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Robert Dyer3
Emily Rossow2
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179 entries for Timaeus

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α2795ἈνυσίμωςeffectuallySame entry in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon; similar ones elsewhere. The primary headword is quoted from Plato, Theaetetus 144B. cf. generally alpha 2783, alpha 2794, alpha 2797, alpha 2798, alpha 2799. [1] Plato, again, has …Matched in noteshighshort
α2829Ἀξιῶνdeeming… see web address 1 below for the latter. Likewise in Timaeus (Platonic Lexicon), Photius (Lexicon alpha2182 Theodoridis), and elsewhere. [3] Sic: an odd way to introduce a gloss already given.Matched in noteshighshort
α3056Ἀπέσβηκεhe had quenchedLikewise in other lexica, including Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. Besides Plato, Statesman [Politicus] 269B (web address 1 below), the headword form itself is also attested in Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.8.13.Matched in noteshigh

α2795

Ἀνυσίμως

effectually

[Meaning] productively, practically, completely. Also [sc. attested is] a)nusimw/tatos ["most/very effectual"]. For a)/nusis ["effecting"] [is] completion.

Ἀνυσίμως· ἐνεργῶς, πρακτικῶς, τελείως. καὶ Ἀνυσιμώτατος. Ἄνυσις γὰρ ἡ τελείωσις.

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α3313Ἄποθενaway, far from… Kaldellis (57) and additional background at alpha 3380. [4] From Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon, where however (as Adler's apparatus notes) the first word is corrected to a)mo/qen. This is evidently because the Platonic phrase deemed …Matched in noteshighshort

α3586Ἀποτεθρίακενhas unpetalled… Haven 1975) 118, #37. [2] (cf. tau 237.) Likewise in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon, and similarly in Photius and elsewhere. This participle, transmitted here as a)poteqruwme/noi, is actually a)poteqrumme/noi, quoted from Plato, Republic 495E; see …Matched in noteshighmedium

α3642Ἀποφράδες ἡμέραιtaboo days, unmentionable days[1] So too in other lexica, including Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon; from the scholia to Plato, Laws 800D, where the phrase occurs. [2] Appian, Italica fr. 6; again, with variants, at epsilon 781. [3] Likewise …Matched in noteshighshort

α3775Ἀργιλλώδηςclayey, clay-like… Ambrosian Lexicon. [2] Likewise or similarly in other lexica, including Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. Perhaps stemming from the Arabian and Syrian gh=n ... a)rgilwdeste/rhn in Herodotus 2.12.3. [3] Greek Anthology 7.194.3 (Mnasalces), an epitaph for …Matched in noteshighshort

α3787Ἀργυραμοιβόςmoney-changerSame material, variously, in other lexica, including Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. (The headword occurs in the accusative plural in Plato, Politicus 289E.) [1] The word for "cashier" here, kollektarios, is the Greek version of the …Matched in noteshighshort

α3790ἈργυρῖνοιArgurinoi, Argurini, ArguriniansOf Epeiros (NW Greece). See Stephanus of Byzantium s.v., citing Timaeus and others.Matched in noteshighshort

α3930ἈριστοτέληςAristotle, AristotelesFor Aristotle see already alpha 3929. [1] Timaios (Timaeus) of Tauromenion, historian, C4/3 BCE; see generally tau 600 and 602. The present extract from him, preserved by Polybios (n.3 below), is FGrH 566 F156. …Matched in noteshighmedium

α4161Ἄσκαντοςpallet[1] Similarly in Hesychius and other lexica (including Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon) -- though glossing a)ska/nths, not the Suda's a)/skantos (which occurs only here). [2] cf. kappa 307. [3] From the scholia to a line …Matched in noteshighshort

α4367Ἀτιμώρητοςundefended, unavenged[1] Likewise in other lexica, including Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. [2] Aelian fr. 138b Domingo-Forasté (135 Hercher).Matched in noteshighshort

α4393Ἄτρωτοςunwounded, invulnerable… the two glossing synonyms being in the opposite order) in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. The quotation, otherwise unattested in this precise form, is surely an approximation of Plato, Symposium 219E "[Socrates] was far more invulnerable …Matched in noteshighshort

α4398Ἀτυφίαlack of delusion, modesty… fr. 277; cf. theta 547, theta 624. [3] Likewise in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon, commenting on this phrase in Plato's Phaedrus (see above). [4] Stoic doctrine from Diogenes Laertius 7.117. [5] Aelian fr. 140a Domingo-Forasté …Matched in noteshighmedium

α4399Ἀτυχῆσαιto fail to obtain, to be unlucky… of a)tuxe/w. It is glossed likewise in other lexica, including Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon; thus it probably comes from Plato (4 instances), though there are other possibilities. cf. the use of a)potugxa/nw as 'fail to …Matched in noteshighshort

α4674Ἀχαριστεῖνto be ungrateful… again at alpha 4675. [1] Likewise in Hesychius and in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon; perhaps quoted from Plato, Symposium 186C. [2] An approximation of Xenophon, Anabasis 2.3.18 (web address 1 below). For the adverb, see …Matched in noteshighshort

β27Βαθεῖαν αὔλακαdeep furrowLikewise in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon (and again, post-Suda, in the Etymologicum Magnum). The headword phrase, in the accusative case, is a version of baqei=an a)/loka in Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 593 (web address 1 …Matched in noteshighshort

β93Βάναυσοςvulgar, mechanical, banausic, plebeian… of the word. [1] Polybius 12.13.9-10, on the critique of Timaeus (tau 602) of the complaints made by Demochares (delta 472) against Demetrius of Phaleron (delta 429), benign dictator of Athens 317-307 BCE.Matched in noteshighshort

β104Βαρβαρίζειbehaves like a barbarian[1] Same gloss in Timaeus, Platonic Lexicon, and Photius, Lexicon beta63; cf. generally alpha 3728. On the concept of "barbarian" in Greek thought, see OCD(4) s.v. (p.223). [2] Plato, Alcibiades 1 120B, where the …Matched in noteshighshort

β219Βεβηκόςstanding… participle of the verb bai/nw, might be extracted from Plato, Timaeus 62C, though there are many other possibilities.Matched in noteshighshort

β411Βοτρυοσταγῆ ἔρνηshoots dripping with grapes… no connection with it. [1] Polybius 12.13.1. (This refers to Timaeus' account of Demochares: see generally delta 472.) Here Botruos is the genitive of a writer's name, "Botrys".Matched in noteshighshort

γ63Γαργαλίζειtitillates… [1] Same glossing of this headword is other lexica, including Timaeus, Platonic Lexicon; it is probably extracted from Plato, Philebus 47A. ("Insinuates", u(poshmai/nei, has been seen as an error for u(posai/nei "fawns on" in …Matched in noteshighshort

γ88Γεγανωμένοςhaving been brightened[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica, including Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. From the scholia to Plato, Republic 411A, where the headword participle occurs. See mu 1103. [2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via …Matched in noteshighshort

γ126ΓενναῖοςnobleSee also gamma 127. [1] Also in other lexica, including Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. [2] Also in Photius; cf. Zenobius 2.88 and other paroemiographers. [3] Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 48 Zintzen (24 Asmus).Matched in noteshighshort

γ167Γεωπεῖναιland-paupers… also gamma 168. [1] Also in the Platonic Lexicon of Timaeus. [2] From a gloss on Herodotus 2.6.2 (web address 1 below), where the word occurs (in reference to Egypt).Matched in noteshighshort

γ376Γόμφοιbolts, dowels, tenons… s.v. at web address 1 (and cf. gamma 375). Plato, Timaeus 43A, uses it figuratively for the infinitesimal bonds or pegs which hold the particles of the body together (web address 2).Matched in noteshighshort

δ153Δεδιττόμενοςterrifying… 152, delta 304. Same entry in some other lexica, including Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon; that fact makes it likely (if not demonstrable) that the headword is quoted from Plato, Phaedrus 245B.Matched in noteshighshort

δ315Δείλης πρωΐαςof early afternoon… somewhere. The first of them occurs as a lemma in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon; and for the second cf. Artemidorus 1.7 (accusative). cf. delta 306, delta 314.Matched in noteshighshort

δ486Δήπουθενdoubtless, presumably… entry -- repeated, oddly, at its end -- derives from Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon s.v. (which has itself probably been generated by either Plato, Ion 534A or Philebus 62E). [1] This alternative gloss, repeated at …Matched in noteshighshort

δ588Διακομισθείςhaving been conveyed acrossSame entry in other lexica, including Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. The headword (aorist passive participle, masculine nominative singular, of diakomi/zw) is regarded as quoted from Plato, Laws 905B; it also occurs in e.g. Polybius and …Matched in noteshighshort

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