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- α1534ἈμβούλιοςAmboulios, AmbuliusEpithet ("Counsellor") of Zeus, Athena and the Dioskouroi in Sparta: Pausanias 3.13.6.Matched in noteshighshort
- α2504ἌνθειαAntheia, FloweryAt Argos [Myth, Place] (Pausanias 2.22.1) and Miletos: see LSJ s.v.Matched in noteshighshort
- α4268ἈστύνοοςAstunoos, Astynoos, Astynous… killed by Diomedes [Author, Myth] in Homer, Iliad 5.144; cf. Pausanias 10.26.4.Matched in noteshighshort
- δ43ΔαμαίωνDamaion, Damaeon… Dameon, son of Phleious, associated with Heracles in Peloponnesian mythology (Pausanias 6.20.16).Matched in noteshighshort
- α3847ἈρήνηAreneNear Lepreon in Elis. Mentioned by Pausanias 5.5.6; cf. also Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Arenai (two cities of this name, one of them in Elis).Matched in noteshighshort
- α780ἈκακήσιονAkakesion, AcacesiumIn 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 …Matched in noteshighshort
- α781Ἀκάκητοςguileless; 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.Matched in noteshighshort
- α791Ἀκαμαντίς καὶ ἈκάμαςAkamantis and Akamas, Acamantis and AcamasAbbreviated from Harpokration s.v. Akamantis. [1] cf. Pausanias, Description of Greece 1.5.2. For Theseus see theta 364.Matched in noteshighshort
- β328Βλεπεδαίμωνghostlooking… now 749 K.-A.) and noted by various lexicographers; according to Pausanias the Atticist it was used of the followers of Socrates (sigma 829).Matched in noteshighshort
- κ1406ΚέρκωπεςKerkopes, Cercopes, Tailed-men[1] Pausanias the Atticist kappa26, and similarly elsewhere (see the references at Photius, Lexicon kappa606 Theodoridis). For this nominative plural headword see already kappa 1405. [2] A fragment of hexameter poetry (Kinkel EGF p. …Matched in noteshighshort
- χ415Χοροιτύποςchoral-beating, choral-dancing… epic/poetic adjective, occurring in a fragment of Pindar quoted by Pausanias (3.25.2), as well as several times in Nonnus' Dionysiaca.Matched in noteshighshort
- α1263ἈλίφειραAlipheira, 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 …Matched in noteshighshort
- α1023Ἀκροχειρίζεσθαιto 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, …Matched in noteshighmedium
- α4029Ἄρτεμις ΛαφρίαArtemis Laphria… not usually sacrificed, such as deer, boar and wolves. See Pausanias 7.18.8-13 (web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort
- α2981Ἀπέδοξενit seemed good not, it was resolved not… be quoted from somewhere: there are instances in Herodotus, Xenophon, Pausanias and Philostratus. Impersonal a)pe/docen is the opposite of e)/docen as a decision-making formula: see LSJ s.v. a)podokei=.Matched in noteshighshort
- α3785ἈργώArgo… Fleece and brought back Medea. See Apollodorus 1.9.17-26; also e.g. Pausanias 2.12.6 and 9.32.4. [1] Quoted from somewhere, such as Herodotus (who has 3 instances).Matched in noteshighshort
- α1781Ἀμφιφῶντεςdouble-lightsFrom Pausanias the Atticist alpha105. [1] Offered to Artemis Mounichia: see LSJ s.v. (web address 1). [2] FGrH 244 F152. See also alpha 2082.Matched in noteshighshort
- α2676Ἀντικυρίας σοι δεῖyou are in need of hellebore… of Antikyra (alpha 2675), where it grew abundantly (so e.g. Pausanias 10.36.7). The gloss does not seem very cogent as it stands; one would have expected something about purging the bowels. Possibly exousia can …Matched in noteshighshort
- κ149Κακὴ μὲν ὄψιςface [is] badSame entry in Photius, Lexicon kappa81 Theodoridis, deriving from Pausanias the Atticist (kappa4). [1] Menander fr. 441 Kock (5 Sandbach) -- though NB: in Stobaeus this quotation is attributed to another play (Dagger) by …Matched in noteshighshort
- λ474Λῃσταίraiders, robbers, brigands, pirates… From the scholia to Thucydides 1.4. [4] An approximation of Pausanias 10.34.5 (on an episode in his own lifetime, perhaps in the 170s CE). See Favuzzi [cited under alpha 1990] 58 for the identification. …Matched in noteshighshort
- α2973Ἀπέδειfell short of… and elsewhere. [1] Similar glossing in Hesychius s.v. a)pode/ontes. [2] Pausanias 8.49.3 (web address 1 below). For Philopoimen see generally phi 409.Matched in noteshighshort
- χ88Χαραδραῖος λέωνravine lion… was roaming Mt. Cithaeron at the behest of King Thespius. Pausanias, however, cites a rival tradition that has Alcathous killing the lion of Mt. Cithaeron (1.41.3).Matched in noteshighshort
- α2499Ἀνθ' Ἑρμίωνοςinstead of HermioneA version of Pausanias the Atticist alpha124, where the headword phrase is spelled a)nq' *(Ermi/onos and the city-name *(ermiw/n; also, Erbse's edition suppresses the dubious o(moi/ws i(era/ and adds instead tou\s i(ke/tas from Zenobius …Matched in noteshighshort
- α3985ἌρνηArne… but the one the Suda means is unambiguous. According to Pausanias 9.40.5 (web address 1), Arne was the original name of the settlement later (and better) known as Chaeroneia (chi 176), but Strabo 9.2.35 …Matched in noteshighshort
- α4669ἈχαΐαAkhaia, 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 …Matched in noteshighmedium
- α3821ἈρέθουσαArethousa, Arethusa… Hydrologically and chemically impossible, but for the mythological account see Pausanias 5.7.2ff (web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort
- α4299Ἀσφόδελοςasphodelcf. already alpha 4298. Same material in Pausanias the Atticist and other lexica. [1] Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 7.13.4. [2] Hesiod, Works and Days 41 (web address 1). [2] Homer, Odyssey 11.538 (web address …Matched in noteshighshort
- α774ἈκαδημίαAcademy… (= 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.Matched in noteshighmedium
- α1357Ἁλουργάsea-wrought… purple dye produced along the Laconian coast, surpassed in quality--as Pausanias explains (3.21.6, web address 1)--only by that from shellfish harvested from the Phoenician sea. Gow and Page observe (vol. II, 289) that goddesses …Matched in noteshighshort
- α328Ἀγωνάρχαιcontest-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 …Matched in noteshighmedium