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Ἄβελ
Abel
Son of Adam. This man was chaste and just, and a shepherd of flocks; out of these he offered a sacrifice to God and was accepted, but was then killed because he was envied …
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188
Ἀγελαιών
pasture
[Meaning] the herd's place.
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209
Ἄγειν καὶ φέρειν
to plunder and to pillage
Marauding and despoiling. But a)/gein [can mean], without distinction, both to carry away things, even from dead bodies, and to gather [them]. "When [Baian] crossed to the land opposite the stream, immediately he set …
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287
Ἀγνῶτας
unknown
[Meaning them] not being recognized. "He brought a man unknown to me, who also happened to be unknown to him." "They had just left farming and entered into the danger of war, which was …
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297
Ἀγόνων χοῶν
[than] unfruitful drink-offerings
It is used in two ways. The Theologian says [this]; that is, [more pious] than the offerings which are poured for the dead and are therefore unfruitful. Also [sc. attested is] a)goni/a, barrenness. "That …
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341
Ἄγραυλοι
field-dwelling
[Meaning] those passing the night or camping in a field.
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350
Ἀγρεία ἀοιδή
rustic song
The rural [kind]. "He stretched the hide down a rustic plane tree." In the Epigrams. Also [sc. attested is] a)grei=os, [meaning] the yokel, the ignoramus. Or someone from the country. Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: …
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351
Ἀγρεῖφνα
rake, harrow
A farm tool, with which they collect hay. "Alkimos [dedicated] his toothless rake and a share of a noise-loving shovel bereft of its olivewood handle."
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355
Ἀγρίδιον
little field
[no gloss]
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365
Ἀγρίφη
rake, harrow
[Meaning] a fork, a farm tool with multiple protrusions.
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366
Ἀγρολέτειρα
land-waster
[sc. An epithet of] Artemis.
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368
Ἀγρονόμοι
country-dwellers
Those living in the country. "Singing cicada drunk on dewdrops, you celebrate the country-dwelling Muse who sings in solitude." In the Epigrams.
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369
Ἀγρότας
countrymen, rurals
[Meaning] rustics. Also [sc. attested is the nominative singular] a)gro/ths ["countryman"], [meaning] he who lives in the country. "But you were bent over like a drunken countryman." And in the Epigrams: "the three kinsmen …
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371
Ἀγροῦ πυγή
rump of the country; fat of the land
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to the comfortably-off and those attending perseveringly to some kind of task.
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375
Ἀγροικίζω
I am a boor
Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] a)/groikos, [meaning] senseless, ill-tempered; harsh and uneducated, or someone living in the country. But it is as a metaphor that some define rusticness as harshness of character; …
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376
Ἄγροικος ἐξ ἄστεος
a rustic out of town
He did not make this juxtaposition idly. For he is not ashamed to call himself rustic: he insults himself as foolish and rustic in various ways; rather, first of all he is unaware that …
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377
Ἄγροικος ὀργήν
boorish in anger
Litigious, choleric, prone to anger. Aristophanes [writes]: "for we have a master who is boorish in anger." Also [sc. attested is] a)groi/ths, [meaning] the country man.
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378
Ἀγροίκου μὴ καταφρόνει ῥήτορος
don't despise a rustic rhetor
[Said] because one should not despise even worthless things.
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380
Ἀγροιώτης
rustic
The farming people, the one[s] in the country. "To this rustic, single-storthynx Priapos." For a storthynx is the point of the spear or the iron [part] of a missile. But the feminine form [is] …
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460
Ἀδηλώσας
having disguised, having obfuscated
[Meaning he] having made [someone or something] unrecognizable. "Having disguised himself with a dirty cloak and taken a scythe as a worker on the land would [sc. wear/carry ...]."
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517
Ἀδώνιδος κῆποι
Adonis' gardens
[Made] out of lettuce and fennel, which they used to sow in earthenware pots. They apply the proverb to the superficial and shallow. Adonis' gardens: in reference to things that are untimely and transitory …
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608
Ἀεὶ γεωργὸς ἐς νέωτα πλούσιος
a farmer is always rich tomorrow
[sc. A proverbial saying] in reference to those always nurturing a hope of escaping terrors, but falling into the same ones again.
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short
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719
Ἀθέρες
chaff, stalks
A type of grain.
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732
Ἀθηναίων δυσβουλία
Athenians' ill-counsel
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those who prosper against expectations and undeservedly. For taking decisions badly is practiced by Athenians; Athena offers to turn that which has been decided badly to good; …
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736
Ἀθηρηλοιγός
chaff-consuming
[Referring to] the winnowing-fan, the thing that is destroying the chaff.
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738
Ἀθησαύριστον
unhoardable, untreasurable
[Meaning sc. something] unsuitable for storage.
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790
Ἀκάμαντα
untiring
[Meaning one who/which is] inexhaustible. "Untiring destroyer of grape shoots, a boar".
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807
Ἀκαρπότερος Ἀδώνιδος κήπου
more barren than a garden of Adonis
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those unable to give birth to anything productive. Things grown in pots are described [in these terms].
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848
Ἀκέσματα
remedies
[Meaning] medicines, things that heal. "Avoiding the guards she ran up with her daughter, carrying a remedy for the coming shortage." "There was a man in the Galeotis, formidable both in telling cures of …
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medium
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930
Ἀκόρητος
bug-less, unswept
[Meaning one who/which is] unadorned, disorderly; for korei=n ["to sweep"] [means] to adorn. This man is unswept, as if full and not swept out, growing and multiplying and abounding. All [sc. the words used …
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