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- δ237ΔέξιπποςDexippus, DexipposC3 AD. See generally RE Dexippos(5); NP Dexippos(2); OCD4 Dexippus, Publius Herennius; PLRE I Dexippus(2); FGrH 100. The present entry omits to mention his principal claim to fame, as an historian (in the Thucydidean …
- δ238ΔέξιπποςDexippos, DexippusEarly C4 BCE. Dexippos, mentioned only in the Suda (here and in the derivative pi 1627), was evidently part of a considerable intellectual coterie at the Hecatomnid court; see in brief Simon Hornblower in …
- ε3485Εὐθαρσῶς ἔπνειwas breathing courageouslyThe same sentence (Dexippus FGrH 100 F37) is quoted with significant differences at alpha 3292. There, what serves as the headword phrase in this entry, eu)qarsw=s e)pnei, is rendered as eu)qarsw=s e)ph|/ei ("he attacked …
- α3292Ἀπὸ δήindeed from… headword phrase is presumably extracted from the quotation given. [1] Dexippus (on whom see generally delta 237) FGrH 100 F37; rather differently at epsilon 3485.
- ε2455Ἐπιμᾶλλονall the more… to epsilon 2454, where the same headword is glossed. [1] Dexippus FGrH 100 F34 (from his History of events after the death of Alexander the Great). For Hyperides (d.322) see upsilon 294, upsilon 295. …
- ι577Ἵπποςhorse[1] This first quotation is from P. Herennius Dexippus (delta 237): FGrHist 100 F26. Dexippus, a 3rd-cent. AD historian, wrote an account of Alexander’s successors, a history from legendary times to his own, and …
- ε901ἜλλουροιEllourians, Ellurians, Helourians, Heruli, HerulsScythian, according to Stephanus of Byzantium, citing Dexippus (where the name is spelled with a single lambda and a rough breathing). In fact better and more authentically known as the Heruli/Heruls; cf. under sigma …
- β509Βραβεύειawards… possibilities. cf. generally beta 510, beta 511, beta 512. [1] Dexippus fr.21 FHG (3.680), but not adopted in FGrH. Perhaps Aelian (so Adler).
- ι432ἸουθοῦγγοιIouthoungoi, Iuthungi… Latini 8.10.4; Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 7.233. [1] A fragment of Dexippus, already at epsilon 532.
- ε3874Ἐφεστρίςephestris, mantle… under epsilon 52 (and cf. more generally kappa 1588). [3] Dexippus FGrH 100 F29.23-24 (preserved in the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti).
- ε2454Ἐπιμᾶλλονall the more… instance of it is ascribed to the 3rd-century CE historian Dexippos of Athens. Of course the issue of whether any individual author conceived of it as a single word is easily obscured, beyond recovery, …
- ε532Ἑκόντων εἶναιas far as it depended on their will… Genitive plural(s), from the passage about to be quoted. [2] Dexippus FGrH 100 F6; cf. iota 432. [3] Procopius, Secret History 1.18 (web address 1), on Belisarius' unwillingness to believe the evidence pointing to …
- κ2285Κωνσταντῖνος ὁ μέγαςConstantine the Great, Constantine I, Constantinus I… besides this work wrote a continuation of the history of Dexippus, extending from 270-404 a.d. Fragments of this are preserved, but none relating to Constantine. Photius (Cod. 77) says that he calumniated the Christians, …
- α2866Ἀπαγορεύειrenounces, denies… somewhere; extant possibilities are numerous. [1] Attributed by Bernhardy to Dexippus. In fact from John of Antioch: see Favuzzi [cited under alpha 1990] 53-54. [2] Eunapius fr. 97 FHG (4.54). [3] cf. generally Matthew …
- δ1078Δικαιοῦνto think just, to exact justice… web address 2) 3.92; 5.92b. [2] Quotation unidentifiable. Adler suggests Dexippus (and cites a similar passage at Thucydides 2.47.4: web address 3). [3] Nowhere in the extant portions of Appian's text. Conventionally assigned to …
- δ1586ΔυρράχιονDyrrachion, Dyrrachium… colonia, propter inauspicatum nomen Dyrrachium appellata). In this sense too Dexippos, quoted by Stephanus of Byzantium, reports the change of name from Epidamnos to Dyrrachion. But note Strabo 7.5.8: *)Epi/damnos *Kerkurai/wn kti/sma, h( nu=n …
- δ1205ΔιοσημείαZeus-omen, Zeus-sign… the Excerpta Constantini) unidentifiable. Cardinal Mai’s attribution of it to Dexippus (delta 237), based on De legationibus 386,15, is arbitrary, as Adler remarked (temere attribuit). [3] Aristophanes, Acharnians 171-173 (web address 1), with comment …