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λ326Λευκή τις ἀνεπήδησ' ὅμοιος Νικίᾳsomeone white like Nikias sprang up… from the scholia on the line follows. This early-fourth-century (BCE) Nikias is taken to be a grandson of the ill-fated general of that name (kappa 1731, lambda 557, mu 534, nu 389, pi 542, …Matched in noteshighshort
μ534Μελλονικιᾶνto dither like Nikias… verb involves a pun on 'victory' (nike) and the name Nikias. [2] Nikeratos, rather (cf. under kappa 1731); an amusing error taken over from the scholiast. [3] In 415 BCE. See generally Thucydides 6.1-32 …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3801ΕὐφορίωνEuphorion, Euphorio… 126th Olympiad actually covers 276-273.) [6] Name transmitted here as Nikia; Nikaia is Bernhardy's correction (noted but not followed by Adler). [7] OCD(4) s.v. Alexander(9). [8] Strabo (9.1.18, 9.5.22) and Stephanus of Byzantium say …Matched in noteshighmedium
β519ΒρασίδαςBrasidas… as one of the Spartan signatories to the Peace of Nikias in 421 (Thucydides 5.19.2). Brasidas' mother was named Argileonis (Plutarch, Moralia 240C). [2] Contrary to the impression given here, Methone never revolted against …Matched in noteshighmedium
μ686ΜεταγένηςMetagenes… and one of the Spartan signatories to the Peace of Nikias (Thucydides 5.19.1).Matched in noteshighshort
λ131ΛαρυγγιῶI will throttle… occurs: "I will throttle the orators and I will harass Nikias". See web address 1. (For Nikias see nu 389.) cf. lambda 130.Matched in noteshighshort
λ557Λιμὸς ΜηλιαῖοςMelian famine, Melian hunger, Melian starvation… Thucydides 5.84.3 lists the Athenian generals as Kleomedes and Teisias; Nikias was among the commanders in an earlier raid on the island (Thuc. 3.91.1f.), whence perhaps the confusion. [2] Translating the transmitted kata\ pa/ntwn. …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1147ΔιόγνητοςDiognetos, Diognetus… the protagonists in Lysias 18 -- brother of the well-known Nikias (nu 389); the hellenistic historian from (?)Erythrai, FGrH 120; and see under alpha 830.)Matched in noteshighshort
α1973Ἀνανεοῦσθαιto renew… (web address 1 below), a provision of the Peace of Nikias, on renewing an oath. [2] Cratinus fr. 167 Kock, now 178 K.-A.Matched in noteshighshort
ε2588Ἐπισκότησιςdarkening, obscurity… are well-known instances in (e.g.) Plutarch's lives of Pericles and Nicias. In ps.-Zonaras this headword does have a gloss (evidently drawn from a source other than the Suda): "to lie over something, and to …Matched in noteshighshort
α3012Ἀπέλθῃwould depart… [1] Same glossing in other lexica. [2] Thucydides 5.46.4, on Nikias (web address 1). [3] Adler cited no Demosthenic passage which illustrates this, but see e.g. 23.104 (web address 2).Matched in noteshighshort
δ1513Δραστήριοςeffective, efficient, energetic… portrayals of great men by Plutarch (Antonius 42.2, Lucullus 6.2, Nicias 16.9, Pericles 19.3, Phocion 6.3, Timoleon 3.7) and Dionysius of Halicarnassus. It exemplifies well the overtones of the verb dra/w (delta 1488), from …Matched in noteshighshort
λ312Λευγαλέαςbaneful… 13.97 (where the genitive singular occurs). [2] Greek Anthology 6.270.3-4 (Nicias: addressed to the goddess of childbirth). Read oi(= "her" instead of the Suda's toi "you". [3] cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 21.281.Matched in noteshighshort
α4542Αὔχημαboast, glory… Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 8.48.4; cf. upsilon 450. [3] Thucydides 7.75.6 (Nicias on the Athenian forces in Sicily, 413 BCE): web address 1 below.Matched in noteshighshort
α942ἈκουσίλαοςAkousilaos, Akusilaos, Acusilaus… of age: witness the remark attributed to Sophocles in Plutarch, Nikias 15.)Matched in noteshighshort
δ619Διαλλάττεινto reconcile… held Spartans responsible for the failure of the "Peace of Nikias" and the resumption of the Peloponnesian War. [2] Evidently in a different proverb; cf. Aristophanes Acharnians 10 (web address 2; kappa 1465), and …Matched in noteshighshort
δ490Δῆρινbattle… genitive and dative see delta 489.) [2] Greek Anthology 6.127.1-2 (Nicias), a piece of military gear speaks after an old warrior places it at the temple of Artemis; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2343Ἐπιθυμῶνdesiring… instead a convincing link with Gylippos (gamma 477), whom Plutarch, Nikias 28.3 [28.2 Loeb], describes as 'demanding to bring alive to the Lakedaimonians' the Athenian generals he had captured in Syracuse. [3] As already …Matched in noteshighshort
α3069Ἄπεστινis away… it may, the principal one was a younger brother of Nikias; see generally on him J.K. Davies, Athenian Propertied Families 600-300 BC (Oxford 1971) 404. [3] The Thirty Tyrants were Athenian oligarchs granted power …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1161ΔιόμειαDiomeia… Duris FGrHist 76 FF 67 and 68); Plutarch, Alcibiades 21.3, Nicias 13.3; scholion on Aristophanes, Frogs 477. [2] See scholion on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1207. Son of Kollytos (the eponym of another deme) this …Matched in noteshighshort

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