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ἀγάπη οὐ περπερεύεται
love is not boastful
Meaning does not thrust itself forward. See under perpereia.
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Ἤγαλλεν
used to honour
[Meaning he/she/it] used to serve. Dio in [the] 16th book of Roman [History writes]: "so both for these reasons and because he strictly paid honour to divinity". Other writers have used this term including …
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41
Ἡγεμονικόν
authoritative [part]
[Meaning] the mind. Or "the principal part of the soul, where the images and impulses are produced, and from where thought is transmitted; which [they say] is precisely located in the heart."
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η
50
Ἥγημα
purpose
[Meaning] will, thought. It is used in the prophet.
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short
η
51
Ἥγημαι
I consider
[Meaning] I have calculated, I understood.
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short
η
60
Ἡγίας
Hegias
This man was better than his father as regards the things that lead to virtue and the things that lead to eloquence. When still a young man he had hopes in himself and presented …
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medium
η
67
Ἡγνικότες
having washed off
[Meaning they] purifying.
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short
η
71
Ἡγουμενεία
abbacy, hêgoumeneia
[is spelled] with a diphthong.
high
short
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72
Ἡγούμενος
leading, leader, abbot
[Meaning one who is] going first and leading the way.
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short
η
94
Ἠδολέσχησα
I talked idly, I talked, I meditated
[Meaning] I was talking to myself in conversation.
high
short
η
106
Ἡδραίωται
has become stable
[no gloss]
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short
η
163
Ἠκαιρεῖσθε
you were being inopportune
[Meaning] you were preventing, you did not have an opportunity.
high
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178
Ἠκόνα τὴν προθυμίαν
I sharpened my zeal
[no gloss]
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η
195
Ἥλατο
jumped
[Meaning he/she/it] leapt. But h)la=to [differently accented and without aspiration] [means he/she/it] was wandering. "And he, defeated by the laws, was wandering [...]."
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200
Ἤλεκτρον
electrum
[Meaning] gold of a different type, mixed with glass and stone. The [sc. altar] table of the Hagia Sophia is of this material.
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206
Ἠλεί
Eli
A priest in Israel. His sons were Ophni and Phinees: [it was they] whom divine justice sought out because of their drunkenness and their lack of discipline in performing sacrifices. For they were killed …
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medium
η
210
Ἠλί ἠλί λιμᾶ σαβαχθανί
eli eli lima sabachthani
My god, my god [...].
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η
233
Ἥλιον κρύπτεσθαι ἄστρα δείκνυσθαι
the sun being hidden (but) the stars being revealed
The rhetoricians call these [rhetorical figures] vehement, but grammarians [call them] rhyming, and philosophers [call them] balanced.
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264
Ἥλω>20 γενικῇ
was caught, succumbed
[Used] with a genitive. "Cyprian the Great succumbed to this [girl]."
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296
Ἡμέρα δυνάμεως
day of power
[Meaning] the second coming of the Christ. David [writes]: "with you [is] the authority on the day of your power."
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298
Ἡμέραν πονηρὰν
evil day
Scripture calls the day of retribution [an evil day], just as [it calls] the servants of retribution evil angels; and in reference to God, bitter retributions are called rage and anger and affliction. For …
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299
Ἡμέρα πονηρά
evil day
[Meaning] the day of judgment, the eternal punishment. David [says]: "to make him gentle from the evil days." For he who accepts a small chastisement in the present time will have his judgment gentler.
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300
Ἡμέραι πλήρεις
full days
[Meaning] old-age.
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η
305
Ἡμεροδρόμος
courier, long-distance runner
[Meaning] the sun. Those who serve the orders of the king most quickly are also called this. "The hemerodromoi are young men, a little older than ephebes, near to their first beards, who minister …
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392
Ἡνίοχος
Heniochos, Heniochus
of Athens, poet of the Middle Comedy. Among his dramas are these: Plover, Heiress, Busybody, Polyeuktos, True Friend, Twice Deceived. Concerning Polyeuktos: there appeared also a Polyeuktos in our time, unmentionable, half-woman, hateful to …
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412
Ἠώκοιτος
dawn[-sleep]
Early morning sleep.
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414
Ἠωρείμ
Eoreim
A proper name.
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short
η
419
Ἡπατοσκοπία
liver
Liver-inspecting. See under Persians. Also [sc. attested is] 'liver-inspecting', [meaning] the dissection of the entrails, by which they used to foretell what would happen; for in dissecting they would observe certain signs in the …
high
short
η
423
ᾟπερ
as
[Meaning] just as. "[Belisarius] with his own hands made [Theodosius] his adopted son, as the custom is to adopt among Christians."
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short
η
465
Ἡράκλειος
Herakleios, Heraclius
Emperor of [the] Romans. This man fell headlong into the heresy of the Monothelites under the influence of Athanasius, patriarch of the Jacobites, and Sergius the Syrian, [patriarch] of Constantinople. [It is said] that …
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