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αι21ΑἶγαgoatThis animal seems to be hostile to the vine. At any rate there is evidently an epigram regarding the nanny-goat as follows: "Even if you eat me to the root, nevertheless I will still …highshort
αι35Αἰγείρου θέαpoplarThe white [sc. variety]. A type of plant. Poplar's view: there was a poplar in Athens near to the shrine; there they used to set up the benches before the theater existed. From this …highshort
αι49Αἴγιλλοςaigillos, aegillus, haver-grassA type of herb.

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This animal seems to be hostile to the vine. At any rate there is evidently an epigram regarding the nanny-goat as follows: "Even if you eat me to the root, nevertheless I will still bear fruit enough to pour a libation…

Αἶγα· ὅτι τουτὶ τὸ ζῷον δοκεῖ ἐχθρὸν εἶναι τῇ ἀμπέλῳ. ἀμέλει γοὖν καὶ ἐπίγραμμα φαίνεται πρὸς τὴν αἶγα οὕτως ἔχον· κἤν με φάγῃς ἐπὶ ῥίζαν, ὅμως δ' ἔτι καρποφορήσω ὅσσον ἐπιλεῖψαί…

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αι60Αἰγίςgarment; net; web; cuirass; wood-grain[Meaning] the [thing] plaited from garlands and the net that has been braided from garlands. So Lycurgus and Herodotus [sc. use the word]. The priestess in Athens carrying [or: wearing] the sacred aigis used …highshort

αι76Αἰγυπτία κληματίςEgyptian vine-branch.[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to lean and fairly tall men; such a man was Zeno of Citium. It is said that he consulted the oracle to learn how he might live the …highshort

αι96Αἴεσχοςaieschos[Meaning] a branch of laurel.highshort

αι101ΑἰείalwayMeaning always. "Alway may such enemies pursue me"; [sc. a proverbial phrase] in reference to people who are easy to despise. And elsewhere: "for alway your wife has you in her mouth." Meaning by …highshort

αι142Αἴθωνblazing[Referring to] violent hunger. [So called] from a certain Aithon son of Helios; [it was he] who chopped down Demeter's sacred grove and suffered due punishment and for this was was ever famished.highshort

αι149Αἴθρια στέφηopen-air garlands, outdoor garlands[Meaning] the ones brought out of [sc. the land of] the Hyperboreans, [so called] as [being] always placed in the out-of-doors [u(/paiqron].highshort

αι159ΑἰθύσσωI stir upThe [verb that means] I heat up, I stretch out. "Nor by the gleamings of the blossom-eyed Early-born-one do you stir along the tips of your warming wings." Also [sc. attested is the present …highshort

αι160Αἰκάλλειfawns[Meaning he/she/it] flatters, sways, persuades. "[He] being obsequious and fawning up to the laurel of the king/emperor." To fawn up to [u(paika/llein] is also used. "[He] being obsequious and at the same time fawning …highshort

αι176Αἱ λαχάνων προσθῆκαιthe additions of herbs[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to things that do not produce a single benefit.highshort

αι237Αἲξ οὐρανίαheavenly goat[Referring to] the kinds of white bean with which they used to put a question to the vote and elect [sc. officials]. Cratinus [says that] just as the goat Amaltheia was Zeus' nurse, so …highmedium

αι244Αἰόλανundulating; leaping in undulating circles; of intricate, dazzling, multicoloured design[Meaning] leaping/hopping. "We croaked an undulating dance-chorus brekekex."highshort

αι245Αἰόλανdarkening, discolouring[Meaning] dark/shadowy.highshort

αι246Αἰόλλειturns, variegates[Meaning he/she/it] varies [i.e. mixes colours or coloured substances, changes colour], turns, confuses [sc. the issue].highshort

αι269Αἰπεινήlofty[Meaning] tall. "Strife roused the lofty fir tree to speak unseemly words." Also [sc. attested is the dative plural] ai)peinai=s, [meaning] tall, long. In Fables: "a bird quarreled with lofty fir trees, for she …highshort

αι278Αἶραdarnel; sphere; Airai (?)[Meaning a type of] grain. It also means a sphere. And the name of a city.highshort

αι312Αἰρόπινονairopinon[Meaning something] dark; also the sieve, in which grains of wheat are sifted, [so called] because of the darnel going through [the holes].highshort

αι316Αἴσακοςlaurel-branch[Meaning] the branch of the laurel; those holding it used to sing hymns to the gods.highshort

αι339Αἴσυλαunseemly [things][Meaning] lawless [ones], unjust [ones]. In Fables: "strife roused the lofty fir-tree to speak unseemly words."highshort