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853 entries for philo

α2551Ἀνομβροῦσαιspouting up… present participle, feminine nominative plural, of a)nombre/w. Perhaps quoted from Philo Judaeus (for whom this verb was a particular favourite); he has the only two extant instances outside lexicography.Matched in noteshighshort
ε519Ἐκνοσηλεύωνcuring completely… verb e)knoshleu/w. It must be quoted from somewhere -- perhaps Philo Judaeus, who uses it figuratively. cf. generally nu 491.Matched in noteshighshort
ι790Ἰχνηλατῆσαιto track down… If it is quoted from somewhere, the likely source is Philo Judaeus, who has four instances.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1573Δύναμιςcapability, capacity, ability, potentiality, power… with difficulty the heavy protuberances that weigh down the neck." Philo said that two potentialities meet in every soul, a salvific and a destructive. This man did not sense even a dream of the …Matched in translationhighlong
ει87Εἰκοτολογῆσαιto infer from probabilities… ei)kotologe/w. Outside of lexicography, the only pre-Suda attestation is in Philo of Alexandria, Legatio ad Gaium 58.Matched in noteshighshort
κ659Καταμύουσιthey close their eyes… of katamu/w. It must be quoted from somewhere -- perhaps Philo Judaeus, who furnishes the only two surviving instances outside lexicography. cf. mu 1425.Matched in noteshighshort
ε582Ἐκπλήσειwill accomplish, will fulfill… be quoted from somewhere; the few extant instances begin with Philo Judaeus, On the Life of Moses 1.111.Matched in noteshighshort
ε1924Ἐπαγωνιεῖταιwill struggle with… singular. It must be quoted from somewhere; extant possibilities include Philo Judaeus and several passages in Cyril of Alexandria.Matched in noteshighshort
μ697Μετακόσμιονbetween worlds, metacosmic… interspace between worlds), must be quoted from somewhere; perhaps from Philo Judaeus, On Dreams 1.184.Matched in noteshighshort
ε3617Εὐορκίαfidelity to an oath… attested in a variety of authors including Demosthenes, Appian and Philo Judaeus. cf. epsilon 3618, lambda 164, mu 277, rho 13.Matched in noteshighshort
ε3769Εὐτοκίαeasy delivery, fertility… (LSJ entry at web address 1) was especially favoured by Philo Judaeus.Matched in noteshighshort
ε209Ἕδεσινin shrines… must be quoted from somewhere. (There are extant instances in Philo Judaeus and Libanius.) [2] cf. epsilon 222, epsilon 248, epsilon 249.Matched in noteshighshort
ε3327Ἐτόπασενguessed… extant instances (both with and without the nu-moveable) cluster in Philo Judaeus and Theodoret.Matched in noteshighshort
ε2335Ἐπὶ θήρᾳout for a hunt… Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Roman Antiquities 1.186) and several passages in Philo Judaeus (e.g. Life of Moses 1.43).Matched in noteshighshort
ε2434Ἐπιλαχόνταhaving obtained by lot… Most of the (few) extant instances outside lexicography come from Philo Judaeus.Matched in noteshighshort
κ28Καθαγιάζεταιis dedicated… third person singular, which must be quoted from somewhere; perhaps Philo Judaeus, de specialibus legibus 2.215 (its only independent occurrence).Matched in noteshighshort
α2120Ἀναφαιρέτουςnot to be taken away… extant possibilities in e.g. Diodorus Siculus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Philo Judaeus.Matched in noteshighshort
ε1411Ἐνωμότωςin a sworn manner… 1410. The earliest attested occurrence of the adverb is in Philo Judaeus, On special laws 2.14; it then becomes common in Byzantine Greek. Noted by Pollux 1.39, and cf. ps.-Zonaras epsilon754.22.Matched in noteshighshort
κ846Καταφάσκειaffirms… (without actively endorsing) Dindorf's suggestion that it is quoted from Philo Judaeus, Legum allegoriarum libri 3.85. cf. kappa 843, kappa 844, kappa 845.Matched in noteshighshort
κ402ΚάστωρKastor, Castor… erroneously say he was from Massilia. Rhetor. He was nicknamed 'philo-Roman'. This man married the daughter of Deiotarus the senator, who killed him together with his wife, because he had slandered him to Caesar. …Matched in translationhighshort
δ1224Διῴδειused to swell with anger… be quoted from somewhere, perhaps (as Latte on Hesychius suggests) Philo Judaeus, Legatio ad Gaium 254. LSJ entry at web address 1; and cf delta 1225, delta 1274, delta 1275.Matched in noteshighshort
λ832Λυμαντικόςdestroyer… fr.84 Diels/Kranz, and Hermarchus fr.34 Longo Auricchio; also in (e.g.) Philo Judaeus and Epictetus.Matched in noteshighshort
ε1075Ἐμφιλοσοφῶ δοτικῇI study philosophy in[Used] with a dative.Matched in headwordhighshort
ε2451Ἐπιλυομένουof one relenting… three extant attestations of the headword form outside lexicography, only Philo Judaeus (Quaestiones in Genesim 2 fr.13a) uses the word in a sense appropriate for the gloss here.Matched in noteshighshort
ε118Ἔγκοτονspite, spiteful… may be that this primary headword too is extracted from Philo Judaeus (Legatio in Gaium 260), though Theodoridis opts for Herodotus 3.59.4. [2] Likewise in Hesychius (epsilon253) and elsewhere. Latte claims it as quoted …Matched in noteshighshort
μ576Μεμοιραμένωνhaving had [something] assigned to them… genitive plural. It must be quoted from somewhere; perhaps from Philo Judaeus, who has four instances. cf. mu 572, mu 577.Matched in noteshighshort
μ436Μεθορμιζόμενοςchanging harbors, sailing from one harbor to another… meqormi/zw. This participle (in various case forms) is used by Philo and Christian writers, always with a figurative sense.Matched in noteshighshort
λ744Λωφήσαντοςhaving abated… somewhere; there are numerous extant instances (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Josephus, Philo Judaeus, Cassius Dio, et al.). See also lambda 745, lambda 746, lambda 747.Matched in noteshighshort
α2947Ἀπαυτοματισθεῖσαhaving been produced spontaneously… subject could be a woman or simply something grammatically feminine. (Philo Judaeus has an accusative-case instance with 'prosperity'.)Matched in noteshighshort
α2302Ἀνεπόλειhe was repeating… somewhere. (Its only extant attestation outside the Suda is in Philo Judaeus, Legatio ad Gaium 310, but the subject there is feminine.)Matched in noteshighshort

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