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Ἀετὸς τῶν οἰκοδομημάτων
gable of the buildings
The part at the roof, which some call a pediment [aetoma].
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2833
Ἄξονες
axones, axles
This is what Athenians called the laws of Solon, because of the fact they had been inscribed on wooden axles. They were square in shape. Demosthenes in the [speech] Against Aristokrates mentions the word. …
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3797
Ἀργυρόπεζα
silver-footed
[Meaning] she who has silver feet. For pe/za [is] the foot. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'silver-footed throne'. But the throne of Xerxes, which is also called prisoner-of-war, was dedicated in the Parthenon …
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Αὔλια
cottages
Meaning farm-building. Alternatively meaning small courtyards. So Lysias and Aeschines [sc use the word].
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33
Αἰγεῖον
Aigeion, Aegeum
[Meaning] the oracle of Aigeus. Dinarchus in the [speech] Against Polyeuktos [mentions it]. [The] Aigeion is a hero-shrine of Aigeus in Athens.
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257
Βῆμα
platform, podium, rostrum
[Meaning] the stone [sc. platform] of the lawcourt. Aristophanes [writes]: "'what use will you find for the platform?' -- 'I will put my bowls and jugs [on it]'".
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424
Βουλαία
Boulaia, Councillor
Dinarchus [writes]: "I call to witness Hestia the Councillor." - i.e. the [Hestia] located in the council [boulh/].
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174
Δεκάζεσθαι
to be bribed in tens
[Meaning] to take bribes. Also [sc. attested in the active voice] 'to bribe in tens' [deka/zein]: to corrupt with money or gifts. Aelian [writes]: "he corrupted many of the nomads, having bribed them in …
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206
Δελφίνιον
Delphinion, Delphinium
It is of course a place in Chios; but there is also a shrine of Apollo in Athens so called, where the Delphinion lawcourt used to be.
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472
Δημοχάρης
Demochares
A nephew of Demosthenes. Concerning him, Timaios says that, having acted like a rent-boy with the upper parts of his body he was unworthy to blow the sacred flame, and that in his [sexual] …
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652
Διὰ μέσου τείχους
of the wall through the middle
There being three [sc. Long] walls in Attica, the Northern and the Southern and the Phaleric, the Southern used to be described as "through the middle" of those on either side. Plato in Gorgias …
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1333
Δοκός
beam
[Meaning] a large timber.
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368
Ἑκατόμπεδος νεώς
Hundred-foot temple
The Parthenon at Athens. Also [sc. attested is] 'Hundred-footer': Lycurgus [sc. calls it so]. The Parthenon used to be called Hekatompedos by some because of beauty and graceful proportions, not because of size.
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583
Ἐκπλινθεύσας
having unbricked
Isaeus [sc. uses this aorist participle] to mean [he] having demolished and taken out the bricks.
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804
Ἐλευθέριος
of Freedom
Zeus was called [this] for this reason, because freedmen [eleutheroi] built the portico near him. So [says] Hyperides. But Didymus maintains that it is not because of this, but because of the fact that …
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806
Ἐλευθεριώτερος Σπάρτης
freer than Sparta
[sc. A proverb arising] because of the [Spartans'] independent and noble spirit. Hence they did not even surround themselves with walls, educated [in this regard?] by laws. Rather, they were not even willing to …
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1831
Ἐξῳκοδόμηται
is built
"The wall [is built] ... so that when, on top, Proxenides of Bragsville and Theogenes" -- [scholion:] both braggarts -- "drive two chariots in opposite directions with yoked horses as big as the wooden …
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1947
Ἐπαλξίτης
coping (stone)
[no gloss]
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2575
Ἐπισκήνιον
episkenion, episcenium
[no gloss]
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2629
Ἐπίστιον
ship-shed, ship-slip
[Meaning a] military lodging. Herodotus [writes]: "[Kleomenes] expelled the Athenians' households".
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2679
Ἐπιτείχισμα
assault-fort
[Meaning] what is fortified against certain places, from which it was [possible] to inflict damage on the fortification's targets. And the operation [is] e)piteixismo/s ["fortification"]. Demosthenes in the [speech] For Ktesiphon [uses the term].
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3025
Ἑρμάδιον
Hermadion
[Meaning] the [sc. diminutive] of a herm [or: of Hermes].
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3029
Ἑρμαῖ
Herms, Hermae, Hermai
Menekles or Kallistrates in the [treatise] About Athenians writes thus: "for after the Painted [Stoa] and the Royal Stoa are the so-called Herms". Some used to be called Hipparcheian Herms, after Hipparchos the son …
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3039
Ἑρμῆς ὁ πρὸς τῇ πυλίδι
Hermes by-the-gate
Philochorus says that [the] nine archons dedicated a Hermes to the tribes by the gate.
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3242
Ἐσχάρα
sacrificial hearth, eschar
Lycurgus and Ammonius say that an eschar is the name for the [altar] which has no height but is set into the ground, or hollow. By analogy doctors call shallow wounds in the body …
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χ
46
Χαλκίοικος
Bronze-House, of the Bronze House; Chalkioikos
[An epithet of] Athena in Sparta. [The term arose] either because she has a bronze house; or because it is a solid one; or because exiles from Chalkis [Myth, Place] in Euboia founded it.
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581
Χρυσόροφος
gold-roofed
[no gloss]
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