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Εἰαρινὸν ἄνθος
spring bloom
[Meaning the one] in the season of spring.
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Εἰκαία
random
[Meaning] slight, by chance. Callimachus [writes]: "slight, from which the grinding-woman rubbed off not a little." That is, of which the miller-woman did not separate or even clean off the husks, i.e. bran. Meaning …
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Εἰλατίνοις
of the fir
[Meaning] the smells [thereof].
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Εἰνοσίφυλλον
leaf-shaking, with quivering foliage
[Meaning a place] where the leaves move. "The goddess strides with her feet on the leaf-shaking mountain." For e)/nosis ["shaking"] [is] movement. Also [sc. attested is] *)enosi/xqwn, [meaning] earth-shaker.
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Εἴπερ ἐκ πεύκης γε κἀγὼ καὶ ξύλων ἐπηγνύμην
if indeed I too was constructed out of pine and timbers
Aristophanes [writes this]. As if he said: if indeed I too am [made] out of human beings. For he is personifying the ships, and is calling the elderly ones old women and the ones …
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Εἰρεσιώνη
eiresione
[Meaning] a branch of olive, wreathed with woollen fillets [eria] and having all sorts of produce of the earth suspended from it. A boy with both parents living carries out this and places it …
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232
Εἰσᾴττειν
to dart into
[Meaning] to go into. Aristophanes [writes]: "nor to dart into [the house] of a dancing-girl, lest gaping after these things you may be struck by an apple."
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Εἵσατο
placed
[Meaning he/she/it] set [in place]. In the Epigrams: "who set these lovely images under the pines for you, goddesses." Also meaning [he/she/it] placed around, put around.
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Εἰσβαλεῖτε
you will invade
To invade is for certain men in a field to go in and cut out everything in it. Aristophanes [writes]: "you will not invade." But properly speaking ei)sbalei=n is for certain enemies to go …
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Εἰς πῦρ ξαίνειν
to card wool into a fire
Proverbial. In reference to those doing or saying something for themselves which goes to waste. Compare 'to sow seed upon rocks'.
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Εἰς ὕδωρ σπείρειν
to sow seed into water
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those laboring in vain; like 'to write on water'.
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Εἴ τις ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ σῖτον ἄγοι καὶ ἐν Κιλικίᾳ κρόκον
(as) if one were to carry grain in Egypt and saffron in Cilicia
It is like 'an owl to Athens'. In reference to those who waste time accumulating things that are already there.
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