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philosophy48

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poetry39
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proverbs28
economics26

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Α alpha79
Ε epsilon69
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Γ gamma10
Ι iota10

3 more

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Jennifer Benedict59
Catharine Roth42
William Hutton23
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Stefano Sanfilippo13

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Robert Dyer12
Nick Nicholas7
Anne Mahoney6
Debra Hamel6
Craig Gibson5

306 entries for Plutarch

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γ44Γάμβρειος στολήGambreian garb… Nepos, Strabo and others) has only Lampsacus, Magnesia and Myus; Plutarch, Themistocles 29 (citing two earlier authorities), adds Percote and Palaescepsis. But only the unnamed source of Athenaeus adds Gambreion (a city in the …Matched in noteshighshort
γ121ΓεμίνιοςGeminios, Geminius… Bearers of it are attested as minor players in several Plutarch Lives of late-Republican biographees (Marius, Pompey, Antony). Same entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon.Matched in noteshighshort
γ212Γεφυρίζωνabusing, catcalling… generally Mylonas 256.) Outside lexicography its two occurrences are in Plutarch's Sulla, 6.12 and 13.1 (on the Athenians' mockery of Sulla and his wife Caecilia Metella). The second of these has general parallels with …Matched in noteshigh

γ44

Γάμβρειος στολή

Gambreian garb

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Γάμβρειος στολή.

Christianity

Christianity

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25

gender and sexuality22

gender and sexuality22

trade and manufacture21

trade and manufacture21

meter and music17

meter and music17

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ΑΙ alphaiota

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Ross Scaife ✝

Ross Scaife ✝

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Alexandra Trachsel3

Alexandra Trachsel3

D. Graham J. Shipley3

D. Graham J. Shipley3

Wm. Blake Tyrrell3

Wm. Blake Tyrrell3

Edward Whitehouse2

Edward Whitehouse2

Elizabeth Vandiver2

Elizabeth Vandiver2

Oliver Phillips ✝2

Oliver Phillips ✝2

Phiroze Vasunia2

Phiroze Vasunia2

Andrea Consogno1

Andrea Consogno1

Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝1

Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝1

Carl Widstrand1

Carl Widstrand1

James Vradelis1

James Vradelis1

Joseph L. Rife1

Joseph L. Rife1

Massimo Forconi1

Massimo Forconi1

Nathan Greenberg ✝1

Nathan Greenberg ✝1

Nicholas Fincher1

Nicholas Fincher1

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γ240Γῆν ἰλλομένηνfettered land… accusative case, is generated by Plato, Timaeus 40B (quoted by Plutarch, Moralia 1006C). cf. generally iota 285, iota 298.Matched in noteshighshort

γ266Γίγις ΓίγιδοςGigis, GigidosThat of a Persian maid mentioned in Plutarch, Artaxerxes 19 (following Ctesias); she helped her mistress, queen Parysatis, poison a rival. The second element in the headword gives the genitive case.Matched in noteshighshort

γ288Γλίσχρονsticky, greedy, stingy… a very close approximation (only the opening verb differs) of Plutarch, Sulla 15.2: Sulla transfers his forces from such lands (meaning Attica) into food-rich Boeotia. [6] Aristophanes, Peace 193-4 (web address 1), with comments …Matched in noteshighmedium

γ393ΓοργονεῖονGorgoneion… On the statue of Athena Polias in Athens: see e.g. Plutarch, Themistocles 10 (citing Cleidemus FGrH 323 F13). [2] cf. already gamma 392.Matched in noteshighshort

γ454ΓρήνικοςGrenikos, Granikos, Granicus, Graneikos… Persians, in 334 BCE. (Arrian, Anabasis 1.12-16; Diodorus Siculus 17.18-21; Plutarch Alexander 16). See in brief John Lazenby in OCD(4) p.626 (s.v. Granicus -- the orthodox modern version of the name, also under mu …Matched in noteshighshort

δ54ΔάμωνDamon, Damo… name, (that of) a teacher of Pericles". On Damon see Plutarch, Pericles 4 (web address 1), with Stadter 69-70; OCD(4) 411-12 'Damon(2)'.Matched in noteshighshort

δ149Δεδιξάμενοιhaving made fearful; fearing… extant instances outside lexicography it has an active sense (e.g. Plutarch, Cato Minor 43.7, and several times in Procopius, e.g. Wars 2.21.19, 2.26.16, 5.22.25, 8.28.2, Anecd. 5.12; also Theodoret). So either the present headword …Matched in noteshighshort

δ202Δέλτοςwriting-tablet… of a Stoic doxography. Cf. sigma 638, and see also Plutarch, Moralia 47E (= SVF 1.464).Matched in noteshighshort

δ243Δέονnecessary… from the scholia there. cf. Thucydides 1.114.2, 2.21.2 and 5.16.3; Plutarch, Pericles 22-23. For discussion of the incident see Donald Kagan, The Archidamian War (Cornell UP 1974) 92 n.64. The remark 'necessary', 'for necessary …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ258ΔερκυλλίδαςDerkyllidas, Dercyllidas, Derkylidas, Dercylidas… as a bachelor, in a Spartan state which encouraged marriage (Plutarch Lycurgus 15.2).Matched in noteshighshort

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

δ421Δήμαρχοιtribunes, demarchs, leaders of the people… Brutus and C.Sicinnius Vellutus (cross-referenced at sigma 397) see e.g. Plutarch, Coriolanus 7 and 13; Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 6.89.1. [2] The topic now shifts from Rome to Athens. On Athenian demarchs see …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ455ΔημοσθένηςDemosthenes… cf. delta 456. [1] Again at epsiloniota 57. [2] cf. [Plutarch], Lives of the Ten Orators 847C-E.Matched in noteshighmedium

δ469ΔημοφάνηςDemophanes… 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

δ559Διαθέσειςdispositions… “a consistent disposition of the commanding part of the soul” (Plutarch, Moralia 441C-D; Diogenes Laertius 7.89; alpha 3830). However, unlike Aristotle, for the Stoics the more stable is the disposition (dia/qesis), not the state …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ721Διαπυνθάνεταιsearches out by questioning… other lexica. The headword must be quoted from somewhere (e.g. Plutarch, Marius 40.4). cf. delta 939.Matched in noteshighshort

δ727Διαρρέουσαbeing dissolute… sense of it see LSJ s.v., II, citing instances from Plutarch, Lucian and Aelian.Matched in noteshighshort

δ783Διατεθρυμμένοςthoroughly smashed… nominative singular, of diaqru/ptw) must be quoted from somewhere (e.g. Plutarch, Galba 25.1).Matched in noteshighshort

δ957Διεσκεδασμένονdispersed, disseminated, scattered (?)… it is perhaps from [DW] Xenophon, Hellenica 4.1.19, or (AI) Plutarch, Sulla 13.4. But there are numerous other possibilities.Matched in noteshighshort

δ962Διεσπαθηκόταhaving squandered away… infinitive see Hesychius delta1325, with the gloss a)selgw=s a)nali/skein; cf. Plutarch, Cicero 27.6 (polla\ th=s ou)si/as diaspaqh/sas). The form diaspaqi/zw is attested in Johannes Laurentius Lydus, De magistratibus populi Romani 2.19 (passive at 1.36). …Matched in noteshighshort

δ964Διεσπλεκωμένῃher who has been fucked… such as su/neimi, suggi/gnomai etc. Cf. Hyperides fr.171 Jensen and Plutarch, Solon 20.3. [3] If this text is to be retained, 'years' comes unexpectedly (para\ prosdoki/an). The audience may well have expected "thirteen thousand …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1003Διῆκανthey drove through… plural, evidently quoted from somewhere. (There are extant possibilities in Plutarch and Cassius Dio.) cf. delta 1038.Matched in noteshighshort

δ1031Διθυράμβων νοῦν ἔχεις ἐλάττοναyou have less sense than dithyrambs.… to have less sense than the cranes and the storks?" (Plutarch, Lucullus 39.5).Matched in noteshighshort

δ1042Διῖχθαιto have gone through… quoted from somewhere. (There are extant instances in Strabo and Plutarch.)Matched in noteshighshort

δ1108Δίκροταdikrota, two-banked… di/kroton (e.g. Polybius 5.62.3) is used especially in imperial prose: Plutarch, Lucullus 2.4; Appian, Mithridatica 17. Appian also (Illyrica 7) identifies the di/krota with the Roman naves Liburnicae, as [Lucian], Amores 6 tw=n dikro/twn, …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1109Δικροῖςbifurcated, forked, two-pronged… legomenon: more occurrences for kekragmo/s (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 1357; Plutarch, Quaest.Conv. 3.6.4). The coinage of the word might have been determined by metrical reasons.Matched in noteshighshort

δ1111Δικτάτωρdictator… the headword noun; for its earlier, literal sense see e.g. Plutarch, Moralia 777B (of L. Aemilius Paullus, cos. 182 and 168 BCE), and under eta 545 (Philostratus on Herodes Atticus). [3] Likewise in Photius. …Matched in noteshighshort

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