Julius Pollux (Greek: Ἰούλιος Πολυδεύκης, Ioulios Polydeukes; fl. 2nd century) was a Greek scholar and rhetorician from Naucratis, Ancient Egypt. Emperor...
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Look up pollux in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pollux may refer to: Julius Pollux, also known as Ioulios Poludeukes (2nd century A.D), a Greek rhetorician...
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forms, which have come down to us in such works as the Ὀνομαστικόν of Julius Pollux, imply little or nothing of such; thus, ἀπόρραξις (aporraxis) only means...
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ancient Greek basilinda (in Greek: βασιλίνδα). This game is described by Julius Pollux: "in which we are told a king, elected by lot, commanded his comrades...
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with the Greeks. Damodice is credited with inventing coined money by Julius Pollux after she married Midas. Some historians believe this Midas donated...
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work on Etruscan religion. Julius Vestinus, a sophist, who made an abridgement of the lexicon of Pamphilus. Julius Pollux, a Greek sophist and grammarian...
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boxing competition, and the sphairai were a form of boxing gloves. Julius Pollux includes phaininda and harpastum in a list of ball games: Phaininda...
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Sun come forth from the clouds, sung by children in bad weather; but Julius Pollux describing a philhelias in greater detail makes no mention of Apollo...
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remains stockstill, and the whole crowd suddenly abandons its own games. Julius Pollux includes harpastum and phaininda in a list of ball games: Phaininda...
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zomós was a stock cooked using pig, cow, goat, sheep, or bear meat. Julius Pollux's lexicographic work, Onomasticon, notes that the black broth was a Spartan...
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Agamemnon of Cyme, Hermodike II, is credited with inventing coined money by Julius Pollux after she married King Midas - famed for turning everything he touched...
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people. An epithalamium for the occasion was composed by the sophist Julius Pollux. Upon her marriage, Crispina received the title of Augusta, and thus...
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apodidraskinda in Ancient Greek. A second century Greek writer named Julius Pollux mentioned the game for the first time. Then as now, it was played the...
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Catasterisms 18; Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.18; Smith, "Melanippe" 1. Kuhn, on Julius Pollux, 4.141 Hard 2015, pp.49–52. Hard, Robin (2015), Eratosthenes and Hyginus:...
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Alaska. Thanks to Rayleigh scattering, the mountains appear purple. Julius Pollux, a Greek grammarian who lived in the second century AD, attributed the...
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University of Illinois Library, 1893, p. 77, vol. VII Vermaseren, p. 149. Julius Pollux 6.76 Allaire Brumfield, Cakes in the Liknon: Votives from the Sanctuary...
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Edited by Basel Adra Hamdan Ballal Yuval Abraham Rachel Szor Music by Julius Pollux Rothlaender Production companies Yabayay Media Antipode Films Release...
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once in the purple-red dye of B. brandaris. The Roman mythographer Julius Pollux, writing in the 2nd century AD, asserted (Onomasticon I, 45–49) that...
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Deipnosophistae. 10.413f. B3. Athanaeus. Deipnosophistae. 12.526a. B4. Julius Pollux. Onomasticon. B5. Athanaeus. Deipnosophistae. 11.782a. B6. Athanaeus...
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attributed to her are preserved in the Greek Anthology, and one is quoted by Julius Pollux; nineteen of these are generally accepted as authentic. She introduced...
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crocodile of 22 cubits long. Solinus expresses it by so many ulnae, and Julius Pollux uses both words for the same... they call a cubitus an ulna. Ozdural...
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"skimming" measures the distance traveled. The 2nd-century CE Greek scholar Julius Pollux calls the game ἐποστρακισμός. The 3rd-century CE Latin writer Marcus...
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around 600 BCE.[citation needed] Later, Julius Pollux describes the game in Onomasticon (9.97-98). Pollux writes: "on the five lines from either side...
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ancient Egypt.[citation needed] In his Onomasticon, the Greek writer Julius Pollux describes poleis as follows: The game played with many pieces is a board...
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appears in a list of Eleusinian priests given by the 2nd-century AD Julius Pollux, and had a reserved seat in the prohedria ("seats in front") of the...
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Scholiast on Theocritus Glyconic with 2x choriambic expansion 1 Fragment 54 Julius Pollux Glyconic with 2x choriambic expansion 1 Fragment 55 Stobaeus Glyconic...
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translated the name as Hermodice, Damodice or Demodike as translated by Julius Pollux. Hermodike II was the daughter of a dynastic Agamemnon of Cyme and married...
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same person as the Antileon mentioned by Julius Pollux is uncertain. Diogenes Laërtius, iii. 3 Julius Pollux, ii. 4, 151 This article incorporates text...
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versions of tug of war, while dielkystinda had no rope, according to Julius Pollux. It is possible that the teams held hands when pulling, which would...
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other ensemble. 2nd-century Greek grammarian, sophist, and rhetorician Julius Pollux, in the chapter called De Musica of his ten-volume Onomastikon, presented...
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