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Here is one reference to what we call Idyll VII from the Etymologicum Magnum: Διεκρανώσατε: Σημαίνει τὸ ἀνεῴξατε. Παρὰ τὸ κάρα, διεκαρανώσατε. Καρανῶ, καὶ διακαρανῶ. Δοκεῖ γὰρ τῶν πίθων ἡ ἀλοιφὴ κάρα …

The LSJ entry for γυμνός lists several meanings, along with representative passages, beyond the base meaning of "naked/unclad." These meanings include "unarmed / without armor," "beardless," "scalped, …

Verbal adjectives in -τέος have "the general force (but not all the uses) of the Latin gerundive or participle in -ndus" (Goodell, §354) In your example (from Plato's Phaedrus, 529d) both verbals are …

As you mention, this is a reference to the scholia (i.e. line-by-line commentary) on Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound for a given line of the play. Using the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, I found the full re …

In the case you mention, πλήθει is actually the dative singular of πλῆθος. This is the standard declension for neuter 3rd declension nouns ending in vowel + sigma, as indicated on this page with the m …

A she-wolf in Greek is ἡ λύκαινα. See, for instance, Plutarch's De Fortuna Romanorum, §8: εἶτα λύκαινα μὲν νεοτόκος σπαργῶσα καὶ πλημμυροῦσα τοὺς μαστοὺς γάλακτι, τῶν σκύμνων ἀπολωλότων, αὐτὴ χρ …

Another common English word is syntax: literally the "ordering together" of words, from συντάσσω > σύνταξις.

Using the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, I was unable to find that sequence of words in Plato (or elsewhere). I'm also having trouble locating that exact thought in Plato. The closest direct reference I c …

I think Trask's/Millar's claim is misleading. (Note: From now on, I will refer to the author as "Trask," even though it might be that this comes from Millar's revision.) As you note, "syllabus" comes …

As you note, we don't have the original work (only one, according to ancient testimony!) of Heraclitus: instead, we have 100+ extant fragments and/or testimonies of what he said. An old but good sourc …

In this case, there isn't any ambiguity--but only because of a grammatical feature of ἀκούω, which takes the accusative for a thing heard but the genitive for a person heard. In your sample sentence, …

This is a horribly garbled transcription of one of Plato's epigrams. Based on the strange images in the text and the nonsensical substitution of τ for ι (for instance), it seems likely that this was c …

"Living" is an undertranslation of "ἀθάνατος." "Living" has a straightforward translation from "ζῆν" (to live): the participle "ζῶν"; "ἀθάνατος," however, means "not mortal," as opposed to "not dead …