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51 entries for a plot [against someone]

κ955Κατεξαναστάντες τοῦ μέλλοντοςon their guard against the future… as no forms of the verb katecani/stamai (I rise up against, am on my guard against; cf. LSJ s.v., web address 1) occur elsewhere in Polybius, both Schweighäuser and Dindorf maintained doubts about the …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1723ΚλεομένηςKleomenes, Cleomenes… to Alexandria, meeting his death in 219 after a failed plot against the Macedonian king of Egypt, Ptolemy IV Philopator, named here. [1] alpha 2345.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1507Κηλητήρια ᾄσματαcharming songs, enchanting songs… Nicetas Eugenianus, Drosilla and Charicles 6.590-591 "Who will say that someone who drank a vessel of poison will take part in a charming song?" [1] Quotation unidentifiable. (Adler suggests Aelian.)Matched in noteshighshort
κ428Καρτερόςmighty… phrases like karterw/teros ma/xh|, 'more mighty in battle' (Aeschylus Seven against Thebes 517: web address 2).Matched in noteshighshort
κ1573Κιβδηλίαadulteration, dishonesty… silver content; debasing coinage is in turn the action of someone wicked (though not obviously envious) --- hence the metaphorical use of the term in Aristophanes, noted below. [2] A distortion of the folk …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1202ΚαισάριοςKaisarios, Caesarius… Gregory of Nazianzus (gamma 450). [2] That is to say, against the pagans.Matched in noteshighshort
κ2776ΚῦροςKuros, Kyros, Cyrus… been characterized as 'the focal point of pagan intellectual reaction against Christianity' (Browne 177, 192). Nevertheless, Christianity undoubtedly exercised a strong influence on Panopolis - witness its proximity to the White Monastery – and …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ1038Κατηγορευκόταhaving accused… from its only extant occurrence outside lexica (Cyril of Alexandria, Against Julian, prologue 5). cf. kappa 509 (and, for headword and gloss reversed, kappa 1034 and kappa 1035).Matched in noteshighshort
κ1084Κατομνύςhaving sworn… (and individual) unidentifiable. The idiom of swearing by something or someone in the genitive case, as opposed to the accusative, is striking enough to be noted by LSJ s.v. kato/mnumi.Matched in noteshighshort
κ826Κατατομήscarp… by a failure to distinguish between the two. [1] Hyperides, Against Demosthenes 9, referring to D. himself. [2] Philochorus FGrH 328 F58 (another context altogether).Matched in noteshighshort
κ2174ΚούβρικοςKoubrikos, Cubricus, The Pious, Mani; Manichaean… 'crows' (of a cock); it is here apparently used of someone who follows Mani’s teachings, i.e. a Manichaean. The Christian sources used such names to belittle Mani as a foreigner, to dismiss his claim …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1200ΚαισαρεύςCaesareanSomeone from a city (of which there were several, e.g. kappa 1201) called Caesarea/Kaisareia. For such individuals see beta 259, pi 819, pi 2479.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1632Κινδυνεύειis in danger, is at risk… seeking advantage; so that when the many happen to fight against them out of necessity, they should not be put at risk by bad luck; rather they should consider it impossible to be in …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2200Κουφότερος κονιορτοῦ καὶ ἀσθενέστεροςlighter than dust and weakerEvidently a quotation (applying to someone or something in the nominative singular), but unidentifiable. For 'dust' cf. kappa 2036, kappa 2037.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1342Κεντροτύποςstriking with a goad… two glosses make a distinction between a passive "goad-struck" (i.e. someone deserving torture, like ke/ntrwn, kappa 1344), and an active "goad-striker" (e.g. charioteer); these should be distinguished by accent (kentro/tupos vs. kentrotu/pos, LSJ s.v.), …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1021Κατεχειροτόνησαν αὐτοῦthey voted to convict him… sigma 830), in 406 BCE, to participate in the action against the Arginousai generals, see Xenophon, Hellenica 1.7.15 (web address 3), Memorabilia 1.1.18, 4.4.2 (web addresses 4 and 5); Plato, Apology 32B (web address …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ1153Καχλάζειbubbles… glossing in Hesychius (kappa1135, kappa1938) and scholia to Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, where the headword twice occurs (115, 761: web addresses 1 and 2).Matched in noteshighshort
κ1620ΚίμωνKimon, Cimon… the Eurymedon victory include: Thucydides 1.100.1; Plato, Menexenus 241D; Lycurgus, Against Leocrates 72-73; Diodorus Siculus 11.60.5-11.62; Plutarch, Cimon 12.2-13.6; Nepos, Cimon 2.2-4; Pausanias 1.29.14, 10.15.4. [4] no/mw| pole/mou; cf. e)s xeirw=n no/mon a)pike/sqai at …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ1344Κέντρωνrogue… 1342. The word ke/ntrwn (LSJ s.v. I) means "rogue" as "someone tortured (deservingly) with a goad"; it appears in Aristophanes, Clouds 450. The form "goad-strikers" is introduced to explain the derivation of ke/ntrwn. The …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2275Κωνειαζομέναιςwomen dosed with hemlock… very probably (as twice in Stobaeus) from a mention of someone or something 'in' Menander's comedy of this name.Matched in noteshighshort
κ815Κατατεθήπεσανthey were astonished [at]… somewhere, and Theodoridis on Photius s.v. nominates Cyril of Alexandria, Against Julian 6 (PG 76.832a). Most of the attested instances of this verb are in Cyril's works.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1110Κατῳκοδόμησενbuilt inIsaeus fr. 23 Sauppe, from the lost speech Against Diokles. Harpokration s.v. gives this reference in full, and there is no good case for thinking that it was meant to be Isaeus 8.41. See …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2419Κρίκεcreaked… the scholia there, but it looks like a guess that someone might have made on the basis of that verse. *kri/ke is an isolated second aorist (third person singular, unaugmented) of the onomatopoetic verb …Matched in noteshighshort
κ968Κατεπίττωσανthey pitch-treated… given) is aorist active of katapi/ttw/katapi/ssw, third person plural. [2] Someone else's children, not their own. [3] Hercher related this quotation to Aelian fr. 135, 138a and 138b Domingo-Forasté, (for which see alpha 3669, …Matched in noteshighshort
κ60Κάθετοςlowered-down… concerned is an ox (offered to Poseidon), but he counsels against any assumption that the same ritual is involved.Matched in noteshighshort
κ2093Κόριονlittle girl… kw/rion, in Aristophanes, Acharnians 731. Recommended by Phrynichus, Eclogae 50, against kora/sion.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1814Κλισιάδεςfront-doors, street-doors… usage in Herodotus 9.9.2: if the Athenians side with Persia against Sparta in 480, this will open great klisia/des into the Peloponnese. Moeris' Attic Lexicon defines klisia/des as "two-door gates in Attic"; the term …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2270Κωμῳδολοιχῶν περὶ τὸν εὖ πράττοντ' ἀείalways clown-licking the man who is prospering… 'playing the parasite' in LSJ s.v., i.e. sucking up to someone.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1335Κέντοροςof a goader, of a driver… Mentor' should have been 'of Kentor' [of a goader]: for someone rich in horses will be used to goading." For the nominative plural ke/ntores see Homer, Iliad 4.391, 5.102, and in epigrams.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1052Κατηναρισμέναςhaving been slaughtered… archaic poetry. In Homer, Iliad 4.137, it describes a protection against thrown arms, whereas in Hesiod, Works and Days 536 it means a protection from snow. The present occurrence is the only attestation of …Matched in noteshighmedium