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  1. α2460Ἀνιερώσαντεςhaving devoted… It must be quoted from somewhere. (There are instances in Philo Judaeus and the Septuagint.)Matched in noteshighshort
  2. α2380Ἀνείμονεςunclad… on Hesychius s.v. says Gregory of Nazianzus; another possibility is Philo Judaeus.Matched in noteshighshort
  3. α2551Ἀνομβροῦσαιspouting up… present participle, feminine nominative plural, of a)nombre/w. Perhaps quoted from Philo Judaeus (for whom this verb was a particular favourite); he has the only two extant instances outside lexicography.Matched in noteshighshort
  4. α2120Ἀναφαιρέτουςnot to be taken away… extant possibilities in e.g. Diodorus Siculus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Philo Judaeus.Matched in noteshighshort
  5. α2947Ἀπαυτοματισθεῖσαhaving been produced spontaneously… subject could be a woman or simply something grammatically feminine. (Philo Judaeus has an accusative-case instance with 'prosperity'.)Matched in noteshighshort
  6. α2302Ἀνεπόλειhe was repeating… somewhere. (Its only extant attestation outside the Suda is in Philo Judaeus, Legatio ad Gaium 310, but the subject there is feminine.)Matched in noteshighshort
  7. κ111Καθιμῶσιthey let down, they lower… possibilities (all with the nu ephelkustikon) include Josephus, Plutarch and Philo Judaeus. See also iota 331, iota 359, and kappa 110.Matched in noteshighshort
  8. α1296Ἀλκτῆρεςprotectors… (13.78 Kaibel), and Aelian, Varia Historia 2.4: qei/as a(ghth=res e)fameri/ois filo/tatos, "guides of divine friendship for mortals". See further H.W. Parke & D.E.W. Wormell, The Delphic Oracle (Oxford 1956) no.327; J. Fontenrose, The Delphic …Matched in noteshighshort
  9. γ219Γειωρίσαιto convert to Judaism… to mean someone not born Jewish but converted to Judaism (Philo 1.417, Isaiah 14.1), leading to the technical term גיור ("giur", conversion). Hesychius defines the plural as "neighbors joined to Israel from another race, …Matched in noteshighshort
  10. χ79ΧαναάνCanaan… with the devil-possessed daughter in Matthew 15:22. [3] See e.g. Philo Judaeus [of Alexandria], On Abraham 133.Matched in noteshighmedium
  11. η475ἩρακλῆςHerakles, Heracles, Hercules… one of the earliest authors to depict Herakles as a philosophical exemplum virtutis. See also eta 454, eta 458, eta 464, eta 467, eta 474, eta 476, eta 477. [1] Herakles' eleventh Labor was …Matched in noteshighmedium
  12. α4394Ἄτρυτοςunabating… Life of Isidore fr. 240 Zintzen (142 Asmus); the Suda's philologia should be philoponia "love of toil." [3] Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 187 Zintzen (216 Asmus). [4] Aelian fr. 31 Domingo-Forasté (28 Hercher). …Matched in noteshighshort
  13. δ339ΔεινομάχηDeinomache… 1280): Plutarch, Alcibiades 1, etc. [2] That of a Stoic philosopher in Lucian's Philopseudes.Matched in noteshighshort
  14. α3855ἈρήτηArete… the present entry is surely A. the daughter of the philospher Aristippos (and a philosopher herself); see under alpha 3908.Matched in noteshighshort
  15. α2657ἈντιγενίδηςAntigenides, Antigenidas… aulode -- no doubt a mistake for "aulete" -- of Philoxenos [the dithyrambist Ph. of Kythera, c.435-c.380 BC: see phi 393]; perhaps it was he [= Antigenidas] who had to accompany the chorus through …Matched in noteshighshort
  16. α2973Ἀπέδειfell short of… s.v. a)pode/ontes. [2] Pausanias 8.49.3 (web address 1 below). For Philopoimen see generally phi 409.Matched in noteshighshort
  17. α775ἈκαδημίαAcademy… J. Glucker's rehabilitation of Aemilius Portus' correction of 'school of philoi' to 'school of philosophers' and cites by way of confirmation a scholion on Aristophanes, Clouds 1005 (p. 195 Holwerda). A simple misunderstanding of …Matched in noteshighshort
  18. χ418ΧοσρόηςChosroes, Khosrau, Khosraw… the man whom Socrates interrogates. Timaeus was a mathematician and philosopher of the Pythagorean school: see tau 601. The dialogue contains discussions of the order and laws of the physical universe and on the …Matched in noteshighmedium
  19. γ490Γυμνοσοφισταίnaked-sophists… alpha 425 (and beta 524), and generally Richard Stoneman, "Naked philosophers: the Brahmans in the Alexander historians and the Alexander Romance", Journal of Hellenic Studies 115 (1995) 99-114.Matched in noteshighshort
  20. α1372ἉλῶαHaloa… by the mention of this festival in [Demosthenes] 59.116. [1] Philochorus FGrH 328 F83; cf. generally alpha 1305, alpha 1321, alpha 1330, alpha 1373.Matched in noteshighshort
  21. α2368ἈνείδεοςformlessHeadword and gloss alike come from the vocabulary of philosophy: see generally LSJ s.v.Matched in noteshighshort
  22. α4554Ἄφαντον φῶςsecret light… quotation given. [1] cf. pi 3217, pi 3222. [2] Sophocles, Philoctetes 296-299 (web address 1 below); cf. again pi 3222.Matched in noteshighshort
  23. α540Ἀδύνατοιincapables, handicappeds… Lysias 24. 13, 26 (web addresses 2 and 3). [4] Philochorus FGrH 328 F197a.Matched in noteshighshort
  24. α2954Ἀπαίδευτοιuneducated, untrained… comic poet, Nicochares: fr. 3 Kock, now 4 K.-A.) On Philonides of (the Athenian deme) Melite, see generally J.K. Davies, Athenian Propertied Families 600-300 BC (Oxford 1971) 422. For Lais (or Nais?) see lambda …Matched in noteshighshort
  25. α1019Ἀκροσφαλεῖςprecarious[1] See already alpha 1018. [2] Sophocles, Philoctetes 502-506 (web address 1); cf. theta 61. This quotation does not contain the headword of this entry, but has some vague connection to it in sense.Matched in noteshighshort
  26. α2488Ἀνθεκτέονone must cleave to… syntactical lexica. There are examples of this idiom in, especially, philosophical writers (Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius).Matched in noteshighshort
  27. κ189Καλάβροψcrook… from *vre/pw (sc. later r(e/pw). [3] An awkward presentation of Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 2.11. [Both the text of Philostratus and Adler's ms F (Laurentianus 55.1) use the spelling kalau/ropi.]Matched in noteshighshort
  28. α3897ἈρίσταινοςAristainos, AristaenusFrom Polybius 24.11. See phi 409 for more on Philopoemen. [1] Here the name appears mistakenly as Aristaenetus. [2] To confirm that they were acting under duress.Matched in noteshighmedium
  29. α1187Ἀλληλουχίαcoherence, consistency, continuity… Hesychius but different glossing. A word with applications in medicine, philosophy, and rhetoric: see LSJ s.v.Matched in noteshighshort
  30. α1948ἈναλλοίωτοςunchangeablePhilosophical vocabulary (from Aristotle onwards): see LSJ s.v. [1] Or: the same.Matched in noteshighshort

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