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250
Αἰολομίτρης
agile with a waistband [or: having a multicoloured or twisted or flashing waistband]; having a multicoloured diadem
… illustration of the mitre as girdle) and increased his upper-body
agility
in shield and spear fighting. We may, with some confidence, take this as the meaning of the headword in Homer. (ii) After Homer …
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253
Αἰόλος
undulating, wavelike, advancing in a winding or rolling fashion, agile in turning side to side; multicoloured, discoloured, black or chestnut with white markings; easily moved, changeable, wily, quick-witted, liable to metamorphosis, disturbed in mind; whirling; self-generating in movement, ever-turning; lively, flashing, shimmering
… the two primary meanings of a single word 'mobile, nimble,
agile;
multicoloured' (cf. Page in bibliography). In the third century AD, Porphyry [OCD(4) s.v., pp.1190-1; pi 2098] had advanced the third definition. He rejected …
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293
Ἀγομένων τῶν ἡμετέρων
our [possessions] being led off
… 22.3, 7 postquam res sociorum ante oculos prope suos ferri
agique
vidit; 38.15 ut ferri
agique
res suas viderunt, 3.37 (the same). [2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable. …
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1690
Ἀμφάρης
Amphares
… in the 240s BCE; an enemy of the reforming King
Agis
IV. See Plutarch, Life of
Agis
18-21.
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210
Ἀγείρας
cripple, beggar
… 5.474, where this headword appears (spelled with i, not ei:
agiras)
and is given precisely this gloss. (Perhaps a nomen agentis from a)gei/rw in the sense of "collect alms, beg"? Or perhaps a non-Greek …
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489
Ἄδιον
not going straight through
Same entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon; and see also Hesychius s.v. (with more glosses), where Latte notes the headword as possibly corrupt ([ps]agion?). If it is not, it is apparently the …
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3460
Ἀπόνοια
senselessness
… in fact a misrepresentation: Justinian (cf. iota 446) openly supported,
agitated,
and fired-up the Blues; cf. Procopius, Secret History 7.6 (web address 2). The Blues and Greens were rival circus guilds and enjoyed imperial …
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252
Αἴολος
Aeolus, Aiolos
… case the name in Linear B does not mean “Swift,
Agile,”
and could belong to either a horse or a bull (see the controversy over Sir Arthur Evans’ identification of the ideogram as a …
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1218
Διοφανοῦς
Diophanes', of Diophanes
Adler notes that this entry occurs in just three mss
(AGI),
and she cites a comparable one in Lexicon Ambrosianum 504. For individuals called Diophanes in the Suda see the preceding entry delta 1217 …
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δ
1560
Δοῖδυξ
pestle
… are implements used to crush and mix things, to create
agitation.
(For this see also Peace 259-284, where Kleon and Brasidas are the "pestles" used by the demon War to destroy Greece.) Aristophanes, however, …
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ε
556
Ἐκ παραλλήλου
by comparison, parallelwise, side by side
… somewhere; extant possibilities begin, perhaps appropriately, with Plutarch (Comparison of
Agis
& Cleomenes and the Gracchi 1).
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ε
1055
Ἐμποίνιμος
punishable
… beta 433 but presumably the Republican tribune (103-99 BCE) and
agitator
L. Appuleius Saturninus. Though never consul, he did surrender under a promise of official safety (fides publica) before being murdered by a mob.
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1261
Ἐνεσκηρώθησαν
they were hardened
Entry lacking, Adler reports, in mss
AGIT.
The headword, attested only here, seems to be a variant spelling of e)neskirrw/qhsan, i.e. third person plural, aorist passive, of e)nskirro/w (cf. epsilon 1263, epsilon 1436).
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2237
Ἐπιβόημα
call, cry, shout
[1] An approximation of Thucydides 5.65.3 (web address 1): King
Agis
of Sparta is warned by an old Spartan soldier not to take unnecessary risks in the prelude to the Battle of Mantineia. [2] …
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ε
3400
Εὐδαμίδας
Eudamidas
… the classical and Hellenistic periods, e.g. a brother of King
Agis
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3569
Εὔλογον ἀξίωμα
probable assumption, reasonable proposition
… BCE (at the age of c.24) would become the reforming
Agiad
King Cleomenes III. How far, if at all, the teachings of Sphaerus can be supposed to underpin Cleomenes' measures has been much debated: …
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η
100
ὅς
quoth he
Same material in Photius (Lexicon eta51); similarly elsewhere. See also eta 101. [The SOL headword, mistakenly, gives only the second element of the phrase.] [1] Eratosthenes [the great Alexandrian scholar: epsilon 2898] fr. 52 …
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478
Ἤρανος
keeper
[1] Paul the Silentiary, Ecphrasis 178. (P. is mentioned in alpha 112 as a contemporary of Agathias.) [2] On Justinian and (H)agia Sophia, see also iota 446.
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389
Ἰξευτής
pertaning to bird-catching, pertaining to fowling
… but is used as an adjective at Greek Anthology 6.152
(Agis):
see LSJ. On bird-lime, used in this process, see iota 396.
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κ
1722
Κλεόμβροτος
Kleombrotos, Cleombrotus
A name borne by at least two members of the
Agiad
royal house of Sparta. One of them is mentioned at epsilon 3834.
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1723
Κλεομένης
Kleomenes, Cleomenes
… of Sparta c.235-222 (for which see Polybius 2.46-70, 5.35-9; Plutarch,
Agis
and Kleomenes) and focuses on the end of his life. After the Macedonians defeated the Spartans at Sellasia, Kleomenes escaped to Alexandria, meeting …
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