Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 January 2025
Texts
Except where otherwise indicated, references and citations follow the numeration and text of the following editions:
Anonymous inscriptions are frequently cited from Peek or from Friedländer–Hoffleit (F-H), oracles from Parke-Wormell (P-W) (see the abbreviations below).
For other references and citations I normally follow LSJ.
Abbreviations
The following list contains only those works referred to in abbreviated form in text or notes. Standard commentaries (referred to by the commentator’s name) are not included except where confusion might otherwise result.
Der kleine Pauly, Stuttgart, 1964–.
H. G. Liddell and R. Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ed. 9, rev. H. S. Jones, Oxford, 1925–40. (LSJ, Supplement refers to A Supplement to the above, ed. E. A. Barber, Oxford, 1968.)
A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, corrected and reissued as Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford, 1933.
N. G. L. Hammond and H. H. Scullard, The Oxford Classical Dictionary, ed. 2, Oxford, 1970.
Pauly–Wissowa, Real-Encyclopädie der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft, Stuttgart, 1894–.
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