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μ724Μεταπήδαhop about, leap about, spring about… evidently extracted from somewhere. This is not the Aristophanes passage about to be quoted (which has the simple rather than this compound verb); but note that the only other extant instance occurs in an …Matched in noteshighmedium
χ321Χιτωνίσκουςshort tunics… address 1), with li/nou instead of the Suda's li/non; '... about as thick as a linen bed-sack'.Matched in noteshighshort
λ817Λύκος περὶ φρέαρ χορεύειa wolf is dancing round a well… lambda453 Theodoridis; also in Apostolius 10.86, etc. For another proverb about dancing see gamma 432.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1052ΔιισχυρίζομαιI strongly affirm… Phaedo 100d7 (web address 1): "I make no positive statement about this (presence of or participation in the good)." Cf. Proclus' Commentary on Plato's Parmenides 882.1: "I do not affirm positively, he says, whether …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3029ἙρμαῖHerms, Hermae, Hermai… The more correct title of the work, in Harpok., is About Athens. For herms cf. epsilon 3051; for Menekles cf. delta 589, kappa 1354.Matched in noteshighshort
χ417ΧοσβίαςChosbia, Cozbi… also also zeta 14. The Suda has made a mistake about gender: in Josephus, Cozbi (introduced at 4.141) is a woman. [1] Here in the genitive case.Matched in noteshighshort
ι293ἹλαρίωνHilarion… saint of this name, founder of anchoritic life in Palestine (about 291-371). Catholic Encyclopedia entry at web address 1; biography by St. Jerome at web address 2.Matched in noteshighshort
ε3983ἘχέδημοςEchedemos, Echedemus… the prominent Athenian who heads an embassy to the Romans about Aetolia (190 BCE) in Polybius 21.4-5. See also Greek Anthology 12.55, 12.124.Matched in noteshighshort
μ240Μάρψῃsnatches… 22.201. [2] Aristophanes, Knights 197 (web address 1), a mock-oracle about Kleon (kappa 1731, and cf. beta 593).Matched in noteshighshort
β432Βούλει διαμάχεσθαι Γηρυόνι τετραπτίλῳdo you want to do battle with a four-winged Geryon?… The present version ineptly conflates what it needed to say about Lamachos (lambda 81) -- the helmet -- and about Geryon.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1225ΚεδίκιοςKedikios, Caedicius… in Constantine Porphyrogenitus, de virtutibus et vitiis, in an anecdote about Camillus (kappa 283) -- a context which makes it clear that this is Marcus Caedicius (cf. Plutarch, Camillus 14, 30).Matched in noteshighshort
ε2732Ἐπιτροπήarbitration, adjudication, guardianship… Orsini, 1529-1600) attributed this fragment to Polybius. Schweighäuser was doubtful about the attribution, but Büttner-Wobst accepts the fragment as genuinely Polybian (ibid.). Without a context it is unclear which 'Lucius' this is; and the …Matched in noteshighshort
β274Βίβλινος οἶνοςBibline wine… 1.31A-B (1.56 Kaibel) summarizes what was evidently an ancient controversy about where this place might be (and opts for somewhere in Thrace).Matched in noteshighshort
ι641ἸσκαριώτηςIscariotPresumably a contribution to the debate -- still unresolved -- about the meaning of (Judas) Iscariot. Opaque as it stands; perhaps read mnh/mh ("memorial") for skh/nh, as in ps.-Zonaras. For Judas cf. epsilon 3962.Matched in noteshighshort
κ465Καστόρειον μέλοςCastor's song, Kastor's song… Plutarch, Lycurgus 22.2 (cf. Moralia 1140C): when the Spartans are about to join battle, a piper plays this. See further, LSJ s.v. *kasto/reios at web address 2. The present gloss is therefore a horrid …Matched in noteshighshort
μ392Μέγα τοι ἄγγελος ἐσθλόςa good messenger [is] a great thingLikewise in Appendix Proverbiorum 3.81. For a less banal proverb about messengers see alpha 3729.Matched in noteshighshort
λ745Λωφῆσαιto abate… and cf. lambda 746. [1] Procopius, Secret History 15.5 (actually about Theodora rather than Justinian: see web address 1; Greek text at web address 2); cf. Kaldellis (68). For Justinian see generally iota 446. …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3428ΕὐδόξιοςEudoxios, Eudoxius… see web address 1. Here, oddly, the Suda reports more about his father than about him, but Photius has more information (also from Philostorgius) about Eudoxius himself. [1] Barrington Atlas map 64 grid D4; …Matched in noteshighmedium
μ1138ΜιτυληναίαMitylenian woman… 'Mitylene' see mu 1139. [2] Greek Anthology 7.17.2 (Tullius Laurea, about Sappho: sigma 107, sigma 108), with Doric or Aeolic (and epic) dialect forms. See also lambda 413 and nu 554.Matched in noteshighshort
β110Βάρβιτονbarbitos, long-armed lyre… 1916. [3] From the scholia on the passage of Aristophanes about to be quoted. [4] Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 136-40 (web address 2).Matched in noteshighshort
ε1425Ἐν πέντε κριτῶν γόνασιin (the) laps of five judges… Kassel-Austin (which includes 'it lies', as in the Homeric line about to be quoted). On Epicharmus see generally epsilon 2766. He was presumably speaking here about his native Sicily, but for 5 judges in …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2337Κρατεῖνto prevail [over]… from a proverbial anecdote (but, if so, not the one about the hare and the tortoise; cf. kappa 395, and more generally lambda 28, lambda 29).Matched in noteshighshort
ε406Ἑκκαιδεκάδωραsixteen-hand… [1] Also in Hesychius. From the scholia to the passage about to be quoted. [2] Homer, Iliad 4.109.Matched in noteshighshort
δ487Δηριάασθονthey both wrangle… from Homer, Iliad 12.421, where it appears in a simile about two disputatious neighbors (web address 1). See also Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.89 (two wrangling bulls).Matched in noteshighshort
κ635Καταλύειν τὸν δῆμονto undermine the people… the people", which can also bear the sense of "to destroy the democracy", was the generic crime which could justify an impeachment (eisangelia) in classical Athens (cf. epsiloniota 220, epsiloniota 221, epsiloniota 222). This …Matched in noteshighshort
μ1086ΜινίκιοςMinikios, Minicius… (when proconsul of Asia in 122-3) recipient of Hadrian's rescript about persecuting Christians. But in fact the headword can also be a variant of Minucius, for which see mu 1088.Matched in noteshighshort
ε2918Ἐρεβησαίων πόλιςErebesaeans' city… Diodorus Siculus 23.8.1 and 23.9.5. It was in southern Sicily, about 50km east of Akragas/Agrigentum. The toponym was Herbes(s)os (Barrington Atlas map 47 grid E4).Matched in noteshighshort
κ2217Κώδωνbell… searching, however, discloses that it comes from what is said about the related noun kwdw/nion by John Philoponus, Commentaries on Aristotle's de anima 15.356.25-26.Matched in noteshighshort
μ718Μετάνοιαchange of mind, regret, repentance… 'Thucydides'. (See Thuc. 3.36.4, the notorious Athenian change of mind about punishing the rebellious population of Mytilene.) (For a longer one, see ps.-Zonaras s.v.: gnwsi/ws a)po\ ptai/smatos e)pi\ to\ e)nanti/on a)gaqo\n e)pistrofh/.)Matched in noteshighshort
μ358Μεγαλεῖον μύρονMegaleian perfume… accordingly, Megalleion: see LSJ s.v. (There was also a dispute about whether he was a Sicilian or an Athenian.)Matched in noteshighshort