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David Whitehead4
William Hutton4
Catharine Roth3
Stefano Sanfilippo2
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Anne Mahoney1
Antonella Ippolito1
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28 entries for Theophrastus

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α788Ἀκαλήφηstinging nettle, sea-anemone… in the first [book] of Concerning Animals and [so does] Theophrastus in the seventh [book] of Plants.Matched in translationhighmedium
α3927ἈριστόξενοςAristoxenos, Aristoxenus… insults on the lattermost after his death, because he left Theophrastus as head of the school, although Aristoxenos himself had achieved great distinction among the students of Aristotle. And he flourished in the time …Matched in translationhighmedium
α4096Ἀρχὴ ἄνδρα δείκνυσινoffice exposes a man… say that this a dictum of Solon's, though Aristotle and Theophrastus [says it is] Bias's.Matched in translationhighshort

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Demetrius, Demetrios

… history, rhetoric and politics, and about poets. He studied with Theophrastus, and was a demagogue in Athens. He composed numerous books. He was so handsome that the slander arose that he had been the …

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δ1211Δίοσμοςsmell-transmission… the transporting faculty of things that can be smelled in Theophrastus. The sense organ is not the nose, but the mastoid apophysis of the brain.Matched in translationhighshort

α95ἈβρότονονwormwoodWormwood, or other Artemisia species; see e.g. Theophrastus Enquiry into Plants 6.7.3. (Also a woman's name in New Comedy.)Matched in noteshighshort

α208Ἀγγείδιονpotlet… the Ambrosian Lexicon. Not a common diminutive, but see e.g. Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 9.6.4. LSJ also notes an instance of this word meaning gall-bladder.Matched in noteshighshort

α416Ἄγχουσαalkanet, bugloss, rouge… Besides what follows here (and in epsilon 3093) see e.g. Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 7.9.3. [1] This was also used as a facial cosmetic: see psi 108. [2] Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 928-9, telescoped (see web …Matched in noteshighshort

α2054Ἀνάρπαστοιnon-initiates… transmitted headword a)na/rpastoi, a nominative plural, does occur (in e.g. Theophrastus, De pietate fr. 3) but is nevertheless incorrect here. It should be a)norgi/astoi, which Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon gives as the headword to the …Matched in noteshighshort

α3165Ἀπήνειαdiscourtesy, rudeness… The headword (a gloss at theta 355) occurs in e.g. Theophrastus, Characters 15.1 (in his definition of au)qa/deia: alpha 4422). From a)phnh/s (alpha 3170, and cf. alpha 3163, alpha 3164).Matched in noteshighshort

α3250Ἀποβάτηςdismounter… such an event was found only in Athens and Boiotia) Theophrastus on this. See also Kassel-Austin, PCG II p.34 (s.v. Alexis). "Dismounting" meant, in practice, vaulting from one horse to another: see LSJ.Matched in noteshighshort

α3610Ἀποτραχύνεταιis hardened off… lexica. The headword must be quoted from somewhere (probably not Theophrastus, History of Plants 6.4.2, where it is used literally).Matched in noteshighshort

α3807Ἀρδήττης ἈρδήττουArdettes, [genitive] Ardettou… (now 103 Carey OCT). See also eta 215 (end. [3] Theophrastus fr. 17 Szegedy-Maszak (647 FHS&G).Matched in noteshighshort

α4084ἈρχέλαοςArchelaos, Archelaus… was a mentor of Socrates is asserted by Aristoxenus and Theophrastus as well as by DL. The association of Archelaos, Anaxagoras, and/or Socrates with the education of Euripides, however, strains chronology perhaps too much. …Matched in noteshighmedium

α4101Ἀρχὴ ΣκυρίαSkyrian empire, Scyrian empire… believed to be those of Theseus; cf. theta 367. [4] Theophrastus 638 FHS&G (fr.131 Wimmer). For ostracism see omicron 716, omicron 717; as a formal procedure it dates back no earlier than the late …Matched in noteshighshort

α4298Ἀσφόδελοςasphodel… in famines during his own time, was barely edible. However, Theophrastus, who was less fussy than Galen, praised [in Enquiry into Plants 7.12-13] the utility of asphodel, saying that its stalk was edible when …Matched in noteshighshort

α4299Ἀσφόδελοςasphodel… Same material in Pausanias the Atticist and other lexica. [1] Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 7.13.4. [2] Hesiod, Works and Days 41 (web address 1). [2] Homer, Odyssey 11.538 (web address 2).Matched in noteshighshort

α4570Ἀφαιρεῖν κροκύδαςto pluck off threads… now part of 689 K.-A. For a better-known instance see Theophrastus, Characters 2.3 (the Flatterer does this, and plucking grey hairs out of the beard, to the object of his attentions); and cf. Valeria …Matched in noteshighshort

αι115Αἰθέριον ὕψοςetherial height… one of them recurrent: a philosophical passage (variously credited to Theophrastus, Zeno and Posidonius) which includes the phrase ai( pro\s ai)qe/rion u(/yos u(perbolai (of mountains).Matched in noteshighshort

δ664Διαμυλλαίνῃyou grimace… unattested. [2] Aristophanes, Wasps 1315; said by Xanthias of one Theophrastus.Matched in noteshighshort

δ1141ΔιογένηςDiogenes… For Xenocrates see xi 42; for Aristotle alpha 3929; for Theophrastus theta 199 (55 FHS&G); for Zeno zeta 79; for Plato pi 1707; for Polemo pi 1887. The Greek idiom uses a double negative, …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ1203Διὸς ἄνθοςZeus' blossom, Zeus' flower… several times -- as a single word, dio/sanqos -- in Theophrastus, Historia plantarum (Enquiry into Plants): 6.1.1, 6.6.2, 6.6.11, 6.8.3. The classification of it as a thorny plant (here and in Hesychius s.v.) is …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1339Δόλιχοςcalavance; the long course[1] Vigna sinensis; Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 8.3.2. [2] From the scholia to Sophocles, Electra 684, where dro/mon occurs; cf. delta 807, delta 1336, sigma 981.Matched in noteshighshort

δ1547Δρύοχοιstocks… (because the keels of warships were traditionally made of oak: Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 5.7.2) -- is translated 'stocks' by Lionel Casson, Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (Baltimore 1995) 223 (cf. 392). …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ1615Δυσέντευκτοςhard to deal with… headword adjective is first attested in the fourth century BCE (Theophrastus, Characters 19.3); also used by Polybius, Josephus, Plutarch, Philo Judaeus, and Patristic writers.Matched in noteshighshort

χ181Χέδροπαςlegumes… scholars have noted, is probably an error; suggested alternatives are Theophrastus and (cf. tau 944) Thugenides.Matched in noteshighshort

χ456Χρεμψιθέατρονtheater-cougher, theatre-cougher… chi 455). For bad manners in the theatre see e.g. Theophrastus, Characters 11.3 and 14.4, and generally -- though not on the present topic -- Pickard-Cambridge/Gould/Lewis, The Dramatic Festivals of Athens 272-3.Matched in noteshighshort

χ478Χρήματα χρήματ' ἀνήρmoney money (is the) man… is said to be attributed to Solon, though Aristotle and Theophrastus give it to Bias. [3] This proverb first appears at Callimachus, Epigrams 1.12 Pfeiffer, where a man, under the prompting of Pittacus, overhears …Matched in noteshighshort