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360 entries for a plot [against someone]

μ371Μεγαλόφρωνgreat-minded, high-minded… the headword. [2] Stoic doctrine from Diogenes Laertius 7.93. [3] Someone characterised as great-spirited is explicitly supposed to be indifferent about riches in Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1124a, and there is no other allusion to …Matched in noteshighshort
μ931Μηλόβοτος χώραsheep-pasturage territory… replaced? Orthodox suggestions, first made in the 1820s, are the Against Autolykos (= lost speech III) or the Against Lysikles (= lost speech XII). For speculation that the present phrase is actually a version …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1200ΚαισαρεύςCaesareanSomeone from a city (of which there were several, e.g. kappa 1201) called Caesarea/Kaisareia. For such individuals see beta 259, pi 819, pi 2479.Matched in noteshighshort
ε1080Ἐμφρεάτοιin Phreato… made by the Suda's source here, Harpocration) for Demosthenes 23 [Against Aristocrates].77. [2] That is, in book 16 of his Laws: fr.13 Szegedy-Maszak (645 FHS&G). (Again Harpocration has been carelessly read.)Matched in noteshighshort
ει225Εἰσαγωγεύςintroducer[1] Or: who introduces [someone] to a particular person. [2] Procopius, Secret History 12.26 (web address 1), in a story about a monk seeing the emperor; cf. Kaldellis (60). The monk had come from …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1632Κινδυνεύειis in danger, is at risk… seeking advantage; so that when the many happen to fight against them out of necessity, they should not be put at risk by bad luck; rather they should consider it impossible to be in …Matched in noteshighshort
ι84ἸγνάτιοςIgnatius, Ignatios… where the preposition eis does need to be construed as 'against', see Barry Baldwin, "Book Titles in the Suda", Journal of Hellenic Studies 103 (1983) 136-7, at 136 (adding for good measure the comment …Matched in noteshighshort
α842Ἀκεσίας ἰάσατοAkesias healed… to choosing a proctologist. [1] i.e. in trying to heal someone made things worse.Matched in noteshighshort
ε1469Ἐντευξόμενοςabout to meet, about to run into… I make a rendezvous with, or otherwise try to meet, someone, it is not clear that he will be there; when I attend a discussion, a committee meeting or seminar, it is never certain …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3432ΕὐαίωνEuaion, EuaeonThat of an Athenian who killed someone in a brawl (Demosthenes 21.71-4: web address 1). Entry abridged from Harpokration s.v. cf. tau 406.Matched in noteshighshort
χ154ΧαιρέαςChaireas, ChaereasPerhaps here by cross-reference from epsilon 1094 (which mentions someone of this name in Josephus), but a common enough name anyway, in fact and fiction.Matched in noteshighshort
μ496ΜέλητοςMeletos, Meletus… actually bore the same name. [2] 444-441 BCE. He "fought against Sophokles" at that time in the sense that Sophokles was one of the (ten) Athenian generals at the time of the Samian revolt …Matched in noteshighshort
α1890Ἀνακαίασινat Anakaia, at Anacaea… of this locative in a fragment of Isaeus' lost speech Against Diocles.Matched in noteshighshort
α3403Ἀπολογοῦμαί σοιI defend myself to youOr (in post-classical usage, e.g. Plutarch, Themistocles 23) against you. Either way, the headword phrase itself illustrates the principle.Matched in noteshighshort
χ386ΧολῶI anger, I enrage, I provokeOf some specified thing, which angers someone in the accusative: see e.g. Sophocles, Trachiniae 1035, and generally LSJ s.v. Similar entries in syntactic lexica.Matched in noteshighshort
α2038Ἀναπτήτωlet flutter… headword must be quoted from somewhere; perhaps Cyril of Alexandria, Against Julian 1.43.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1329Δοκιμασίαν ἐπαγγεῖλαιto institute a dokimasia.… intention to proceed.' See Harrison (below) 204. Aeschines speech 2, Against Timarchos, provides our primary evidence for the dokimasia ton rhetoron and in particular for the charge of e(tai/rhsis. See especially section 32 [web …Matched in noteshighshort
ε722Ἐκφυλλοφορῆσαιto leaf out… certainly does mention it. But another (better?) possibility is Dinarchus, Against Polyeuctus, the lost speech cited by Harpokration s.v.Matched in noteshighmedium
α3898ἈρισταῖοςAristaios, Aristaeus… (FGrH 73F2) and Marsyas (FGrH 135F2) as sources. [4] Hyperides, Against Demosthenes 20, apparently. See Whitehead [bibliog.] 419-421. [5] Quoted from alphaiota 376.Matched in noteshighmedium
γ439Γραφήpublic-suit, graphe… Athens in the Fourth Century B.C. and the Public Action against Unconstitutional Proposals (Odense 1974). Strictly speaking, the grafh\ parano/mwn could only be brought against decrees; against allegedly improper laws the resort was the …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2200Κουφότερος κονιορτοῦ καὶ ἀσθενέστεροςlighter than dust and weakerEvidently a quotation (applying to someone or something in the nominative singular), but unidentifiable. For 'dust' cf. kappa 2036, kappa 2037.Matched in noteshighshort
ι501ἸωσαφάτJehoshaphat, Jehosaphat… successor of Asa, king of Judah. After fortifying his kingdom against Israel (2 Chronicles 17:1, 2), he set himself to cleanse the land of idolatry (1 Kings 22:43). In the third year of his …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε78Ἐγκατῳκοδόμησενimmured, walled in… ["(having become) angry"] for the finite verb e)pe/mhne ["he made (someone) fall madly in love with (someone)"] there.Matched in noteshighshort
λ266ΛέωνLeon… (lambda 265). For Sacred Wars, declared by the Delphic Amphictiony against states allegedly guilty of sacrilege against Apollo, see OCD(4) s.v.Matched in noteshighshort
α2958Ἀπαινύμενονstripping away… 11.582, where this middle participle (masculine accusative singular) occurs of someone removing the arms from a dead opponent. (Also 17.85.)Matched in noteshighshort
κ1342Κεντροτύποςstriking with a goad… two glosses make a distinction between a passive "goad-struck" (i.e. someone deserving torture, like ke/ntrwn, kappa 1344), and an active "goad-striker" (e.g. charioteer); these should be distinguished by accent (kentro/tupos vs. kentrotu/pos, LSJ s.v.), …Matched in noteshighshort
α65ἈβωνοτειχίτηςAbonoteichites, Abonoteichos-man… personal name, this headword is probably an ethnic: that of someone from Abono(u)teichos, a city on the southern coast of the Black Sea (ancient Paphlagonia); Barrington Atlas map 86 grid D2.Matched in noteshighshort
λ553ΛίμνοςLimnos, Limnus[1] That of a conspirator against Alexander the Great (in Plutarch, Alexander 49). [2] i.e. a masculine form of li/mnh, for which see lambda 551.Matched in noteshighshort
δ495Δηφενσίωνdefensio… copiously in the Strategicon attributed to the emperor Maurice, for someone under military assault, esp. by siege.Matched in noteshighshort
α836Ἀκέραιοςuncorrupted, intact, fresh, unblemished… (179 BCE) of Eumenes (epsilon 3579) and Ariarathes (alpha 3869) against Pharnaces of Pontus (cf. OCD(4) s.v Pharnaces I; Pontus: Barrington Atlas map 87 grid B4) when the latter offered a bribe to Seleucus …Matched in noteshighmedium