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ε3331Ἐτώθαζονthey were mocking… -- presumably extracted from the quotation -- is imperfect, third person plural, of twqa/zw (tau 855). [1] Procopius, History of the Wars of Justinian 2.8.6 (web address 1); the Persian king threatens to attack …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2029Ἐπεδίκασεhe adjudicatedFrom Harpokration s.v., commenting on Demosthenes 48.26 & 27 (web address 1). In ch.26 the present headword (active voice) occurs; in ch. 27 it is the middle-voice e)pedika/santo, i.e. third-person plural. Harpok. reproduces this …Matched in noteshighshort
γ44Γάμβρειος στολήGambreian garb

ε3331

Ἐτώθαζον

they were mocking

[Meaning] they were teasing, they were slandering, they were reviling. "They were insulting Chosroes from the battlements and, with unseemly laughter, mocking [him]." Or 'they mocked', [meaning] they boasted.

Ἐτώθαζον· ἔσκωπτον, ἐχλεύαζον, ἐλοιδόρουν. οἱ δὲ ἐς τὸν Χοσρόην ὕβριζον ἀπὸ τῶν ἐπάλξεων καὶ ξὺν γέλωτι ἀκόσμῳ ἐτώθαζον. ἢ Ἐτώθασαν, ἐκαυχήσαντο.

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… Kaibel): "Themistocles received as a present from the King [of Persia] Lampsacus for wine, Magnesia for bread, Myus for fish, and Percote and Palaescepsis for bedding and clothing. And he also told him to …

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λ757Λοιμόςplague, pestilence… comments on Homer, Iliad 1.67 (1.80). fqoreu/s seems an oddly personal word to use as a gloss (nouns in -eus generally denote personal agents), but ps.-Herodian and Eustathius seem to treat it as a …Matched in noteshighshort

α707Ἀθάνατοιimmortals… name reflected the fact that this was "a body of Persian troops in which vacancies were filled up by successors already appointed" (LSJ s.v., repeating what Herodotus 7.83 says). For other picked bodies of …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1019Διήρκεσεendured, sufficedThe headword -- third person singular, aorist indicative active, of diarke/w -- is perhaps, though not necessarily, extracted from the quotation given; other possibilities include Plato, Timaeus 21D. [1] Same or similar glossing in …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2020Ἐπέβαλενset about, overlapped… (which must be quoted from somewhere) is aorist active, third person singular, of e)piba/llw (epsilon 2226). For this sense of the verb see generally LSJ s.v., II.3. [2] For a fuller version of this …Matched in noteshighshort

κ527ΚαταδιαιτήσωI will arbitrate against… given. [1] Part of Menander Protector fr. 9.3 Blockley (108-109), Persian envoy Mebod's pledge before Justin II in late 567. One of the Saracen envoys in Mebod's entourage had earlier declined a summons to …Matched in noteshighshort

κ2742Κύρβασιςcap… kappa 2744 and pi 1602. The word is probably of Persian origin: see bibliography. [1] The particle me/n in most of the manuscripts suggests a 'some...others...' construction (though ms M omits it).Matched in noteshighshort

γ411ΓωβρύαςGobryasThat of several high-ranking Persians prominent in the C6 and C5 BCE, such as one of the seven regicides in Herodotus 3.70-79 (web address 1), who advised Darius against the Scythian campaign (Herodotus 4.132 …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1021Κατεχειροτόνησαν αὐτοῦthey voted to convict him… [1] Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 1.15.11, on the abrupt dismissal of Persian envoy Mebod (cf. generally alpha 1998 note) by an assembly of military personnel convened by Roman general Philippicus (spring of 586); cf. de …Matched in noteshighmedium

κ1705Κλαστάσειςyou will cut down to size, you will trimThe headword, extracted from the quotation, is second person singular, future, of klasta/zw "I dress vines". [1] Aristophanes, Knights 166 (web address 1), with scholion; Demos (personification of the Athenian common people) to his …Matched in noteshighshort

χ61Χαλυβώνιος οἶνοςChalybonian wine… with chi 60 (q.v.). Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.28D (1.51 Kaibel): 'the Persian king used to drink only Chalybonian wine, which Posidonius says is also grown at Damascus in Syria, since the Persians had introduced viticulture …Matched in noteshighshort

λ249ΛεοννάτοςLeonnatos, Leonnatus… (or more exactly Nesaean) horses were those of the Achaemenid Persian kings. [4] The companions (e(tai=roi) were an élite cavalry company of the Macedonian army, made up of noblemen. See Malcolm Errington in OCD …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε3097Ἐρυθρὰ θάλασσαRed Sea… Sea: "This name, from a legendary eponymous king of the Persian Gulf, was extended by the ancients to cover all eastern waters, including the Indian Ocean; it specifically referred to the modern Red Sea …Matched in noteshighshort

ε979Ἐμήδισανthey medized[1] "Mede" and "Persian" are equivalents in this respect. For the verb, cf. mu 882. [2] For this historical gloss -- repeated at the end of tau 303 -- from 490 BCE, see generally …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3023ἙρμαγόραςHermagoras[1] For Amphipolis see generally alpha 1754. [2] For Persaios see generally pi 1368. [3] Presumably nothing to do with animals but, rather, an attack on the "Dogs" (= Cynics), on whom see kappa …Matched in noteshighshort

ει179Εἴργεσθαιto be hindered, to be stopped… tou= th=s gnw/sews cu/lou te/ws ei)rgo/menos; "for he [Adam] was persuaded, that he was begrudged to be a god, being hindered until then from [access to] the tree of knowledge". [3] Quotation unidentifiable (Adler …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1137Καυνάκηςkaunakes, mantleAn entry which combines quoted phrases from Aristophanes, Wasps 1138 and 1142 (web address 1) with comment from the scholia there. The jokes are expertly unravelled by MacDowell 278-9. The main point is that, …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1434Κέστροςdart, dart-sling, kestros, cestrus, kestrosphendone… beyond what is proffered here, see Walbank 3.308-310. [1] For Perseus see pi 1370. [2] The Loeb translator, W.R.Paton, mis-translates as 'two cubits'. Two palms is c.six inches. [3] c. nine inches. [4] 'This' …Matched in noteshighmedium

κ1951ΚόλουθοςColluthus, Kolouthos… Aitolia (NW Greece). [4] (That is, an account of the Persian War of Anastasius, AD 506.) This list excludes the only surviving work, the Abduction of Helen.Matched in noteshighshort

λ856Λύσῃshould release… Magnesia when a slave strikes a free man). Read pei/sh| "persuade" instead of pai/sh| "strike" (see web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort

ε529Ἐκομπολάκουνthey were boastingThird person plural, imperfect indicative active, of the verb kompolake/w. Glossed differently in a scholion on Aristophanes, Frogs 961 (where the headword is first person singular, spoken by Euripides: see web address 1, and …Matched in noteshighshort

κ927ΚατέδραμονI overran, they overran… (a verb with figurative as well as literal senses), first person singular or third person plural; cf. kappa 831, kappa 832. For an instance of the third person plural see Thucydides 8.99.1.Matched in noteshighshort

δ68ΔάραςDaras… assembles an army to meet a surprise invasion by the Persian king Kavad (cf. kappa 1 and PLRE II s.v. Cavades(1)) into Kommagene (cf. kappa 1982) in 531 CE. The earlier Battle of Dara …Matched in noteshighshort

ε485Ἐκκλώζετοyou were booing… Demosthenes 21.226: web address 1) it is imperfect active, second person plural. In the Suda this has become imperfect middle, third person singular - an accidental change ignored in translation here. What kind of …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1981ἘπαρκῶI assist, I help… syntactical lexica. This verb usually takes the dative of the person helped, accusative of the danger warded off (but for accusative of the person see under epsilon 2207).Matched in noteshighshort

ε2024Ἐπεγράφουyou were enlisted under, you had (something) inscribed uponThe headword is imperfect indicative middle/passive, second person singular, of e)pigra/fw. For other forms of the same verb see epsilon 2025, epsilon 2026, epsilon 2272, epsilon 2273, epsilon 2274 and further on in this …Matched in noteshighshort

ε4037Ἔχουνthey were mounding… is extracted from the quotations which follow, it is third person plural (rather than the identical first person singular), imperfect, of xo/w. For the glossing verb see under chi 430. [2] Quotation unidentifiable. [3] …Matched in noteshighshort

η90ἨδημόνουνI was bewildered, they were bewildered… entry in other lexica. The unglossed headword -- either first person singular or third person plural -- must be quoted from somewhere; perhaps Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 15.388 (web address 1), in which case it …Matched in noteshighshort

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