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Χιλιωθέντα
thousanded
Meaning [him] having been fined a thousand [drachmas]. So
Lycurgus.
The same writer also said [that someone] "thousanded [sc. somebody]".
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343
Ἀγραφίου
de-listing
… erased before they paid it. So Demosthenes and Dinarchus and
Lycurgus.
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3336
Ἀποκαρτερήσαντα
having killed oneself by abstinence
… by starvation or by hanging. "[sc. It is said that]
Lycurgus
the Spartan lawgiver, after laying down the laws, came into Crete and killed himself by abstinence, so that he would not be compelled …
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Αἰγίς
garment; net; web; cuirass; wood-grain
… and the net that has been braided from garlands. So
Lycurgus
and Herodotus [sc. use the word]. The priestess in Athens carrying [or: wearing] the sacred aigis used to visit the [sc. houses of] …
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259
Δερματικόν
skin-money
Lycurgus
says [this, meaning] the cash resulting from the skins being sold.
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δ
407
Δηλιασταί
Deliasts
… cult-envoys who went out [sc. from Athens] to Delos. So
Lycurgus
[sc. uses the word].
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1328
Δοκιμασθείς
having been scrutinized
… an office of any kind; sometimes their life was examined.
Lycurgus
says that three scrutinies take place by law: for one is the one in which the nine archons are scrutinized; in another it …
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368
Ἑκατόμπεδος νεώς
Hundred-foot temple
The Parthenon at Athens. Also [sc. attested is] 'Hundred-footer':
Lycurgus
[sc. calls it so]. The Parthenon used to be called Hekatompedos by some because of beauty and graceful proportions, not because of size.
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9
Βαβύλας
Babylas
… their lower courses, it may be worth noting that Plutarch,
Lycurgus
6.2 (cf. Pelopidas 13.3), records Babyka as the name of a stream near central Sparta (cf. Hesychius beta18, where Babyka is glossed as …
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1241
Διώνασσα
Dionassa
Mother of the Spartan lawgiver
Lycurgus
(lambda 823, lambda 824): Plutarch, Life of
Lycurgus
1.4, citing Dieuchidas of Megara (FGrH 485 F5); cf. scholia to Plato, Republic 599D, where L. is mentioned.
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2988
Ἀπεκαρτέρησεν
starved himself to death.
[Meaning] he disposed of himself.
"Lycurgus
came to Crete and starved himself to death, in order that he would not destroy the laws which he had established."
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3912
Ἀριστογείτων
Aristogiton, Aristogeiton
… Defence in reply to Demosthenes the general, In reply to
Lycurgus,
Prosecution of Timotheus, Prosecution of Timarchus, Prosecution of Hyperides, Prosecution of Thrasyllus. Orphan Speech. Investigate this Aristogiton: perhaps he is the comrade of …
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111
Ἀγαθῆς Τύχης νεώς
temple of Good Fortune
… in Photius, Lexicon alpha69 Theodoridis) -- it was mentioned by
Lycurgus
(fr. 23 Conomis) "and others"; probably, therefore, it was in Athens.
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1308
Ἀλογία
disregard
… the Spartans and their hair cf. e.g. Plutarch, Life of
Lycurgus
22.1.
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1331
Ἀλόπη
Alope
… entry had been generated by the mention of Alope in
Lycurgus
fr. 24 Conomis; it also cites Euripides (who wrote a play of this name), Hellanicus and Dinarchus. [1] Not in Harpok, and attested …
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2704
Ἀντίπατρος
Antipatros, Antipater
… (eleven!) names from this and other periods. The orator Lykourgos
(Lycurgus),
for example, had already died in 325/4 BC; and Kassandros was Antipater's own son.
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2975
Ἀπέδειξεν
designated
… Xenophon, Constitution of the Lacedaemonians 15.3 (of the Spartan lawgiver
Lycurgus).
See web address 1.
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3075
Ἀπεσφακέλισεν
had a seizure, had frost-bitten limbs
… LSJ s.v. also cites Herodotus 4.28.4 (of horses) and Plutarch,
Lycurgus
16 (of the convulsions experienced by weakling Spartan babies when their mothers bathe them in wine); cf. epsilon 2090.
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3250
Ἀποβάτης
dismounter
Abridged from Harpokration (and Photius) s.v., who cites Dinarchus,
Lycurgus,
and (for the information that such an event was found only in Athens and Boiotia) Theophrastus on this. See also Kassel-Austin, PCG II p.34 …
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3374
Ἀποκυηθέν
born
… passive participle, must be quoted from somewhere. (See e.g. Plutarch,
Lycurgus
3.3 on the birth of a boy-child who would later be king Charillos of Sparta: a)pokuhqe\n a)/rren.)
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3456
Ἀπονομή
share
… in Dinarchus' lost speech In reply to the children of
Lycurgus
(fr. LXXVI Conomis).
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3962
Ἄρκυς
hunting-net
… in other lexica. [3] Abridged from Harpokration s.v., who cites
Lycurgus
(fr.86 Conomis), Xenophon (On Hunting 2.3, etc.), and Cratinus (fr 79 Kock = 84 K.-A.).
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4507
Αὐτόλυκος
Autolykos, Autolycus
… 338 BCE. The Suda's source here, Harpokration s.v., records that
Lycurgus
was his prosecutor (Lyc. fr. III.1a Conomis, and cf. Lyc. Against Leocrates 53 [web address 1]). [3] Also in the Synagoge and Photius. …
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β
466
Βουτάδης
Boutadai-man
… aristocratic and priestly clan (genos) of the Eteoboutadai (epsilon 3283).
Lycurgus
(lambda 825) -- who has perhaps generated this entry -- was a member of both.
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δ
258
Δερκυλλίδας
Derkyllidas, Dercyllidas, Derkylidas, Dercylidas
… a bachelor, in a Spartan state which encouraged marriage (Plutarch
Lycurgus
15.2).
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1007
Διήλλαξεν
altered
[1] In
Lycurgus
fr.34 Conomis, cited from Harpokration (and Photius) s.v.
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1228
Διώκειν
to prosecute
… marketplace is self-evident, but such idioms as ei)s a)gora\n e)mba/llein
(Lycurgus,
Against Leocrates 5) are also used in the sense of "being a citizen"; and in the present instance the use of diw/kein highlights …
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256
Ἑδωλιάσαι
to furnish with seats
Abbreviated from Harpokration s.v., itself commenting on
Lycurgus
fr. 2 Conomis (from the speech in defence of his policies; see generally under lambda 825). Aorist infinitives; for the headword one see again at epsilon …
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365
Ἑκάτης νήσου
Hekate's island, Hecate's island
… as here) and where citations for the phrase are given:
Lycurgus
fr.88 Conomis, and the historians Phanodemos (FGrH 325 F1) and Semos (FGrH 396 F2). For Delos see delta 407, delta 408; for Hekate …
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46
Χαλκίοικος
Bronze-House, of the Bronze House; Chalkioikos
… also e.g. Euripides, Helen 228 & 245; Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1299;
Lycurgus
1.128, Polybius 4.22.8 and 4.35.2. Pausanias 3.17.1-3 gives reasons for accepting the first of the three etymologies proffered here; he saw it himself, …
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