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δ1131Δινήσαςhaving whirled around[1] Likewise in other lexica. The headword -- aorist participle, masculine nominative singular, of dine/w -- must be quoted from somewhere, very probably Homer, Iliad 23.840. (For the glossing cf. generally the scholia to …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1329Δοκιμασίαν ἐπαγγεῖλαιto institute a dokimasia.Same entry in Photius; similar ones elsewhere. In classical Athens those who took an active role in politics by making proposals in the ekklesia, boule or law courts, i.e. rhetores or hoi politeuomenoi, as …Matched in noteshighshort
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Δινήσας

having whirled around

[Meaning] having turned around. Arrian [writes]: "and there are whirlpools swirling around in extraordinary ways. So that the ship following should not crash into the ship sailing in front, the leading ship, driven out…

Δινήσας· στρέψας. Ἀρριανός· δῖναί τέ ἐστιν ὅπη ἀτόπως ἐπιστρέφουσαι, ὡς μὴ πρόσθεν ἐμπίπτειν χρῆναι τὴν ἑπομένην τῇ προπλεούσῃ νηὶ [ἢ] τὴν φθάνουσαν τῇ ἄγαν εἰρεσίᾳ ἐκ τῆς δίνης…

meter and music1

meter and music1

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dolphin

[1] cf. Etymologicum Magnum 255.25 (plurals). [2] Aristophanes, Knights 761-762 (web address 1), followed by comment from the scholia there. See further below. [3] Thucydides 7.41.2 (web address 2); see already delta 207. [4] …

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κ1714ΚλέαρχοςKlearchos, Clearchus[1] The pupil of Aristotle. See C.B.R. Pelling, 'Clearchus(3)' in OCD(4) pp.329-30; W. Kroll, 'Klearchos (11) von Soli' in RE 11,1 cols.580-583. [2] Lenschau gives his dates as 391/90-353/2. He ruled as tyrant of …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε3040ἙρμίαςHermiasC4 BC. See generally OCD(4) 670, 'Hermias(1)'. [1] Barrington Atlas map 56 grid D3. [2] Strabo (13.1.57) states that Hermias attended the lectures of Plato and Aristotle in Athens. [3] Wormell (p. 90) conjectures …Matched in noteshighmedium

α3886ἈρίωνArion… generally Richard Seaford in OCD(3) 158 [now OCD(4) 152], under Arion [Author, Myth](2). [1] On the E. Aegean island of Lesbos; cf. mu 898. [2] cf. kappa 2643. [3] 628-625 BCE. The words have …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε3955Ἔφοροιephors[1] See also delta 243. In his commentary to Aristophanes' Clouds (Oxford, 1968) K.J. Dover explained in reference to line 859 (web address 1) that 'When Pericles' accounts came up for scrutiny after the …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ1188ΔιοπείθηςDiopeithes[1] The genitive singular form of the name. [2] Aelian fr. 22b Domingo-Forasté (22 Hercher), quoted from gamma 392. See also omega 293, where we learn that the quotation is from Aelian's On Divine …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2766ἘπίχαρμοςEpicharmos, Epicharmus… [2] Or Lykophron (Kaibel). But see Lyco 14 White. [3] According to Diogenes Laertius 8.78, Epicharmos himself recorded that he arrived in Sicilian Megara from Kos when only three months old, and went from …Matched in noteshighmedium

γ392ΓοργόνηGorgon[1] Aristophanes, Acharnians 1181 (web address 1), with comment from the scholia there. The allusion is to the general Lamachos (lambda 81), who roused to action the Gorgon embossed on his shield not by …Matched in noteshighmedium

η611Ἡσύχιος ΜιλήσιοςHesychius of Miletus, Hesychios of Miletos… Not to be confused with his earlier namesake Hesychius of Alexandria, the lexicographer (on whom see OCD(4) s.v.; H. the biographer has no entry there). [1] The mother's name was emended to Sophia in …Matched in noteshighmedium

δ207Δελφίςdolphin[1] See also delta 208. A dolphin-shaped iron (or lead) weight suspended from a spar. When an enemy ship came within distance, the spar was swung over the approaching ship and the dolphin dropped …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1132Δῖνοςrotation[1] Aristophanes, Clouds 380 (web address 1), with comment from the scholia there. [2] A dinos was a deep earthenware drinking-vessel wide at the top and running down to a point, thus resembling a …Matched in noteshighshort

δ41ΔαμάστηςDamastes… BCE; OCD(4) 411 (by Klaus Meister); FGrH 5. [1] Barrington Atlas map 56 grid C2. [2] For whom see eta 536. [3] Schwartz (col.2051) believed that it was to this work that Speusippus referred …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2914Ἐραῖαeraia, wool-decorated branch… cf. epsilon 1384, kappa 1699. For 'refuse' cf. sigma 698.) Assuming the headword is correctly transmitted, then the meaning given is a 'branch' or 'shoot' of a tree. If we also assume that our …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1179ΔιονύσιοςDionysius, Dionysios… delta 1178. [2] = Epicharmus testimonium #33 Kassel-Austin. E. was a Sicilian writer of comedy who flourished in the early fifth century BCE; the Suda [epsilon 2766] calls him, together with Phormus, the inventor …Matched in noteshighshort

η610ἩσυχάζωI am at rest, I am still, I keep quietIn fact, usually used absolutely -- but see LSJ s.v. (web address 1) for one instance, on a papyrus of the second century CE, of the verb taking the dative case in the sense …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1178ΔιονύσιοςDionysius, Dionysios… PCG V p. 41. [3] The quotation, left unattributed by Adler both here and when it reappears at tau 1187, derives from Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 20.7.2. The adjective teleutai/a here does more …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1129Δινεύοντεςwhirling around… to Homer, Iliad 18.543, where the headword participle occurs (of a ploughing scene depicted on Achilles' shield).Matched in noteshighshort

ε3956ἜφοροιephorsFor Sparta's ephors see already epsilon 3955, and generally P.A. Cartledge in OCD(4) s.v. The present material on them, as C. Theodoridis points out in his Photius edition (vol.II p.CI), is drawn from the …Matched in noteshighshort