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Α alpha14
Δ delta10
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δ1271Διτάλαντονtwo-talent, weighing two talents… (Yardley PA, 2007) registers 'shot-weights' between 4 drachmas and 3 talents.Matched in noteshighshort
η94ἨδολέσχησαI talked idly, I talked, I meditated… the classical age it seems to have negative implications (to talk idly), but less so subsequently. [1] Quotation excerpted from Theodoret, Interpretatio in Psalmos 80.1477b Migne, commenting on Psalm 76.4 LXX: h)dole/sxhsa, kai\ w)ligoyu/xhsen …Matched in noteshighshort
α3402Ἀπόλογος ἈλκίνουAlkino(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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Διτάλαντον

two-talent, weighing two talents

"Setting up a two-talent stone-projector they began to knock down some parts of the walls, and to shake up the rest."

Διτάλαντον· καταστήσαντες διτάλαντον πετροβόλον τὰ μὲν κατέβαλλον τῶν τειχῶν, τὰ δὲ διέσειον.

chronology

chronology

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science and technology7

science and technology7

meter and music4

meter and music4

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trade and manufacture2

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Craig Gibson

Craig Gibson

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D. Graham J. Shipley1

D. Graham J. Shipley1

Gabriel Bodard1

Gabriel Bodard1

Konstantinos Kopanias1

Konstantinos Kopanias1

Oliver Phillips ✝1

Oliver Phillips ✝1

Sean M. Redmond1

Sean M. Redmond1

Wm. Blake Tyrrell1

Wm. Blake Tyrrell1

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αι230Αἶνοςtale, story… mu 1389. For Hesiod see Works and Days 202-12, the tale of the hawk and the nightingale. [5] Accented as in the headword; thus this coda is semi-repetitious.Matched in noteshighmedium

δ94ΔαυίδDavid… delta 95, delta 96. [1] Judaism, as in the Jerusalem Talmud (c.400 CE) (Ginzberg, 5.414), and Christianity (EncycJudaica, 5.1332) have extra-biblical traditions that identify David as a prophet. The Jerusalem Talmud (Sotah 9.24b), for …Matched in noteshighmedium

γ367ΓολιάθηςGoliathes, Goliath[1] Taller at 1 Samuel 17:4 LXX: "And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath (Hebrew גלית), of Gath, whose height was six cubits (אמות) and a …Matched in noteshighshort

δ442ΔημοκήδηςDemokedes, Democedes… had emigrated. [2] The ball of the ankle joint, Lat. talus, the biggest of the tarsal bones articulating with the leg bones. This clause is repeated at epsilon 1685; and cf. also alpha 4375. …Matched in noteshighlong

ε55Ἔγγειονearthly, landed, terrestrial… Demosthenes 33.3 (web address 1). [5] Lysias fr.265 Sauppe (91 Thalheim), now 428 Carey. The transmitted text does not seem to end intelligibly, and emendations have been proposed which create a proper contrast for …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε2807Ἐποποῖepopoi (in hoopoe-ese)… question Iris the Rainbow on her arrival on stage, he talks like the birds. The text of the entry follows the Canon for the accentuation of monosyllabic adverbs poi= poi=, but the repeated sound …Matched in noteshighlong

β592Βύουσιthey 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.Matched in noteshighshort

γ4ΓάγγηςGangesThe bulk of the entry, from "10 cubits tall.." on, is a quotation from Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 3.20.2-3, in a story about how the Ethiopians supposedly came to leave their original …Matched in noteshighmedium

ει319Ἐς τὸ δέονfor the necessary… appears variously as ten, fifteen (as here), twenty and fifty talents. [3] Aristophanes, Clouds 859. [4] Menander fr. 163 Kock (128 K.-A.).Matched in noteshighmedium

ε3510ΕὔθυμοςEuthymos, Euthumos, Euthymus… imposed upon Theagenes a fine sacred to Zeus of one talent and a talent for Euthymos personally, saying that Theagenes seemed to them to have entered the boxing contest as an insult to Euthymos. …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε1297Ἕνηold… [the participle] e)/xwn [in the idiom] lhrei=s e)/xwn ['keep on talking nonsense', where 'talking nonsense' alone would suffice]. See generally LSJ s.v. e)/xw, B.III.2.Matched in noteshighshort

α493Ἀδμήτου μέλος καὶ ἉρμοδίουAdmetos' song and Harmodios'… in turn by guests at a banquet, when their poetical talents might be affected by drink. Harmodios was a regular subject of these songs: see alpha 3975. For Admetos see alpha 492.Matched in noteshighshort

α989Ἀκριτίjudgmentlessly… adverbial form of a)/kritos. Lysias fr. 269 Sauppe = 88 Thalheim (now 425 Carey, OCT), preserved by Stobaeus, uses it in reference to a death-sentence without trial.Matched in noteshighshort

α1034ἈκταίωνAktaion, Actaeon… epigram at sigma 911. Here, Damocharis follows up on a tale begun by his mentor, Agathias Scholasticus, in Greek Anthology 7.204-205 about a house cat killing a pet partridge. [3] A marginal addition in …Matched in noteshighshort

α1356Ἀλλ' οὐ λαχοῦσ' ἔπινες ἐν τῷ γράμματιso did you not drink in your letter once you had been allotted it?… with scholion. (The participle laxou=sa is feminine because Chremes is talking to, and about, a woman.)Matched in noteshighmedium

α1500Ἀμαρτυρήτουςwitness-less… even if preferable, leaves doubt between the orator (fr. 144a Thalheim, preferred by Theodoridis) and the sophist (fr. 93b DK).Matched in noteshighshort

α2043Ἀνάργυροςmoneyless[1] Lysias fr. 93 Sauppe (35 Thalheim), now 104 Carey OCT; again at epsilon 2263. As Davies 178 notes, enemy -- sc. Spartan -- occupation of Attica indicates a date during the Decelian War …Matched in noteshighshort

α2762ἈντωνῖνοςAntoninus, Antoninos… 'Antonius Saturninus', Journal of Roman Studies 68 (1978) 12-21; R.J.A. Talbert, The Senate of Imperial Rome (Princeton 1984) 86 n. 44. Favuzzi (below) connects three other Suda entries with him: see epsilon 2548, eta …Matched in noteshighlong

α3199Ἀππία ὁδόςAppian Way, Via Appia… Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, ed. R.J.A. Talbert (Princeton 2000). [1] This word, lithomylia, has its own entry, lambda 520, where what Appius is said to have paved is "Rome"!. [2] …Matched in noteshighshort

α3635Ἀπόφημονunspeakable… Lexicon. [2] From Aelian fr.60 Hercher, 63a Domingo-Forasté (the cautionary tale of Eutelidas the Arcadian).Matched in noteshighshort

α4250Ἀστράγαλοςknucklebone, astragal[1] The normal usage is for the four-sided knucklebone (Latin: talus) used in children's games and in dicing (OCD(4) 447-8). It was originally the ball of the ankle joint from the foot of a …Matched in noteshighmedium

α4309ἈταλάντηAtalante, Atalanta… upsilon 708. This is not one of the more familiar tales of Atalanta (on whom see generally OCD(4) s.v., p.191) and in most accounts, such as that of Apollodorus, the wife of Akastos is …Matched in noteshighmedium

α4317Ἀτάλλωνfostering; skippingThe headword, extracted from the quotation given, is present participle, masculine nominative singular, of a)ta/llw. Similar material in other lexica. [1] Sophocles, Ajax 558-9 (web address 1 below); cf. kappa 2199. [2] cf. the …Matched in noteshighshort

α4469Αὐτήshe, it… the Nativity was given a date nine months later. See Talley, cited below.Matched in noteshighmedium

αι249ΑἰολοκένταυροςAeolocentaur, (?)Were-centaurSame entry, Adler reports, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. The headword is otherwise unattested (and ignored by LSJ) except in Lucian, who invents this nonsense name for a character in the battle of the floating …Matched in noteshighshort

αι273Αἰπόλοςherds of goats… lexica. [2] LSJ s.v. cites an instance in Lysias (fr.25 Thalheim, now 76 Carey OCT). Also used absolutely.Matched in noteshighshort

β109ΒάρβιοςBarbios, 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 …Matched in noteshighmedium

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