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Jennifer Benedict3
D. Graham J. Shipley2
David Whitehead2
Anne Mahoney1

15 entries for Herodotos

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α4006Ἅρπεζον>20 ὅτι τὸ ἐκ χαλίκων ᾠκοδομημένον τειχίον ἄνευ πηλοῦ παρὰ Ἡροδότῳ τινὲς ἅρπεζον καλοῦσινhedgingSome call the wall built from pebbles without mortar in Herodotus "hedging" [a(/rpezon].Matched in headwordhighshort
ε898Ἐλῶνdriving[Meaning he] having driven. Herodotos [sc. uses the word]. Also [sc. attested is the plural] e)lw=ntes, [meaning they] driving.Matched in translationhighshort
αι189Αἱμασιάstone-fence… for] a wall built out of rubble without mortar in Herodotos; what some [call] hedge-fence. Also the Ionians use [the word] thus. Herodotos makes [this] clear in his first [book]. But colloquially most people …Matched in translationhighshort

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Ἅρπεζον>20 ὅτι τὸ ἐκ χαλίκων ᾠκοδομημένον τειχίον ἄνευ πηλοῦ παρὰ Ἡροδότῳ τινὲς ἅρπεζον καλοῦσιν

hedging

Some call the wall built from pebbles without mortar in Herodotus "hedging" [a(/rpezon].

Ἅρπεζον· ὅτι τὸ ἐκ χαλίκων ᾠκοδομημένον τειχίον ἄνευ πηλοῦ παρὰ Ἡροδότῳ τινὲς ἅρπεζον καλοῦσιν.

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α1904Ἀνακλῖναιto push back, to turn back[Meaning] to open up. Homer [sc. uses the word]. Herodotos also [sc. uses it] thus. "They did not dare to turn back the door, nor be strong enough to go inside."Matched in translationhighshort

ε861Ἐλινύεινto rest… fate rest." Meaning may [he] put an end to misfortune. Herodotos [writes]: "the army crossed in seven days and seven nights, resting at no time." Also Arrian: "and the watches were not resting at …Matched in translationhighmedium

α2210Ἀνέβησενcaused to mountMeaning [he/she/it] caused to get up on. Herodotos [sc. uses the word].Matched in translationhighshort

α2238Ἀνεκώχευονthey were holding back[Meaning] they were withdrawing. Herodotos [writes]: "they were holding back the ships, they too watching to see how the war would turn out." Meaning they had set the sails and were riding at anchor.Matched in translationhighshort

α3639Ἀποφορᾶνto offcut… [sc. uses the word]. Also [sc. attested is] a)poforh/ in Herodotos, the tax paid by slaves to their masters.Matched in translationhighshort

δ1078Δικαιοῦνto think just, to exact justice… two [things], both to punish and to consider just; thus Herodotos [uses this verb]. "[He] thinking it just to defend themselves against the Skythians with the same means which they themselves had recourse to, …Matched in translationhighmedium

ε360ἙκαταῖοςHekataios, Hecataeus… of Miletos also lived -- in the sixty-fifth Olympiad. Historian. Herodotos of Halikarnassos is indebted to him, being more recent; for he was born after him. And Hekataios was a pupil of Protagoras. He …Matched in translationhighmedium

χ595ΧοιρίλοςChoirilos, Choerilus, Khoirilos… that] he fled from Samos, and having spent time with Herodotos the historian he fell in love with stories; and they say he became his lover. He devoted himself to poetry and died in …Matched in translationhighmedium

α18ἌβαριςAbaris, Avars… on the passage about to be cited (so Adler). Cf. Herodotos 4.36.1 (web address 1). [3] Gregory of Nazianzus PG 36.524b. [4] This material is from Harpokration s.v. *)/abaris [5] 768-765 BCE. Harpokration (see …Matched in noteshighmedium

α3744ἌρατοςAratos, Aratus… evident in Polybios, goes back at least as early as Herodotos: see LSJ s.v.) [6] For the translation of the final phrase here (again in 6.32.2), see Walbank (below) 457. That the career of …Matched in noteshighmedium

α4030ἈρτεμισίαArtemisia[1] Xerxes, in Herodotos 8.88.3 (web address 1); cf. also Herodotus 7.99 (web address 2) and 8.68 (web address 3). [2] The source now becomes Harpokration s.v. (here abridged). [3] See the adjacent entries …Matched in noteshighshort

ε882Ἕλκοςulcer… e(lkw=n ('wounds') to eu)lw=n ('worms'), apparently on the basis of Herodotos 4.205 (web address 1); there it is a woman, queen Pheretime (epsilon 1006, epsilon 3559, phi 220), who suffers the affliction in question.Matched in noteshighshort