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Καμόντων
of those whose work is done
… 'ghosts' (web address 1). On this epigram, wherein the philosopher
Diogenes
the Cynic, bound for Hades, addresses Charon [Author, Myth] (q.v. chi 135), see Gow and Page (vol. I, 408-409) and (vol. II, 441). …
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Καρνεάδης
Karneades, Carneades
… of Philosophy at web address 1. [1] Philokomos or Epikomos
(Diogenes
Laertius 4.62). [2] Karneades was the most recognized member of the "New" or "Skeptical" Academy. He succeeded Hegesinus as head of the Academy …
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Ἀγαθόν
good
… alpha 119, likewise a neuter singular. This entry mostly reproduces
Diogenes
Laertius 7.94-98 (who supposedly is quoting an extract of Stoic ethics). The Suda text contains important omissions as well as different readings (the …
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Ἀγκών
elbow
… Mantissa Proverbiorum 3.31 and the quotation which follows here. [8]
Diogenes
Laertius 4.46. [9] gamma 316.
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277
Ἀγνοεῖ δ' ἀράχνη παῖδας ὡς παιδεύεται
a spider knows not how she educates her children.
Iambica adespota fr. 16a Diehl; cf.
Diogenianus
1.70 and other paroemiographers
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281
Ἁγνότερος πηδαλίου
purer than a steering-oar
Diogenianus
1.11 and other paroemiographers. Presumably this proverb's effect turns on the purificatory properties of salt. On the steering oars -- always in pairs -- of ancient ships, see pi 1493 and pi 1494, …
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301
Ἀγορὰ Κερκώπων
market of Kerkopes
… the phrase "market of Kerkopes" as meaning "knaves' market" see
Diogenes
Laertius 9.114; also Zenobius 1.5 and other paroemiographers.
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363
Ἀγρίππας
Agrippa
That of several ill-attested writers (a Pyrrhonist sceptic mentioned by
Diogenes
Laertius 9.88; a medical writer cited by Galen); but best-known for being the cognomen of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (c.64-12), through whose closeness to …
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403
Ἀγχίνοια
tight-wittedness
… alpha 402. [1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica. [2]
Diogenes
Laertius 7.93. See also Stobaeus, Eclogae 2.61, 2-4 (ed. Wachsmuth), where "tight-wittedness" (a)gxi/noia) is called "knowledge" (e)pisth/mh) instead of "disposition of character" (e(/cis). …
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Ἀδελφὸς παρείη
may a brother be at hand
cf.
Diogenianus
1.91 and other paroemiographers.
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478
Ἀδιαφορία
indifference
… main body of the entry quotes, with only minor variations,
Diogenes
Laertius 7.104-107 (on Stoic doctrine). [2] Not the headword itself, a feminine noun, but the equivalent idiom using the neuter adjective. [3] This …
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493
Ἀδμήτου μέλος καὶ Ἁρμοδίου
Admetos' song and Harmodios'
cf.
Diogenianus
2.68 (and other paroemiographers), where it is clearer than it is here that no single song encompassing both these individuals is meant. "Skolia" were songs sung in turn by guests at a …
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517
Ἀδώνιδος κῆποι
Adonis' gardens
… Hesychius. [2] From the scholia to Plato, Phaedrus 276B; cf.
Diogenianus
1.14.
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537
Ἀδύνατα εἶναι
to be impossibles
… lexica; references at Photius alpha392 Theodoridis. [2] Stoic doctrine from
Diogenes
Laertius 7.75. [3] This sentence of unknown source is also found, in slightly different word order, at kappa 2601. For the use of …
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607
Ἀεί
always
… Tyana (alpha 3420). [3] Sophocles fr. 809; cf. Zenobius 2.44,
Diogenianus
1.58; Tosi [see under alpha 378] no.116. [4] So the transmitted text, but it should probably read 'triple six'; cf. omicroniota 106, tau …
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664
Ἀήτης
gale
… Barrington Atlas map 60 grid E4). The epigram, the sailor
Diogenes's
dedication of a promised object to one of the Kabeiroi (cf. kappa 6) during a storm at sea, is attributed to Diodorus; cf. …
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774
Ἀκαδημία
Academy
… and generally OCD(4) pp.2 ('Academy') and 638 ('gymnasium'). [1] From
Diogenes
Laertius 3.7-8 (= 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 …
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813
Ἀκαταλλήλως
incongruously
… evidently quoted from somewhere. (For an instance of it see
Diogenes
Laertius 7.59, quoted under beta 104 = sigma 782: a solecism is a sentence "incongruously" constructed.)
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874
Ἀκίβδηλον
unadulterated
… Photius alpha748 Theodoridis); it must be quoted from somewhere. [2]
Diogenes
Laertius 7.118 (loosely quoted), on some Stoic doctrines.
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924
Ἀκόνιτον
aconite
… glossing, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (1039). [2]
Diogenes
Laertius 5.8: the third line of a short poem of his own (= Greek Anthology 7.107.3) on the supposed suicide of Aristotle (ib. …
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1026
Ἄκρων
Akron, Acron
… Also from Acragas. See generally epsilon 1002, epsilon 1003. [3]
Diogenes
Laertius 8.65 (from his Life of Empedocles).
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1064
Ἄλλα μὲν ὁ Λεύκωνος ὄνος φέρει ἄλλα δὲ Λεύκων
some things Leukon's donkey carries (but) others Leukon
The proverb appears in this form in
Diogenianus
2.21, who explains it as applying to a mismatch between words and actions and adds an anecdote about an Athenian farmer of this name. (Other paroemiographers …
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1108
Ἀλέγοις
might you have a care for
… probably a)le/kois "might you ward off"). The epigram, the sailor
Diogenes's
dedication of a promised object to one of the Kabeiroi (cf. kappa 6) during a storm at sea, is attributed to Diodorus; cf. …
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1149
Ἄλευε
keep away from
… in ps.-Zonaras. [1] cf. generally alpha 1141, alpha 1148. [2]
Diogenianus
2.56 and other paroemiographers.
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1194
Ἄλλην δρῦν βαλάνιζε
shake acorns from another oak
Same entry in ps.-Zonaras. [1]
Diogenianus
1.19. [2] Macarius 1.88.
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1314
Ἄλλο γλαὺξ ἄλλο κορώνη φθέγγεται
one thing the owl cries, another the crow
Diogenianus
2.16 and other paroemiographers.
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1343
Ἀλλότρια βάλλειν
to throw others' throws
cf.
Diogenianus
2.60.
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1367
Ἄλοχος
spouse
… quoted in an anecdote (about a male homosexual relationship) in
Diogenes
Laertius 4.29.
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1392
Ἀλώπηξ τὸν βοῦν ἐλαύνει
a fox drives the ox
[1] So too in Photius, Lexicon alpha1089 Theodoridis, and cf.
Diogenianus
1.75; Tosi (cited under alpha 378) no.1886. [2] A line of iambic verse, apparently oracular. (Adler cites Astrampsychus, ed. Opsopoeus in Oraculis metricis …
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1400
Ἄλλως ἀναλίσκεις ὕδωρ
you are using up water for nothing
[1] cf., more generally, alpha 1399.
Diogenianus
2.61. [2] That is, within a fixed time-limit measured by a waterclock (klepsydra). See in brief S.C. Todd, The Shape of Athenian Law (Oxford 1993) 130-2.
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