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κ1514Κηλούμενοςbeing charmed… the cited masculine nominative singular), above, see also Laws 885D (charmed by gifts -- nominative plural), Republic 607D (by poetry -- dative plural) Phaedrus 259A (by the sound of cicadas -- accusative plural). Timaeus' …Matched in noteshighshort
ε1558Ἐξαργυρῶσαιto turn [something] into silver [coinage]Same or similar entry in other lexica. It concerns Thucydides 8.81.3, where the aorist infinitives of e)carguro/w and e)carguri/zw are alternative readings (web address 1). Alcibiades represents the words as coming from the Persian …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1205ΔιοσημείαZeus-omen, Zeus-sign… follow A’s reading in any case. [1] *qeomhni/a is better characterized as "negative sign" (see Herodian, Partitiones p. 56, 15 qeomhni/a: h( tou= qeou= o)rgh/) as referred to plagues and famines; Anna Comnena, Alexiad …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ745ΚαταρράκταιCataracts [of the Danube], Kataraktenstreke, Iron Gate… narrow into a series of high cliffs. Here, the river carved a passage through the lower Carpathian Mountains to its north and the Balkan Mountains to its south, creating a series of four steep …Matched in noteshighshort
η49ἨγηλάζωI guide, I lead… eta65 and eta66 the meanings of this verb are to carry and to set in motion, but also to take care and to do service. [2] (This addendum to the entry is also paralleled …Matched in noteshighshort
α2762ἈντωνῖνοςAntoninus, Antoninos[1] M. Aurelius Antoninus, a.k.a. Caracalla; ruled 198-217. (But see notes 5 and 6 below.) De Imperatoribus Romanis entry (Michael Meckler) at web address 1. [2] L. Septimius Severus, ruled 193-211. De Imperatoribus Romanis …Matched in noteshighlong
β302Βιῶνταιthey would press hard… bia/zontai). [1] [Polybius] fr. 121 Büttner-Wobst. For this verb, otherwise characteristic of epic poetry, see LSJ s.v. Büttner-Wobst notes that Schweighäuser attributed the fragment to Polybius, while Dindorf, on the other hand, rejected it …Matched in noteshighshort
λ139ΛάσοςLasos, Lasus… kappa 2646. [1] Other sources give the name as Chabrinos, Charinos, or Charminos. [2] In the N Peloponnese (Greece). [3] 548/7-545/4. For Dareios, who became King of Persia, see generally delta 72, delta 73, …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1639ΚινησίαςKinesias, Cinesias… Harpokration s.v. (generated by Lysias fr. 142 Sauppe, now 196 Carey OCT: two speeches In Reply to Kinesias). See further at phi 459. Kinesias, son of Meles (c.450-390); PA 8438; LGPN ii [Attica] s.v. …Matched in noteshighshort
ι145ἸεζάβελJezebelSee already iota 144. For Elijah and the chariot cf. 4 Kingdoms (2 Kings) 2:11.Matched in noteshighshort
ε2426ἘπικύδηςEpikydes, Epicydes… Sicilian affairs in 215/214 BCE. [1] Hippokrates was born at Carthage into an exiled Syracusan family. During the Second Punic War he returned to Syracuse and urged the city to war against Rome. When …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε320Ἐθείρειtends… exception of Hesychius epsilon634, who glosses "thinks worthy of being cared for"). For care exercised "habitually" see already epsilon 319; and for "habitually" cf. epsilon 329, epsilon 2592, pi 551.Matched in noteshighshort
α3420ἈπολλώνιοςApollonios, Apollonius… Vergil (Georgics 4.387), who places Proteus on the island of Carpathus, between Crete and Rhodes. [2] The sense of meth/llaxen ranges from "he vanished" (in the sense of "transmuted") to "he died." Philostratos does …Matched in noteshighlong
α425ἈδάμAdam… unidentifiable scholar quite outside the type of neutral reticence which characterises most of the contributors to the Suda (although Küster suggests a comparison with the entry on Job at iota 471). His self-styled "essay" …Matched in noteshighlong
ε2500Ἐπίορκον ἀνώμοσενswore a false oath… was not a reference to Hektor's oath, but to Homer's characterization of that oath as a false one. For the use of e)/cwqen ('outside') in the sense of 'incongruous' or 'out of character', see …Matched in noteshighshort
ω183ὨριγένηςOrigen… [12] A reference to the persecution loosed in Alexandria by Caracalla which resulted in Origen's first trip to Palestine (c.215/216?). The story of his refusal of martyrdom is surely a ribald rhetorical attack. Does …Matched in noteshighlong
μ280Ματήσετονthe two would hesitate… Aeneas (OCD(4) s.v. and alphaiota 214) to drive his own chariot into battle, lest the two horses take fright at some critical moment, and thus, without their master's presence, would hesitate to carry the …Matched in noteshighshort
α3424ἈπολλώνιοςApollonios, Apollonius… Karika (a work of at least 18 books) and are Carian place-names, transmitted via Stephanus of Byzantium. [1] In Caria.Matched in noteshighshort
ι199ἹέρωνHieron, Hiero… the delicate balance of power among the Greeks, Romans and Carthaginians, all of whom sought the control of Sicily. Rome's support of the defeated Mamertines precipitated the First Punic War in 264, in which …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2225Κώθωνkothon; Kothon… "a drinking vessel most suitable for campaigning and most easily carried in a knapsack. The reason why it is a military item is that (soldiers) must often drink water that is not pure. So …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2161Κοτίνου στεφάνῳwith a wreath of wild olive… leaves, lives, because it resides in the Altis under the care of the gods who know more of the nature of olives than mortals. Doubtless, the tree in the Altis was an ordinary olive, …Matched in noteshighmedium
α117ἈγαθοκλῆςAgathokles, Agathocles… three testicles, presumably symbolises insatiable lust, which is assumed to characterise the true pornos'. Cf. tau 995, where the first part of this quotation reappears. [2] Probably Theoxene, the daughter or stepdaughter of Ptolemy …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ798Διατροπήcompassion… 32.6.3 (149 BCE: the endgame of the Roman destruction of Carthage).Matched in noteshighshort
μ562Μεμηλώςattending to… Hesychius mu804 (where the gloss is e)pimelw=s fronti/zwn "concerning oneself carefully") Latte claims the headword as quoted from Homer, Iliad 5.708; a scholion there has dia\ gewrgi/as e)pimelo/menos, o(/pws plouth=| "taking care by farming, …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2736Ἐπιτυχοῦσινto just any people; to those who happen to be there; to people of no consequence; to those who happen to succeed… Walbank in correspondence). If the passage refers to electing consuls carefully at Rome in times of danger, it might come from any one of many sources. Possibly, though, it refers to the choice of …Matched in noteshighshort
δ843Διὰ χρόνουafter a time… is a different plant: the “wild pennyroyal” or “dictamnos”, with characteristics very similar to the former. [2] Aristophanes, Peace 710-712 (web address 1 below). [3] The pennyroyal, glh/xwn, corresponds to Mentha Pulegium, an aromatic …Matched in noteshighmedium
ει283Εἰς κόλπον πτύεινto spit into [one's] lap… Doing this was thought to avert evil. See e.g. Theophrastus, Characters 16.15, and other refs in LSJ s.v. ptu/w, 4.Matched in noteshighshort
μ365Μεγαλομερίαlavishness, munificence, greatness of parts… (Smyth §347). [2] Polybius 1.26.8-9 (web address 1), describing the Carthaginian mobilization (256 BCE) for the Battle of Ecnomus (Eknomos; Barrington atlas map 47 grid D4), a hill near the town of Phintias (present-day …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ1708ΚλαύδιοςKlaudios, Claudius… emperors but even we, who have been consuls, ride in chariots. But earlier Augustus and Tiberius and some others were sometimes borne in litters such as women are, indeed, still accustomed to use'. [7] …Matched in noteshighlong
χ67Χαμαίζηλοιground-seeking [ones]… and Etymologicum Magnum 806.24. The first of these reads di/froi ("chariots" or "seats") for the Suda's di/frioi ("[things] of a chariot"). The quotation which follows the gloss clearly pertains to chariots, but di/froi is …Matched in noteshighshort

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