Skip to content
Σ
ReadSuda
Browse
Topics
Random
About
Aa
Settings
Searching…
⌕
Search
Α
Letters
⤨
Random
Aa
Settings
Keyboard shortcuts
j
Next entry
k
Previous entry
g
Toggle Greek
/
Search
?
Show shortcuts
Close
Search
Search the Suda
⌕
Search
All
Headwords
Translation
Greek
Notes
Filters (1)
Keyword
definition
89
dialects, grammar, and etymology
67
philosophy
63
ethics
53
biography
52
imagery
39
geography
38
religion
33
daily life
29
historiography
29
rhetoric
27
poetry
24
31 more
zoology
24
women
20
comedy
19
chronology
17
gender and sexuality
17
history
16
medicine
16
mythology
16
epic
14
science and technology
14
economics
13
law
13
Letter
✓
Κ
kappa
128
Vetting status
high
128
Length
Short
99
Medium
27
Long
2
Translator
David Whitehead
26
Catharine Roth
24
Nick Nicholas
24
Marcelo Boeri
8
Robert Dyer
7
Jennifer Benedict
5
21 more
Malcolm Heath
5
William Hutton
5
Ryan Stone
4
Jeffery Murphy
2
Ross Scaife ✝
2
128 entries for
philo
Relevance
Adler order
Longest first
Letter: kappa
×
Clear all
κ
2709
Κυνικὴ φιλοσοφία
Cynic philosophy
See under 'Antisthenes'.
Matched in headword
high
short
κ
2550
Κοινὰ τὰ τῶν φίλων
the property of friends is common property
They say that Pythagoras the
philosopher
persuaded those who associated with him as students to pool their property -- hence the proverb.
Matched in translation
high
short
κ
1210
Καί τοι σ' οὐκ ἐρῶ γ' ὡς οὐ φιλῶ
and indeed I will not say that I do not love you
That is, I am not hiding my desire.
Matched in headword
high
tragedy
tragedy
13
13
food
11
food
11
meter and music
11
meter and music
11
trade and manufacture
11
trade and manufacture
11
politics
10
politics
10
clothing
9
clothing
9
proverbs
9
proverbs
9
military affairs
8
military affairs
8
botany
7
botany
7
Christianity
7
Christianity
7
agriculture
6
agriculture
6
children
6
children
6
athletics
5
athletics
5
constitution
5
constitution
5
architecture
3
architecture
3
dreams
3
dreams
3
mathematics
3
mathematics
3
aetiology
2
aetiology
2
art history
2
art history
2
Alex Gottesman
Alex Gottesman
1
1
Alexandra Trachsel
1
Alexandra Trachsel
1
Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝
1
Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝
1
Bret Mulligan
1
Bret Mulligan
1
Claudia Mársico
1
Claudia Mársico
1
D. Graham J. Shipley
1
D. Graham J. Shipley
1
Ioannis Doukas
1
Ioannis Doukas
1
Konstantinos Kopanias
1
Konstantinos Kopanias
1
Nathan Greenberg ✝
1
Nathan Greenberg ✝
1
Norita Dobyns
1
Norita Dobyns
1
Robert de Brose
1
Robert de Brose
1
Ronald Allen
1
Ronald Allen
1
Steven Embree
1
Steven Embree
1
Susan Shapiro
1
Susan Shapiro
1
Tony Natoli
1
Tony Natoli
1
Wm. Blake Tyrrell
1
Wm. Blake Tyrrell
1
short
κ
2549
Κοινὰ τὰ τῶν φίλων
the property of friends is common property
Timaeus says in his 9th [book] that this [proverb] originated in Magna Graecia, in the period when Pythagoras persuaded those settling there to hold property undistributed [to private owners]. Menander uses the proverb in …
Matched in headword
high
short
κ
2341
Κράτης
Krates, Crates
Son of Askondas, a Theban, a Cynic
philosopher,
a student of Diogenes and Bryson the Achaean. He liquidated his property and gave the money to a money-changer, telling him that if his sons were …
Matched in translation
high
medium
κ
400
Καρνεάδης
Karneades, Carneades
A Libyan, from Cyrene, the son of
Philokomos;
a
philosopher.
The very man from whom the New Academy originated. They say that when he died, the moon suffered an eclipse and the sun grew …
Matched in translation
high
short
κ
848
Καταφιλοσοφῶν
out-philosophizing
[Used] with a genitive. [Meaning someone] winning by silence.
Matched in headword
high
short
κ
2342
Κράτης
Crates, Krates
Son of Timocrates; of Mallus; Stoic
philosopher.
He was nicknamed 'Homeric' and 'Critic' because of his intense engagement in grammatical and poetic discourses. A contemporary of Aristarchus the grammarian, in the time of Ptolemy …
Matched in translation
high
short
κ
1043
Κατηδολέσχησά σου
I wearied you with my prattling
… 32 (p.40.9 Bidez-Cumont). For a similar phrase, again in a
philosophical
context, see Plutarch, Moralia 503B (from the de Garrulitate), an anecdote about Aristotle wearied with the talk of an interlocutor. As in Julian's …
Matched in notes
high
short
κ
1714
Κλέαρχος
Klearchos, Clearchus
… a young man to hear Plato. Declaring a thirst for
philosophy
and associating with her [i.e.
Philosophy]
for a short time (for he was hateful to the gods) this Klearchos saw in a dream …
Matched in translation
high
medium
κ
2098
Κορνοῦτος
Cornutus
… [sc. now] virtually nobody knows him. This Cornutus [was] a
philosopher
from Leptis; Leptis [is] a city of Libya; he lived in Rome at the time of [sc. the emperor] Nero, by whose orders …
Matched in translation
high
medium
κ
1711
Κλεάνθης
Kleanthes, Cleanthes
… Zeno, whose successor he became. He was mentor of the
philosopher
Chrysippus of Soloi and of Antigonos the king. This man was at first a boxer, but after he had gone to Athens he …
Matched in translation
high
medium
κ
912
Κατεγλωττισμένον
tongued-down (?tongue-engaged); (sunk) under too many glosses (far-fetched).
… dictionary word. Properly a 'tongued-down' is the tongue-in kiss. And
Philostratus
[writes]: "But Apollonius cultivated a style of discourse not dithyrambic and swollen with poetic words nor sunk under too many glosses and full …
Matched in translation
high
medium
κ
2712
Κυνισμός
Cynicism
A
philosophical
school. Its definition [is] "a short-cut road to virtue". The goal of Cynicism is to live according to virtue, as Diogenes and Zeno of Citium say. The Cynics held that one should …
Matched in translation
high
medium
κ
1305
Κελσῖνος
Kelsinos, Celsinus
Son of Eudoros, of Kastabala,
philosopher.
He wrote a Collection of the views of every
philosophical
school; etc.
Matched in translation
high
short
κ
1852
Κνάπτω
I card
When someone came to Xenocrates the
philosopher
to study
philosophy,
although he knew neither geometry nor astronomy, [Xenocrates] said: "here with me [ = in my school] wool is not carded".
Matched in translation
high
short
κ
1273
Κεκρύφαλον
hairnet
… 1273. [5] Greek Anthology 6.206.3-4 (Antipater of Sidon). The adjective
filo/plektos
"tending to be braided" is usually taken to be a corruption of
filo/plagktos,
"errant, straying". The phrase "dyed with flowers of the grey …
Matched in notes
high
short
κ
1252
Κεκομψευμένος
ingenious
… passive sense) (LSJ s.v.). The former sense is exemplified by
Philo
Judaeus, De migratione Abrahami 75.6: oi( ta\ politika\ kekomyeume/noi, "those who are smart about politics". The latter is exemplified by Plato, Philebus 56C: …
Matched in notes
high
short
κ
2647
Κυκλίων τε χορῶν ᾀσματοκάμπας
and tune-benders of cyclic choruses.
… is hinting at the associates of Cinesias and Cleomenes and
Philoxenos,
who composed dithyrambs. He means that the composers of dithyrambs were also sophists; for these men were the producers of the cyclic choruses. …
Matched in translation
high
medium
κ
2116
Κορυβαντιᾷ
celebrates the Korybant rites, is in a frenzy
… The headword must be quoted from somewhere. Extant possibilities include:
Philo
Judaeus, On Dreams 2.1; Themistius, *basanisth\s h)\
filo/sofos
253a; Libanius, Letters 299.2; Palladius, Dialogue on the Life of Chrysostom p. 138 Coleman-Norton. [2] …
Matched in notes
high
short
κ
2602
Κύβος
cube (six-sided gambling die or a square face or pip (spot) on such a die)
… Rome, may have been of cubic form (R. Eisler, "Kuba-Kybele,"
Philologus
68 (1909) 118-151, 161-209, suggesting an etymology from the same root as the sacred Ka'aba in Mecca). [4] Greek Anthology 5.25.3-4, attributed to …
Matched in notes
high
medium
κ
189
Καλάβροψ
crook
… down (ka/tw r(e/pein). "To direct the animal with a crook"
(Philostratus);
"which you see him applying to the animal like a hook."
Matched in translation
high
short
κ
1891
Κνυζώσω
I will darken
… out) by Herodian, De prosodia catholica p. 444 Lentz (citing
Philoxenus
fr. 120 Theodoridis) and Orion [Author, Myth], Etymologicum s.v. knuzou=n. The Etymologicum Gudianum s.v. knuzhqmo/s goes further to a)xreiou=n "damage, disable". The Suda's …
Matched in notes
high
short
κ
308
Κανηφόροι
basket-carriers
Philochorus
says that it was during the reign of Erichthonios that virgins of good repute were first appointed to carry the baskets containing the requisites for the sacrifice to the goddess, in both the …
Matched in translation
high
short
κ
826
Κατατομή
scarp
… Against Demosthenes [writes]: "and sitting below by the scarp". And
Philochorus
[writes]: "and he inscribed [it] on the scarp of the rock".
Matched in translation
high
short
κ
882
Καταψήσας
caressing, having caressed
… and caressing them, he urged them to be cheerful." And
Philostratus
[writes]: "and caressing the ears of the horse and its mane."
Matched in translation
high
short
κ
1723
Κλεομένης
Kleomenes, Cleomenes
This man devised a plot against Ptolemy
Philopator;
though he came to a bad end, he had been a man both adroit in his dealings and adept in his management of affairs -- in …
Matched in translation
high
short
κ
1896
Κοβαλεία
roguery
… behaves like that. [sc. The term] seems synonymous with buffoon.
Philochorus
in [book] two of the Atthis [writes]: "for it is not to be thought that, [as] some say, Dionysos became a sort of …
Matched in translation
high
short
κ
2266
Κῶμός
revelry
… the revelry comes a drunken man not rustic in voice."
Philostratus
[sc. writes this].
Matched in translation
high
short
κ
165
Κακοπινέστατον
filthiest, most filthy, very filthy
… (where the headword appears: web address 1 below). [3] Sophocles,
Philoctetes
945-949 (web address 2 below); cf. kappa 346. The quoted lines do not contain the headword, so the reason for their inclusion in …
Matched in notes
high
medium
Page 1 of 5
Next →