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δ1177ΔιονύσιοςDionysios, Dionysius… entry of his own -- but see OCD(4) 461, under 'Dionysius(9)', and under delta 1181.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1180ΔιονύσιοςDionysios, DionysiusC5 BCE. FGrH 687; cf. OCD(4) s.v. 'Dionysius(5) of Miletus', by Klaus Meister. The historicity of most of the works attributed to him here is controversial. Meister follows a more sceptical line than Adler …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1181ΔιονύσιοςDionysios, Dionysius… Rhodes; cf. OCD(4) 655 s.v. Helios. [2] OCD(4) 460 s.v. 'Dionysius(9)'; cf. under delta 1177. [3] One of two known rivers called Rhebas (sic) flowed into the Black Sea at the town of the …

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Dionysios, Dionysius

Of Corinth, an epic poet. [He wrote] Instructions, Causes in one book, Heavenly Phenomena, and in prose, a Commentary on Hesiod; Description of the Inhabited World in epic verse. I also found these things under the…

Διονύσιος, Κορίνθιος, ἐποποιός. Ὑποθήκας, Αἴτια ἐν βιβλίῳ αʹ, Μετεωρολογούμενα· καὶ καταλογάδην Ὑπόμνημα εἰς Ἡσίοδον· Οἰκουμένης περιήγησιν δι' ἐπῶν. ταῦτα δὲ εὗρον καὶ ἐν…

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δ1176ΔιονύσιοςDionysios, DionysiusOf Byzantium, epic poet. [He wrote] Description of the Sailing Route through the Bosporus, [and] On Dirges (it is a poem full of funereal laments).Matched in headwordhighshort

α3408ἈπολλοκράτηςApollokrates, ApollocratesThat of the eldest son of Dionysius the Younger, tyrant of Syracuse (Sicily) in the C4 BCE: delta 1179. For Apollokrates see e.g. Plutarch, Dion 37, 51, 56.Matched in noteshighshort

α4464Αὐτάρκειαself-sufficiency… 2052) -- again at pi 2057 -- actually comes from Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 5.12.3. [2] Of the commodity or property in which one is so.Matched in noteshighshort

αι54ΑἴγινθοςAiginthos, Aeginthus… for Aigisthos [alphaiota 62]? Possibly, though ps.-Zonaras has them both.) Dionysius the Periegete, Ixeutikon (paraphrase) 1.12 and 3.13, mentions a lower-case aiginthos -- in LSJ under aigithos, one of its variants -- which is …Matched in noteshighshort

β581Βοίδιονcalf… Bosporos; Kodinos p. 9 (Bonn); Constantine Porphyrogenitus, De thematibus 2.12; Dionysius of Byzantium 110 (ed. Gungreich). For Chares see chi 101. See another excerpt from this epigram at alpha 2764. [3] (Addendum lacking, Adler …Matched in noteshighshort

δ421Δήμαρχοιtribunes, demarchs, leaders of the people… at sigma 397) see e.g. Plutarch, Coriolanus 7 and 13; Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 6.89.1. [2] The topic now shifts from Rome to Athens. On Athenian demarchs see already delta 420, and generally …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ580Διακεχείρικεhas managed… a fragment of Lysias (174 Carey OCT) quoted twice by Dionysius of Halicarnassus.Matched in noteshighshort

δ820ΔιαφέρωI differ… 619, delta 620. [2] Isocrates 8.54. [3] Demosthenes 18.31. [4] Dionysius Thrax, Greek Grammar 1.1.Matched in noteshighshort

ε413Ἐκκεκυμασμένουςhaving been washed out… Aelian.) For the meaning see LSJ s.v., with examples from Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Plutarch.Matched in noteshighshort

ε592Ἐκπομπεύωνparading… all late, include 17 passages of John Chrysostom. [2] cf. [Dionysius the Areopagite], Epistles 8.1.89-90: e)peisphdh/sas e)kpompeuqh=nai/ soi ta\ a(/gia tw=n a(gi/wn h)na/gkasas ou)k e)qe/lonta.Matched in noteshighshort

ε639Ἐκτετηκυῖαhaving melted away… with the corresponding form of a)porre/w. [1] An approximation of Dionysius of Halicarnassuss, Roman Antiquities 8.45.1; more fully at tau 1117.Matched in noteshighshort

ε885Ἐλλώβιαlobe-ornaments… epsilon 1419. [2] Similar etymological explanations are found in Aelius Dionysius epsilon33, Etymologicum Magnum 332.39. Less similar are the scholia (46.7-10, 22.29 and 52.7) to various passages of Lucian where the headword occurs. [3] …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε1992Ἐπαυλόσυνοςencampment-bound… somewhere -- perhaps (its only occurrence outside lexica and scholia) Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 2.6.2.Matched in noteshighshort

ε2065ἘπεπόνθηI had suffered… 58. Adler notes that Naber rashly attributed this to Aelius Dionysius, but does not seem to have discovered the true source herself. At issue is the first-person ending of the pluperfect active forms of …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2335Ἐπὶ θήρᾳout for a hunt… be extracted from somewhere; extant possibilities include Arrian (Anabasis 4.13.1), Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Roman Antiquities 1.186) and several passages in Philo Judaeus (e.g. Life of Moses 1.43).Matched in noteshighshort

ε2507Ἐπίπασταsprinklings… but either is preferable to the Suda's sw/mati ('body'). Aelius Dionysius epsilon57, Hesychius epsilon5047, and Etymologicum Magnum 362.53, which are similar to this entry up to this point, prefer 'porridge'; and cf. Pollux 6.61. …Matched in noteshighmedium