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- μ398Μέγηρονmost lovable (?)… 353.) The word also turns up in the Vision of Dorotheus (3-4 CE) 307, though apparently as an aorist imperative of megai/rw (cf. mu 396).
- κ1337Κεντώνpatchwork, rag-covering… Suda; kentw/nion is attested in Nilus of Ancyra (5 CE), Dorotheus of Gaza (6 CE), and Cyril of Scythopolis (6 CE). The word kentw/n corresponds to the original Latin cento, already attested in Cato, …
- ε1104Ἐναλλάγδηνcrosswise… see, besides Agathias (quoted below), Greek Anthology 5.302.16, Manetho 4.181, Dorotheus (in Hephaestion Apotelesmatica 1.288 Pingree). [2] Agathias, Histories 1.12. In this episode during the Gothic War (535-554), the Byzantine general Narses (cf. nu …
- μ184Μάργηςmad, furious… (s.v. gastrimargi/a) and ps.-Zonaras, as well as in Christian writing: Dorotheus, Doctrinae Diversae 15.161; Nicholas Catascepenus, Vita sancti Cyrilli Phileotae 40.2. For related words see mu 183, mu 186.
- δ1170Διονύσιος ὁ ἈρεωπαγίτηςDionysios the Areiopagite, Dionysius the Areopagite… the monk Gaius concern negative theology (like the one to Dorotheus), the mystery of Jesus, His humanity and transcendence, the notion of Good. To pagan cults and beliefs refer the letter to Polycarp, here …