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234 entries for Timaeus

α2157Ἀνδραποδώδη τρίχαslavish hair[1] Same material in Photius, and in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon; prompted by Plato, Alcibiades 1.120B; see already under alpha 2156. [2] Quotation unidentifiable.Matched in noteshighshort
ε2096Ἐπετίμαwas raising the pricecf. generally epsilon 672, epsilon 2703. [1] Likewise in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. The headword must be quoted from somewhere, but is not extant in Plato. Arguably the best-known instance of the headword, in the …Matched in noteshighshort
ι277Ἶκταρclose together… The headword is a poetic adverb. [2] More fully in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon (and Photius iota96 Theodoridis), explicitly on Plato, Republic 575C; see also the scholia there, and further, next note. [3] Zenobius 5.55; …Matched in noteshighshort
χ340Χλιδήluxury… and (according to Adler) the Ambrosian Lexicon. [2] Likewise in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon (and similarly elsewhere). Though Timaeus does not in fact confine himself to Plato, there is a suitable instance of the genitive …Matched in noteshighmedium
κ423Κάρταextremely, very… and other lexica, and in several scholia, e.g. to Plato, Timaeus 25D. [2] An approximation of Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 3.6.8, on the Persian attack on Suania in the summer and fall of 589; cf. …Matched in noteshighshort
ε1917Ἐπαγγελίαιproclamations… epsiloniota 220, epsiloniota 221, epsiloniota 222), the term for which Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon supplies the present definition. It is very probably quoted from Plato, Republic 8.565C; cf. the scholia there. [1] Adler notes that …Matched in noteshighshort
κ190Καλὰ δὴ παταγεῖςyou are hitting very well… the passage. Same or similar entries in other lexica, including Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. The idiom has been taken (in LSJ and elsewhere) to derive from a noisy sort of game, platagh/ or platagw/n (sic); …Matched in noteshighshort
α375ἈγροικίζωI am a boor… (cf. already alpha 369.) Same material in other lexica, including Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon, and cf. also the scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 43. [2] From Alexander of Aphrodisias, Commentaries on Aristotle's Topics 324.9-12.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1019Διήρκεσεendured, sufficed… necessarily, extracted from the quotation given; other possibilities include Plato, Timaeus 21D. [1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica. [2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.Matched in noteshighshort
μ477Μέλεοςidle, miserable… already the gloss in Homer, Iliad 23.795, Hesychius mu678, and Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. [2] i.e. Homer ("the Poet") uses the word to mean "idle" (LSJ s.v. me/leos I), e.g. at Iliad 16.336 (see the …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
ε2090Ἐπεσφάλακενwas toppledThe entry is taken from Timaeus, Platonic Lexicon 986a line 22, though -- as is often the case with that mis-titled work -- the headword does not occur in the extant corpus of Plato. …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1588Δυσαλθέςhard to cure… here without the definite article to/. Identical entry also in Timaeus Sophista, Platonic Lexicon s.v., probably from a scholion to [Plato], Axiochus 367B, which could be the original source. Note, nevertheless, the same neuter …Matched in noteshighshort
α1467Ἀμαθέστεροςmore ignorant, rather ignorant… Photius); cf. already alpha 1466 and again alpha 1469. In Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon both a)maqe/steros and a)maqh/s share this glossing, which suggests that a)maqe/steros also (cf. below) comes from Plato; if so, from Republic …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2172Ἐπηλυγασάμενοςovershading= Timaeus, Platonic Lexicon 986b.3-4. The headword (aorist middle participle, masculine nominative singular, of the verb e)phluga/zw) appears in Plato, Lysis 207b (web address 1), although most mss of Plato (and hence most modern …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
ε232ἘδιδαξάμηνI had [someone] taught… delta 857. [1] Thus far the entry = one in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon (sic).Matched in noteshighshort
ε584Ἔκπλυτονwashed-out… Lexicon epsilon478), evidently because it appears as a totality in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. Thus the source of the headword is probably Plato, Laws 872E, where it is used figuratively of a miasma. (Nevertheless see …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3981Ἐχέγγυοςsecure, security-providing, trustworthy… elements also in Photius, Lexicon epsilon2482; second one (only) in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. [3] Thucydides 3.46.1 (web address 1): Diodotus exhorts the Athenians not to trust in the death penalty 'as if it could …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2624Ἐπιστήματαmonuments… The Suda's plural is also, with the same gloss, in Timaeus's Platonic Lexicon, and thus more probably extracted from Plato, Laws 958E, than from the quotation given here. [2] Aelian fr. 73f Domingo-Forasté (70 …Matched in noteshighshort
α833Ἀκέραιονunblemished… also Lexicon Vindobonense alpha134). [1] This phrase (also found in Timaeus, Platonic Lexicon s.v. a)ke/raioi) seems to mean "the man without blemish". The form kh/ras is impossible from kh/r and would be the genitive …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1924Κολλάβουςcakes, rolls… on Aristophanes, Frogs 507 (web address 1). [2] Likewise in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon; also a scholion on Plato, Republic 531B (web address 2; cf. kappa 1957). See also a scholion on Lucian (61.2 Rabe).Matched in noteshighshort
μ726Μεταποιεῖσθαιto make a claim to… it regularly governs the genitive case. [1] Same gloss in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon and elsewhere. and cf. Hesychius mu1044. [2] That is, in the work more commonly known as the Politicus: 289E (web address …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1535Δρόμοις[in] races… King Ptolemy II Euergetes (SIG 463.14). Note, nevertheless, that in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon the gloss is simply toi=s gumnasi/ois, suggesting a wider application. (Plato, Phaedrus 227A-B, perhaps lies behind Timaeus' entry.) [2] The quotation …Matched in noteshighmedium
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
κ481Καταβολήonset… kappa 483) has the same gloss in Photius and in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. This sense (LSJ's III) of katabolh/ is attested in Plato, Gorgias 519A (web address 1) and also -- though as the …Matched in noteshighshort
ε1456Ἐντελεῖςcomplete… those in office and those who have held office. From Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon. This sense of the adjective comes from the expression oi( e)n te/lei: cf. epsilon 1455, epsilon 1457. [2] Quotation unidentifiable, but …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2100Κοροπλάθοιfigurine-makers, modellers[1] Likewise in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon (and Photius, Lexicon kappa974 Theodoridis); generated, presumably, by Plato, Theaetetus 147B, where the genitive plural of this noun occurs (web address 1). See also under omicron 397. [2] …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
δ368Δεισιδαιμονίαfear of the gods, piety, superstition… aiming at great things." And Polybius of Megalopolis says concerning Timaeus: "he demonstrated great cleverness and audacity in accusing his neighbors, but in his own denials he is full of dreams and marvels and …Matched in translationhighmedium