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ε1527Ἐξαλλομένουςjumping out[Meaning them] leaping up. Josephus [writes]: "...[that] those who were jumping out of their country while it was aflame on their account did not deserve rescuing."Matched in translationhighshort
δ755Διασκεδαννύουσιthey scatter[Meaning] they disperse. Also said is diaski/dnhsin. Josephus [writes]: "for not even disorder scatters them from their customary order."Matched in translationhighshort
ε419Ἐκεχειρίαarmistice, holiday, rest… of the hands [xei/ras], being a sort of 'handholding' [e)xexeiri/a]. Josephus [writes]: "as if fused to their weapons they never take a rest from their training."Matched in translationhighshort
δ779Διαταφρεύειtunnels through… be quoted from somewhere, probably from its only independent attestation: Josephus, Jewish War 1.99.Matched in noteshighshort
ε2129ἜπειξιςhasteThe headword noun is attested from Josephus and Appian onwards. It is one of the glossing nouns at kappa 810; and cf. also, for cognate words, epsilon 2114, epsilon 2115, epsilon 2116.Matched in noteshighshort
ε3258Ἐσχεδίαζονthey were improvising… Or they were speaking on the spur of the moment. Josephus [writes]: "they were being improvised to give pleasure to those who were inciting the war." And Polybios [writes]: "[...] and [that] they had …Matched in translationhighshort
δ1078Δικαιοῦνto think just, to exact justice… the Gabii think just". Meaning consider to be just. And Josephus: "and they, reckoning the exaction of justice to be an insult, drew down many of the weapons and departed to a certain place."Matched in translationhighmedium
α4493Αὐτόθενfrom this very place, from that very place… on the course to injustice from this very place." And Josephus [writes]: "to send bribes to the king from that very place." Meaning from home. Or, 'from that very place' [meaning] from there, or …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ578Διάκενοςdownright empty… to be understood in this way. For an instance see Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 3.144: a lampstand.Matched in noteshighshort
μ1347Μῶϋmou… in the Greek (and Moses' name thus trisyllabic). [1] cf. Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 2.228 (web address 1); Hesychius mu76. [2] For Moses see further under mu 1348.Matched in noteshighshort
α210Ἀγείραςcripple, beggar… the Ambrosian Lexicon -- and generated (as she notes) by Josephus, Jewish War 5.474, where this headword appears (spelled with i, not ei: agiras) and is given precisely this gloss. (Perhaps a nomen agentis …Matched in noteshighshort
ε1591Ἐξεδιῄτησεdiverged from the regimen… be quoted from somewhere; the handful of extant possibilities include Josephus, Jewish War 7.264, and the Septuagint (4 Maccabees 4.19). cf. epsilon 394, as well as epsilon 393 and epsilon 395.Matched in noteshighshort
δ650Διαμέλλειhesitates… in fragmentis)," but now the TLG shows that it is Josephus, Jewish War 2.534.Matched in noteshighshort
ε2675Ἐπιτείλαςarising… not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 6.76.5, slightly abridged. See on this Theodoridis' Photius edition, vol.II p.LXXXIV.Matched in noteshighshort
α4592Ἀφετηρίαstarting-line… not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as Josephus, Jewish War 5.267. See on this Theodoridis' Photius edition, vol.II p.LXXXIII.Matched in noteshighshort
ε2229Ἐπιβατήριαmounting-devices… headword is otherwise attested in this military sense only in Josephus, Jewish War 3.278 and in Leon of Byzantium, De stratagematibus 270. For "tortoises" in this applied sense see under chi 190.Matched in noteshighshort
ε564Ἐκ περιτροπῆςin alternation… preserved only in literature of the Roman imperial period (from Josephus onwards), seems confined largely to the sense given in the translation of the headword, rather than that of either of the two glosses. …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3771Εὐτραπελίαwitticism… pejorative sense. See epsilon 3772 for the related adjective. [2] Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 12.214 (web address 1); see already alpha 1919 and again pi 3040. Here the headword appears in the genitive case, and …Matched in noteshighshort
α4619Ἀφιλότιμοςunambitious, having no regard for honor[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica. [2] Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 2.231; again at mu 1348 (end).Matched in noteshighshort
ε2135Ἐπειρωνευόμενοςmaking an ironic remark… quotation given, its only independent occurrence. [1] An approximation of Josephus, Jewish War 5.531.Matched in noteshighshort
ε1594Ἐξέδραexedra, seating area… fact, as a TLG search shows, a clumsy abridgement of Josephus, Jewish War 6.150. Büttner-Wobst notes (532) that Valesius (Henri de Valois 1603-1676) attributed this fragment to Polybius. However, this attribution was rejected by …Matched in noteshighshort
γ415Γωρυτόςquiver… 21.54, where the headword noun occurs (web address 1). [2] Josephus, Jewish War 3.96, describing the equipment of the Roman cavalry. Since there is no mention of their being armed as archers, the term …Matched in noteshighshort
ε887Ἐλλόγιμοςnoteworthy… does find this phrase used in reference to physical places: Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 1.284; Cosmas Indicopleustes 9.18.Matched in noteshighshort
ε1587Ἐξεβοήθηwas noised abroad… quoted from somewhere; the small handful of extant attestations include Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 1.163 (of a woman's beauty). Perhaps, therefore, the supplementary lemma also comes from that author: Jewish War 2.236. See further, next …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2031Ἐπεθείαζεwas putting on the god… from the quotation given (though there are earlier instances in Josephus, Appian and Philostratus). [2] Menander Protector fr. 36 Blockley (246-247), probably via a lost part of the Excerpta of Constantine Porphyrogenitus. The fragment …Matched in noteshighshort
α4694ἈχίαςAhijah, Achias, AkhiasJosephus, Jewish Antiquities 8.267-272; derived from 1 Kings (3 Kingdoms LXX) 14. See also iota 174.Matched in noteshighmedium
ε2315Ἐπιεικῶςproperly… Kolchis (Colchis, Lazike; cf. kappa 1979); cf. Kaldellis (136). [5] Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 12.198 (web address 3). [6] Quotation unidentifiable. [7] Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 4.10.2; on Chosroes II's (cf. alpha 2015 note) escape from …Matched in noteshighmedium

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