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Ἀβυρτάκη
sour-sauce, aburtake, abyrtake, abyrtace
… Kings (allegedly seen in Babylon by Alexander the Great) in
Polyaenus
4.3.32 there is a mention of salted capers "from which they make abyrtakai". [2] Menander fr. 280 Kock, 247 Koerte, now 217 Kassel-Austin. …
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869
Ἀκήρατος
unmixed
… alpha 836. [2] Used of e.g. a writing tablet in
Polyaenus
2.20; cf. alpha 833 note 1.
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1756
Ἀμφιπρύμναις
double-sterned
… "double-sterned" vessels were perhaps like the ones which, according to
Polyaenus
3.11.14, the Athenian general Chabrias (chi 1) used in the mid C4 BCE: with a second pair of steering oars, for rough water.
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3013
Ἀπελογίζετο
gave an account of
… cf. tau 112). On him, and this epsiode, see also
Polyaenus
5.17.2.
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279
Βίαιοι
violent
… "tyrant of the Cassandreians" (formerly Poteidaians) is Apollodorus. According to
Polyaenus,
Stratagems 6.7, Apollodorus "became the most murderous and cruel tyrant of all who had been tyrants both among the Greeks and the barbarians" …
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1215
Διότιμος
Diotimus, Diotimos
… called an 'admiral' (nauarchos) in the dossier of stratagems in
Polyaenus
5.22.
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49
Ἐγένετο καὶ Μάνδρωνι συκίνη ναῦς
even Mandron got a fig-wood ship
… 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 the geographical location of his kingdom …
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96
Ἔγκειται
bears down upon
… ignored in Zintzen's collection of the fragments). She rightly compares
Polyaenus
3.7.1, where just this ruse enables the Athenian general Lachares to flee Athens when it was captured by Demetrios Poliorketes in c.295 BCE; …
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202
Ἐδεδίξατο
was frightened
… one instance of the corresponding third person plural (as does
Polyaenus,
Stratagems 1.12, on an early war between the Boeotians and the Thessalians).
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