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Ἀπόλογος Ἀλκίνου
Alkino(o)s' story, Alkino(o)s' tale
… Plato, Republic 614B; Aristotle, Poetics 1455a2; Aristotle, Rhetoric 1417a13-14 ("the
tale
of Alkinos ... is reduced to sixty lines in the presence of Penelope [book 23]"). For Alkinoos see generally OCD(4) p.53, under 'Alcinous(1)'.
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592
Βύουσι
they stuff
… de/ soi nu=n, ei)/per ou) bu/eis pa/lin ("Now I will
talk
to you, if indeed you do not plug [sc. your ears] again"). On Severus, the monophysite Patriarch of Antioch 512-518, see sigma 271.
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Ἐς τὸ δέον
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… appears variously as ten, fifteen (as here), twenty and fifty
talents.
[3] Aristophanes, Clouds 859. [4] Menander fr. 163 Kock (128 K.-A.).
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109
Βάρβιος
Barbios, Barbius
… of assuming the praetorship before his background was revealed. Both
tales
may be a garbled recollection of M. Barbatius Pollio (on the name and his identity see Syme 1955: 57, 1961: 24-5), mentioned as …
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Βάσανος
touchstone, test
… [1] Variously attributed to Antiphon the orator (fr.161 Sauppe, 157
Thalheim)
and his namesake the Sophist (fr.88 D.-K.). [2] Pindar, Pythian 10.67(105). [3] Sophokles fr. 91a Radt. [4] Hyperides fr. 5 Jensen. [5] Apostolius …
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