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- δ1513Δραστήριοςeffective, efficient, energetic… at delta 1514, q.v., and cf. delta 1512), used by Thucydides for effectiveness in leadership (e.g. 4.81), becomes a favorite in character portrayals of great men by Plutarch (Antonius 42.2, Lucullus 6.2, Nicias 16.9, …
- ε3344Ἔτυχονhit (the target), succeeded (through preparation) in obtaining, achieving or winning, met; coincided, happened (to hit), chanced… constant in all later uses. In an important note on Thucydides' use of the verb for the arrival of Demosthenes and the Messenians at Pylos during the Peloponnesian War, Gomme observed that the historian …
- δ1512Δραστήριονeffective… see delta 1513 and delta 1514; and cf. delta 1488. Thucydides 2.63.3 (speech of Pericles) offers a famous instance of the neuter singular of this adjective -- there, as again here, with a definite …
- ε1469Ἐντευξόμενοςabout to meet, about to run into… on the meaning of e)/tuxe in his Historical Commentary on Thucydides, vol. 3, pp. 488-89.
- ε1295Ἔνηthe day after tomorrow, the second day after… time was to some extent fortuitous and fortunate" (Commentary on Thucydides 3.488).
- μ337ΜαιονίδαςMaionidas, Maeonides; Maion's son, Maeon's son… to be sung as a prooemion (introduction) to his work (Thucydides 3.104, apparently attributing it to Homer). [1] The word gri=fos originally meant 'fishing-basket, creel', and was probably extended by Aristophanes and others to …