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Λευκή τις ἀνεπήδησ' ὅμοιος Νικίᾳ
someone white like Nikias sprang up
… from the scholia on the line follows. This early-fourth-century (BCE)
Nikias
is taken to be a grandson of the ill-fated general of that name (kappa 1731, lambda 557, mu 534, nu 389, pi 542, …
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557
Λιμὸς Μηλιαῖος
Melian famine, Melian hunger, Melian starvation
… Thucydides 5.84.3 lists the Athenian generals as Kleomedes and Teisias;
Nikias
was among the commanders in an earlier raid on the island (Thuc. 3.91.1f.), whence perhaps the confusion. [2] Translating the transmitted kata\ pa/ntwn. …
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131
Λαρυγγιῶ
I will throttle
… occurs: "I will throttle the orators and I will harass
Nikias".
See web address 1. (For
Nikias
see nu 389.) cf. lambda 130.
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312
Λευγαλέας
baneful
… 13.97 (where the genitive singular occurs). [2] Greek Anthology 6.270.3-4
(Nicias:
addressed to the goddess of childbirth). Read oi(= "her" instead of the Suda's toi "you". [3] cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 21.281.
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