[1] The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is feminine nominative singular of the verbal adjective e)cairete/os from e)caire/w; cf. under beta 176. Used here to translate the Latin gerundive delenda. See further, next note.
[2] Cassius Dio 17.59.1. (On Carthage, see generally kappa 444 and kappa 445.) The admonition delenda est Carthago is actually associated with Cato the Censor, who is said to have ended every speech he delivered between 153 and 149 with the words. If, as seems likely, 'Cornelius the consul' is P. Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum (cos. 162, 155), he opposed Cato and the policy.