Skip to content

Browse Topics Random About

Searching…

The Byzantine encyclopedia of the ancient world, in English and Greek.

Read

Browse Α–Ω
Topics
Random entry

Project

About & credits
Report an error
Original SOL ↗

Follow

@ReadSuda
@readsuda.org

A new reader for the Suda On Line translation, made by 200+ volunteer translators and editors. Greek text after Adler’s edition. Translations © their translators and SOL, licensed CC BY-NC-SA.

Free · non-commercial · no ads · no accounts[email protected]Maintained with ❤️ by Rick Lithan

⌕Search ΑLetters ⤨Random

Keyboard shortcuts

j: Next entry
k: Previous entry
g: Toggle Greek
/: Search
?: Show shortcuts

Search

Search the Suda

All Headwords Translation Greek Notes

Keyword

definition37
rhetoric35
dialects, grammar, and etymology34
biography16
historiography15
daily life13
ethics12
history9
law9
military affairs9
religion9
comedy6

24 more

economics6
geography6
imagery6
philosophy6
politics5
chronology4
poetry4
children3
art history2
Christianity2
epic2

Letter

Ε epsilon19
Α alpha7
Δ delta5
Η eta4
ΑΙ alphaiota2
Ι iota2
Κ kappa2
Β beta1

1 more

ΕΙ epsiloniota1

Vetting status

high43

Length

Short38
Medium5

Translator

Catharine Roth43

Filters (1)

Keyword

definition37
rhetoric35
dialects, grammar, and etymology34
biography16
historiography15
daily life13
ethics12
history9
law9
military affairs9
religion9
comedy6

24 more

economics6
geography6
imagery6
philosophy6
politics5
chronology4
poetry4
children3
art history2
Christianity2
epic2

Letter

Ε epsilon19
Α alpha7
Δ delta5
Η eta4
ΑΙ alphaiota2
Ι iota2
Κ kappa2
Β beta1

1 more

ΕΙ epsiloniota1

Vetting status

high43

Length

Short38
Medium5

Translator

Catharine Roth43

43 entries for Demosthenes

Relevance Adler order Longest first

Translator: Catharine Roth ×
Clear all

ε3073Ἐρρῶσθαι φράσαςhaving told [someone] farewell… see e.g. Plato, Phaedo 61B (web address 1) and especially Demosthenes 18.152 and 19.248 (web address 2, web address 3). The two latter passages have the aorist participle, as here, and Demosthenic scholia suggest …Matched in noteshighshort
α4304Ατταwhichever, some… 1 (Smyth sections 334, 339). [2] Antiphon fr. 28 Sauppe; Demosthenes 4.50 (web address 2). [3] Demosthenes 19.304 (web address 3). [4] Antiphon fr.35 Sauppe. [5] Antiphon fr. 36 (cf.178) Sauppe. [6] Damascius, Life …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1307ΔιψῶI thirst [after]

ε3073

Ἐρρῶσθαι φράσας

having told [someone] farewell

[Meaning he] having told [someone] to go hang, having condemned [someone].

Ἐρρῶσθαι φράσας· οἰμώζειν εἰπών, κατεγνωκώς.

medicine

medicine

2

2

trade and manufacture2

trade and manufacture2

gender and sexuality1

gender and sexuality1

… Not, in fact, a phrase extant in the works of Demosthenes (delta 454) but, as Adler noted, one from Libanius (lambda 486): his second Declamation (On the Silence of Socrates; cf. sigma 829). (Adler's …

Matched in noteshighshort

α1050Ἀλαβαστοθήκαςperfume-bottle boxes, scent-bottle boxes… convert his nominative plural headword into an accusative plural. [1] Demosthenes 19.237 (web address 1). [2] See alpha 1051. [3] Aristophanes, Acharnians 1053 (web address 2), with scholion. The "ladle" (kuathos, kappa 2574) was …Matched in noteshighshort

α3156Ἀπηλοημένοςthreshed-outDemosthenes 42.6 (see web address 1); from Harpokration (and Photius) s.v.Matched in noteshighshort

ε55Ἔγγειονearthly, landed, terrestrial… Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable. [3] See the end of this entry. [4] Demosthenes 33.3 (web address 1). [5] Lysias fr.265 Sauppe (91 Thalheim), now 428 Carey. The transmitted text does not seem to end intelligibly, and …Matched in noteshighmedium

κ1781ΚληρονομῶI inherit, I obtain… the headword verb see also kappa 1779, kappa 1780. [1] Demosthenes 19.320 (web address 1). [2] Demosthenes 18.312, where however the reading is the name *fi/lwnos (thus, 'your father-in-law Philon') rather than the Suda's …Matched in noteshighshort

α3132ἈπείρηκαI have renounced… participle, perhaps from Menander, Perikeiromene 131. [6] Instances in Xenophon, [Demosthenes] and elsewhere.Matched in noteshighmedium

α3198ἈππιανόςAppianos, Appianus, Appian… 37-41.) [5] This form is otherwise attested only in a Demosthenic scholion, where (surely) it refers to someone else.Matched in noteshighmedium

α3219Ἀπιστεῖνto distrust, to disobey… Sauppe) and Isocrates (Epistle 2.12) for this. [2] Harpok. cites Demosthenes (9.38) 'and many others' for this. [3] Plato, Apology 26E, where a)/pistos seems to mean "not to be believed" (see web address 1 …Matched in noteshighshort

α3223Ἁπλᾶςsingles… plural of a(plou=s; cf. alpha 3221 and alpha 3226) in Demosthenes 54.34. Harpok. also cites Callistratus -- see next note -- and quotes the comic poet Strattis (fr. 25 Kassel-Austin). [1] Callistratus [Kallistratos] FGrH …Matched in noteshighshort

αι224ΑἴνιονAinion, Aenium… Harpokration s.v. Ainious, i.e. accusative plural, as again here, from Demosthenes 23.119. (The entry also quotes Homer [Iliad 4.520] and cites Ephorus FGrH 70 F39.) But only one city is involved: Ainos/Aenus, in Thrace, …Matched in noteshighshort

αι359Αἰσχύνη πόλεως πολίτου ἁμαρτίαthe citizen's error (is) the city's disgraceAdler draws attention to Aeschines 3.241, where Demosthenes is described as 'a fellow who is a disgrace of the city'. The present four-word lemma as a whole appears as proverbial in the C15 paroemiographer …Matched in noteshighshort

β153ΒασίλειοςBasileios, royal… draws on Harpokration s.v. (itself generated by ancient comment on Demosthenes 25.23). [3] In the Agora at Athens. [4] See epsilon 804. [5] Named after one of the ancestral Athenian magistracies, the "king" archon. …Matched in noteshighshort

δ460Δημόσιοςpublic… plural). [1] Abridged from Harpokration s.v., an entry prompted by Demosthenes 2.19 (web address 1), and also citing Aeschines 1.54. [2] Copied here from beta 148.Matched in noteshighshort

δ555Διαθέσθαιto arrange, to dispose [of]… (cf. delta 788) -- must be quoted from somewhere; perhaps Demosthenes 2.16 (web address 1), where the scholia gloss it as 'to sell'.Matched in noteshighshort

δ827Διάφοραdifferences… therefore, the name is wrong (and should instead be e.g. Demosthenes) or else a passage of Thucydides such as 6.62.2 has been misinterpreted, or -- as Theodoridis on Photius s.v. suggests -- the name …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1561Δοίημενwe might give… 3604, chi 349. It must be quoted from somewhere; perhaps Demosthenes or Xenophon, but there are numerous other possibilities.Matched in noteshighshort

ε170Ἐγγυώμεθαwe guarantee, we pledge ourselves… very probably -- as it is surprisingly rare -- from Demosthenes 20.100 or 137; cf. ps.-Aristides, Ars rhetorica 1.4.2.2. [2] (A marginal addition in ms M, Adler reports.) First person singular middle of the …Matched in noteshighshort

ε306Ἐθελονταίvolunteers… far more generic gloss (tou\s boulome/nous) and a reference to Demosthenes 18.68. For this headword see also under pi 613. [1] For such appropriateness of naming cf. under alpha 69 = iota 606 (Isaac).Matched in noteshighshort

ε428Ἐκεῖνοςthat… Lysistrata 795, 818 (choral sections) or Wasps 751 (tragic parody). Demosthenes and other Attic prose writers at times use kei=nos, but often they do so after a vowel or diphthong (where the initial epsilon …Matched in noteshighshort

ε922ἘλυσάμηνI ransomed… first person singular. It must be quoted from somewhere, probably Demosthenes 18.262 (a passage repeated by later rhetoricians); see also 19.169 & 171. cf. generally epsilon 923, lambda 841, lambda 870.Matched in noteshighshort

ε1233Ἐνελόχισανthey lay in ambush… third person singular see Polyaenus 3.1.2, on the Athenian general Demosthenes in Acarnania in 426 BCE.)Matched in noteshighshort

ε1702Ἐξείργεινto shut out… it is quoted from somewhere, the possibilities include Lysias, Isocrates, Demosthenes and Plato.)Matched in noteshighshort

ε1797Ἐξομόσασθαιto deny on oath… quoted from somewhere (rather than used paradigmatically), likely sources are Demosthenes 19.124 and Lycurgus, Against Leocrates 20. cf. epsilon 1792, epsilon 1798, epsilon 1840, epsilon 1841.Matched in noteshighshort

ε2187Ἐπῄνειwas praising, was approving… quotation given, but earlier instances are numerous (Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, Demosthenes, Aeschines). [2] Aelian fr. 234 Domingo-Forasté (235 Hercher).Matched in noteshighshort

ε2200Ἐπηρεάσαιto threaten, to insult… 2203) -- must be quoted from somewhere; extant possibilities include Demosthenes 18.320.Matched in noteshighshort

ε2320Ἐπιθάνατοςmoribund, on the point of death… glossed in Hesychius and the Lexica Segueriana; perhaps quoted from Demosthenes 50.60 (web address 1). cf. epsilon 2323.Matched in noteshighshort

ε2351Ἐπικαλῶνaccusing, charging… given here, though there are extant alternatives from Lysias and Demosthenes onwards. For the second glossing participle, e)gkalw=n, cf. scholia on Lucian 2.9 and 111.27 Rabe. [2] Richard Porson (1759-1808) related this quotation -- …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2359Ἐπὶ καιροῦat the [right] time… must be quoted from somewhere; Theodoridis on Photius pi1564 suggests Demosthenes (19.258 or 20.90), but in truth it is too commonplace to identify. cf. generally epsilon 2357, epsilon 2358.Matched in noteshighshort

Page 1 of 2Next →