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- ι607Ἶσα βαίνων Πυθοκλεῖkeeping pace with Pythokles… abbreviated from Harpokration s.v. [1] Demosthenes 19.314; cf. omicron 1027. Pythokles Pythodorou was one of Aeschines' political associates (and thus one of Demosthenes' opponents). [2] Menander fr. 708 Koerte (483 K.-A.). [3] Aristophanes, Birds …
- δ1346Δόλωνεςjibs… (cf. beta 233) instructs his fleet to maintain a slow pace offshore, keeping adjacent to the main army; cf. Kaldellis (180). [3] Quotation unidentifiable. (This and the following one also are transmitted, in Adler's …
- κ2096Κορκορυγμοίrumblings… other lexica (see the references at Photius kappa972 Theodoridis), but, pace LSJ s.v., ps.-Lucian, Philopatris 3, has korkorogismo/s.
- ι411ἸόλαοςIolaos, Iolaus… he is mentioned (by a Boeotian: a fact more in keeping with the prevalence of this cult than the one claimed here).
- β208Βδύλλετεyou are in deadly fear of… 209. [1] This "synonym" does not seem to be in keeping with the other two, but it is the only definition offered by LSJ.
- α1733Ἀμφίκοροςmiddle child… amphikoros is accepted by LSJ as a term which does (pace Photius) mean the middle of three brothers. LSJ a)mfi/kouros has three parts: a tree-trunk lopped of its branches (as in a fragment of …
- ι84ἸγνάτιοςIgnatius, Ignatios… 136-7, at 136 (adding for good measure the comment that, pace Adler, this material cannot possibly come from Hesychius of Miletus).
- α3938ἈρίστυλοςAristylos, Aristylos… e.g. Machon ap. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 13.582D (13.45 Kaibel), where -- pace LSJ s.v. -- it refers not to fellatio but to incest.) The particular vice of Aristyllos (sic) is generally assumed, from the passages …
- κ2413Κρίβανονbaking-oven… "whole oxen from the kri/banos" and Dikaiopolis, who has been keeping up a running commentary of asides on the Assembly proceedings, remarks "And who has ever seen oven-baked (kribani/tas) oxen?" The lexicographer has thus …
- δ132Δαιτρόςapportioner, carver, distributor… some bibliography, see alpha 3930. [4] Ruled Syracuse 405-367 BCE, keeping the Carthaginians at bay and becoming the stuff of story. See OCD(4) 459-60, and delta 1178. [5] cf. kappa 1810.
- η685Ἠχώecho… Aristotle's De anima 48.7 e)/ti fula/sswn yo/fon, "(the air) still keeping the sound". [4] (This last sentence is the lexicographer's summary of what Philoponus goes on to say.) Alexander of Aphrodisias, On Aristotle's De …
- ε3139ἘσθήρEsther… 6.116) as a)naxwrh/santes, h)\ metew/rws kate/xontes ta\s nau=s "retiring, or keeping the ships on the high sea". [8] Another obscure detail, since the edict fixes the date for the beginning of Jewish people’s extermination …
- β154Βασίλειοιroyal… Baktria in 327 BCE, the force was put through its paces in Susa (one of the Persian-Empire capitals) three years later. See generally A.B. Bosworth, Conquest and Empire: the reign of Alexander the Great …
- ι437ἸουλιανόςIoulianos, Iulianus, JulianFlavius Claudius Iulianus, Roman emperor 361-363. See generally Rowland Smith in OCD(4) s.v. Julian. [1] Actually Julian was the younger son of Julius Constantius who was the half-brother of Constantine the Great (kappa 2284). …