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563 entries for Philo

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κ1273Κεκρύφαλονhairnet… 1273. [5] Greek Anthology 6.206.3-4 (Antipater of Sidon). The adjective filo/plektos "tending to be braided" is usually taken to be a corruption of filo/plagktos, "errant, straying". The phrase "dyed with flowers of the grey …Matched in noteshighshort
α4348Ἀτέχνοιςfor unskilled ones, to unskilled ones, with unskilled ones… The "she" in question is the 5th century CE Neoplatonic philosopher Aidesia/Aedesia of Alexandria, student of Proclus at Athens, daughter, wife, and mother of Neoplatonic philosophers: see alphaiota 79. [4] cf. tau 441 (and …Matched in noteshighmedium
α4446Αὖλος ΠοστόμιοςAulus Postumius… Aulus was among those senators who welcomed the delegation of philosophers, Carneades, Diogenes, and Critolaus, on the Capitoline (Cicero, Academica 2.137; Gellius, Attic Nights 6.14.8-10; Plutarch, Cato the Elder 22). The philosophers had come …

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Κεκρύφαλον

hairnet

[Meaning] kekryphaton, towel, napkin. In the Epigrams: "hairnets bind your hair; I melt with passion" And elsewhere: "Philainis [gives] a band for her usually-braided hair, a hairnet dyed with flowers of the grey sea".…

Κεκρύφαλον· κεκρύφατον, σαβακάθιον, σουδάριον. ἐν Ἐπιγράμμασι· κεκρύφαλοι σφίγγουσι τεὴν τρίχα· τήκομαι οἴστρῳ. καὶ αὖθις· φιλοπλέκτοιο κόμας σφιγκτῆρα Φιλαινὶς βαπτὸν ἁλὸς πολιῆς…

food

food

56

56

meter and music35

meter and music35

trade and manufacture31

trade and manufacture31

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Ryan Stone

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Ioannis Doukas5

Ioannis Doukas5

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James Vradelis4

Matthew Farmer4

Matthew Farmer4

Nicholas Wilshere4

Nicholas Wilshere4

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Ross Scaife ✝4

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Carl Widstrand1

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Constantina Katsari1

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D. Graham J. Shipley1

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Diane Spurlock1

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Gabriel Bodard1

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Kenneth Bumbaco1

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Konstantinos Kopanias1

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Massimo Forconi1

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Nathan Greenberg ✝1

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Robert de Brose1

Victoria Papaprodromou1

Victoria Papaprodromou1

Wm. Blake Tyrrell1

Wm. Blake Tyrrell1

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δ1620Δύσερινquarrelsome… note); evidently quoted from somewhere. In the literature du/seris and filo/neikos frequently occur together: e.g. Pindar, Olympians 6.19; Isocrates 1.31; Plutarch, Philopoemen 17.7. [2] As in Hesychius delta2563. See also Etymologicum Magnum: *du/serin: filo/neikon. …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1252Κεκομψευμένοςingenious… passive sense) (LSJ s.v.). The former sense is exemplified by Philo Judaeus, De migratione Abrahami 75.6: oi( ta\ politika\ kekomyeume/noi, "those who are smart about politics". The latter is exemplified by Plato, Philebus 56C: …Matched in noteshighshort

α1640ἈμμώνιοςAmmonios, Ammonius… omega 182). See web address 1 below (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy), and cf. sigma 33 (end). [1] 'The nickname Saccas (sack-carrier? wearer of sackcloth?) would seem to imply a humble origin, though other interpretations …Matched in noteshighshort

α2973Ἀπέδειfell short of… s.v. a)pode/ontes. [2] Pausanias 8.49.3 (web address 1 below). For Philopoimen see generally phi 409.Matched in noteshighshort

α4093Ἀρχήprinciple… already alpha 4092. The present entry is extracted from John Philoponus, Commentary on Aristotle's de anima (25.32-26.12, 27.3-7, 74.34-75.15 Hayduck). [1] That is, "animal" or "living being". [2] That is, the soul is an …Matched in noteshighlong

β478ΒούχεταBoucheta, Bucheta… [2] So the transmitted Suda text, but Harpokration s.v. says "Philostephanos in his Matters Epeirote" (fr. 9a FHG). [3] delta 283. The Barrington Atlas gives four possible forms; Bouchetion?, Bouchaition, Boucheta, Boucheton. (The Latin …Matched in noteshighshort

δ523ΔιαγόραςDiagoras… Janko, 'The Derveni Papyrus (Diagoras of Melos, Apopyrgizontes Logoi?)', Classical Philology 96 (2001) 1-32.Matched in noteshighmedium

δ1141ΔιογένηςDiogenes… double negative, but the point must be that these famous philosophers are human beings like everyone else. [3] From alpha 180 (q.v.); repeated at omicron 28.Matched in noteshighmedium

δ1240ΔίωνDion, Dio… generally RE Dion(18); NP Dion(3); OCD4 Dio Cocceianus; PIR2 D93; Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists 1.7. [1] In Bithynia (present-day Bursa in Turkey); Barrington Atlas map 52 grid E4. [2] Dio, Oration 11.Matched in noteshighmedium

ε3605ΕὔξενοςEuxenos, EuxenusPhilostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 1.7 [1] cf. chi 163. On talking birds as pets, see OCD(4) s.v. "pets." [2] cf. mu 479.Matched in noteshighmedium

ι487ἼωνIon… Athens, who also practiced other forms of poetry and wrote philosophical works in prose. The treatise "On the Sublime" calls his plays faultless and elegant but less inspired than those of Sophocles. [1] Possibly …Matched in noteshighshort

ι543ἹππίαςHippiasC5 BC. See generally Diels-Kranz 86; Philostratus Lives of the Sophists 1.11; RE Hippias(13); W.K.C. Guthrie, The Sophists (Cambridge 1971) 280-5; OCD4 Hippias(2). [1] Mentioned only here. Guthrie 283 compares the story in Plato, …Matched in noteshighshort

κ2647Κυκλίων τε χορῶν ᾀσματοκάμπαςand tune-benders of cyclic choruses.… cf. alpha 2862, delta 1178, epsiloniota 291; OCD(4) pp.1137-8 s.v. Philoxenus(1).Matched in noteshighmedium

α775ἈκαδημίαAcademy… J. Glucker's rehabilitation of Aemilius Portus' correction of 'school of philoi' to 'school of philosophers' and cites by way of confirmation a scholion on Aristophanes, Clouds 1005 (p. 195 Holwerda). A simple misunderstanding of …Matched in noteshighshort

α3855ἈρήτηArete… the present entry is surely A. the daughter of the philospher Aristippos (and a philosopher herself); see under alpha 3908.Matched in noteshighshort

α4092Ἀρχήprinciple… (somata), and this reading is probably better according to the philosophical context. Certainly according to the Stoic orthodoxy, the incorporeals (time, void, "sayables" and place) are inexistent (or rather "subsistent"), and for this reason …Matched in noteshighshort

δ339ΔεινομάχηDeinomache… 1280): Plutarch, Alcibiades 1, etc. [2] That of a Stoic philosopher in Lucian's Philopseudes.Matched in noteshighshort

δ469ΔημοφάνηςDemophanes… must be D. of Megalopolis (C3 BCE), a politically active philosopher: see Polybius 10.22.2, Plutarch Philopoimen 1 ('Megalophanes' there) and generally R.M. Errington in OCD(4) s.v.; cf. phi 409.Matched in noteshighshort

δ1161ΔιόμειαDiomeia… (6.26 Kaibel); Plutarch, Themistocles 12); it was also where the philosophical school of the Cynics was founded by Antisthenes (Diogenes Laertius 6.16; alpha 2723). Pausanias 1.19.3 describes the altars devoted to mythological figures related …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1588Δυσαλθέςhard to cure… Cassius Iatrosophus) and later, in the Byzantine era, in theology, philosophy, and philology.Matched in noteshighshort

ε3446Εὐεστώwell-being… noun eu)estw/, see also epsilon 3445. [1] For the atomist philosopher Democritus see generally delta 447, delta 448. The present entry reproduces Diogenes Laertius 9.45 (= 68 A1, Diels-Kranz). He states there that Thrasylus …Matched in noteshighshort

ι587ἽππωνHippon… Syracusan general mentioned in Xenophon, Hellenica 1.2.8, and a pre-Socratic philosopher a.k.a Hipponax. [2] i.e. stable, stall: i(ppw/n (with an acute accent on the last syllable, rather than a circumflex; cf. next note). [3] …Matched in noteshighshort

κ2116Κορυβαντιᾷcelebrates the Korybant rites, is in a frenzy… The headword must be quoted from somewhere. Extant possibilities include: Philo Judaeus, On Dreams 2.1; Themistius, *basanisth\s h)\ filo/sofos 253a; Libanius, Letters 299.2; Palladius, Dialogue on the Life of Chrysostom p. 138 Coleman-Norton. [2] …Matched in noteshighshort

κ2602Κύβοςcube (six-sided gambling die or a square face or pip (spot) on such a die)… Rome, may have been of cubic form (R. Eisler, "Kuba-Kybele," Philologus 68 (1909) 118-151, 161-209, suggesting an etymology from the same root as the sacred Ka'aba in Mecca). [4] Greek Anthology 5.25.3-4, attributed to …Matched in noteshighmedium

χ296Χιάζεινto play the Chian… musician Democritus of Chios (RE 5.140, a contemporary of the philosopher of the same name), and that of the Siphnian style to an otherwise unknown citizen of that island named Theoxenides (but Philoxenides or …Matched in noteshighshort

α3897ἈρίσταινοςAristainos, AristaenusFrom Polybius 24.11. See phi 409 for more on Philopoemen. [1] Here the name appears mistakenly as Aristaenetus. [2] To confirm that they were acting under duress.Matched in noteshighmedium

α2954Ἀπαίδευτοιuneducated, untrained… comic poet, Nicochares: fr. 3 Kock, now 4 K.-A.) On Philonides of (the Athenian deme) Melite, see generally J.K. Davies, Athenian Propertied Families 600-300 BC (Oxford 1971) 422. For Lais (or Nais?) see lambda …Matched in noteshighshort

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