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- β149Βασιλείδηςprince… (except as the proper name Basileides, irrelevant here) but Plato, Critias 116C has the genitive plural: see web address 1.
- μ693Μεταδόρπιαpost-supper [courses], dessert… in Photius (mu311 Theodoridis), and cf. a scholion on Plato, Critias 115B, where the headword occurs in the neuter plural as a noun (web address 1).
- δ1540ΔρωπίδηςDropides… least three times in the families of Solon (sigma 776), Critias and Plato in Athens: eponymous archon 645/4 BCE; eponymous archon ?593/2 (Solon's brother); envoy to Alexander the Great 330 (Arrian, Anabasis 3.24.4).
- κ2448ΚρίτιοςKritios… and delta 234 n.2. [2] For the Athenian aristocrat Kritias (Critias, c.460-403 BCE) -- politician, right-wing intellectual, and uncle of Plato -- see generally Michael Gagarin in OCD(4) s.v. Critias, p. 394).
- κ1787Κληρουχήσαντεςhaving divided by lot, having inherited land… verb klhrouxe/w. It is evidently extracted from somewhere: perhaps Plato, Critias 109C ("Now in other regions other gods had their allotments and ordered affairs") or Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 6.55.2.
- μ845ΜειλισιουργίςMiletos-made, Miletus-made… suggested) a corruption of *milhsiourgh/s, attested in a fragment of Critias [kappa 2448] as applying to a couch and a chair; and LSJ s.v. adds epigraphical instances. For Miletos cf. mu 1060.
- ε1159Ἐνδελεχῶςcontinuously, persistently… passages, though there are numerous other possibilities (beginning with Euripides, Critias, Xenophon and Plato).
- ε3383Εὔβοτονwell-pastured… they include Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon s.v., probably generated by Plato, Critias 111A. The Suda's feminine might be a simple mistake, but if so it was not corrected by ps.-Zonaras (who converts everything into the …
- ε3544Εὐκράςtemperate… from the lost Antiope), the headword is extracted from Plato, Critias 112D (where it describes a spring: web address 1). See also Hesychius (epsilon6939), Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon, Photius' Lexicon, ps.-Zonaras, and the Etymologicum Magnum …
- α1001Ἀκρόδρυαfruits… Photius and elsewhere. [2] As in the scholia to Plato, Critias 115B. [3] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 19 (ed. Habrich); more fully at sigma 673.
- α1052Ἀλλὰ γάρbut for all that… 77 K.-A. See Denniston 107. [2] Proverb used by [Plato], Critias 108C (see web address 1 below); see generally Tosi (cited under alpha 378) no.856. On trophies cf. tau 1049 and see generally W.K. …
- ε2946Ἐρέψιμονerepsimon… Perhaps [DW] misunderstanding stemmed from a passage such as Plato, Critias 111C (involving trees: see under xi 99). Hesychius' glossing of the present headword as a boskhmatw=des place adds a further complication if LSJ …
- ε1107Ἐνάλιαof the sea… Miletus. This form for e)na/lios is mostly used in poetry (Critias fr. 2.7 D., Euripides, Helen 1130, Electra 1348; Timotheus, Persians 109); in prose cf. Sextus Empiricus, Against Mathematicians 7.414.
- κ2225Κώθωνkothon; Kothon… to Aristophanes, Peace 1094, where the headword occurs. [2] cf. Critias in Athenaeus 483B (above, and Plutarch, Lycurgus 9): "a drinking vessel most suitable for campaigning and most easily carried in a knapsack. The …