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Ἁλυσείδιον
chain-mail
… the Ambrosian Lexicon. For chain-mail corslets see e.g. Polybius 6.23.15,
Diodorus
Siculus 5.30.3, Strabo 3.3.6. There and in general the adjective and its cognate headword are more usually a(lusi-.
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1561
Ἀμετρί
limitlessly
… of Thourioi, see mu 818; and for the full version
Diodorus
Siculus 12.10.5, with Fontenrose p.329, #Q186.
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1763
Ἀμφισβητεῖν
to dispute
… glossing in other lexica; references at Photius alpha1366 Theodoridis. [2]
Diodorus
Siculus 30.2 (on Ptolemy VI Philometor), slightly modified. [3] Aelian fr. 136 Domingo-Forasté (133 Hercher). [4] Iamblichus fr. 41 Habrich.
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1835
Ἀναγωγή
launch, launching
[1] Arrian, Parthica fr. 68 Roos-Wirth. [2]
Diodorus
Siculus 33.28b.3, on the celebrated Roman embassy (Scipio Aemilianus et al.) to the Eastern Mediterranean in c. 139 BCE.
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1935
Ἀναλεξάμενος
having reviewed, having recovered
… the same participle, presumably from the quotation which follows. [4]
Diodorus
Siculus 32.6.3 (where the name is Blannon - and Appian has Bannon); again at beta 320. [5] Cassius Dio 75.13.2; again at sigma …
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1961
Ἀναμετρήσαιμι
might I measure out
… of Italy (rho 122). [3] Quotation unidentifiable. (Adler tentatively suggests
Diodorus
Siculus.)
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1984
Ἀναξίβιος
Anaxibios, Anaxibius
Late C5/early C4 B.C. Mentioned by Xenophon,
Diodorus
and Lysias (fr.114 Sauppe). See generally Paul Poralla, A Prosopography of Lacedaemonians (edn.2, Chicago 1985, by A.S.Bradford) no.85. The entry is abridged from the one in …
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2062
Ἀνασείειν
to agitate
… the sculptor of that name; OCD(4) s.v. Calamis (p.263). [3]
Diodorus
Siculus 14.10.3, on the Spartan envoy Aristos/Aretes. [4] Demosthenes 25.47 (web address 1 below).
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2120
Ἀναφαιρέτους
not to be taken away
… be quoted from somewhere; there are extant possibilities in e.g.
Diodorus
Siculus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Philo Judaeus.
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2248
Ἀνελεῖν
to overturn; to take up
[1]
Diodorus
Siculus 12.39.4 (paraphrased rather than quoted) on one of the grievances that led to the Peloponnesian War (431-404); cf. Thucydides 1.139. [2] cf. alpha 2202 and alpha 2371. [3] Demosthenes 22.20 (web …
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2319
Ἀνέσειον
they were inciting
The headword is presumably extracted from the quotation given. [1]
Diodorus
Siculus 40.1 (abridged and slightly modified). The date is c.69 BCE; the Romans, now masters of Crete, have demanded the surrender of leading …
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2440
Ἀνηρτημένοι
in suspension
The headword is presumably extracted from the quotation given. [1]
Diodorus
Siculus 33.5.3 (and 4), on an episode in the history of Phoenicia; "they" are the men of Arados, sacrilegiously murdering envoys from a …
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2617
Ἀνταυγεῖς κόρας
bright eye-pupils
… scholion. For ko/rh as pupil see LSJ s.v. III. [2]
Diodorus
Siculus 17.82.7 (with a related noun), on Alexander the Great's troops in the mountains of India.
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2642
Ἀντέχει
holds out, withstands
… the TLG as Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 12.203. [8]
Diodorus
Siculus 29.9, on events of 189 BCE. [9] Likewise (minus the grammatical point) in other lexica; references at Photius alpha2074 Theodoridis.
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2862
Ἄπαγέ με εἰς τὰς λατομίας
take me away into the quarries
… was sent to the quarries. The story is told by
Diodorus
Siculus 15.6.2-5 (web address 1 below). Philoxenus seems to have spent some time in the stone quarries, for Athenaeus (Deipnosophists 1.6F = 1.11 …
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2925
Ἀπαροῦντα
being about to depart
… view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable. (Adler tentatively suggests
Diodorus
Siculus, on no discernible basis.)
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3088
Ἀπετρίψαντο
they rebutted
The headword is presumably extracted from the quotation given. [1]
Diodorus
Siculus 31.7.2 (of envoys to Rome in 164 BCE); cf. Polybius 31.1.
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3089
Ἀπετρύετο
was wasted
… for a)=qlos as the noun for Heracles' labors cf. e.g.
Diodorus
4.11-29 passim.
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3401
Ἀπολογισμός
explanation
… 1.32.4, on an episode in the First Punic War; cf.
Diodorus
Siculus 23.14.
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3500
Ἀπορησία
difficultness
… of Iamblichus, Babyloniaca (fr. 2 Habrich), but in fact from
Diodorus
Siculus 31.28: king Ariarathes V Philopator of Cappadocia informs the Romans of his intention to back out of a marriage-alliance with king Demetrius …
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3559
Ἀποστολαί
dispatches
… from somewhere; extant possibilities include Euripides and the Septuagint. [2]
Diodorus
Siculus 13.67.2 (following Wessling's suntribo/ntwn in place of the MS suntribome/na, and the noun there may be e)mbolai/, rammings). [3] The source now …
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3602
Ἀποτομία
severity
[1] An approximation of
Diodorus
Siculus 29.4, on relations between the Aetolians and Rome in 191 BCE. [2] Masculine accusative singular or neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective, quoted from somewhere. (Hesychius has a …
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3680
Ἀπραγμάτευτον
impracticable
… reconstruction of the fragment, attributing it to book 30 of
Diodorus
Siculus, see Favuzzi (below).
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3722
Ἄπυρα σῖτα
fireless rations, unfired rations
… extracted from the first quotation given. [1] A version of
Diodorus
Siculus 19.96.4; Antigonos Monophthalmos campaigns in Nabataea, 312 BCE. [2] Diogenes Laertius 7.26. [3] From Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.31C-D (1.57 Kaibel), citing Alcman and …
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3753
Ἀρβάκης
Arbaces, Arbakes
… C7 BCE is better known to us as Ashurbanipal. [2]
Diodorus
Siculus 2.24-28 has a narrative account of how this Arbakes captured Nineveh and took over the Assyrian Empire which has been described as …
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3803
Ἀρδαβούριος
Ardabourios, Ardaburius, Ardabur
… Nathan at web address 1. [2] This phrase echoes what
Diodorus
Siculus wrote of Antiochus Cyzicenus. See pi 2362. [3] On Leo I, see the De Imperatoribus Romanis entry by Hugh Elton at web …
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4040
Ἀρτιζόμενοι
making ready
… extracted from the first quotation given. [1] Quotation unidentifiable. [2]
Diodorus
Siculus 14.20.3 (loosely quoted), of the Cilician dynast Syennesis.
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4274
Ἄσυλον ἱερόν
inviolable shrine
… quoted from somewhere. Extant possibilities begin with Polybius 16.13.2. [2]
Diodorus
Siculus 36.15.2, on the trial of Saturninus (101 BCE). [3] cf. sigma 1350.
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4296
Ἀσφαλτῖτις λίμνη
Bituminous Lake
… was the ancient name for the Dead Sea: see e.g.
Diodorus
Siculus 19.98, cf. 2.48.6; Strabo 16.2.42. For "dessicative," see xi 64. [1] alpha 470. (Adiabene is in present-day Iraq, i.e. a different location …
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Ἄτταλος
Attalos, Attalus
… the substance of this addendum to the entry see also
Diodorus
Siculus 34/35.13 (= John of Antioch, Neos Hellenomnemon 1.13.7-9, and Constantine Porphyrogenitus, 4 (De sententiis), p. 387 no. 414; Posidonius fr.149), which refers …
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