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ε
584
Ἔκπλυτον
washed-out
… to dying. Adler also classifies the entry as a gl[ossa]
Platonica'
(repeated by Theodoridis at his Photius, Lexicon epsilon478), evidently because it appears as a totality in Timaeus'
Platonic
Lexicon. Thus the source of …
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69
Ἀβραάμ
Abraham
… Illustrious Men (11): h)\ *pla/twn filwni/zei h)\ *fi/lwn platwni/zei ("Either
Plato
philonizes or Philo
platonizes.")
Cf. phi 448 and Photius, Bibliotheca 86b 25. [13] Abraham's grandfather (Genesis 11:22). Seruch in the LXX, שרוג śerūḡ …
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ε
1454
Ἐντελέχεια
actuality, complete reality, entelechy
… issue of the separation of the form goes back to
Plato
and is a very important aspect of the dispute between
Plato
and Aristotle. The
Platonic
thesis that Forms are separated from the particulars …
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9
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9
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6
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6
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4
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δ
1238
Δίων
Dion, Dio
… present entry corresponds closely with material in the scholia to
Plato's
Letters, at 320A; on this and the other primary sources see Westlake (below) 693-5. [1] Dionysius I of Syracuse (c.430-367 BCE). See delta …
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α
2156
Ἀνδραποδώδεις
slavish
… [1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica, including Timaeus'
Platonic
Lexicon. The headword adjective, as the second gloss shows, is masculine/feminine accusative plural. Apparently, it purports to be quoted from
Plato's
Alcibiades 1, …
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δ
1547
Δρύοχοι
stocks
… Polybius 1.38.5 [...], could also mean figuratively "from scratch" (e.g.
Plato,
Timaeus 81B)'. [1] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 52, quoted below. [2] Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 52-57 (web address 1 below), where the mss …
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1467
Ἀμαθέστερος
more ignorant, rather ignorant
… cf. already alpha 1466 and again alpha 1469. In Timaeus'
Platonic
Lexicon both a)maqe/steros and a)maqh/s share this glossing, which suggests that a)maqe/steros also (cf. below) comes from
Plato;
if so, from Republic 409D. …
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2024
Ἀναπλήσας
having filled up, having defiled
… entry in Photius (Lexicon alpha1605 Theodoridis), and previously in Timaeus'
Platonic
Lexicon; similar ones elsewhere. The headword is aorist active participle, nominative accusative singular, of a)napi/mplhmi; the primary gloss is the corresponding form of …
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α
4398
Ἀτυφία
lack of delusion, modesty
[1]
Plato,
Phaedrus 230A (web address 1 below). See further, n.3. [2] Phrynichus, Praeparatio Sophistica fr. 277; cf. theta 547, theta 624. [3] Likewise in Timaeus'
Platonic
Lexicon, commenting on this phrase in
Plato's
…
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χ
418
Χοσρόης
Chosroes, Khosrau, Khosraw
… of Thucydides' style on Demosthenes is readily apparent. [3] For
Plato
see pi 1707. [4]
Plato's
dialogues generally take their names from the man whom Socrates interrogates. Timaeus was a mathematician and philosopher of …
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δ
1355
Δομνῖνος
Domninos, Domninus
… (134 Asmus). For other sources on Domninos see Proclus, In
Platonis
Timaeum 78, 34b; Marinus, Vita Procli 36. [3] This parenthetical phrase recurs (faultily) at pi 2367. [4] cf. delta 520. [5] cf. pi …
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α
2829
Ἀξιῶν
deeming
… fr. 302 Sauppe, now 472 Carey OCT (again alpha 2832);
Plato,
Gorgias 450C; see web address 1 below for the latter. Likewise in Timaeus
(Platonic
Lexicon), Photius (Lexicon alpha2182 Theodoridis), and elsewhere. [3] Sic: …
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α
3056
Ἀπέσβηκε
he had quenched
Likewise in other lexica, including Timaeus'
Platonic
Lexicon. Besides
Plato,
Statesman [Politicus] 269B (web address 1 below), the headword form itself is also attested in Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.8.13.
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α
4348
Ἀτέχνοις
for unskilled ones, to unskilled ones, with unskilled ones
… [4] cf. tau 441 (and Harpokration and Photius s.v.). [5]
Plato,
Euthyphro 3A, supplies only the word "utterly," the synonyms being the lexicographer's. [6] Quotation unidentifiable, though one (proverbial-sounding) element of it, "the happiness …
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β
104
Βαρβαρίζει
behaves like a barbarian
[1] Same gloss in Timaeus,
Platonic
Lexicon, and Photius, Lexicon beta63; cf. generally alpha 3728. On the concept of "barbarian" in Greek thought, see OCD(4) s.v. (p.223). [2]
Plato,
Alcibiades 1 120B, where the …
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δ
1476
Δῶρος
Doros, Dorus
… see generally pi 2506. For this material in general cf.
Plato,
Philebus 16C.
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138
Ἐγκύρτια
fish-trap entrances, weel entrances
… not out. The present gloss on its plural (from Timaeus'
Platonic
Lexicon) is as vague in the Greek as it sounds in translation. [1]
Plato,
Timaeus 78B-D (web address 1).
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χ
615
Χυτρέα
potter
Headword and gloss are accusative case, just as in Timaeus,
Platonic
Lexicon. (The headword is nominative in
Plato,
Republic 4.421D: web address 1.) See also chi 616 (and more generally chi 617, chi 618).
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χ
110
Χαρίζεσθαι
to indulge, to please, to pleasure
The first part of this entry reproduces one in Timaeus'
Platonic
Lexicon. See also Etymologicum Genuinum, Etymologicum Magnum 807.19, and the scholia to
Plato,
Phaedrus 227C (web address 1 below). [1]
Plato,
Parmenides 137A, …
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α
2143
Ἀναψῦχον
refreshing
Same entry in Photius, and in Timaeus'
Platonic
Lexicon. For this verb see already alpha 2142. [1] The primary headword is quoted from
Plato,
Cratylus 399D. [2] This secondary headword is surely also quoted …
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α
2727
Ἀντιστρόφους
counterparts
… plural of this adjective, must be quoted from somewhere (perhaps
Plato:
see next note). [1] Likewise in other lexica, including Timaeus'
Platonic
Lexicon; this suggests (without guaranteeing) that the headword is quoted from
Plato,
…
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2795
Ἀνυσίμως
effectually
Same entry in Timaeus'
Platonic
Lexicon; similar ones elsewhere. The primary headword is quoted from
Plato,
Theaetetus 144B. cf. generally alpha 2783, alpha 2794, alpha 2797, alpha 2798, alpha 2799. [1]
Plato,
again, has …
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β
204
Βδελυρός
disgusting
[1] Likewise in Timaeus'
Platonic
Lexicon (and again in Photius). Perhaps generated by the occurrence of the headword adjective in
Plato,
Republic 338D (where Thrasymachus applies it to Socrates), though not necessarily so; Timaeus' …
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δ
856
Διδαξάμενος
having [someone] taught
Same entry in Timaeus'
Platonic
Lexicon, compiled at some time between the first and the fourth centuries CE. Similar one, later, in Photius, Lexicon delta520, though the glossing there is corrupted into tele/sas ti …
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χ
158
Χαιρεφῶν
Chairephon, Chaerephon
… 1744. [2] For Socrates see generally sigma 829, sigma 830.
Plato
mentions Chaerephon a number of times in his works (especially in "Socratic" dialogues such as Apology, Charmides, and Gorgias). In Apology 20E-21A, for …
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χ
340
Χλιδή
luxury
… (according to Adler) the Ambrosian Lexicon. [2] Likewise in Timaeus'
Platonic
Lexicon (and similarly elsewhere). Though Timaeus does not in fact confine himself to
Plato,
there is a suitable instance of the genitive xlidh=s …
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39
Δαμάσκιος
Damaskios, Damascius
c.458-after 538. [1] Rather, the last of the Neo-platonists. [2] From Damascus, in fact; hence his name (or nickname). [3] For Simplicius see sigma 448; for Simplicius and Eulalius, pi 2251. [4] Specifically, on …
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α
279
Ἄγνος
chaste-tree, withy
LSJ entry at web address 1. [1] From Timaeus'
Platonic
Lexicon; likewise in Photius (alpha210 Theodoridis) and elsewhere; cf. alpha 280, lambda 780. [2] So too the scholia to
Plato,
Phaedrus 230B.
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α
695
Ἀΐστωρ
unknowing, unaware
… (web address 1 below); in the singular (and absolutely) in
Plato,
Laws 8.845B (web address 2 below). The latter passage, surely, has given rise to the present entry, which is also in other lexica, …
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α
718
Ἀθεραπευσία
neglect
… where it belongs (alpha 717). Instead, the precedent is Timaeus,
Platonic
Lexicon, where the appearance of the headword in
Plato's
Republic (443A, nominative plural) is cited. [2] Polybius 3.60.3, with the dative plural of …
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