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Ἀβασάνιστος
untested
[Meaning someone/something] unexercised or unexamined, unscrutinized. The word comes from the test of the goldsmith's stone, on which they scrutinize gold. Aelian in his On Providence used the word 'untested' to mean 'without pain'.
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Ἀγάλματα
delights, ornaments, statues
[Meaning] the likenesses of the gods, and anything that is decorative in some way. Homer [writes]: "but it is stored away as a delight for the king." And Hesiod calls a necklace an "ornament"; …
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261
Ἀγκύρισμα
anchor-hold
[Meaning] a kind of wrestling-move. Also [sc. attested is the related participle] a)gkuri/sas, meaning [someone] wrestling down or taking down by the knee. An 'anchor-hold' is also a hunter's container of figs. Aristophanes [writes]: …
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Ἄγος
pollution, leader
Pollution, or elbow. What is honourable and worthy of reverence is also called agos; hence priesthoods [are called] all-holy [panageis], and a number of other things. Thucydides [writes]: "the Spartans sent envoys to Athens …
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Ἀγών
contest, training, arena
Training with a view to competitions. [sc. Also attested is the accusative case] a)gw=na; and Homer [sc. uses this term for] the actual place where the competition takes place. Thucydides in [book] 5 [writes]: …
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Ἀγωνάρχαι
contest-judges
Sophocles [writes]: "and lest any contest-judges or he who is my destroyer should give my arms to the Achaeans." Also [sc. attested is] a proverb: "a contest does not accept excuses." It is applied …
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332
Ἀγώνιος
competitor
Someone in a competition. Also [sc. attested is] the feminine a)gwni/a, [meaning] fear. But a)goni/a with a short 'o' [means] barrenness.
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333
Ἀγωνιούμενοι
about to be contenders
[Meaning they who are] about to enter contests. "About to be contenders, they might not avert their enemies without a fight."
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336
Ἀγώνισμα
achievement, prize
[Meaning] effort, diligence. "An achievement is there for him to take". Aristophanes [writes]: "personally, I would like to meet some ("wild beast" is left out) and take an achievement worthy of the journey." A …
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338
Ἀγωνοθέτης
agonothete
The man [engaged] in [organising] the theatrical [competitions]; but athlothete [is] the man [engaged] in [organising] the athletic [competitions].
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Ἀθήναιος
Athenaios, Athenaeus
Of Naucratis. Grammarian. Lived in the time of Marcus. He wrote a book with the title Deipnosophists, in which he records how many of the ancients had a reputation for munificence in giving banquets. …
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740
Ἀθλητάς
athletes
[Meaning] competitors, men in training. Aelian [uses the word]. "Consequently he not only prepared them to have these things, but he also created athletes in other [kinds of] injustice and filthiness. For what shameful …
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Ἀθλητής
athlete, champion
The man trained thoroughly in [sc. winning] prizes. "The Romans dispatched a man [who was] a champion of wars like Hannibal".
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Ἆθλον
prize
[Meaning] an object of competition, the honour, the recompense, the winning of the contest. Also [sc. attested is] a)=qlos, masculine, [meaning] both the deed and the object of competition and the reward. This differs …
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774
Ἀκαδημία
Academy
A place of exercise in Athens, a wooded suburb in which Plato used to spend his time; named after Hekademos, a hero. It was formerly called the Hecademy, [spelled] with epsilon. Aristophanes in Clouds …
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Ἀκαμπίας
bendless, unbending
[Meaning] straight-coursed. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] a)ka/mpios dro/mos ["bendless course"], a long and straight walk.
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923
Ἀκονιτί
dustless
[Meaning] away from dust. Without struggle and fight; or comfortably, from a metaphor of athletes who win so comfortably that they do not even get dusty.
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924
Ἀκόνιτον
aconite
A kind of plant [sc. which is also a] drug. "But by drinking aconite he escaped this [sc. charge] a)koniti/." That is, without trouble.
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1023
Ἀκροχειρίζεσθαι
to struggle at arms length
[Meaning] to box or wrestle against another man without close engagement, or to practice with another wholly with the extremities of the hands. Also [sc. attested is the athlete] Akrokhersites, so named because by …
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1037
Ἄκτια
Aktia, Actia
An ancient [sc. athletic] contest, as Callimachus makes clear in his [treatise] On contests.
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Ἀλεκτρυόνα ἀθλητὴν Ταναγραῖον
a cock [and ] an athlete from Tanagra
"These sing nobly." "He sends it to be a votive offering and a delight to Asklepios, as if the bird were an attendant or servant in the temple, that man of Aspendos". And [there …
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1124
Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μαμαίας
Alexander Mamaias, Alexander son of Mamaia
Ruling with his mother he administered everything subordinate to her; it was she who took care of the empire in every respect. So she persuaded him to judge trials for the most part, so …
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1157
Ἀλεῖπται
anointers, masseurs, trainers
[Meaning] those working for the [sc. athletics] contests. The Theologian [writes]: "trainers of excellence". Also [sc. attested is the singular] a)lei/pths, [meaning] the contest-director.
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1166
Ἀλείψας
having oiled
[Used] with an accusative. [Meaning he] having stimulated. From a metaphor of athletes. "Oiling into endurance those who are being wronged". And Aristophanes [writes]: "you oiled from these [sc. olives] at the New-moons". Because …
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1280
Ἀλκιβιάδης
Alcibiades, Alkibiades
The son of Kleinias and of Perikles' sister. An Athenian, a philosopher and a politician. A pupil first of Sophilos, then of Sokrates, whose lover he was too, as some say. Some also record …
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1350
Ἀλλ' οὐδ' ἐγὼ μέντοι πεσών γε κατακείσομαι
I have fallen but I will not lie down
Aristophanes in Clouds [sc. says this]. That is I will not lose heart; in effect I will not succumb to my griefs.
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1362
Ἀλλ' οὑτοσὶ τρέχει τὶς Ἀλφειὸν πνέων
but here is some runner breathing Alpheios
Aristophanes [sc. writes this]. [He means] an Olympic runner, from the river flowing by [Olympia].
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Ἀλφειός
Alpheios, Alpheus
A river of the Arcadian city [of that name], which is situated in the Peloponnese. Reaching open water through the Adriatic Sea, and mixing in no way with the brine, it surges up by …
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1509
Ἁματροχία
side-by-side driving
[Meaning] a chariot-wheel track.
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1594
Ἅμιλλα
contest
[Meaning] competition, rivalry, equalization. "And once, when these two boys were contending with each other, they stripped off for a contest of javelin-throwing, but then their enthusiasm got the better of them; and somehow …
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