Skip to content
Σ
ReadSuda
Browse
Topics
Random
About
Aa
Settings
Searching…
⌕
Search
Α
Letters
⤨
Random
Aa
Settings
Keyboard shortcuts
j
Next entry
k
Previous entry
g
Toggle Greek
/
Search
?
Show shortcuts
Close
Search
Search the Suda
⌕
Search
All
Headwords
Translation
Greek
Notes
Filters
Keyword
definition
91
dialects, grammar, and etymology
81
biography
56
historiography
47
history
45
ethics
42
military affairs
32
religion
28
geography
23
imagery
20
philosophy
19
medicine
14
29 more
daily life
13
gender and sexuality
12
poetry
12
rhetoric
11
women
11
zoology
11
food
10
tragedy
10
comedy
9
law
9
proverbs
9
Christianity
8
epic
8
Letter
Α
alpha
52
Ε
epsilon
21
Δ
delta
18
Χ
chi
3
Κ
kappa
3
Β
beta
2
Η
eta
2
Γ
gamma
2
2 more
Ι
iota
2
ΕΙ
epsiloniota
1
Vetting status
high
106
Length
Short
89
Medium
15
Long
2
Translator
Jennifer Benedict
49
Catharine Roth
11
Antonella Ippolito
7
David Whitehead
7
William Hutton
6
Marcelo Boeri
5
15 more
Oliver Phillips ✝
3
Ioannis Doukas
2
Konstantinos Kopanias
2
Malcolm Heath
2
Stefano Sanfilippo
2
106 entries for
Demon
Relevance
Adler order
Longest first
α
4386
Ἀτρέπτως
unhesitatingly
The headword adverb is probably (though not
demonstrably)
extracted from the quotation given. [1] Aelian fr. 70f Domingo-Forasté (part of 67 Hercher), of the Delphic priestess and King Croesus.
Matched in notes
high
short
α
4636
Ἀφοπλίζειν
to strip of arms
The headword infinitive is perhaps (though not
demonstrably)
extracted from the quotation given. [1] Likewise already, it seems, in Hesychius alpha8718, though truncated there. [2] Quotation unidentifiable. [3] From a scholium on Homer, Iliad …
Matched in notes
high
short
β
76
Βάλλεται
is hit
The headword is presumably (though not
demonstrably)
extracted from the quotation given. (For the gloss 'is afire', see pi 3246.) [1] Quotation (foreshortened in ps.-Zonaras) unidentifiable.
Matched in notes
high
mythology
8
mythology
8
science and technology
8
science and technology
8
aetiology
6
aetiology
6
economics
6
economics
6
politics
5
politics
5
chronology
4
chronology
4
clothing
4
clothing
4
meter and music
4
meter and music
4
agriculture
3
agriculture
3
architecture
2
architecture
2
art history
2
art history
2
athletics
2
athletics
2
botany
2
botany
2
children
2
children
2
mathematics
2
mathematics
2
trade and manufacture
2
trade and manufacture
2
Alex Florez
Alex Florez
1
1
Amelia Mathias
1
Amelia Mathias
1
Anne Mahoney
1
Anne Mahoney
1
Craig Gibson
1
Craig Gibson
1
D. Graham J. Shipley
1
D. Graham J. Shipley
1
Gabriel Bodard
1
Gabriel Bodard
1
Nathan Greenberg ✝
1
Nathan Greenberg ✝
1
Nick Nicholas
1
Nick Nicholas
1
Peter Lech
1
Peter Lech
1
Robert Dyer
1
Robert Dyer
1
short
β
278
Βιαιότερον
more forceful
The headword adjective, neuter nominative/accusative singular, is probably (though not
demonstrably)
extracted from the quotation given. [1] Aelian fr. 92d Domingo-Forasté, part of 89 Hercher (about Euphronius); cf. alpha 4173 (end), eta 558. (Adler …
Matched in notes
high
short
γ
7
Γάδειρα
Gadeira, Gades, Cadiz
… and Gadeirites. Rather, from Gadara in Phoenicia: e.g. the Gadarene
demoniacs
at Matthew 8.28. See also gamma 188.
Matched in notes
high
medium
γ
457
Γρῖφος
riddle, conundrum
… Greek comic playwrights (Alexis, Antiphanes, Diphilus, Eubulus) and elsewhere, and
demonstrates
the extraordinary literary and intellectual breadth required by this game. The griphos was included as one form of allegory in some rhetorical lists …
Matched in notes
high
short
δ
15
Δαΐμονος
of a daimon
Genitive singulars of the noun dai/mwn (spirit, god,
demon);
conventional -- i.e. trisyllabic -- in the gloss, but quadrisyllabic (by diaeresis) in the headword, which must be quoted from somewhere. Plato, Cratylus 398B, etymologizes …
Matched in notes
high
short
δ
57
Δανάη
Danaë
[1] Lucian,
Demonax
47. The joke is that Akrisios can literally mean "man with bad judgment" or "man who is unjudged"; from alpha 984. [2] Greek Anthology 5.217.7 (Paul the Silentiary), quoted from epsilon …
Matched in notes
high
short
δ
153
Δεδιττόμενος
terrifying
… Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon; that fact makes it likely (if not
demonstrable)
that the headword is quoted from Plato, Phaedrus 245B.
Matched in notes
high
short
δ
289
Δεύσας
having steeped
… participle, masculine nominative singular, of deu/w) is presumably, if not
demonstrably,
extracted from the quotation given. cf. generally delta 290, delta 291. [1] Aelian fr. 275 Domingo-Forasté (277 Hercher) -- but latterly Iamblichus, Babyloniaca …
Matched in notes
high
short
δ
367
Δείσαντες
frightened
… are presumably quoted from somewhere, the singular perhaps (though not
demonstrably)
from one of the three quotations given here. [2] Herodotus 7.163.1. [3] Appian, Celtica fr. 20 Viereck-Roos-Gabba. [4] Procopius, History of the Wars …
Matched in notes
high
short
δ
806
Δίαυλος
double-stretch
… (web address 1). As part of his commentary on the
demonic
nature of Justinian (cf. iota 446), Procopius describes an eyewitness report of the emperor's head vanishing while his body continued to wander to …
Matched in notes
high
short
δ
842
Διαχώρους
intervals
… are in the accusative plural, the headword presumably (though not
demonstrably)
extracted from the quotation given. The headword is a military term, attested in the masculine form only here and in ps.-Zonaras s.v. (which …
Matched in notes
high
short
δ
843
Διὰ χρόνου
after a time
… more fluidity to body liquids: qermai/nei kai\ leptu/nei. And as
demonstration
of that, Galen, De simplicium medicamentorum temperamentis ac facultatibus libri XI, 6 perí glêchônos, writes: “it makes it easy to spit out thick …
Matched in notes
high
medium
δ
1081
Δικαιώματα
acts of justice, things done as of right
… is accusative plural, evidently extracted from somewhere (possibly, though not
demonstrably,
the quotation which follows here). [1] Likewise the gloss on a passage of Polybius in delta 1065. [2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, …
Matched in notes
high
short
δ
1189
Διοπομπεῖσθαι
to escort [evil] away
… of Zeus Apotropaios; [the epithet] apotropaios [for] Zeus and a
demon
means curse-lifting, turning away the pollution". Cf. Plato, Laws 854B i)/qi e)pi\ ta\s a)podiopomph/seis, i)/qi e)pi\ qew=n a)potropai/wn i(era\ i(ke/ths, "betake yourself to …
Matched in notes
high
short
δ
1232
Διώκω σε
I am pursuing you
… read tou= yhfi/smatos.) At the beginning of chapter 56, Demosthenes
demonstrates
the legal fitness of the yh/fisma by a partitio, reviewing point by point the reasons alleged by Aeschines to impeach the decree: that …
Matched in notes
high
short
δ
1326
Δοκίδες
beams, meteors
… 31.1472.25 Migne; and cf. also Aristotle, De mundo 392b4; Eusebius,
Demonstratio
evangelica 9.1.14; Anna Comnena, Alexias 12.4.1. See also kappa 1996. The noun doki/s is also used in mathematical contexts, as one of the …
Matched in notes
high
short
δ
1331
Δόκιμος
Dokimos, Docimus
Both of these unglossed headwords are probably, though not
demonstrably,
proper names. (As elsewhere, Adler's convention of capitalising all headwords confuses the issue.) The primary one is of course copiously attested as an adjective …
Matched in notes
high
short
δ
1368
Δόξαν
opinion
… 1367). It must be extracted from somewhere; perhaps, though not
demonstrably,
the quotation which immediately follows. [2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable. Adler tentatively suggests Polybius (cf. next …
Matched in notes
high
short
δ
1374
Δοξολογῶ σε
I laud you
… entries which combine a translation/gloss of a verb with a
demonstration
of its grammatical use -- in this instance the accusative case. The headword verb, in Lampe but not in LSJ (which only has …
Matched in notes
high
short
δ
1560
Δοῖδυξ
pestle
… where Kleon and Brasidas are the "pestles" used by the
demon
War to destroy Greece.) Aristophanes, however, did not mention the a)letri/banos; the second implement in the phrase is a stirring implement, toru/nh (tau …
Matched in notes
high
short
ε
22
Ἐβάστασεν
weighed
… (cf. beta 172, beta 173). It is presumably, though not
demonstrably,
extracted from the quotation given. [2] Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 438-440 (web address 1).
Matched in notes
high
short
ε
374
Ἐκβακχευθείς
frenzied
The headword, perhaps (though not
demonstrably)
extracted from the quotation given, is aorist passive participle, masculine nominative singular, of the verb e)kbakxeu/w. (For the use of this verb, which literally means to drive into …
Matched in notes
high
short
ε
399
Ἐκδίκους
avenging; lawless
… this adjective, must be quoted from somewhere (perhaps, though not
demonstrably,
the first Sophocles passage below). For the adjective see already epsilon 398, and cf. also epsilon 400; and for the twin meanings of …
Matched in notes
high
short
ε
1073
Ἐμφερεῖς
resembling (ones)
… Suda's accusative plurals. The Suda's headword is perhaps (though not
demonstrably)
extracted from the quotation given. [2] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 92 Habrich.
Matched in notes
high
short
ε
1211
Ἐνέβη
entered, boarded
… 940, epsilon 941, epsilon 942). It is probably (though not
demonstrably)
extracted from the quotation which immediately follows, and also illustrated by the second one appended. [2] Aelian fr. 40b Domingo-Forasté (37 Hercher), about …
Matched in notes
high
short
ε
1245
Ἐνέπεσε
fell on, befell
… epsilon 1011), third person singular. It is probably (though not
demonstrably)
extracted from the quotation which follows. [1] i.e. but (the 'impulse' being to fight). [2] Polybius 35.5.1 (preserved only here), on P.Cornelius Scipio …
Matched in notes
high
short
ε
1370
Ἐνθύμημα
enthymeme, enthymema
… through them" (Topica 100a25-27). But this is the scientific or
demonstrative
syllogism, i.e the one which starts from what is primary and true (Topica 100a27-29). By contrast, the enthymeme is related to what Aristotle …
Matched in notes
high
medium
ε
1494
Ἐν τοῖς ἱματίοις
in their cloaks, in their outer-garments
The headword phrase is probably (though not
demonstrably)
extracted from the quotation given. On it, note in general LSJ s.v. i(ma/tion: e)n i(mati/ois, of civilians = togati. [1] Quotation (also in ps.-Zonaras) unidentifiable (but …
Matched in notes
high
short
← Previous
Page 3 of 4
Next →