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Ἀσωπός
Asopos, Asopus
… and emptying into the strait of Euboia near Oropos. See
Pausanias
9.4.4 (web address 1). There was also a river of this name in the NE Peloponnese
(Pausanias
2.5.2-3; web address 2).
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239
Ἄγις Ἄγιδος
Agis, (genitive) Agidos
The son of
Pausanias.
This man, during an invasion of Mantinean territory once, besieged them and, having turned the flow of the river against the wall, he weakened it; for it was of unbaked …
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4205
Ἀσπάσιος
Aspasius, Aspasios
… Against Ariston [and] miscellaneous discourses. He attended the classes of
Pausanias
and Hippodromus, and enjoyed prolonged eminence as a sophist in Rome.
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807
Δίαυλος
diaulos
… race, was added to the Olympic program in 724 BCE
(Pausanias
5.8.4). The race consisted of two laps, each a stadion (c.600 ancient feet) in length. In Olympia, runners set out from the starting …
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1023
Ἀκροχειρίζεσθαι
to struggle at arms length
… from where the headword is evidently quoted. [3] Abbreviated from
Pausanias
6.4.1-3. The actual name of this "Akrokhersites" was Sostratos (of Sikyon); cf. sigma 866. Leontiskos has his own Suda entry at lambda 258, …
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1263
Ἀλίφειρα
Alipheira, Aliphira
… 1). Together with several other cities in the region (cf.
Pausanias
8.27.4, web address 2), Alipheira belonged to the Kynourian tribal state (T.H. Nielsen in Hansen & Nielsen 509-510 #266; cf. Walbank 531). A …
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1502
Ἀμαρυγκεύς
Amarunkeus, Amarynkeus, Amarynceus
… Pyttios; helper of King Augeas of Elis against Heracles; see
Pausanias
5.1.11 (web address 1), and next note. [2] Amarynkeus' son Diores is named in this way in Homer, Iliad 6.622, a passage cited …
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4669
Ἀχαΐα
Akhaia, Achaia, Achaea
… from the first few centuries CE (perhaps an epitome of
Pausanias
7.16.1-10), but the source is unidentifiable. [1] So the transmitted text, both here and again at mu 565; but the Roman conqueror of …
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70
Αἰγοφάγος
Goat-eater
… Nicander fr. 99 (Etymologicum Magnum 27.51); of Hera at Sparta,
Pausanias
3.15.9 (web address 1) and Hesychius alpha1737. J.G. Frazer on the
Pausanias
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210
Δελφοί
Delphi, Delphoi
… mothers in Argos until the Argive hero Coroebus killed her.
Pausanias
1.43.7-8 (web address 1) provides more background to the epigram's story and describes the tomb of Coroebus in the agora at Megara (mu …
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1210
Διὸς κῴδιον
Zeus' ram-fleece
Same entry in Photius, Lexicon delta657 (=
Pausanias
the Atticist delta18); similar material elsewhere. cf. generally kappa 2216. [1] So DW; the translator prefers 'where' for this opening ou(=. [2] The transmitted text has …
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1586
Δυρράχιον
Dyrrachion, Dyrrachium
… Dyrrachion homonymously with the peninsula on which it is situated'.
Pausanias
6.10.8 (web address 2) records the coexistence of both names, arguing that in fact we have two different towns: Epidamnos the ancient one …
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420
Ἐκκεχιλωμένην
grassed-over
… similar glosses, but in the nominative, occur in previous lexica:
Pausanias
the Atticist epsilon23 Erbse; Hesychius epsilon1438 Latte). See further, next note. The word is unattested outside lexicography. cf. chi 303. [1] Hesychius has …
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1949
Ἐπαμινώνδας
Epaminondas, Epameinondas
… OCD(4) s.v. The material of the present entry comes from
Pausanias
8.11.5-10. [1] Descendants of those Thebans sprung from the dragon's teeth planted by Cadmus (see under gamma 416, and cf. kappa 15, kappa …
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3242
Ἄπνους
not breathing
They say that Empedocles told [sc. his friend]
Pausanias
about the Non-Breather. [He said that] the Non-Breather was someone who for 30 days kept his body without breath and without food. This man [Empedocles] …
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3745
Ἄρατος
Aratus, Aratos
… Phila, the daughter of Antipater, wife of Antigonus; Anatomy; To
Pausanias
the Macedonian; Lament for Kleombrotos; Edition of the Odyssey; Letters, similarly, in prose. But [the adjective] a)/rraton [means] strong, sturdy. So Plato [uses …
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456
Δημοσθένης
Demosthenes
… week old, news came that Philip had been killed by
Pausanias,
and he changed his clothes and sacrificed to the gods. He was also opposed politically to Alexander, Philip's son. When Harpalus stole a …
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842
Ἑλληνοταμίαι
Hellenotamiai, Treasurers of Greece
… were willing to let them because of their hatred for
Pausanias
. The Athenians decided which of the cities would provide money against the Barbarian and which would provide ships: pretext for this was …
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15
Ἀβάντειος
Abanteios, Abantius, Abantian
… after Danaos and father of the twins Akrisios and Proitos
(Pausanias
2.16.2 (web address 1); Apollodorus, Library 2.2.1 (web address 2)). [3] This term is used by (e.g.) Ovid both for an actual son …
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101
Ἄβυδος
Abudos, Abydos, Abydus
… and generally OCD(4) s.v. [2] = the first sentence of
Pausanias
the Atticist alpha3 and Photius alpha63 Theodoridis; cf. also Zenobius 1.1, s.v. *)abudhno\n e)pifo/rhma (alpha 100), and Kassel-Austin, PCG III.2 p.376 on Aristophanes …
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257
Ἄγκυρα
Ankyra, Ancyra, Ankara
… about 125 miles south of the Black Sea. According to
Pausanias
(1.4), Ankyra was founded by Midas. Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Ankyra ( = Apollonius of Aphrodisias FGrH 740 F14) traces the name of …
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267
Ἀγλαοφῶν
Aglaophon
Pausanias
(10.27.4, see web address 1) quotes an epigram of Simonides, naming Aglaophon as the father of the painter Polygnotos. See also pi 1948.
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328
Ἀγωνάρχαι
contest-judges
… 1.25.) Possibly Contest, the divine personification of the agon (cf.
Pausanias
5.26.3), though the apparently personifying language does not guarantee this. See further, next note. [3] Used in Plato, Cratylus 421D (where a scholiast …
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339
Ἄγρα
Agra
… Theodoridis), similar ones elsewhere. The toponym is more accurately, Agrae/Agrai:
Pausanias
1.19.6. The "Lesser Mysteries" were celebrated there each spring.
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371
Ἀγροῦ πυγή
rump of the country; fat of the land
… (Arsenius 1.24b), but the pugh/ version is otherwise standard: see
Pausanias
the Atticist alpha21; Hesychius alpha837; Photius, Lexicon alpha272 Theodoridis; Appendix Proverbiorum 1.4; Macarius Chrysocephalus 1.3. The phrase itself is taken to come from …
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774
Ἀκαδημία
Academy
… (= schol. Demosth. 24.114); cf. epsilon 338. See also (e.g.)
Pausanias
1.29.2, 1.30.1-3. [2] Aristophanes, Clouds 1005-1008; cf. alpha 3682, mu 1058, mu 1248.
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780
Ἀκακήσιον
Akakesion, Acacesium
In western Arcadia (Peloponnese, central Greece).
Pausanias
8.36.9-10 (web address 1 below) mentions both it and the city -- defunct by his day -- to which it had given its name; cf. Stephanus of …
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781
Ἀκάκητος
guileless; of Akakesion
… be not a)ka/khtos but *)akakh/sios. See alpha 780 and the
Pausanias
passage cited there, in which Hermes Akakesios is mentioned; and cf. LSJ s.v.
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791
Ἀκαμαντίς καὶ Ἀκάμας
Akamantis and Akamas, Acamantis and Acamas
Abbreviated from Harpokration s.v. Akamantis. [1] cf.
Pausanias,
Description of Greece 1.5.2. For Theseus see theta 364.
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858
Ἀκή
Ake, Acre
… confusion with the Arcadian city of that name mentioned by
Pausanias
in the wanderings of Orestes (8.34.2) and clearly in the neuter plural.
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