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Robert Dyer29
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ε2360Ἐπικεκηρυχέναιto have proclaimed a price on someone's headAbridged from Harpokration s.v., commenting on the appearance of the headword -- a perfect infinitive -- in Demosthenes 19.22 (cf. 35, 74): D. claims that the Thebans had done this to Aeschines. On Xerxes, …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2054Ἐπενεγκώνbringing a charge againstThe headword is the aorist active participle, masculine nominative singular, of the compound verb e)pife/rw. (For this sense of it see generally LSJ s.v., I.3.) It is perhaps extracted from the quotation given here, …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2360

Ἐπικεκηρυχέναι

to have proclaimed a price on someone's head

Whenever a city or a ruler wanted someone outside their control to be done away with, an announcement used to be made promising money to the man who did away with him or took him alive; an example is the proclamation of…

Ἐπικεκηρυχέναι· ὁπότε βούλοιτο πόλις ἢ ἄρχων ἀναιρεθῆναί τινα τῶν μὴ ὑφ' ἑαυτοῖς, ἐκήρυττε δώσειν χρήματα τῷ ἀνελόντι ἢ καὶ ζῶντα προσαγαγόντι· καθὰ καὶ Ξέρξην ἐπεκήρυξαν οἱ…

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trade and manufacture102

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Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝11

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Stefano Sanfilippo10

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D. Graham J. Shipley9

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Oliver Phillips ✝2

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Richard Rodriguez2

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Wm. Blake Tyrrell2

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Timothy Pepper1

ε1482

Ἐν τῷ μέρει τις καὶ τὸ πῦρ σκαλευσάτω

let someone also take a turn to poke the fire

Comica adespota fr. 568 Kock, but not in K.-A.. [1] Quotation (illustrative of the first part of the headword phrase; see also epsilon 1483) unidentifiable.

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ε197Ἔδαισενgave a feast [for someone]Same or similar entry in other lexica. The headword is aorist active, third person singular, of dai/numi. (The aorist middle of this verb follows at epsilon 198.) Latte on Hesychius s.v. regards it as …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2709Ἐπιτολμῆσαιto make a daring attack on[1] The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is aorist active infinitive of the compound verb e)pitolma/w. For another instance of it with the dative see under alpha 4218. [2] Aelian fr. 262 …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2301ἘπιδοκιμάζωI make trial of [someone or something on behalf of someone else]From a syntactic source. The compound verb e)pidokima/zw [see delta 1327, delta 1328 for the simple dokima/zw] is so rare as to merit no entry in LSJ. Besides here, it is attested only once, …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2255Ἐπὶ βύρσης ἐκαθέζετοhe was sitting on a hideApostolius 7.75; Appendix Proverbiorum 2.80; cf. Lucian, Toxaris 47-50. [1] Imperfect in a past general condition is to be found in classical usage (see Smyth's Greek Grammar, §2342 [web address 1]), though the use …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε2080Ἐπέσειενwas brandishing against… e)pisei/w; presumably extracted from the quotation which follows (though it, as given, lacks the headword's nu ephelkustikon). [2] Source unknown, although Callimachus has been suggested (anonymous fr.25 Schneider; not accepted by Pfeiffer), as has …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3442Εὐερμίαgood fortune, a stroke of luck from Hermescf. Photius, Lexicon epsilon2153 (without the quotations), and, more briefly under eu)ermh/s, Hesychius epsilon6804. Photius records a related verb eu)ernw= (epsilon2156), unattested and probably in error for eu)erme/w, for which see Pollux 5.135. [Theodoridis …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1047Ἔμπορός εἰμι σκηπτόμενοςI am a merchant-shipper as an excuseFor 'merchant-shipper' see already epsilon 1045, epsilon 1046. The present entry draws on the scholia to Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 1027 and/or Plutus [Wealth] 904) where something very similar to the headword phrase appears. (The headword …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1136Ἐναύεινto kindle, to light a fireThe headword is present infinitive of the verb e)nau/w; again epsilon 1137, and cf. Hesychius epsilon2705, epsilon2708, epsilon2709. [1] Polybius 9.40.5 (web address 1 below). The passage, though incomplete in the manuscript transmission, tells …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε1150Ἐν γῇ πένεσθαι μᾶλλον ἢ πλουτοῦντα πλεῖνbetter to be a poor man on land than to make a voyage as a rich oneAntiphanes fr. 101 Kock, now 290 K.-A.; Diogenianus 4.83 and other paroemiographers. cf. eta 5.Matched in noteshighshort

ε3191Ἐσπείσατοmade libations [with someone][1] The headword is aorist middle of spe/ndw, third person singular. (It must be quoted from somewhere; there are numerous possibilities.) The middle voice is used for pouring libations with someone, as a way …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1061Ἐμοὶ δὲ τοιοῦτον ἔργον ἔστ' εἰργασμένονsuch a deed have I accomplished as to stop the mouths of each and every one of my enemies as long as there is anything left of the shields from PylosAristophanes, Knights 844-46 (web address 1), with comment from the scholia there. For Kleon see generally kappa 1731. For his military success at Pylos and Sphacteria, in the SW Peloponnese, see generally Thucydides 4.1-41 …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3073Ἐρρῶσθαι φράσαςhaving told [someone] farewell… variously, in other lexica. For the phrase fra/zein e)rrw=sqai, which (at least in classical Greek) has a more positive tone than the glosses here suggest (and cf. under chi 162), see e.g. Plato, Phaedo …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3907Ἐφησθέντεςhaving exulted over [someone]See also epsilon 3908, as well as epsilon 3892, epsilon 3893, epsilon 3894. For a different dialect form, see epsilon 2212. [1] This primary headword, e)fhsqe/ntes, is the aorist passive participle, masculine nominative plural, …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2426ἘπικύδηςEpikydes, EpicydesAppian, Sikelika fr. 3, on Sicilian affairs in 215/214 BCE. [1] Hippokrates was born at Carthage into an exiled Syracusan family. During the Second Punic War he returned to Syracuse and urged the city …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε94Ἐγκεχρέαhave dashed against(?)Same entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (80). The headword, otherwise unattested, is perhaps a non-standard perfect form of the rare verb e)gxra/w (hence the hypothetical translation offered for the headword). Adler …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2215Ἐπήσπαιρενwas panting, was struggling againstThe headword is attested nowhere else (although Adler cites something comparable in Codex Laurentianus 59.16 for the entry as a whole). It is translated here as if it were a lapse for e)pe/spairen (imperfect …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3971Ἔφυγον κακόν εὗρον ἄμεινονthey escaped a bad thing [and] found a betterThe entry explains a proverb that was apparently spoken at Athenian weddings (though not only there: see n.1 below). It is debatable how ancient the custom was. Nilsson ('Wedding Rites' 248-9) argues that it …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε1257Ἐνέρσει κρώβυλον ἀναδούμενοιtying up their hair in a knot with a fastenerSimilarly in a scholion on Thucydides 1.6.5, where the headword phrase occurs (on early Athenian hairstyles). See also kappa 2488, kappa 2489, kappa 2490. The noun e)/nersis in the dative appears also at epsilon …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1422Ἐν παραβύστῳin a corner, in a closet[1] Procopius, Secret History 1.17 (web address 1), on Antonina and Theodosius; cf. epsilon 671, alpha 3955. The passage quoted at kappa 1103 immediately follows this; cf. Kaldellis (Secret History, 6-7). On Antonina and …Matched in noteshighshort

ε232ἘδιδαξάμηνI had [someone] taughtThe headword is quoted from Aristophanes, Clouds 1338 (web address 1), where Strepsiades says this bitterly to his son Pheidippides after the latter's instruction in sophistry: "so I had you taught to speak against …Matched in noteshighshort

ε880Ἕλκει μοιχὸς εἰς μοιχόνa seducer drags into a seducerSo the transmitted text, which would require a meaning something like the pot calling the kettle black. But cf. mu 1360 (and Zenobius 4.67), which leave little doubt that it should be "a seducer …Matched in noteshighshort

ε174Ἐγχέλεις θηρώμενος(someone) hunting eelsFrom a scholion on Aristophanes, Knights 865 (where a plural version of the present headword phrase occurs: web address 1). For eels see also epsilon 175.Matched in noteshighshort

ε2563Ἐπὶ σημείουon a pole, on a standardSame entry in Photius and other lexica. The headword phrase is almost certainly extracted from a frequently quoted passage in the Septuagint: Numbers 21.8-9 (Moses, under instruction from God, makes a brass serpent and …Matched in noteshighshort

ε989Ἐμιτρώσατοput on a girdle, put on a headband… The headword must be quoted from somewhere (other than the Aristophanes passage given, which has another verb altogether) but is not independently attested. The word mitra can refer to a sash around the waist …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3768Εὐτειχεῖ πάγῳon a well-walled hill; with a well-walled hillSame or similar entries in other lexica; and cf. a scholion on Homer, Iliad 1.129, where Troy is called 'well-walled' (eu)tei/xeon: web address 1). For parallel usage, see Euripides, Andromache 1010 (web address 2). …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3139ἘσθήρEstherSummary of the biblical Book of Esther; cf. already under alpha 1483 and epsilon 3121. [1] The name of the king is in the Hebrew אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ ʾaḥašwerōš (Latin Ahasuerus), which seems to reflect a …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε2715ἘπιτοπίζωI relocate (someone or something)Same lemma, according to Adler, in the lexicon of Codex Laurentianus 59.16. Otherwise it (and indeed this compound verb) is unattested. [1] (Glossing synonym lacking, Adler reports, in mss FV.) On katoiki/zw in the …Matched in noteshighshort

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