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Ἐκβακχευθείς
frenzied
[Meaning he who was] driven mad. "Frenzied, Valens announced a massed expedition against the enemy."
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ε
376
Ἐκβιαστής
exactor
"For they are both exactors of justice, they urge us to the goal of justice." He is speaking about Gregory and Basil.
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ε
3303
Ἐτεχνίτευε
was contriving
[Meaning he/she/it] enquired with cunning and craft. Josephus [writes]: "[she] was contriving to learn in what way he excels so much in virtue.”
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ε
3307
Ἐτήρει
was reserving
[Meaning he/she/it] was stewarding. "[He] was reserving the younger men for the triumph".
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ε
3318
Ἐτιμήσατο
estimated
[Meaning he/she/it] counted out. "Captured from the barbarians and negotiating for the release of the king/emperor, the barbarian estimated [sc. the value of] his life at 300 pounds."
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ε
3319
Ἐτιμήσαντο
they condemned
[Meaning] they punished, they gave judgement against [someone]. "They condemned Socrates to death." For a timema [is] the penalty and the condemnation.
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ε
3323
Ἔτισε
paid
[Meaning he/she/it] has given. "He paid penalties for the things he did. For he did not end his life in some swift and early way, but he was punished over time."
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ε
3325
Ἐτνήρυσις
soup-ladle
[sc. Soup is] gruel with milk. Also [sc. attested is] 'soup-ladle', the broth-server, in which they draw the soup; exactly as oi)nh/rusis ['wine-drawer'] [is] anything used for stirring. *)/etnos is what they used to …
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short
ε
3448
Εὐετήριος
Eueterios, Eueterius
This man lived at the time of emperor Jovian; he was not at all inferior to the ancients in education and the superiority of his nature, but through weakness of spirit and simplicity he …
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ε
3538
Εὔκλεια
glory
[Meaning] fame/reputation. "To consider that glory is not at all a good, but to seek after it adequately, for the sake of other people's benefit, like the philosophers who decree that one should behave …
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ε
3543
Εὔκολος
agreeable
[Meaning] simple in manner, and generous. Or the opposite of disagreeable [du/skolos]. "He was simple and very agreeable, persuaded and induced to complain about the slave, as if he had surpassed some Odyssean and …
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ε
3550
Εὐκτόν
prayed-for, wished-for
[Meaning] desired. Agathias [writes]: "the Franks were pressing mercilessly, so as to capture Narses alive and to bring on with little pain the prayed-for ending to the whole battle".
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short
ε
3553
Εὐλαβεῖτο
revered, was in awe of
[no gloss]
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ε
3554
Εὐλαβηθείς
apprehensive, cautious
“Apprehensive of the Romans’ eagerness, Gezerich began to signal to those following him to help him swiftly." And the Pisidian [says]: "you were not apprehensive of the troubling illnesses".
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ε
3556
Εὐλαβοῦ
beware
[Meaning] keep guard. "But beware, lest he escape you; for he knows the ways that Eucrates fled straight for the bran-sacks." In reference to those who are fleeing. Aristophanes [sc. writes this]. Also [sc. …
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ε
3585
Εὔμολπος
Eumolpus, Eumolpos
[He was an] Eleusinian, that is to say Athenian, [he was] son of Musaeus the poet, and according to some, a pupil of Orpheus and an epic poet among those before Homer. He was …
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ε
3604
Εὐνοῦχος
eunuch
"There was a man (if we could grant him to be a man) enfeebled in spirit by the works of Epicurus, and become effeminate, a eunuch and a she-male, who, as if forgetting, came …
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medium
ε
3996
Ἔχετος
Echetus, Echetos
A rough and hard tyrant. Homer [writes]: "I shall send you [...] to king Echetus, baneful to all men, who will cut off your nose and ears with pitiless bronze". And another [passage?]: "Festus …
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κ
268
Κάλυμνος
kalymnos, calymnus
[A term for] the grain in Egypt. Meaning *kalu/mnios ["Kalymnian"]. [So called] because Philadelphus conveyed the seed out of Kalydon. Apollodorus says that these are called kalu/dnai, [sc. accented] like kalu/bai ["huts"].
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κ
320
Κάνωπος
Canopus, Kanopos
In Egypt. Once, as they say, the Chaldaeans glorified their own god, which is the fire, and they carried him round, so as to compare him with the gods of all the provinces and …
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medium
κ
396
Καρκίνος
Carcinus, Karkinos
An Attic poet. Someone is mocking Carcinus’ sons thus: "homebred quails, kitbag-gulleted dancers, dwarfish, bits of dung, inventers of artifices." "For their father said that, one evening, a weasel had strangled [the drama which …
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medium
κ
2098
Κορνοῦτος
Cornutus
There were two Roman writers, Titus Livius, whose name spread in greatness and fame, and Cornutus. I hear that the latter was rich and childless, but not at all worthy. So great was the …
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medium
λ
356
Λείας
booty, plunder
[Meaning] spoils from enemies. Also [sc. attested is the headword] lei/as, [meaning] the flocks, the cattle, in Sophocles; hence also lh|sth/s in its proper sense ["plunderer"]. Homer [writes]: "we drove together a lot of …
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χ
171
Χαιριδεῖς
Chairideis
[Meaning those] educated from [= by] Chairis. Or practising [sc. with him]. Chairis [was] an uncultured Theban piper. So Attic [writers] say Chairideis from Chairis and peristerideis from peristera\ ['dove']. This man used to …
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medium
χ
398
Χορείαν
choral dance
The ancients [sc. called thus] the dance accompanied with singing. Homer knew two dances, the one of the tumblers and the other with a playing-ball. Aristonicus of Carystus, King Alexander's fellow ball-player, used to …
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χ
491
Χρήμη
need
[Meaning a] lack/want, and scarcity. Herodotus [when commenting] on the life of Homer [says]: "those [sc. arguments] which had been opposed to his need". "He nevertheless became [involved] in great expenses". That is in …
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