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ε1670Ἑξέτειsix-year… is attested as barytone (accented on the next-to-last syllable) or oxytone (accented on the last syllable). Grammarians discuss this variation in compounds of e)/tos "year." Some say that it is a difference of dialect, …Matched in noteshighshort
α18ἌβαριςAbaris, Avars… people of the steppe north of the Black Sea; cf. Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium s.v. Avars. On the territories of the Avars and of their surrounding ethnic groups in the epoch of Justinian (cf. …Matched in noteshighmedium
α117ἈγαθοκλῆςAgathokles, Agathocles… of Agathokles. See F.W. Walbank, A historical commentary on Polybius (Oxford, 1967) v.2 p.361. [3] His father owned a large pottery. See Diodorus 19.2.7; 20.63.4. As with equivalent figures in (e.g.) late-C5 Athens, such …Matched in noteshigh

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Ἑξέτει

six-year

[Meaning] of six years. [Pronounced] with a baritone accent, in Attic. Aristophanes [writes] in Clouds: "I know, obeying you when you lisped as a six-year-old." Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "unwashed of six years."…

Ἑξέτει· ἑξαέτει. βαρυτόνως, Ἀττικῶς. Ἀριστοφάνης Νεφέλαις· οἶδ' ἑξέτει σοι τραυλίσαντι πειθόμενος. καί, ἓξ ἐτῶν ἄλουτος. Ἀττικὴ σύνταξις.

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α125ἈγαθώνιοςAgathonios, Agathonius… and on his aulos music, M.L. West, Ancient Greek Music (Oxford 1992) 354-5.Matched in noteshighshort

α176Ἄγαυροςwastrel… especially, Etymologicum Magnum 6.30-34 -- though there the headword is oxytone a)gauro/s. LSJ too (web address 1 below) gives it thus, and understands it as gau=ros [gamma 77, gamma 78] 'with a euphon., stately, …Matched in noteshighshort

α230ἈγήταςAgetas… time: so F.W. Walbank, A Historical Commmentary on Polybius vol.I (Oxford 1957 and reprints) 622. "Strategus" was a title of chief magistrates in various Greek cities: see LSJ s.v. A.II.2.Matched in noteshighshort

α275ἉγνίαςHagnias… of Oion (c.445-396) see Lexicon of Greek Personal Names vol.2 (Oxford 1994) s.v. Hagnias no.15.Matched in noteshighshort

α305ἈγοράσωI will go to market… M. Ostwald, Nomos and the Beginnings of the Athenian Democracy (Oxford 1969) 121-136.Matched in noteshighshort

α308Ἀγοραῖος νοῦςmarketplace mind… alpha 309. See further D. Whitehead, Hypereides: the forensic speeches (Oxford 2000) 287. [1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at Photius alpha233 Theodoridis. [2] Aristophanes, Knights 297-8 (web address 2: the manuscript …Matched in noteshighshort

α381Ἄγοιmay hold… see in brief S.C. Todd, The Shape of Athenian Law (Oxford 1993) 186-7. [2] Antiphon (the sophist) B87 F44A1.18 Diels/Kranz.Matched in noteshighshort

α407Ἀγχιστεύςnext-of-kin… of direct heirs": S.C. Todd, The Shape of Athenian Law (Oxford 1993) 217.Matched in noteshighshort

α431Ἀδαῖονunfired, Adaios, Adaeus… N.G.L. Hammond & G.T. Griffith, A History of Macedonia 2 (Oxford 1979) 441. But for another possibility see under alpha 594.Matched in noteshighshort

α576Ἀετὸς τῶν οἰκοδομημάτωνgable of the buildings… wings" (Nan Dunbar, Aristophanes: Birds, edited with introduction and commentary (Oxford 1995) 592).Matched in noteshighshort

α691Ἀΐσσουσινthey dart… wording. See F.W. Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius, iii (Oxford 1979) 662-3. [3] Cato the Elder (kappa 1113). [4] Aemilianus. [5] A reference to Homer, Odyssey 10.494f.: "to him [Teiresias] alone Persephone granted …Matched in noteshighshort

α708Ἀθάραgruel, porridge… [2] The issue is a matter of accent: paroxytone, not oxytone [3] So too in Photius and other lexica, quoting Crates fr.9 Kock (11 K.-A.).Matched in noteshighshort

α764Ἄθρυπτοςunbroken… as dignified and manly" see M.L. West, Ancient Greek Music (Oxford 1992) 179-80.Matched in noteshighshort

α942ἈκουσίλαοςAkousilaos, Akusilaos, Acusilaus… and T.H.Nielsen (eds.), An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis (Oxford 2004) 601. [2] "Shortly before the Persian Wars", according to Josephus, Against Apion 1.13 (= FGrH 2 T3); that is, early fifth century …Matched in noteshighshort

α951ἈκραγαλίςAkragalis… T.H. Nielsen (eds.), An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis (Oxford 2004) 402.Matched in noteshighshort

α1107ἈλέαςHaleis, Halians… N.G.L. Hammond and G.T. Griffith, A History of Macedonia 2 (Oxford 1979) 339ff.Matched in noteshighshort

α1122Ὅτι Ἀλέξανδρος φιλήκοος ἦνAlexander, Alexandros… at the Panathenaic musical contests" (M.L. West, Ancient Greek Music (Oxford 1992) 216). In the same specialized context the adjective orthios signified a particular rhythm: see West 156-7. West also collects evidence (352 n.119) …Matched in noteshighshort

α1123υνκνοων—Ὅτι οὗτος ὁ μέγας Ἀλέξανδρος νικήσας ναυμαχίαν Λακεδαιμονίους καὶ—Alexander, Alexandros… in the sea-battle at Knidos [394 BCE]...". [1] A hundred oxen, notionally.Matched in noteshighshort

α1275ἈλκέταςAlketas, Alcetas… N.G.L. Hammond and G.T. Griffith, A History of Macedonia vol.2 (Oxford 1979) index s.v. [2] See Diodorus Siculus 18.29ff, esp. 44-47; W. Heckel, The Marshals of Alexander's Empire (London and New York 1992) 171-175. …Matched in noteshighshort

α1292ἈλκμαιονίδαιAlkmaionidai, Alkmeonidai, Alcmaeonidae, Alcmeonids… origins: see e.g. J.K. Davies, Athenian Propertied Families 600-300 BC (Oxford 1971) 369. [2] Genitive plural, presumably extracted from the quotation which follows; in any event, unrelated to the headword. [3] Greek Anthology 7.206.2 …Matched in noteshighshort

α1296Ἀλκτῆρεςprotectors… See further H.W. Parke & D.E.W. Wormell, The Delphic Oracle (Oxford 1956) no.327; J. Fontenrose, The Delphic Oracle: its responses and operations with a catalogue of responses (Berkeley 1978) 297; Aelian, Historical Miscellany, edited …Matched in noteshighshort

α1313Ἀλογίου δίκηprosecution for lack of accounting… the graphe alogiou A.R.W. Harrison, The Law of Athens, vol.2 (Oxford 1971, reprinted London & Indianapolis 1998) 28-30. [2] In the technical sense: submitting income and expenditure records for scrutiny.Matched in noteshighshort

α1371Ἁλῶconvicted… concerned, see generally S.C. Todd, The Shape of Athenian Law (Oxford 1993) 107-8 (and kappa 178). [2] An inexact version of Demosthenes 24.103 (web address 1), which mentions only theft. For the suits concerned, …Matched in noteshighshort

α1400Ἄλλως ἀναλίσκεις ὕδωρyou are using up water for nothing… See in brief S.C. Todd, The Shape of Athenian Law (Oxford 1993) 130-2.Matched in noteshighshort

α1677ἈμυνίαςAmynias… BC. See generally J.K. Davies, Athenian Propertied Families 600-300 BC (Oxford 1971) 471. [2] This is the gloss of the scholia to Aristophanes, Knights 570 (web address 1 below), where the noun a)muni/as is …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1701Ἀμφιανακτίζεινto sing (dithyrambic) hymns… the orthios nomos see generally M.L. West, Ancient Greek Music (Oxford 1992) 156-7, 214-7; its distinctiveness lay as much in rhythm as pitch. See also omicron 575, omicron 573, omicron 574, omicron 585, alpha …Matched in noteshighshort

α1751ἈμφίωνAmphion… s.v. 'Amphion and Zethus' (p.73); M.L. West, Ancient Greek Music (Oxford 1992) 33. His status as the discoverer of music stems from the tradition that his lyre-playing charmed stones into laying themselves as the …Matched in noteshighmedium

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