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Bias
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Βίαντος Πριηνέως δίκη
Bias of Priene's justice
… words for good. Hipponax [writes]: "to litigate more powerfully than
Bias
of Priene."
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1055
Δικάζεσθαι Βίαντος τοῦ Πριηνέως κρείσσων
to litigate more powerfully than Bias of Priene
Also [sc. attested is] 'Prienian justice,' [sc. a proverbial phrase] in reference to those litigating with vigor.
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271
Βιαρκέος
life-sustaining, providing sustenance for life
[Meaning] being sufficient for living. In the Epigrams: "three brothers, each from a different kind of netting that provides sustenance for life, these gifts".
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philosophy
philosophy
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trade and manufacture
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Βία
force
[Meaning] impetus, strength. "And he by the force of his body pushes the gates inwards."
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269
Βιάζω
I constrain, I force
[Used] with an accusative.
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278
Βιαιότερον
more forceful
[Meaning] more overwhelming. "The disease was more forceful than the knowledge of the doctors" .
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279
Βίαιοι
violent
[Violent] were these men: Phalaris, Echetos, Dionysius, and the tyrant of the Cassandreians, [the last of these] exceeding all bounds in lawlessness; also Liggis, illegitimate brother of Illos -- he too [was] violent.
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280
Βιαίων
violent behavior
It is the name of a [sc. Athenian] lawsuit brought against those doing anything by violence; he who has been convicted of it pays to the public treasury [a sum] equal to [what he …
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4096
Ἀρχὴ ἄνδρα δείκνυσιν
office exposes a man
… dictum of Solon's, though Aristotle and Theophrastus [says it is]
Bias's.
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1244
Διώνυμοι
famous, renowned
… amidst Ephialtes's and Leokrates's etc.'.) [2] Parasite of the soldier
Bias
in Menander’s play Kolax. See also the commentary in POxy, L 3534:
"Bias
and Strouthias ... are the names of the soldier and …
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478
Χρήματα χρήματ' ἀνήρ
money money (is the) man
… there. [1] The Seven Sages are usually Thales of Miletus,
Bias
of Priene, Cleobulus of Lindos, Pittacus of Mitylene, Solon of Athens, Chilon of Sparta and Periander of Corinth. See generally OCD(4) s.v. [2] …
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1423
Ἀλυάττης
Alyattes
… identifies it as Diogenes Laertius 1.83 (an anecdote in which
Bias
[beta 270] fools the king, by means of fattened mules, into abandoning the siege and making peace). Cf. pi 1569.
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302
Βιῶνται
they would press hard
… in Oppian, Cynegetica 2.510, where a scholiast glossed it with
bia/zontai).
[1] [Polybius] fr. 121 Büttner-Wobst. For this verb, otherwise characteristic of epic poetry, see LSJ s.v. Büttner-Wobst notes that Schweighäuser attributed the fragment …
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642
Διαμαρτάνω
I fail completely, I miss the mark
… Josephus, Jewish War (1.7.2); he is commenting on the anti-Jewish
bias
of his predecessors (web address 1).
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