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2539
Ἄνθρωπος φιλοπραγματίας
meddlesome man
In reference to a busybody.
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4643
Ἄφρακτος φίλων
unguarded by friends
[Meaning] not be-fenced and be-walled with friends because you left them behind deceived.
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4361
Ἀττικός
Attikos, Atticus
… [= in] Armenia, and from youth he was taught to
philosophize
by a monk of the Macedonian sect. Then they were prominent in
philosophy
all through Sebasteia from their company with Eustathius, who we …
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gender and sexuality
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4394
Ἄτρυτος
unabating
[Meaning someone/something] inexhaustible. "He was devoted to
philology
and unabating labors and overwhelmed the reputations of older and more clever men with his own name." And elsewhere: "during the daytime he gave himself over …
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793
Ἀκαμάτιος
Akamatios, Acamatius
… such subjects, he deemed himself worthy to be called a
philosopher,
and before all he designated himself by this name, and none of the Heliopolitans called him anything other than 'the
philosopher'.
Let this …
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2657
Ἀντιγενίδης
Antigenides, Antigenidas
Son of Satyros, Theban, musician, pipe-singer of
Philoxenos.
This man was the first to use Milesian shoes and he wore a yellow cloak in the Reveller. He wrote lyric poems.
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418
Χοσρόης
Chosroes, Khosrau, Khosraw
… a lover of literature and came to mastery of our
philosophy,
when the Greek writings had been translated for him into the Persian language by someone. And therefore they say that he gulped down …
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1751
Ἀμφίων
Amphion
… leisure, and you possess a fine nature, and you love
philosophy,
if anyone ever has; these three things coming together at the same time were enough to reveal Amphion as the discoverer of ancient …
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2723
Ἀντισθένης
Antisthenes
An Athenian, a Socratic
philosopher
from [among] the orators, who was first called a Peripatetic, then became a Cynic; he was the son of a father who had the same name, but a mother …
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445
Χωρὶς τὰ Μυσῶν καὶ Φρυγῶν ὁρίσματα
separate are the boundaries of Mysians and Phrygians
… And elsewhere: "it is not the part of one doing
philosophy
to profess and practice the art of prophecy nor any other sacred discipline; for the boundaries of the
philosophers
and those of the …
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2973
Ἀπέδει
fell short of
[Meaning he/she/it] failed [sc. to match up to].
Philopoemen
the Arcadian "fell short of none of the Peloponnesians in size and strength of body, but the appearance of his face was ugly."
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775
Ἀκαδημία
Academy
… J. Glucker's rehabilitation of Aemilius Portus' correction of 'school of
philoi'
to 'school of
philosophers'
and cites by way of confirmation a scholion on Aristophanes, Clouds 1005 (p. 195 Holwerda). A simple misunderstanding of …
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3855
Ἀρήτη
Arete
… the present entry is surely A. the daughter of the
philospher
Aristippos (and a
philosopher
herself); see under alpha 3908.
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339
Δεινομάχη
Deinomache
… 1280): Plutarch, Alcibiades 1, etc. [2] That of a Stoic
philosopher
in Lucian's
Philopseudes.
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3897
Ἀρίσταινος
Aristainos, Aristaenus
"The Achaeans
Philopoemen
and Aristaenus were alike in having neither a single nature nor a [single] political standpoint. For indeed
Philopoemen
was well-suited for the field of war both in body and in spirit, …
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2954
Ἀπαίδευτοι
uneducated, untrained
… Disorderly. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "more uneducated than
Philonides
of Melite". This
Philonides
was not only big, but also unlearned and swinish. Aristophanes mocks him as a man who had hangers-on and …
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2466
Ἀννίκερις
Anniceris, Annikeris
A Cyrenean, a
philosopher,
who became an Epicurean despite being an acquaintance of Paraebatus, the student of Aristippus. Anniceris also had a brother by the name of Nicoteles, [sc. also] a
philosopher,
and his …
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3987
Ἄρνουφις
Arnouphis
This man was an Egyptian
philosopher,
who joined Marcus [sc. Aurelius], the emperor of the Romans, the
philosopher.
On one occasion, when the Romans were suffering from thirst, [the story goes that Arnouphis] suddenly …
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540
Ἀδύνατοι
incapables, handicappeds
… say two obols a day, some say an obol. But
Philochorus
says nine drachmas a month.
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1019
Ἀκροσφαλεῖς
precarious
… in the [act of] walking. That is the Huns. In
Philoctetes:
"...that all things are awful for mortals and uncertain: to fare well or to fare otherwise. It is necessary for one who is …
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1372
Ἁλῶα
Haloa
It is an Attic festival.
Philochorus
says it was named from the fact that men in those days spent their time on the threshing floors [halos].
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3936
Ἀριστώνυμος
Aristonymos, Aristonymus
… Deipnosophists. [He lived] while Ptolemy Philadelphos was ruling, and [during]
Philopator
after him; and he managed the library of the king after Apollonius, when he was 62. Having been prepared to consider fleeing to …
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4554
Ἄφαντον φῶς
secret light
[Meaning] that [made] out of a fire-producing stone. Sophocles in
Philoctetes
[writes]: "but rubbing stone on stones I laboriously brought forth a secret light, which preserves me always. For a roof to house [me] …
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3977
Ἁρμονίαν
harmony
… appears (in the accusative case, as again here). [2] John
Philoponus,
Commentary on Aristotle's de Anima 142.6-16. [3] John
Philoponus,
Commentary on Aristotle's de Anima 145.1-4. [4] The transmitted text actually says "first" again. …
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571
Ἀέτιος
Aetios, Aetius
… months in the year 332. [4] Anazarbos: alpha 1866. [5]
Philostorgius,
Historia ecclesiastica III.15b, pp.44-47 Bidez-Winkelmann.
Philostorgius
himself had Arian sympathies, and presents a more favorable view of Aetius than does Socrates Scholaticus, in …
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830
Ἀκενόσπουδον
shunning of vain pursuits
… learned the shunning of vain pursuits, and incredulity." Marcus the
philosopher
emperor says [this].
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1126
Ἀλέξανδρος Ἀντιοχείας ἐπίσκοπος
Alexander, bishop of Antioch
… shrewdness of his thoughts; but Alexander by his training and
philosophy
and frugal life and the flow of his words and countless other advantages of grace.
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1178
Ἀληθινὸς ἔρως
true desire
… about the beauty of the body. "A true desire for
philosophy
was implanted in him, and having broken every earthborn bond and trampled all hopes for honours and material goods, he came before Proclus".
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1283
Ἀλκιδάμας
Alkidamas, Alcidamas
An Elean, from Elea of Asia, a
philosopher;
son of Diocles, who wrote on music; student of Gorgias from Leontini.
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1288
Ἀλκίφρων
Alkiphron, Alciphron
A Magnesian, of Magnesia-on-Meander, a
philosopher.
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