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ε2118Ἐπειδήsince… in the scholia to (e.g.) Homer, Iliad 5.176. (For a Thucydidean instance see 8.68.2.) [3] Homer, Iliad 1.235 (web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort
α1676Ἀμύνασθαιto ward off, to requite, to repay… (fend off). Here the Suda's version is slightly preferable. [1] Thucydides 1.42.1 (web address 1 below). [2] Simonides fr. 229 Bergk. [3] Sophocles fr. 1004 Radt (908 Nauck). Adler, following Nauck, connects this reference …Matched in noteshighmedium
α3520Ἀποσιμῶσαιto moon [someone]; to make ships swerve… 181. [2] Philippus fr. 1 Kock, now 3 K.-A. [3] Thucydides 4.25.5, with the aorist participle, masculine genitive plural (web address 1 below). Despite this gloss on the word (from the scholia on the …

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It is a causal connective particle, but is also used to mean from [the time] when; thus even did Thucydides often use [it], and Homer beforehand. "Since first it left its stump in the mountains," [said] about the…

Ἐπειδή· ἔστι μὲν σύνδεσμος παρασυναπτικός, λαμβάνεται δὲ καὶ ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀφ' οὗ· ὡς καὶ Θουκυδίδης πολλάκις ἐχρήσατο καὶ Ὅμηρος πρότερον. ἐπειδὴ πρῶτα τομὴν ἐν ὄρεσι λέλοιπε, περὶ…

gender and sexuality10

gender and sexuality10

meter and music1

meter and music1

James Vradelis2

James Vradelis2

Oliver Phillips ✝2

Oliver Phillips ✝2

Alexander Tulin1

Alexander Tulin1

Andrea Consogno1

Andrea Consogno1

Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝1

Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝1

Constantina Katsari1

Constantina Katsari1

Ekaterini Tsalampouni1

Ekaterini Tsalampouni1

Giorgos Akrivas1

Giorgos Akrivas1

Kostas Zafeiris1

Kostas Zafeiris1

Nicholas Wilshere1

Nicholas Wilshere1

Richard Rodriguez1

Richard Rodriguez1

Ross Scaife ✝1

Ross Scaife ✝1

Sean M. Redmond1

Sean M. Redmond1

Victoria Papaprodromou1

Victoria Papaprodromou1

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α4618Ἀφίκετοarrived[1] Likewise in other lexica. [2] Thucydides 2.18.1. [3] Likewise or similarly in other lexica. (Perhaps also quoted from Thucydides: 4.10.1.) [4] Perhaps also quoted from Thucydides: 7.75.6.Matched in noteshighshort

δ521Διαγνώμηdecree, resolution… entry in other lexica, and cf. also the scholia to Thucydides 1.87.6, where the headword, a feminine noun, occurs (the Athenian assembly's resolution that the Thirty Years' Peace had been breached). See also Thucydides …Matched in noteshighshort

ε123Ἐγκράτειαcontinence, control, self-control… 23.121. [7] In terms of nouns, the transmitted text of Thucydides 3.1-50 consistently calls this revolt an apostasis, translated here as 'secession'. (For 'insurrection', epanastasis, applied to other revolts see 2.27.2 and 4.56.2 (Helots) …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε994Ἐμπαλασσόμενοιentangled with one another[1] cf. the scholia to the passage which follows. [2] Thucydides 7.84.3-4: web address 1. (NB: Adler punctuates after 'river', but editors of Thucydides as above.) Probably unconsciously, Thucydides here echoes Herodotus 7.85.2, on …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2237Ἐπιβόημαcall, cry, shout[1] An approximation of Thucydides 5.65.3 (web address 1): King Agis of Sparta is warned by an old Spartan soldier not to take unnecessary risks in the prelude to the Battle of Mantineia. [2] …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2774Ἐπιχειρητέαmust be attempted= Synagoge epsilon778; Photius, Lexicon epsilon1805; cf. scholia to Thucydides ad locc. (see note 2 below). For something similar see alpha 537. [1] This is simply the neuter singular form of the headword, which …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2848Ἐπωτίδεςcat-heads, cheek-pieces, epotides… the outrigger' and discusses it (though not this passage of Thucydides) at 85-86. [1] Thucydides 7.36.2, on the Syracusan warships in 413 (here numerically distorted, and hence absurd: not c' "sixty" but e(\c "six"). …Matched in noteshighshort

α1188Ἀλλήλωνeach other… Nauck, but that instance is dubious. [2] An approximation of Thucydides 2.70.1, on the siege of Poteidaia (web address 1); cf. epsilon 53. In Thucydides the verb is the pluperfect e)ge/geunto "they had tasted."Matched in noteshighshort

α2294Ἀνεπικλήτωςblamelessly… given. cf. generally alpha 2295. [1] From scholia to the Thucydides passage about to be quoted. [2] Thucydides 1.92.1 (web address 1). [3] Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 18.337 (web address 2).Matched in noteshighshort

α2655Ἀντιβόλησιςprayer… in other lexica, and cf. also the scholia to the Thucydides passage about to be quoted [2] Thucydides 7.75.4. See web address 1 below for the text (which needs the comma after the finite …Matched in noteshighshort

α3150Ἀπήλαυσεenjoyed… demonstrably, extracted from the quotation given. [1] Marcellinus, Life of Thucydides 26; see again under alpha 3377. The "misfortune" was the loss (from an Athenian perspective) of Amphipolis, which General Thucydides had been sent …Matched in noteshighshort

α3269Ἀπόγνοιαdespair[1] Same glossing in the scholia to Thucydides (see next note). [2] An appoximation of Thucydides 3.85.3 (web address 1 below): the aorist participle e)mprh/santes ('having burned') becomes the finite e)neprh/santo ('they burned') here, …Matched in noteshighshort

α3713Ἀποίκησιςemigration… Herodotus 1.94 (web address 1). [3] From the scholia to Thucydides 1.12.4, where this topic occurs (web address 2). [4] Thucydides 2.27.1 (web address 3), concerning Athenians on Aegina; cf. epsilon 2877.Matched in noteshighshort

α3799Ἀργυροῦνof silver and of gold… uncontracted Ionic words are contrasted with the contracted headwords. [2] Thucydides, not in book one, but the autobiographical 4.105.1 (web address 1). [3] Thucydides 2.55.1 (web address 2).Matched in noteshighshort

δ207Δελφίςdolphin… of the enemy ship and sink or disable it. [2] Thucydides 7.41.2: web address 1. Consult Dover's note (in A Historical Commentary on Thucydides v.4, by A.W. Gomme, A. Andrewes and K.J. Dover. Oxford: …Matched in noteshighshort

δ500Διαβάλλεινto bring across, to cross, to mislead, to slander[1] In Thucydides this verb occurs several times, but never in Book 1. Note also that Thucydides most frequently uses it in the sense of discrediting/slandering (cf. below in the present entry), and once …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ510ΔιαβούλομαιI thoroughly wish… (and ps.-Zonaras). However, the headword verb does not occur in Thucydides -- as first noted by F.L. Abresch (1699-1782) -- and is in fact unattested anywhere outside lexicography; it is also missing from LSJ. …Matched in noteshighshort

δ657Διαμώμενοςcutting through… good fit with this gloss. [2] cf. the scholia to Thucydides 4.26.1 (sic, but see next note). [3] Thucydides 4.26.2 (web address 1) [4] Cited at Arrian, Parthica p.27 Roos, but not regarded by …Matched in noteshighshort

δ827Διάφοραdifferences… (see LSJ s.v., II.4.a), but there are no examples in Thucydides. Either, therefore, the name is wrong (and should instead be e.g. Demosthenes) or else a passage of Thucydides such as 6.62.2 has been …Matched in noteshighshort

ε7Ἐάνif… somewhat spoiled by inaccurate quotation: see the notes below. [1] Thucydides 2.24.1 - where, however, there is not only a negative omitted here but no preceding "or"; and the transmitted texts have the contracted …Matched in noteshighshort

ε122Ἐγκρατέστεροςstronger, on a stronger basis… (though cf., e.g., under zeta 79). [1] An approximation of Thucydides 1.118.2 (web address 1), on the Pentekontaetia. (The received text of Thucydides does not include e)poi/hsan [here "built up"] kai/; it also transmits …Matched in noteshighshort

ε229Ἐδῄουνthey were slaying, they were laying waste[1] Thucydides 2.12.5 (web address 1). Imperfect of dh|o/w, third person plural; cf. delta 482. [2] Quotation (which illustrates the kata- compound version of the headword verb: kappa 526) unidentifiable, but apparently from late …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2206Ἐπήρειαinsolence… the Ambrosian Lexicon (1493); and cf. also the scholia to Thucydides 1.26.3 (next note). [2] Thucydides 1.26.3 (web address 1). [3] Quotation (already at epsilon 1412) unidentifiable. It contains not the headword but a …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε2329Ἐπιθειάσαςhaving appealed to the gods… the quotation very well (contrast Hesychius epsilon4794, and scholia to Thucydides ad loc.; see next note) and they may have been produced originally for commentary on a different passage. For the verb, see also …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1626Δυσείκαστονhard to make out… singular, evidently quoted from somewhere; perhaps Dionysius of Halicarnassus, On Thucydides 29, applying this term to Thucydides' phrase kai\ ta\ e)fusteri/zonta/ pou (Thuc. 3.82.3). The adjective features prominently in DH's critical vocabulary, esp. where …Matched in noteshighshort

ε569Ἐκπήγνυσθαιto be frozen stiff… in the gloss, e)kplh/ttesqai (cf. LSJ s.v.), it occurs in Thucydides 4.125.1 (on panic striking a Macedonian army in 423 BCE: web address 1); and, probably on the basis of scholia to that passage, …Matched in noteshighshort

α314Ἄγοςpollution, leader… of religious awe": LSJ s.v.; see also pi 150. [3] Thucydides 1.126.2-12 (web address 1), here so drastically abridged as to be misleading. (This banishment was part of the events of 632 BCE, now …Matched in noteshighshort

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