Skip to content

Browse Topics Random About

Searching…

The Byzantine encyclopedia of the ancient world, in English and Greek.

Read

Browse Α–Ω
Topics
Random entry

Project

About & credits
Report an error
Original SOL ↗

Follow

@ReadSuda
@readsuda.org

A new reader for the Suda On Line translation, made by 200+ volunteer translators and editors. Greek text after Adler’s edition. Translations © their translators and SOL, licensed CC BY-NC-SA.

Free · non-commercial · no ads · no accounts[email protected]Maintained with ❤️ by Rick Lithan

⌕Search ΑLetters ⤨Random

Keyboard shortcuts

j: Next entry
k: Previous entry
g: Toggle Greek
/: Search
?: Show shortcuts

Search

Search the Suda

All Headwords Translation Greek Notes

Keyword

definition40
law34
constitution23
dialects, grammar, and etymology23
history23
daily life22
economics21
religion19
rhetoric19
ethics18
biography12
historiography12

28 more

comedy11
geography11
chronology7
gender and sexuality6
military affairs6
politics6
women6
food5
philosophy5
agriculture4
meter and music4
proverbs4
aetiology3

Letter

Ε epsilon14
Α alpha13
Δ delta11
Β beta2
ΕΙ epsiloniota2
Η eta2
Γ gamma2
Ι iota2

1 more

Χ chi1

Vetting status

high49

Length

Short32
Medium17

Translator

David Whitehead24
Jennifer Benedict8
Catharine Roth3
Debra Hamel2
Ross Scaife ✝2
William Hutton2

8 more

Antonella Ippolito1
Constantina Katsari1
D. Graham J. Shipley1
David Mirhady1
Joseph Grabau1
Malcolm Heath1

Filters

Keyword

definition40
law34
constitution23
dialects, grammar, and etymology23
history23
daily life22
economics21
religion19
rhetoric19
ethics18
biography12
historiography12

28 more

comedy11
geography11
chronology7
gender and sexuality6
military affairs6
politics6
women6
food5
philosophy5
agriculture4
meter and music4
proverbs4
aetiology3

Letter

Ε epsilon14
Α alpha13
Δ delta11
Β beta2
ΕΙ epsiloniota2
Η eta2
Γ gamma2
Ι iota2

1 more

Χ chi1

Vetting status

high49

Length

Short32
Medium17

Translator

David Whitehead24
Jennifer Benedict8
Catharine Roth3
Debra Hamel2
Ross Scaife ✝2
William Hutton2

8 more

Antonella Ippolito1
Constantina Katsari1
D. Graham J. Shipley1
David Mirhady1
Joseph Grabau1
Malcolm Heath1

49 entries for Athenaios

Relevance Adler order Longest first

δ1475Δωροξενίαbribery by a foreigner… abbreviated from Harpokration s.v., where oratory (Lysias, Hyperides) and ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 59.3, are cited. [1] i.e., improperly enrolled as an Athenian citizen.Matched in noteshighshort
ε471Ἐκκλησίανassembly… were paid to attend meetings of the ekklesia (see ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 41.3, with M.H. Hansen, The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes (Oxford 1991) 150); however, this ancient comment seems to confuse …Matched in noteshighshort
ε1156Ἕνδεκα(the) Eleven… the Atticist epsilon37; also in Photius and elsewhere. cf. ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 52; Pollux 8.102; and eta 39.Matched in noteshighshort

δ1475

Δωροξενία

bribery by a foreigner

Whenever someone has been publicly prosecuted for being a foreigner and escapes the accusation by giving bribes, it is called dwroceni/a.

Δωροξενία· ὅταν τις γραφεὶς ξενίας καὶ δῶρα δοὺς ἐκφύγῃ τὴν συκοφαντίαν, δωροξενία λέγεται.

science and technology2

science and technology2

trade and manufacture2

trade and manufacture2

Nicholas Wilshere1

Nicholas Wilshere1

Victoria Papaprodromou1

Victoria Papaprodromou1

ε2238Ἐπιβολήthought, principle, impost, penalty, fine… to exact epibolai (summary fines) without reference to a court (Athenaion Politeia 56.7; cf. Lysias 30.3)'.Matched in noteshighmedium

ε2287Ἐπὶ Δελφινίῳat Delphinion, at DelphiniumAbridged from Harpokration. s.v., which cites Demosthenes 23.74 and ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 57.3. See also delta 206.Matched in noteshighshort

ε2465Ἐπιμελητὰς ἐμπορίουsuperintendents of the port… ultimate source of this material (cited by Harpok.) is ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 51.4, and there, more intelligibly, this adjective is sitiko/n, "for grain". See web address 1.Matched in noteshighshort

ε2467Ἐπιμεληταὶoverseers, superintendents… with the 10 superintendents of the Dionysia mentioned in ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 56.4 (web address 1); in any event an Athenian honorific decree from the 320s (IG II(2) 354) alludes to 'the superintendents appointed …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2468Ἐπιμελητὴς τῶν μυστηρίωνsuperintendent of the Mysteries… first instance on Demosthenes 21.171, and proceeding to quote ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 57.1. [1] This explanatory phrase is the Suda's own. [2] Aristocratic families. For the Eumolpidai see epsilon 3584 (and cf. epsilon 3585); …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2505Ἐπὶ Παλλαδίῳat Palladion, at Palladium… of the headword phrase in Demosthenes 23.71 (and citing ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 57.3). See also e.g. Pausanias 1.28.9. [1] Phanodemos FGrH 325 F12. [2] Klei(to)demos FGrH 323 F12. For the mysterious Ephetai cf. epsilon …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε2611Ἐπιστάτηςchairman… for proedroi). [1] For the material so far cf. ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 44.1-2. (It then goes badly astray.)Matched in noteshighmedium

ε2612Ἐπιστάτηςchairman… Sauppe and citing other material (Aeschines 3.14 & 29, ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 44.2-3; Hyperides, Against Demosthenes 12). See also epsilon 2610, epsilon 2611, epsilon 2613, epsilon 2614, epsilon 2615; and cf. epsilon 2616, epsilon …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2842ἘπώνυμοιEponyms… & 23) and in primary sources such as the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia.Matched in noteshighshort

ε2843ἘπώνυμοιEponyms… Photius' version by supplying the figure that (according to ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 21.6) was the size of this preliminary list as a whole.Matched in noteshighmedium

ε3509ΕὐθυμένηςEuthymenes, Euthumenes… Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Greek Drama, 123). Compare ps.-Xenophon, Athenaion Politeia (the "Old Oligarch") 2.18: 'they do not allow comic attacks and abuse directed against the People;' but this sounds more general.Matched in noteshighshort

ει132Εἵλωςhelot… denoting ethnicity or nationality, usually membership of a polis, e.g. Athenaios = citizen of Athens. [3] In fact, even if this statement were true, they would not be descendants of captives in war in …Matched in noteshighshort

ει246Εἰς ἐμφανῶν κατάστασινbringing into the open… on the procedure's appearance in Isaeus 6.31 (and citing ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 56.6).Matched in noteshighshort

η40Ἡγεμονία δικαστηρίουpresidency of a jurycourt… implicit source of the entry as a whole is ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 56-59 (web address 1). And see already eta 39. [1] Aeschines 3.14 (web address 2). [2] Reading a)/llai ktl at the start …Matched in noteshighmedium

ι525Ἱππάςcavalry… 779. [2] Four, rather (as is clear from e.g. ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 7.3). This error in Photius' source creates the need for a non-existent fifth class: see below [3] Meaning either farmers owning a …Matched in noteshighshort

χ560Χρυσῆ εἰκώνgolden image… oath see e.g. (with varying detail) Plato, Phaedrus 235D-E; ?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia 7.1 and 55.5; Plutarch, Solon 25.3. [1] i.e. the nine chief "magistrates" (office-holders) each year. [2] Delphi. [3] The text of this …Matched in noteshighshort

← PreviousPage 2 of 2