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μ1065ΜίλιονMilion, milestone… images of the Hippodrome and a portrait of his favorite charioteer (Vita S. Stephani iunioris, PG 100,1172; Grabar 1957, pp.48-49). Because of its prominent location at the intersection of the Mese and Augusteion, many …Matched in noteshighmedium
μ280Ματήσετονthe two would hesitate… Aeneas (OCD(4) s.v. and alphaiota 214) to drive his own chariot into battle, lest the two horses take fright at some critical moment, and thus, without their master's presence, would hesitate to carry the …Matched in noteshighshort
μ562Μεμηλώςattending to… Hesychius mu804 (where the gloss is e)pimelw=s fronti/zwn "concerning oneself carefully") Latte claims the headword as quoted from Homer, Iliad 5.708; a scholion there has dia\ gewrgi/as e)pimelo/menos, o(/pws plouth=| "taking care by farming, …Matched in noteshighshort
μ365Μεγαλομερίαlavishness, munificence, greatness of parts… (Smyth §347). [2] Polybius 1.26.8-9 (web address 1), describing the Carthaginian mobilization (256 BCE) for the Battle of Ecnomus (Eknomos; Barrington atlas map 47 grid D4), a hill near the town of Phintias (present-day …Matched in noteshighmedium
μ555Μεμβλώκατονthey two have come… Hecale fr. 354 Pfeiffer. The verb is glossed as "he cared for" (e)/mellen) in the D Scholia to Homer, Iliad 21.516, and "[he] was taking care" (e)fro/ntizen) in Hesychius. Despite appearances, the two verbs …Matched in noteshighshort
μ506Μελίνηmeline, millet… (ed. Dindorf). [2] Xenophon, Anabasis 1.5.10; near the city of Charmande, on the Euphrates (web address 1). [3] Xenophon, Anabasis 6.6.1 (web address 2).Matched in noteshighshort
μ886Μηδισμὸς ὁ Παυσανίουthe medism of Pausanias… the second quarter of the C5 BCE, which ruined the careers of a Spartan king (P.) and an Athenian war-hero (T.), see principally Thucydides 1.128-138 (web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort
μ360Μεγαλεῖονmagnificent, splendid… masculine and feminine nominative singular at mu 369. [2] The Carthaginian general Mago(n) (243-203 BCE; OCD(4) s.v. Mago(2), and mu 27), whose name appears here in the dative, was the youngest son of Hamilcar …Matched in noteshighshort
μ1308Μοχθηρίαdepravity, nastiness, wickedness… Plutus [Wealth] 159 (web address 1), with scholion: the sarcastic Cario impugns the integrity of boy lovers whom Chremylus contends do not ask, out of decency, for monetary remuneration. Again at pi 1245. [2] …Matched in noteshighshort
μ1305ΜουσώνιοςMusonius (Rufus)… Letter to Theodorus 16. Most mss of Julian read "He cared for Bara," but one ms was found in which the (doubtlessly correct) reading was Gyara, the island of Musonius' exile (cf. beta 114). …Matched in noteshighmedium
μ1057ΜίκυλλοςMikyllos, MicullusA character in Lucian's Cataplus and Gallus.Matched in noteshighshort
μ556Μέμβλωκεhas come… a defence against the midday heat." The gloss "constructed with care" arises from confusion with me/mbleto "he has taken care", already seen in mu 555. It is of course impossible here, as it would …Matched in noteshighshort
μ210ΜάρκιοςMarkios, Marcius… jealous erstwhile ally, the Volscian general Tullus Attius, who brought charges of treason against Coriolanus (Dion.Hal. 8.57.3-4; cf. tau 243). The trial became a lynching, and, before he could commence his defense, Tullus' supporters …Matched in noteshighlong
μ618ΜένωνMenon, Meno… chooses a man of such dubious reputation as the central character of his Meno, to join in asking the question, What is virtue (a)reth/)? Meno is there an example of the a)maqi/a that is …Matched in noteshighmedium
μ287Ματρίκιονblock, tablet… a sturdy block of wood on which names could be carved. Joannes Laurentius Lydus, De mensibus 1.28.Matched in noteshighshort
μ1244Μονῳδίαmonody… [2] The source of this interesting remark is unknown. (For characterisation see generally eta 157.) [3] Tentatively attributed by Adler to Damascius; now Damascius, Life of Isidore fr.391 Zintzen.Matched in noteshighshort
μ83Μακρῷfar beyond, by far… generally LSJ s.v. See also mu 84. [1] Marcus Aurelius Carinus was Emperor (283-285) in the west: cf. kappa 391, delta 1205 note, and see OCD(4) s.v. [2] Quoted approximately from Eunapius fr.4 FHG …Matched in noteshighshort
μ585ΜέμφομαιI blame… 887, epsilon 2471. Alternatively dative (of person and accusative of charge): see LSJ s.v. me/mfomai (Web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort
μ1137ΜιτράνηςMitranesA character in the Ethiopean Story (Aethiopica) -- 2.24.2 and passim -- of Heliodorus (a novel of the third or fourth century CE: see generally E.L. Bowie in OCD(4) s.v. Heliodorus).Matched in noteshighshort
μ1105ΜιξίαςMixias, Meixias… proper name. It it is preserved as that of a character in New Comedy: Comica adespota fr. 250 CGFP, now 1045 K.-A.Matched in noteshighshort
μ1456ΜύρσωνοςMurson's, Myrson's, Myrso's… grammarians, but Myrson itself is e.g. the name of a character in Bion's Bucolica.Matched in noteshighshort
μ265Μάστιεscourge!… quoted from Homer, Iliad 17.622, where it is applied to chariot horses. Same glossing in Hesychius mu357 and the Etymologicum Magnum.Matched in noteshighshort
μ27ΜαγῶνοςMagon's, Mago's… case, evidently quoted from somewhere (e.g. Polybius). Mago(n) is a Carthaginian name, and OCD(4) s.v. lists the two best-known bearers of it, one of them Hannibal's younger brother. cf. mu 360.Matched in noteshighshort
μ656Μεσῆϊς πηγήMesseid springIn Homer, Iliad 6.457, Hector imagines a captive Andromache 'carrying water of Messeis or Hypereie' (web address 1). The -ss- spelling is also used by Strabo (9.5.6) and Pausanias (3.20.1).Matched in noteshighshort
μ729Μεταπύργιονinter-tower… Thucydides 3.22.3 (and 3.23.1); Lysias fr. 97 Sauppe (now 111 Carey OCT).Matched in noteshighshort
μ588Μεμψίμοιροςreproachful… 40). In any event, this attribute is no.17 in the Characters of Theophrastus.Matched in noteshighshort
μ691ΜεταδίδωμιI share… is shared. [2] Demosthenes 23.214 (referring to the naturalization of Charidemos: chi 102).Matched in noteshighshort
μ1206ΜόλπιςMolpis… the first instance on Lysias fr. 80 Sauppe (now 87 Carey OCT) and citing Androtion (FGrH 324 F11) for the information given.Matched in noteshighshort
μ1125Μισόδημεpeople-hater… address 1). All five attributes are intended to be comically characteristic of an unpatriotic Athenian. For Brasidas see beta 519.Matched in noteshighshort
μ611Μενθῆρεςmentheres… fronti/s, as well as the dative plural menqh/rais glossed meri/mnais "cares"; Orion [Author, Myth] and the Etymologicum Magnum probably have the nominative plural menqh=rai.Matched in noteshighshort