighshort
- ε3383Εὔβοτονwell-pastured… eu)/botos gh=); and suitable feminines can be found in e.g. Plutarch, Alexander 59.1 (on the Indian moira of Taxiles/Omphis).Matched in noteshighshort
- ε1481Ἐντὸς ἑβδόμηςbefore (the) seventh… the month: explicit in Hesychius, Zenobius and Photius. (Contrast e.g. Plutarch, Marius 17.11, where e)nto\s e)bdo/mhs h(me/ras refers to the tribune Aulus Pompeius dying 'within a week'.)Matched in noteshighshort
- ε3648Εὖ πεφυκώςnaturally gifted… as well as in other authors (e.g. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Plutarch). [1] An abbreviation of Polybius 10.14.9-10 (on Scipio Africanus).Matched in noteshighshort