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175
Βάτα Κάρας
Bata Karas, Batakaras
[Something said] in reference to the rich and powerful. It should be read as separate words.
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1993
Ἔπαυλις
encampment
… their encampment on the mound, both the Romans and the
Carthaginians."
That is, [made] their bivouac.
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114
Βάρεις
barges
[Meaning] boats, walls, stoas, courtyards, towers, balls. "He was in
charge
of barges [or: bastions]". That is, of walls. "Even if your horrible barge is heavily laden, accept me, the dog Diogenes deceased."
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249
Ἀγκών
elbow
… of Gelimer was a building full of darkness, which the
Carthaginians
used to call [the] Elbow; therein were thrown all toward whom the tyrant was ill-disposed. There, in the time of Belisarius, happened to …
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4703
Ἀχθοφόρον
burden-bearing
[Meaning]
carrying.
And [there is] a saying: "[burdens] which not even a hundred Egyptians could lift." For in many places it is recorded that Egyptians were burden-bearing.
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731
Ἀθήναιος
Athenaios, Athenaeus
… them a cloak and tunic. [It is on record] that
Charmus
of Syracuse used to utter little verses and proverbs for every one of the dishes served at his banquets. Clearchus of Soli calls …
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783
Ἀκάκιος
Akakios, Acacius
… offended him in some way and had accurately divined his
character;
but because this was something only those who flattered him had the opportunity to observe, he made a habit of marvelling at all …
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2077
Ἀναστάσιος
Anastasios, Anastasius
… their inhabitants he rebuilt the houses, so as to arrange
carefully
the [income] accruing and surround it with three garlands. In his reign, terrible afflictions fell upon the cities in Libya because of those …
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2196
Ἀνδρωνῖτις
men's chamber, men's quarters
"and (as they say) having escaped the men's quarters to
carouse
his way into the women's": because it seemed that a short time earlier the general had been defeated by the Lusitanians.
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588
Βυζάντιον
Byzantion, Byzantium
… was provided with a proper wall made of mill stone
carved
into rectangular blocks. There were seven towers stretching from the Thracian Gates down to the sea. If someone shouted or broke off a …
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789
Ἑλένη
Helen, Helena
… spirit without arrogance, to attend to virtue and government with
care,
to serve God with fear and trembling... For, during the reign of Constantine the Great, the nearer Indians and the Iberians and the …
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1120
Ἐναποματτόμενοι
being imaged, receiving an impression
[Meaning they]
carving/moulding.
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1831
Ἐξῳκοδόμηται
is built
… Bragsville and Theogenes" -- [scholion:] both braggarts -- "drive two
chariots
in opposite directions with yoked horses as big as the wooden one, they would have the width to pass each other." "Herakles!" "And …
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1715
Ἀμφιδέας
anklets, chains
… to accusative plural). [1] Lysias fr. 100 Sauppe, now 116
Carey
(OCT). This is meaning 2 in LSJ (web address 1). See also alpha 1713 and alpha 1714.
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4440
Αὔλια
cottages
… Harpokration s.v., who cites Lysias fr. 85 Sauppe (now 95
Carey
OCT) and Aeschines 3.119 [web address 1]. He does not indicate which of the two meanings is illustrated there, but in the case …
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157
Βασιλική
basilica
… Parastaseis 37 provides an amusing name for this crooked silversmith,
Carcinelus
(“Mr. Pinchers”). [7] The statue of Heracles is perhaps that of Heracles Trihesperus, which (according to Nicetas Choniates, De Signis 5, p. 858 …
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559
Βρόχοις
with nooses, with slip-knots
… from the city walls so that he might escape to
Carthage
and appeal for help. [3] Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as, again, from Procopius' History of the Wars …
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572
Διακεκναισμένη
worn-away
… verbatim quotation, but a paraphrase in the voice of the
character
Pheidippides. [5] Aristophanes, Clouds 119-120 (web address 3).
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368
Ἑκατόμπεδος νεώς
Hundred-foot temple
… the existence of hekatompedon temples in e.g. Samos and elsewhere,
characteristically
as those of the patron deity of the city in question.
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1172
Ἐνδιάει
resides
… 4.81). [1] Greek Anthology 5.270.9-10 (Paulus Silentiarius), on the many
charms
of the poet's lover. See the other quotes from this epigram at alpha 2999, kappa 1428, and lambda 635. [2] So e.g. Homer, …
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3025
Ἑρμάδιον
Hermadion
… epigraphically, the entry might equally well be generated by Lucian,
Charon
[Author, Myth] 1, where upper-case 'Hermadion' is a diminutive of the name Hermes itself.
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3373
Εὐάντυγα
well-rimmed
… accusative singular of eu)a/ntuc, an adjective normally referring to a
chariot
(cf. alpha 2769); in this instance, however, it might be quoted from Paulus Silentiarius' poem on Hagia Sophia [Descriptio Sanctae Sophiae], line 254: …
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