The unglossed primary headword, nominative singular, is generated by (and perhaps extracted from) the entry itself, which is mainly concerned with explicating the secondary lemma 'pillaresque discourse'. The bulk of the entry appears, with slight differences, in the prologue to the pseudo-Nonnian commentary on Gregory of Nazianzus, Oration 4 (First Pillaresque Oration Against the Emperor Julian PG 35.532 ff.). Adler also cites scholia to Gregory, PG 36.1205d and 985a-b. For other related words see the other entries from sigma 1083 to sigma 1087.
[1] This phrase, absent in ps.-Nonnus, is of uncertain meaning, and has attracted various emendations: Kuster suggested peri/ for para/ and, from the language of the scholia to Gregory, pepragme/nwn for peplasme/nwn, producing "concerning one of the things done [sc. by Julian, presumably]." Bernhardy suggested (unattested) pephlakisme/nwn for peplasme/nwn, which would presumably transform the phrase into something like "in the case of one of the people who have been sullied." Another possible rendering of the received text might be "in [sc. the discourses of] one of the trained [orators]."
[2] Reading a)natrofh=s, as in mss GVM (and the original); Adler prints a)nastrofh=s (LSJ's sense II.3 of which ['mode of life', 'behavior'] might serve).
[3] Transmitted here as singular; Bernhardy wanted to emend to the plural, as in the original.
[4] cf. sigma 1087, also from commentary to Gregory of Nazianzus.