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Ἀβάντειος
Abanteios, Abantius, Abantian
… after Danaos and father of the twins Akrisios and Proitos
(Pausanias
2.16.2 (web address 1); Apollodorus, Library 2.2.1 (web address 2)). [3] This term is used by (e.g.) Ovid both for an actual son …
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Ἄβυδος
Abudos, Abydos, Abydus
… and generally OCD(4) s.v. [2] = the first sentence of
Pausanias
the Atticist alpha3 and Photius alpha63 Theodoridis; cf. also Zenobius 1.1, s.v. *)abudhno\n e)pifo/rhma (alpha 100), and Kassel-Austin, PCG III.2 p.376 on Aristophanes …
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Ἄγκυρα
Ankyra, Ancyra, Ankara
… about 125 miles south of the Black Sea. According to
Pausanias
(1.4), Ankyra was founded by Midas. Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Ankyra ( = Apollonius of Aphrodisias FGrH 740 F14) traces the name of …
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Ἀγλαοφῶν
Aglaophon
Pausanias
(10.27.4, see web address 1) quotes an epigram of Simonides, naming Aglaophon as the father of the painter Polygnotos. See also pi 1948.
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328
Ἀγωνάρχαι
contest-judges
… 1.25.) Possibly Contest, the divine personification of the agon (cf.
Pausanias
5.26.3), though the apparently personifying language does not guarantee this. See further, next note. [3] Used in Plato, Cratylus 421D (where a scholiast …
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339
Ἄγρα
Agra
… Theodoridis), similar ones elsewhere. The toponym is more accurately, Agrae/Agrai:
Pausanias
1.19.6. The "Lesser Mysteries" were celebrated there each spring.
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371
Ἀγροῦ πυγή
rump of the country; fat of the land
… (Arsenius 1.24b), but the pugh/ version is otherwise standard: see
Pausanias
the Atticist alpha21; Hesychius alpha837; Photius, Lexicon alpha272 Theodoridis; Appendix Proverbiorum 1.4; Macarius Chrysocephalus 1.3. The phrase itself is taken to come from …
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Ἀκαδημία
Academy
… (= schol. Demosth. 24.114); cf. epsilon 338. See also (e.g.)
Pausanias
1.29.2, 1.30.1-3. [2] Aristophanes, Clouds 1005-1008; cf. alpha 3682, mu 1058, mu 1248.
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Ἀκακήσιον
Akakesion, Acacesium
In western Arcadia (Peloponnese, central Greece).
Pausanias
8.36.9-10 (web address 1 below) mentions both it and the city -- defunct by his day -- to which it had given its name; cf. Stephanus of …
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Ἀκάκητος
guileless; of Akakesion
… be not a)ka/khtos but *)akakh/sios. See alpha 780 and the
Pausanias
passage cited there, in which Hermes Akakesios is mentioned; and cf. LSJ s.v.
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791
Ἀκαμαντίς καὶ Ἀκάμας
Akamantis and Akamas, Acamantis and Acamas
Abbreviated from Harpokration s.v. Akamantis. [1] cf.
Pausanias,
Description of Greece 1.5.2. For Theseus see theta 364.
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858
Ἀκή
Ake, Acre
… confusion with the Arcadian city of that name mentioned by
Pausanias
in the wanderings of Orestes (8.34.2) and clearly in the neuter plural.
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1298
Ἀλκυονίδες ἡμέραι
Alcyon days, Halcyon days, kingfisher days
… basis of the present entry and those in lexica by
Pausanias
the Atticist, Photius, and others. [3] Demagoras fr. 3 FHG (4.378); Philochorus FGrH 328 F186. (For Philochorus see phi 441 and generally OCD(4) …
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1357
Ἁλουργά
sea-wrought
… purple dye produced along the Laconian coast, surpassed in quality--as
Pausanias
explains (3.21.6, web address 1)--only by that from shellfish harvested from the Phoenician sea. Gow and Page observe (vol. II, 289) that goddesses …
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1449
Ἀλφειός
Alpheios, Alpheus
… [1] Meaning: taking its name from. [2] cf. alpha 3821.
Pausanias
gives a more complete description of the river in 8.54.1-3 and the mythology behind it in 5.7.1-3 (web addresses 1 & 2). [3] …
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1534
Ἀμβούλιος
Amboulios, Ambulius
Epithet ("Counsellor") of Zeus, Athena and the Dioskouroi in Sparta:
Pausanias
3.13.6.
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1781
Ἀμφιφῶντες
double-lights
From
Pausanias
the Atticist alpha105. [1] Offered to Artemis Mounichia: see LSJ s.v. (web address 1). [2] FGrH 244 F152. See also alpha 2082.
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1989
Ἀναξιμένης
Anaximenes
… 72. [1] [zeta 130] Zoilus. [2] This material comes from
Pausanias
6.18.2-6. For discussion of it see M.A. Flower, Theopompus of Chios (Oxford 1994) 21-22. [3] [theta 172] Theopompus.
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Ἀνεῖλεν
prophesied, took up, took away, killed
… [4] Ephorus FGrH 70 F150 (quoted in Strabo 8.6.14) and
Pausanias
2.33.2. The text there has Kalaureian for Kalabrian. See web address 2, and kappa 188. [5] See note 1 above. [6] *)Anairei=n literally …
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2452
Ἀννίβας
Hannibal
… Annibaica 17. [4] Appian, Annibaica 43. [5] Polybius 3.15.6. [6]
Pausanias
8.11.11-12 (web address 1 below). [7] Polybius 23.13.1-2. [8] This addendum might also come from Polybius (so Schweighauser); alternatively it is an "editorial" …
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2499
Ἀνθ' Ἑρμίωνος
instead of Hermione
A version of
Pausanias
the Atticist alpha124, where the headword phrase is spelled a)nq' *(Ermi/onos and the city-name *(ermiw/n; also, Erbse's edition suppresses the dubious o(moi/ws i(era/ and adds instead tou\s i(ke/tas from Zenobius …
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Ἄνθεια
Antheia, Flowery
At Argos [Myth, Place]
(Pausanias
2.22.1) and Miletos: see LSJ s.v.
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Ἀντικυρίας σοι δεῖ
you are in need of hellebore
… of Antikyra (alpha 2675), where it grew abundantly (so e.g.
Pausanias
10.36.7). The gloss does not seem very cogent as it stands; one would have expected something about purging the bowels. Possibly exousia can …
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Ἀπέδει
fell short of
… and elsewhere. [1] Similar glossing in Hesychius s.v. a)pode/ontes. [2]
Pausanias
8.49.3 (web address 1 below). For Philopoimen see generally phi 409.
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Ἀπέδοξεν
it seemed good not, it was resolved not
… be quoted from somewhere: there are instances in Herodotus, Xenophon,
Pausanias
and Philostratus. Impersonal a)pe/docen is the opposite of e)/docen as a decision-making formula: see LSJ s.v. a)podokei=.
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3205
Ἀπιθής
inflexible, unyielding
… 9.2.36 calls a small polis situated in a plain, though
Pausanias
9.33.5 classified it as a mere 'village'. There was also, however, an Al(al)komenai on the island of Ithaka (Barrington Atlas map 54 grid …
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Ἀργώ
Argo
… Fleece and brought back Medea. See Apollodorus 1.9.17-26; also e.g.
Pausanias
2.12.6 and 9.32.4. [1] Quoted from somewhere, such as Herodotus (who has 3 instances).
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3821
Ἀρέθουσα
Arethousa, Arethusa
… Hydrologically and chemically impossible, but for the mythological account see
Pausanias
5.7.2ff (web address 1).
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3847
Ἀρήνη
Arene
Near Lepreon in Elis. Mentioned by
Pausanias
5.5.6; cf. also Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Arenai (two cities of this name, one of them in Elis).
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Ἀρρηνοφορεῖν
to carry the sacred objects
… the reading a)rrhforei=n. For more information on the Arrhephoria see
Pausanias
1.27.3 (web address 2), and cf. also alpha 3863. [1] The ceremonial robe (peplos) for the goddess Athena: see pi 1006 (and upsilon …
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