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12 entries for Heraclides

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δ875Δίδυμος ὁ τοῦ ἩρακλείδουDidymus the son of HeraclidesGrammarian. He spent time with Nero, and was a businessman. He was a very good musician, with a talent for singing.Matched in headwordhighshort
ε2239Ἐπιβολήplan, project… his turn someone better'." They say this about Hyllus the Heraclid and Echemus of Tegea.Matched in translationhighshort
ε1007ἘμπεδότιμοςEmpedotimos, Empedotimus… we [speak] trusting in Empedotimus and Pythagoras, both in what Heraclides of Pontus took from them when he said 'and a little earlier [...]' and our renowned soothsayer Iamblichus [sc. also] showed".Matched in translationhighshort

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Δίδυμος ὁ τοῦ Ἡρακλείδου

Didymus the son of Heraclides

Grammarian. He spent time with Nero, and was a businessman. He was a very good musician, with a talent for singing.

Δίδυμος, ὁ τοῦ Ἡρακλείδου, γραμματικός, ὃς διέτριψε παρὰ Νέρωνι καὶ ἐχρηματίσατο· μουσικός τε ἦν λίαν καὶ πρὸς μέλη ἐπιτήδειος.

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δ1282Διοίσεινto bear through, to differ… also [writes]: "they will not differ at all from the Heraclidae of Pamphilos." This man was a tragic poet and wrote about what happened to the Heraclidae.Matched in translationhighmedium

α1654Ἀμπλάκημαfailure… right action. But some people, among whom [is numbered] even Heraclides of Tarsus, maintain that [sc. moral] mistakes are unequal. Also [sc. attested is] a)mplakw/n ["failing"], [meaning] having made a [sc. moral] mistake. "But …Matched in translationhighmedium

α2634ἈντέρωςAnteros… taught in Rome under Claudius, who was emperor after Gaius; Heraclides of Pontus also lived in his time. He was a pupil of Apion Mochthus. Extant are his 2 books On Grammar. "And this …Matched in translationhighmedium

α4735ἈψίνηςApsines… (so the story has it) by Pan. A pupil of Heraclides of Lycia in Smyrna, and then of Basilicus in Nicomedia. He was sophist in Athens under the emperor Maximian, and was awarded consular …Matched in translationhighshort

α1002Ἀκροθίνιαspoils, akrothinia… harmed, in war. Or the tops of heaps. Or plunder. Heraclides the Lycian sophist, said: 'Nicetes the purified', unaware that he was fitting spoils of pygmies onto a colossus. [There is] a proverb, 'to …Matched in translationhighmedium

α372ἈγρωνίδηςAgronides… is the Agron mentioned in Herodotus 1.7, founder of the Heraclid dynasty in Sardis.Matched in noteshighshort

ε860Ἐλινύεινto rest… gloss "to be still" is attributed to a 'Tarantinos' (perhaps Heraclides of Taras/Tarentum, a commentator on Hippocrates). The word is frequently used in medical writers, including Galen, in the sense of therapeutic "rest". See …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3674Εὐράξon the blind side; on the open sideThis word attracted much commentary. Heraclides says that it was an Ionian and Aeolian dialect form (fr. 19 line 47). Herodian (De Prosodia Catholica 3,1. 510.6) lists it among adverbs ending in -x that …Matched in noteshighshort

η108Ἡδύγαιονcucumber, gourd… attested, but see esp. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 3.74B [3.5 Kaibel], citing Heraclides of Tarentum. See also Hesychius eta143, spelled h(duge/wn. Cf. Lexicon Ambrosianum, Ambrosianus B12 sup. 77r (while Laurentianus 59.16 fol.187v also has the reading …Matched in noteshighshort