Search | ReadSuda

39 entries for barbs

β104Βαρβαρίζειbehaves like a barbarian… Lexicon beta63; cf. generally alpha 3728. On the concept of "barbarian" in Greek thought, see OCD(4) s.v. (p.223). [2] Plato, Alcibiades 1 120B, where the participle barbari/zontes occurs (see web address 1 below). [3] …Matched in noteshighshort
β109ΒάρβιοςBarbios, Barbius… Pomponius), tells basically the same story but calls the man Barbarius Philippus, and specifies that the man was on the verge of assuming the praetorship before his background was revealed. Both tales may be …Matched in noteshighmedium
β110Βάρβιτονbarbitos, long-armed lyreFor the barbitos (the neuter form barbiton in the present entry is late) see already beta 107; and cf. mu 20. [1] Greek Anthology 7.23b1. Followed by another extract from the Anthology at delta …Matched in noteshighshort
χ418ΧοσρόηςChosroes, Khosrau, Khosraw… the Suda substitutes gegannume/nos. [9] The text of Agathias has barbarikwta/thn ("barbaric"); the Suda substitutes baruta/thn ("serious"). [10] Quoted also at mu 533.Matched in noteshighmedium
κ995Κατεσπίλασενburst suddenly upon… 2.10.10, on the Roman military commander Castus: a)ta\r a)dokh/tws toi=s barba/rois e(wqino\s katespi/lasen a)fra/ktous te eu(ro/menos e)neudoki/mei tw=| do/rati peri/doco/n te a)pefe/reto tro/paion "But early in the morning he burst suddenly upon the barbarians, …Matched in noteshighshort
ι544ἹππίαςHippias… Hippias son of Peisistratos was directing the advance of the barbarians into Marathon. In a dream the previous night it seemed to Hippias that he had slept with his own mother. He interpreted the …Matched in noteshighmedium
α2273Ἀνεννόητονinconceivable, without conception… (185/4-129 BCE; cf. OCD(4) p.381) contemplates (151 BCE) engaging a barbarian foe at Intercatia (central Spain, Barrington Atlas map 24 grid F3) in individual combat (Walbank, p. 745; cf. epsilon 1245 and n.2 thereto). …Matched in noteshighshort
λ424Ληΐζεταιseizes booty, plunders… recognises such usage in e.g. Eurpides, Medea 256 e)k gh=s barba/rou lelh|sme/nh "seized from a barbarian land".Matched in noteshighshort
ε1020Ἐμπίςgnat… George of Pisidia, Bellum Avaricum line 64; Per l'incursione dei barbari 64 Tartaglia; on barbarian attacks on Constantinople: Avars in 612/614 and 623 and Persians in 609 and 615; cf. Tartaglia (161, note 13). …Matched in noteshighshort
β2Βαβακατρεῦbabakatreu… two other possibilities: that Baisatreu is the name of a barbarian god or that the whole phrase is deliberate gibberish.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1544Κηρύκειονherald's wand… In our accepted text e)/xontes is in the nominative: the barbarians doing the meeting are also holding the peace tokens. See also at sigma 1590.Matched in noteshighshort
κ388Καρικῇ Μούσῃwith a Carian muse… a scholion on Plato, Laws 7.800E (web address 1). For "barbarian-speaking Carians," see Homer, Iliad 2.867. [3] cf. Macarius Chrysocephalus [metropolitan of Philadelphia, 1336-82], Proverbs 5.9: *ka/rios ai)=nos: e)pi\ tw=n a)porou/ntwn ti diapra/casqai: a(lie/a …Matched in noteshighshort
ε837ἝλληνHellene, Greek… again in ps.-Zonaras). "Hellene" can mean Greek as opposed to barbarian, Gentile as opposed to Jew, pagan as opposed to Christian, Hellenistic Greek speaker as opposed to Attic speaker.Matched in noteshighshort
β44Βακάντιβοςloiterer… Epistle 66, characterized by the writer as a foreign ("slightly barbarous") word.Matched in noteshighshort
γ377Γόνατονjoint… 1), abridged. (Xenophon and his men, the guests of a barbarian tribe, are invited to consume a thick alcoholic drink through what we would now call straws.) See again at gamma 384.Matched in noteshighshort
α889Ἄκιτινreed, made of reed… is accusative singular. [1] Greek Anthology 6.307.3 (Phanias), on the barber Eugathes who forsakes his trade for philosophy, but returns to it when facing starvation. The excerpt is quoted from phi 120; cf. Gow …Matched in noteshighshort
ι432ἸουθοῦγγοιIouthoungoi, Iuthungi… entry for Iuthungi at web address 1 (a glossary of "barbarian" peoples) and the Wikipedia article at web address 2 (connecting them with the Semnoni). Primary sources include Constantine Porphyrogenitus, De Legationibus 380-1, 384-6; …Matched in noteshighshort
ε1367Ἐνθουσιώσαςpossessing, which possess… 3 fr. 38 Tartaglia (which should read "pleasures of the barbarian"). Tartaglia notes (233, n.92) that in fragments 37-40 the Pisidian aims to depict supposed Persian vices. See related entries at alpha 3542 note.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1053Διιτρέφης ἀνεπτέρωκενDiitrephes has set (him) flying… editions] (what fathers complain about when they meet at the barbers'; web address 1), with comment from the scholia there. See also delta 1054, pi 3259, pi 3260. For Dieitrephes (sic) see Dunbar's note …Matched in noteshighshort
α2366Ἀνεχύθηwas poured forth… Aelian fr. 68e Domingo-Forasté, 65 Hercher (an anecdote about a barbarian attack on a city); cf. sigma 680, upsilon 75. Neither of them contains the actual headword, a)nexu/qh, which must therefore be extracted from …Matched in noteshighshort
α2349Ἀνέφαπτονunaffected… Suda's plural; Procopius offers a vivid simile for Roman and barbarian travails under the rule of Justinian I (cf. iota 446).Matched in noteshighshort
α1660Ἀμοιβαία ἔκτισιςreciprocal payment… an effort by Roman authorities to resolve a dispute between barbarians in Roman service.Matched in noteshighshort
γ24Γαλέαgalea… has pupils similar to the color of blue enamel... a barbel ... it lives in the rocks and grazes on seaweed, and eats the eyes out of anything it finds dead'. It is unclear …Matched in noteshighshort
λ490ΛίβερναLiburnian, liburnian… CE in the Hellespont. See Alan Cameron and Jacqueline Long, Barbarians and Politics at the Court of Arcadius, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1993, p. 238.Matched in noteshighshort
ε2031Ἐπεθείαζεwas putting on the god… is unplaced and lacks context that would help identify the barbarian leader. The location might suggest either Rome or Byzantion, inasmuch as both cities were built upon seven hills; Blockley (287, note 330), however, …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2355Κραιπαλᾶνto carouse… admonish the Avar Khan for his arrogance and temper the barbarian's demands upon the Romans. On Theodore see PLRE IIIb s.v. Theodorus(43). On the Avars see generally alpha 18 note.Matched in noteshighshort
β279Βίαιοιviolent… who had been tyrants both among the Greeks and the barbarians" (trans. P. Krentz and E.L. Wheeler). [5] Cross-referenced at lambda 501; otherwise unknown, but for Illo(u)s see iota 324.Matched in noteshighshort
α3145Ἀπηγόρευονthey were giving up on, they were renouncing… besieged the city. Their arrow and javelin volleys had the barbarians on the verge of surrender, but in desperation they stationed the children of their captives on the city's ramparts. The attackers held back. …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3444Εὔερονfleecy, cushy… ('wooly'), which strict Atticists like Phrynichus (116) condemn as a barbarism. [2] Plato Comicus fr. 169 Kock, now 184 K.-A. (For Hyperbolus see under upsilon 245.) [3] The transmitted accusative here clearly should be …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2366Κρέκεινto strike… to be distinguished from the bowl lyre, of which the barbitos (cf. beta 107, beta 110, and LSJ s.v.) is one type (ibid., pp. 56-9). On lyres generally, cf. lambda 850 and omicron 661. …Matched in noteshighshort