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- ε232ἘδιδαξάμηνI had [someone] taught… instruction in sophistry: "so I had you taught to speak against what is just". (The headword also occurs, independently of that, in Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.6.2.) The remainder of the entry comes from one of …
- ε3191Ἐσπείσατοmade libations [with someone]… possibilities.) The middle voice is used for pouring libations with someone, as a way of making a treaty or agreement; cf. epsilon 3192, sigma 191, sigma 920. [2] Aorist active of the same verb, …
- κ955Κατεξαναστάντες τοῦ μέλλοντοςon their guard against the future… as no forms of the verb katecani/stamai (I rise up against, am on my guard against; cf. LSJ s.v., web address 1) occur elsewhere in Polybius, both Schweighäuser and Dindorf maintained doubts about the …
- β143ΒασιλεύωI reign… Judges 9.6, 1 Kingdoms 8.22, 12.1. [3] Gregory of Nazianzus, Against the Emperor Julian, PG 35.533a, reading tou=to mo/non "this kindness alone of all he performed inappropriately."
- κ1202ΚαισάριοςKaisarios, Caesarius… Gregory of Nazianzus (gamma 450). [2] That is to say, against the pagans.
- κ1038Κατηγορευκόταhaving accused… from its only extant occurrence outside lexica (Cyril of Alexandria, Against Julian, prologue 5). cf. kappa 509 (and, for headword and gloss reversed, kappa 1034 and kappa 1035).
- κ1084Κατομνύςhaving sworn… (and individual) unidentifiable. The idiom of swearing by something or someone in the genitive case, as opposed to the accusative, is striking enough to be noted by LSJ s.v. kato/mnumi.
- ε1797Ἐξομόσασθαιto deny on oath… than used paradigmatically), likely sources are Demosthenes 19.124 and Lycurgus, Against Leocrates 20. cf. epsilon 1792, epsilon 1798, epsilon 1840, epsilon 1841.
- ει225Εἰσαγωγεύςintroducer[1] Or: who introduces [someone] to a particular person. [2] Procopius, Secret History 12.26 (web address 1), in a story about a monk seeing the emperor; cf. Kaldellis (60). The monk had come from …
- δ495Δηφενσίωνdefensio… copiously in the Strategicon attributed to the emperor Maurice, for someone under military assault, esp. by siege.
- η263Ἡλωκότοςhaving been caught, having been convicted… are evidently quoted from somewhere, the latter perhaps from Hyperides, Against Philippides 12; cf. eta 261.) The perfect active forms have passive sense, contrary to eta 261.
- δ1385Δορκαλίδεςclaws, hooks… entry in ps.-Zonaras. From scholia on Gregory of Nazianzus, Speech against the emperor Julian, PG 35.717, where the dative plural occurs. See also PG 36.1256e, and Lampe s.v. For dorka/s, see delta 1386, delta …
- η261Ἥλωκενhas been taken… a(li/skomai. It must be quoted from somewhere -- perhaps Hyperides, Against Philippides 11; cf. eta 263. It should have a passive sense, as translated here (and cf. eta 263). According to Adler the gloss …
- κ968Κατεπίττωσανthey pitch-treated… given) is aorist active of katapi/ttw/katapi/ssw, third person plural. [2] Someone else's children, not their own. [3] Hercher related this quotation to Aelian fr. 135, 138a and 138b Domingo-Forasté, (for which see alpha 3669, …
- ι85Ἰγνύηham… lexica, and cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 13.212 (where someone has sustained a spear-wound there). [2] The word occurs both in the first declension form i)gnu/h (Attic i)gnu/a) and in the athematic form …
- ι742Ἴτηςhasty, eager… headword occurs in a list of terms of abuse for someone "who is a tricky opponent in lawsuits" (Dover). Similar glossing in Hesychius (iota1091) -- who also cites Plato, Symposium 203D -- and Photius …
- κ2270Κωμῳδολοιχῶν περὶ τὸν εὖ πράττοντ' ἀείalways clown-licking the man who is prospering… 'playing the parasite' in LSJ s.v., i.e. sucking up to someone.
- ε3737ΕὐσέβιοςEusebios, Eusebius… In 262, Porphyry initiated his six-year study of Neoplatonism with Plotinus in Rome. Exhausted from his apprenticeship, Porphyry then retreated to Sicily for five years, returning to Rome as Plotinus' successor. [7] Pamphilus and …
- λ257Λεόντιος μοναχόςLeontios the monk… Zeno: iota 324. [5] See Clement of Alexandria, Paedagogos 3.3: "Against Men Who Embellish Themselves": translation at web address 1. [6] Manuscripts of the Suda read a)nqrw/pwn "human beings"; Immanuel Bekker suggested a)ndrw=n "men", …
- ε1254Ἐνερείδοντεςthrusting in… of them several times, including once in the same work (Against Julian 1.1 and 1.6). [1] Masculine nominative plural, present active participle, of e)nerei/dw. [2] Masculine nominative singular, aorist active participle, of the same …
- ε1087Ἐνάγειleads in, leads on… to madness; 5.49.8, eagerness for gold and silver can e)na/gei someone to fight and die).
- ε3067Ἐρῶνloving… the scholia to the instance of e)rw=n in Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 392 (see web address 1).
- δ1070Δίκαιοςjust… fr. 56 Zintzen (26 Asmus, 28A Athanassiadi), quoting Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 592-3 (where the word is a)/ristos "bravest" rather than di/kaios, see web address 1) ; again at delta 1327. [2] From alpha …
- ε2613Ἐπιστάτηςchairman, epistates… iota 720, iota 721, lambda 309. [3] George of Pisidia, Against the impious Severus 280, Contro l'empio Severo 280 Tartaglia. The Pisidian's text actually reads *grafw=n: "of Scriptures". On Severus, monophysite Patriarch of Antioch, …
- η400ἨνώχλησαI annoyed, I harassed, I troubled… I never harassed you nor have I ever constrained you against your inclinations").
- κ2391Κρῆναιto accomplish, to fulfill… (alpha 2692), just prior to the beginning of his campaign against Parthia, 113-115 CE; cf. Sicker (166-167).
- ε2631Ἐπιστολεῖςcouriers, secretaries… attestation). [2] Theophylact Simocatta, Histories 5.8.10; on Roman military strategy against Persian rebels in the summer of 591; cf. de Boor (203), Whitby (143), epsilon 2328, and pi 519. On Narses, Roman general in …
- δ1455Δωρησάμενος χρήμασι μεγάλοιςhaving been presented with great sums of money… The middle voice of dwre/w is usually transitive -- present someone with something -- and indeed in this passage of Procopius the participle has an object in the accusative. The glossing verb dwrodoke/w is …
- ε2534Ἐπιπρεπείαις[to] appearances… headword, evidently extracted from the quotation given (though glossed by someone who had failed to understand that context), is dative plural of the feminine noun e)pipre/peia. [2] Polybius 3.78.2. The phrase 'suited to the …
- γ18Γαλαξίαςgalaxy, the Milky Way… is confirmed by reflections of the same source in Hippolytus, Against All Heresies 1.8.10 (D.-K. 59 A42), and, independently, at Aetius 3.1.5 (D.-K. 59 A80). LSJ entry at web address 1.