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Χαλβάνη
all-heal
An ointment effective for horses.
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61
Χαλυβώνιος οἶνος
Chalybonian wine
[no gloss]
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70
Χαμαίλεον
chamaileon
A type of plant. Also [sc. attested is] xamai/mhlon ["ground apple"], a type of plant.
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75
Χαμεύνη
ground-sleeper
[Meaning] he who makes his bed on the ground. Also [sc. attested is] a feminine form xameu/nh ["cot"], [meaning] a low couch. Aristophanes [writes]: "certainly [I would] not [put down rushes] on my cot, …
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76
Χαμῖτις
ground-trained
A kind of vine.
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96
Χάραξ
palisade; stake
In the masculine [it means] an army camp. "The Greeks consider this to be the best stake, one which has the most and the largest projections around its base; whereas amongst Romans stakes have …
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97
Χάραξ τὴν ἄμπελον
a stake (deceived) the vine
[sc. A proverbial phrase used] when something being preserved is harmed by the thing preserving it.
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98
Χάραξιν
with stakes
[Meaning] with sharp timbers, or reeds, or thorny plants.
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181
Χέδροπας
legumes
[Meaning] pulses. And in the [nominative] singular [it is] "legume" (xe/droy), a pulse. Thus Thucydides [sc. uses this word].
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187
Χελιδόνων μουσεῖα
swallows' museums
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those who do foreign and barbarian things. For the [term] 'swallow' [is] applied to barbarians; for it implies 'Thracian swallow'. And in what follows: "where the swallow …
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190
Χελώνη
tortoise
[Meaning] the terrestrial animal, the shell-back; also the marine one; also the name of a battle formation; also a military fashion, from which there are 'tortoise sheds', siege machine, and rams. The Thessalian women, …
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215
Χερρόνησος
Cherronesos, Chersonesos, Chersonese
A territory of Thrace. Also a city [sc. there] tributary to the Athenians, fertile for growing cereals; hence the Athenians also used to import grain [sc. from it]. [The people] whom Kleon might shake.
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267
Χείρων
Cheiron, Chiron
A Centaur; [the one] who first discovered medical treatment with plants; [he wrote] an epic poem Advice (which he gives to Achilles); also Horse-Medicine -- hence his name Centaur.
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277
Χηλὴ ὄρους
mountain's hoof, mountain's spur
"They were camped out near the spur of the mountain, to make the wood and the glade [sc. growing] from this [spur] a defense." That is, [from] the promontory.
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295
Χήτει
for lack
[Meaning] for a need, for a scarcity, for a deprivation. Agathias [writes]: "for lack of other suitable things they were pressing the clusters of grapes and they were filled with sweet new wine; whence …
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298
Χίδρα
unripe groats
[Meaning] young ears of grain; or coarse meal; or flour [made] out of pulses. Or the pulses [sc. themselves]. In a particular sense the [groats] from green barley. [The word] xi/dra is said [to …
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299
Χίδρα
unripe groats
[Meaning] the ones which are threshed in the hand from the ears of wheat and barley.
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300
Χίδραν
groats
[i.e.] xi/dron, the pulse that comes from millet, a foodstuff [eaten] in the area around Caria; it is from green barley. But some [sc. define it as] a type of plant. From this there …
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301
Χίδρα ἐρεικτά
pounded groats
[Meaning ones] chosen out of new barley, like fine wheat-flour [semi/dalis].
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325
Χθιζοί
yesterday's men
[*xqizoi/ means the same as] xqesinoi/, [i.e. those who are] lazy, useless. Also [sc. attested is the form] xqizino/s, [also meaning] yesterday's.
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342
Χλίδος
slime, sludge
Demosthenes in the [speech] Against Kallikles on Damage to a Plot [writes]: "and then throwing out the slime into the road, the result of which was that he made the road itself higher and …
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345
Χλοάω
I bud, I sprout
[*xloa/w means the same as] xlow=.
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346
Χλοερός
green, verdant
[*xloero/s means the same as] xlwro/s.
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347
Χλόη
shoot, sprout
[Meaning a] plant.
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362
Χοᾶ
chous; pitcher
[*xoa= means the same as] xou=s, an Attic measure, containing eight kotulai. Aristophanes [writes]: "come to dinner quickly, bringing your basket [and your pitcher]." For those inviting [people] to dinner used to provide the …
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390
Χονδρίτης
granular, groaty, mealy
[Referring to] fine wheatflour.
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521
Χρῖσις
anointing
[Referring to] the anointing-oil of the royal olive, which the prophets used to bring forward by means of a horn and rub on the kings. "And David was deemed worthy of the anointing because …
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522
Χρῖσμα
anointing-oil
The [anointing-oil] of the kingship. [It is said] that David was anointed into kingship three times. It also signifies the one who has been anointed with olive-oil, and the prophet. But xristh/ria ["unguents"] [are …
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604
Χυλῷ
in a taste
[Meaning] in the gruel. Aristophanes [writes]: "mix us in a taste of friendship". Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'taste of barley-gruel', [meaning] the one [that comes] from fodder.
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605
Χῦμα Χυμός
fluid, juice
See under "water"; and see under "grey"; and see under "tongue".
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