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236 entries for Pausanias

αι85Αἰδῶrespect, shame… scholion on Homer, Iliad 2.262, and mu 825. [2] cf. Pausanias 1.17.1 (web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort
β248Βείδιοςglorious (?)… connected with the charge of the the ephebi"; five in Pausanias, six in inscriptions. This is derived from *widuios, with beta representing w-. Perhaps the Suda's adjective is from the same root, with the …Matched in noteshighshort
δ807Δίαυλοςdiaulos… race, was added to the Olympic program in 724 BCE (Pausanias 5.8.4). The race consisted of two laps, each a stadion (c.600 ancient feet) in length. In Olympia, runners set out from the starting …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ474Λῃσταίraiders, robbers, brigands, pirates… From the scholia to Thucydides 1.4. [4] An approximation of Pausanias 10.34.5 (on an episode in his own lifetime, perhaps in the 170s CE). See Favuzzi [cited under alpha 1990] 58 for the identification. …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1598ΔυσαύληςDysaules, Dusaules… F4) for this information. On Dysaules of Eleusis see generally Pausanias 1.14.3 (web address 1), 2.12.4 (web address 2), and esp. 2.14.2-4 (web address 3). [1] That is, in this context, non-human; contrast alpha …Matched in noteshighshort
λ853Λυσανίας πατρῴων μεγάλων κακῶνgrief-dispeller of his father's great troubles… cited because of its use of a similar coined compound, pausani/as "that ends all grief" - which is likewise a common personal name, and may carry an allusion to the Spartan regent Pausanias, the …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1458Δωριάζεινto dress like a Dorian girlSame or similar entry in other lexica, ultimately from Pausanias the Atticist (fr. 140). For the headword verb itself see e.g. Anacreon fr. 54 Page (PMG). On the chiton, see generally chi 320.Matched in noteshighshort
ε3705ΕὕρωμαιI would find… future indicative ("prospective subjunctive"). The primary headword eu(/rwmai occurs in Pausanias and Gregory of Nazianzus, but both times with normal subjunctive usage. [1] Likewise, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (2660). [2] Likewise …Matched in noteshighshort
ν552ΝωνακρίςNonakris, Nonacris… Lycophron, and Aristophanes. See also Herodotus 6.74.1-2 (web address 1); Pausanias 8.17.6 (web address 2). (Confusingly, there were two small communities of this name in Arkadia: for the other one see Paus. 8.27.4, web …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3216Ἑστιατορεῖονfeasting-hall… grammarians. For the -o/rion form see e.g. Herodotus 4.35.4 (Ionic), Pausanias 5.15.12. [1] Strictly speaking a trape/zion should be a "little table" (diminutive of tra/peza, tau 906), but in late Greek the distinction disappears. …Matched in noteshighshort
α2973Ἀπέδειfell short of… and elsewhere. [1] Similar glossing in Hesychius s.v. a)pode/ontes. [2] Pausanias 8.49.3 (web address 1 below). For Philopoimen see generally phi 409.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1204Διὸς ἐγκέφαλοςZeus' brain, Zeus' morsel… of Lyon known as cervelle de canut, "silkworker's brain". [1] Pausanias the Atticist fr. 129; Photius s.v. [2] cf. Zenobius 3.141 and other paroemiographers; Tosi [cited under alpha 378] no.1420. [3] See beta 145.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1863Κνηκίαςtawny one… knhki/as is attested only in Babrius (next note), but cf. Pausanias 6.10.7 for its Doric-dialect counterpart Knakias (one of a victorious chariot-team of horses commemorated in a statue that P. saw at Olympia). [2] …Matched in noteshighshort
λ820Λύκου δεκάςLykos' ten-company, Lycus' ten-companyLikewise in Photius lambda457 Theodoridis (from Pausanias the Atticist) and similarly in Zenobius 5.2 and other paroemiographers. Better, however, is Photius lambda456 Theodoridis, quoting Eratosthenes (via Harpokration delta13 Keaney); see under delta 174. See …Matched in noteshighshort
αι248ΑἰόλιοςAeolius, Aiolios… of Hippodameia (PW 1.1034), daughter of Oinomaos [Author, Myth]: see Pausanias 6.21.11; scholion d to Pindar, Olympians 1.79(127); and a broken line of a papyrus fragment of the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women (Eoiai fr. …Matched in noteshighshort
ε971Ἐμμέλειαemmeleia, harmonycf. Pausanias the Atticist and Aelius Dionysius in Eustathius' Commentary on the Iliad 1167.19; also Hesychius, Aristoxenus, Ammonius, and a scholion on Aristophanes, Wasps 1503, where the headword occurs (web address 1). See also …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2193Κουροτρόφος γῆboy-nourishing earth… see the long note there). Adler suggests an attribution to Pausanias the Atticist (kappa40); perhaps ultimately from an Atthis, according to Jacoby. For the adjective see already kappa 2192; and for Erichthonius see epsilon …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2301Κώρυκοςleather sack… lexica (see the references at Photius kappa1329 Theodoridis), deriving from Pausanias the Atticist (kappa62), and cf. also several Homeric scholia (e.g. to Odyssey 5.267). [2] boulgi/dion is a diminutive from Latin bulga, used e.g. …Matched in noteshighshort
ε935Ἐμβαλόνταhad directed… and see now Favuzzi (cited under delta 404). Compare also Pausanias 9.29.9: Heracles kills his music teacher Linus the son of Ismenias; cf. lambda 568.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1209Καὶ τὸ τοῦ λύκουeven that of the wolfSame entry in Photius (from Pausanias the Atticist), and cf. a scholion on Plato, Phaedrus 272C, where the headword phrase occurs (web address 1): Socrates refers to a proverb di/kaion ei)=nai kai\ to\ tou= …Matched in noteshighshort
μ570ΜέμνωνMemnonFrom Pausanias 10.31.5-7 (web address 1), at 7; part of his painstakingly detailed description (10.25-31) of a building -- the Cnidian Clubhouse -- that he had seen at Delphi, full of paintings of the …Matched in noteshighshort
γ463ΓρύλλοςGryllos, Gryllus… at the battle of Mantineia in 362 (Xenophon, Hellenica 7.5.15-17; Pausanias 8.9.5; Diogenes Laertius 2.52-55). [2] Also (and originally) gru=los: see LSJ s.v.Matched in noteshighshort
μ1480ΜύσωναMyson of Chen… variously said to have been on Mt Oita (so e.g. Pausanias 10.24.1) or in Lakonia (so e.g. D.L., Stephanus of Byzantium).Matched in noteshighshort
χ88Χαραδραῖος λέωνravine lion… was roaming Mt. Cithaeron at the behest of King Thespius. Pausanias, however, cites a rival tradition that has Alcathous killing the lion of Mt. Cithaeron (1.41.3).Matched in noteshighshort
ε811ἘλευσίνιαEleusinia… location of the Eleusinian Mysteries. [2] Eleusis, rather (as in Pausanias and elsewhere). [3] The Suda's source here, Harpokration s.v. (commenting on Hyperides fr. 112 Jensen), does not name these others or give their …Matched in noteshighshort
α2499Ἀνθ' Ἑρμίωνοςinstead of HermioneA version of Pausanias the Atticist alpha124, where the headword phrase is spelled a)nq' *(Ermi/onos and the city-name *(ermiw/n; also, Erbse's edition suppresses the dubious o(moi/ws i(era/ and adds instead tou\s i(ke/tas from Zenobius …Matched in noteshighshort
α257ἌγκυραAnkyra, Ancyra, Ankara… about 125 miles south of the Black Sea. According to Pausanias (1.4), Ankyra was founded by Midas. Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Ankyra ( = Apollonius of Aphrodisias FGrH 740 F14) traces the name of …Matched in noteshighshort
α3985ἌρνηArne… but the one the Suda means is unambiguous. According to Pausanias 9.40.5 (web address 1), Arne was the original name of the settlement later (and better) known as Chaeroneia (chi 176), but Strabo 9.2.35 …Matched in noteshighshort
δ206ΔελφίνιονDelphinion, Delphinium… according to the accused, had been lawful or justifiable. See Pausanias 1.28.5-11 (web address 3), with MacDowell chap.7.Matched in noteshighshort
ε651Ἐκτιλούμενοιtamed… the correct spelling -- in Hesychius (epsilon1721), and cf. also Pausanias the Atticist epsilon28 (nominative singulars), and, post-Suda, ps.-Zonaras and Etymologicum Magnum 324.51-52 (both dative plurals). The headword participle must be quoted from somewhere, …Matched in noteshighshort

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