Skip to content

Browse Topics Random About

Searching…

The Byzantine encyclopedia of the ancient world, in English and Greek.

Read

Browse Α–Ω
Topics
Random entry

Project

About & credits
Report an error
Original SOL ↗

Follow

@ReadSuda
@readsuda.org

A new reader for the Suda On Line translation, made by 200+ volunteer translators and editors. Greek text after Adler’s edition. Translations © their translators and SOL, licensed CC BY-NC-SA.

Free · non-commercial · no ads · no accounts[email protected]Maintained with ❤️ by Rick Lithan

⌕Search ΑLetters ⤨Random

Keyboard shortcuts

j: Next entry
k: Previous entry
g: Toggle Greek
/: Search
?: Show shortcuts

Search

Search the Suda

All Headwords Translation Greek Notes

Keyword

biography39
historiography38
history34
definition33
dialects, grammar, and etymology32
geography28
military affairs19
daily life14
ethics12
proverbs8
philosophy7
religion7

31 more

imagery6
law6
mythology6
politics6
zoology6
botany5
meter and music5
poetry5
trade and manufacture5
aetiology4
chronology4
clothing4

Letter

Κ kappa24
Ε epsilon17
Χ chi7
Δ delta7
Β beta3
ΕΙ epsiloniota3
Ι iota3
Α alpha1

4 more

ΑΙ alphaiota1
Η eta1

Vetting status

high69

Length

Short67
Medium2

Translator

David Whitehead69

Filters (1)

Keyword

biography39
historiography38
history34
definition33
dialects, grammar, and etymology32
geography28
military affairs19
daily life14
ethics12
proverbs8
philosophy7
religion7

31 more

imagery6
law6
mythology6
politics6
zoology6
botany5
meter and music5
poetry5
trade and manufacture5
aetiology4
chronology4
clothing4

Letter

Κ kappa24
Ε epsilon17
Χ chi7
Δ delta7
Β beta3
ΕΙ epsiloniota3
Ι iota3
Α alpha1

4 more

ΑΙ alphaiota1
Η eta1

Vetting status

high69

Length

Short67
Medium2

Translator

David Whitehead69

69 entries for Plutarch

Relevance Adler order Longest first

Translator: David Whitehead ×
Clear all

λ96ΛαμπρίαςLampriasSon of Plutarch of Chaironeia. He wrote a Catalogue of the works his father had written on the entirety of Greek and Roman history.Matched in translationhighshort
κ237ΚάλλιπποςKallippos, Callippus… attempt to become tyrant. In the stories about him in Plutarch he is a wicked man, and a betrayer of Dion of Syracuse.Matched in translationhighshort
αι205ΑἱμόνιοςHaimonios, Haemonius… Pheidippides/Philippides (phi 347). The present version follows the phraseology of Plutarch, Moralia 347C, where the name is either Thersippos or Eukles; Lucian, Pro lapsu inter salutandum 3 has Philippides; the basis for 'Haimonios' (a …

λ96

Λαμπρίας

Lamprias

Son of Plutarch of Chaironeia. He wrote a Catalogue of the works his father had written on the entirety of Greek and Roman history.

Λαμπρίας, Πλουτάρχου τοῦ Χαιρωνέως υἱός. ἔγραψε Πίνακα ὧν ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ ἔγραψε περὶ πάσης Ἑλληνικῆς καὶ Ῥωμαϊκῆς ἱστορίας.

comedy

comedy

4

4

gender and sexuality3

gender and sexuality3

science and technology3

science and technology3

Γ gamma

Γ gamma

1

1

Matched in noteshighshort

δ1483ΔώσωνDoson… as the future participle of the verb di/dwmi ("I give"); Plutarch, Life of Aemilius Paulus 8.3, states that this was intended to designate him a man of promises which he failed to keep; so …Matched in noteshighshort

κ203ΚάλανοςKalanos, Calanus… three years later. The principal sources on him are Arrian, Plutarch, Diodorus, and Strabo. For this wine-drinking competition, which is said to have resulted in 41 fatalities, see Chares FGrH 125 F19; Athenaeus, Deipnosophists …Matched in noteshighshort

α3658Ἀποψηφισθένταvoted-off, voted-out… text see web address 1 below. See also Dinarchus 1.63; Plutarch, Demosthenes 14.5; I. Worthington, A Historical Commentary on Dinarchus (Ann Arbor 1992) 227-8. [3] delta 850, delta 851.Matched in noteshighmedium

β154Βασίλειοιroyal… to the 30,000 such boys mentioned in Arrian, Diodorus Siculus, Plutarch, and other sources on Alexander the Great. The present version is wrong in its location as well as the figure: having been organized …Matched in noteshighshort

β190Βάτραχος ἐκ Σερίφουa frog out of Seriphos… and other paroemiographers. Seriphos was a proverbially insignificant (cf. e.g. Plutarch, Themistocles 18 [web address 1]) little island in the south Aegean Sea. Skyros is a larger one -- though still, too, proverbially insignificant: …Matched in noteshighshort

β367Βολίτου δίκηνcase of a cow-pat… the severity of Solon's, rather than Draco's, laws; contrast e.g. Plutarch, Solon 17.Matched in noteshighshort

γ44Γάμβρειος στολήGambreian garb… Nepos, Strabo and others) has only Lampsacus, Magnesia and Myus; Plutarch, Themistocles 29 (citing two earlier authorities), adds Percote and Palaescepsis. But only the unnamed source of Athenaeus adds Gambreion (a city in the …Matched in noteshighshort

δ54ΔάμωνDamon, Damo… name, (that of) a teacher of Pericles". On Damon see Plutarch, Pericles 4 (web address 1), with Stadter 69-70; OCD(4) 411-12 'Damon(2)'.Matched in noteshighshort

δ469ΔημοφάνηςDemophanes… Megalopolis (C3 BCE), a politically active philosopher: see Polybius 10.22.2, Plutarch Philopoimen 1 ('Megalophanes' there) and generally R.M. Errington in OCD(4) s.v.; cf. phi 409.Matched in noteshighshort

δ1125ΔημήτριοςDemetrios, Demetrius… generally mu 1136.) This adjective is unattested outside lexicography, but Plutarch, Demetrius (sic) 41.6 has dimitros.Matched in noteshighshort

δ1241ΔιώνασσαDionassaMother of the Spartan lawgiver Lycurgus (lambda 823, lambda 824): Plutarch, Life of Lycurgus 1.4, citing Dieuchidas of Megara (FGrH 485 F5); cf. scholia to Plato, Republic 599D, where L. is mentioned.Matched in noteshighshort

δ1491Δραγμὴ χαλαζῶσαa drachma falling as hail; a handful falling as hail… draxmh/ itself, as many oboloi as the hand could grasp: Plutarch, Lysander 17.3); see LSJ s.v., and cf. delta 1490 for neuter dra/gma. The Zenobian version of the joke, accepted here, suggests sheer pleasure …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1524Δρησμόςrunning-away… (delta 1509). Seven instances in Herodotus (and three in the Plutarchean de Herodoti malignitate).Matched in noteshighshort

ε49Ἐγένετο καὶ Μάνδρωνι συκίνη ναῦςeven Mandron got a fig-wood ship… Athenians'. For Mandros king of the Bebrycians, near Lampsacus, see Plutarch, Moralia 255 (Mulierum Virtutes #18); Polyaenus 7.31. The Mandros of the proverb can hardly be him; nevertheless there is a tantalizing link between …Matched in noteshighshort

ε979Ἐμήδισανthey medized… from 490 BCE, see generally Herodotus 7.174 (cf. 7.172); cf. Plutarch, Moralia 868D.Matched in noteshighshort

ε1207ἘνεαρίζωI spend spring inLikewise in syntactical lexica. Example in Plutarch, Moralia 770B.Matched in noteshighshort

ε1481Ἐντὸς ἑβδόμηςbefore (the) seventh… the month: explicit in Hesychius, Zenobius and Photius. (Contrast e.g. Plutarch, Marius 17.11, where e)nto\s e)bdo/mhs h(me/ras refers to the tribune Aulus Pompeius dying 'within a week'.)Matched in noteshighshort

ε1544ἘξανθρωπίζωI humanizeExamples in Plutarch as well as Christian writers.Matched in noteshighshort

ε1634Ἐξ ἐπιπέδουon level ground… the equivalent of the Latin de plano -- see e.g. Plutarch, Pyrrhus 21.9.Matched in noteshighshort

ε1653Ἐξερρύησανthey flowed out, they melted away… them describing speeches falling out of people's consciousness -- in Plutarch's Lives (Themistocles 12.2, Cato Minor 61.3). [1] The strange phrase e)n po/lei feugo/ntwn is taken over from Lexica Segueriana 224.10. The tacit emendation …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1949ἘπαμινώνδαςEpaminondas, Epameinondas… era. See also under pi 3120 and phi 409. (The Plutarch Life of him has not survived, but the one written by Cornelius Nepos may be found at web address 1.) See generally J.F. …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε2015Ἔπαισενhit… a paraphrase or alternative account of an incident described in Plutarch, Pyrrhus 16.15 (the Italian cavalry-commander Hoplax strikes P.'s horse: pai/ei me\n au)to\s tw=| do/rati tou= basile/ws to\n i(/ppon).Matched in noteshighshort

ε2023Ἐπέβρισενpressed down, pressed on… of this form, with or without the nu-moveable, is in Plutarch, De fortuna Romanorum 321F (where the sense is figurative -- as, of course, it may also be here). cf. epsilon 2250, epsilon 2251.Matched in noteshighshort

ε2196Ἐπηράσαντοthey called down curses… epsilon 3584. The 'him' is Alkibiades (alpha 1280); cf. generally Plutarch, Alcibiades 22 and 33 (and Nepos Alcibiades 4.5).Matched in noteshighshort

ε2396Ἐπὶ κνάφου ἕλκειςyou are dragging [me] on a carding-comb… cf. kappa 1854), is the episode in Herodotus 1.92.4 (cf. Plutarch, On the Malice of Herodotus 858E) of Croesus doing this to the friend of Pantaleon (e)pi\ kna/fou e(/lkwn die/fqeire). For a knaphos as …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3085ἙρσηλίαHerselia, Erselia, Hersilia… mentioned in accounts of the Rape of the Sabine Women (Plutarch, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, et al.)Matched in noteshighshort

ε3222ἙστιεῖςHestieis… epsilon 3220), on the Aegean island of Euboea (epsilon 3382); Plutarch, Pericles 23.4.Matched in noteshighshort

Page 1 of 3Next →