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γ468Γρυπάνιονwrinkling… [3] FGrH 326 F1; cf. epsilon 162. On kinds of earthquakes, see beta 520.Matched in noteshighshort
η512Ἠρίαbarrows, mounds… III.3 Conomis. cf. eta 511, eta 520. [1] On e)/ra "earth", see epsilon 1643, epsilon 2887, epsilon 2966.Matched in noteshighshort
ε2659Ἐπὶ τὰ Μανδροβόλουon Mandrobolos' property… History of Samos 800-188 BC (Oxford 1987) appendix 2; 'Samian Earth' seems to have been a kind of fuller's earth. [2] A ram, because, according to a scholiast on Nicander's Alexipharmaka, this was the …Matched in noteshighshort
ει155Εἰν Ἀρίμοιςin (the) ArimeansHomer, Iliad 2.783. ('Earth groaned beneath them as it does for Zeus the Thunderer in his anger, when he lashes the ground above Typhoeus in the Arimean Mountains, where people say Typhoeus lies abed': …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1723ΚλεομένηςKleomenes, Cleomenes… to Alexandria, meeting his death in 219 after a failed plot against the Macedonian king of Egypt, Ptolemy IV Philopator, named here. [1] alpha 2345.Matched in noteshighshort
δ1124Διμήτωρtwice-born… thus being considered as having been born once from the earth and again from the vine"), and generally LSJ s.v.Matched in noteshighshort
ε2917ἘρεβεινόςErebos-like, Erebus-like… was 'a place of nether darkness, forming a passage from Earth to Hades' (LSJ s.v.). The cognate adjective Erebos-like appears in the form e)rebenno/s, with Aeolic treatment of *-sn-, in Homer and Hesiod; the …Matched in noteshighshort
ι212Ἰζηματίαςsubsidence-causingA technical adjectival term in Posidonius and elsewhere. On earthquakes generally, see also beta 520, epsilon 656, epsilon 2391.Matched in noteshighshort
ε2299Ἐπιδικάζεταιclaims at law, sues for… the Reply to Diogenes on behalf of Archestratus about a plot of land. cf. generally alpha 1764, epsilon 2298.Matched in noteshighshort
γ236Γῆ κληρουχικήallotted land, cleruchic land… phrase translated here "by lot" can equally mean "in a plot"; the kleros is both process and outcome.Matched in noteshighshort
κ1703Κλαρόταιserfs… examples of "serfs" (klaro/tai or klarw=tai: literally men working a plot of land, Doric kla=ros, Attic-Ionic klh=ros), but the initial gloss goes astray. The defining characteristic of groups like these, which differentiated them from …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2384Ἐπίκληροςepikleros, heiress… in classical Athenian law; literally she who comes with the plot, she who is attached to the estate. Surprisingly, Harpokration devoted no entry to the term. Instead, the present Suda entry (also in other …Matched in noteshighmedium