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560
Ἀέρκτον
unhedged
Meaning [sc. something] unfenced [a)/frakton] and seen from all sides. Lysias [uses the word].
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short
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561
Ἀεροβατεῖν
to tread the air
To walk on the air. To go on the air. And Socrates said: "I tread the air and I observe the sun, so that it does not draw the moisture into the watercress".
high
short
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579
Ἀζαλέας δρῦς
parched oaks
With a view to what is being explained. Whether because the trees shed their leaves in that same season and are dried out from the roots and uprooted by the snowstorms, or because when …
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619
Ἀειθαλής
evergreen
[Meaning] always growing/blooming.
high
short
α
708
Ἀθάρα
gruel, porridge
[Meaning] boiled barley-meal. It is inflected in Attic [writers] with the eta, a)qa/rhs, but the koine [does so] with the alpha, a)qa/ras. Aristophanes in Wealth [writes]: "but I was struck with desire for a …
high
short
α
719
Ἀθέρες
chaff, stalks
A type of grain.
high
short
α
727
Ἀθηνᾶς ἄγαλμα δόρυ κρατεῖ
Athena's statue holds a spear
Because of the steadfastness and masculinity [sc. of such an attribute]; likewise also a shield, from her turning-away every treachery through her wisdom; for [wisdom] is [close] to intelligence. And they gave her a …
high
short
α
736
Ἀθηρηλοιγός
chaff-consuming
[Referring to] the winnowing-fan, the thing that is destroying the chaff.
high
short
α
738
Ἀθησαύριστον
unhoardable, untreasurable
[Meaning sc. something] unsuitable for storage.
high
short
α
767
Ἄθυρμα
plaything
A children's toy. Josephus [writes]: "who was a plaything of the king and was exhibited to be teased and laughed at during the drinking sessions". And elsewhere: "it is not the part of men …
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short
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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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medium
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787
Ἀκαλήφη
stinging-nettle
[Meaning] the prickly plant [of that name], the nettle. "Now that he has ceased from his peevishness, take away the stinging-nettle from his anger".
high
short
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788
Ἀκαλήφη
stinging nettle, sea-anemone
[Meaning a] nettle, both the terrestrial [kind] and the maritime [kind] which is like a mollusc shell. Aristophanes in Phoenician Women [writes]: "probably, of course, the first of all plants to grow were the …
high
medium
α
790
Ἀκάμαντα
untiring
[Meaning one who/which is] inexhaustible. "Untiring destroyer of grape shoots, a boar".
high
short
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796
Ἄκανθα
prickle, thorn, spike
[Meaning] the plant, and the sea-monster's spine. Also the [fact that] a caltrop [takes its design] from this. "The wild beast in violent onslaught strikes against his bonds with his spike and cuts through …
high
short
α
797
Ἄκανθα
thorn
[Meaning] sin. David [writes]: "a thorn has been fixed in me." Like a useless off-shoot which tends to prick.
high
short
α
798
Ἀκανθίας
akanthias, prickly thing
Not a type of cicada, but an epithet of a cicada, from its chirping in thistles. Just as "the chirper" [is] not a type of cicada, but an epithet from its chirping.
high
short
α
806
Ἀκαρπότερος ἀγρίππου
more barren than a wild olive
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those completely poverty-stricken. For Laconians call the wild olive "agrippos".
high
short
α
807
Ἀκαρπότερος Ἀδώνιδος κήπου
more barren than a garden of Adonis
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those unable to give birth to anything productive. Things grown in pots are described [in these terms].
high
short
α
828
Ἀκεανός
akeanos
A type of pulse.
high
short
α
836
Ἀκέραιος
uncorrupted, intact, fresh, unblemished
[Meaning] complete. "Succeeding [sc. those who were] uncorrupted and not expecting, they controlled the land." And elsewhere: "but the honey, inasmuch as [it was] impure and drawn not from thorns but from serpents, upset …
high
medium
α
840
Ἄκεσσα
akessa, (?)access
A Roman tactic consisting of cutting down trees to prepare a defense. "The Romans constructed what in the Romans' language is called the akessa. For, cutting down trees and laying the trunks one upon …
high
short
α
904
Ἀκμή
moment, point, still
[Meaning] sharpness, the exact decisive moment of the intensity of the matter, and power, and youth. But "akme of opportunity" [means] good fortune. Thus Isocrates [writes]: "[it is best] to grasp the akme of …
high
medium
α
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.
high
short
α
930
Ἀκόρητος
bug-less, unswept
[Meaning one who/which is] unadorned, disorderly; for korei=n ["to sweep"] [means] to adorn. This man is unswept, as if full and not swept out, growing and multiplying and abounding. All [sc. the words used …
high
short
α
931
Ἄκορον
akoron, yellow-flag
A medicinal root.
high
short
α
935
Ἀκοστώσαις
barley-fed, grain-fed
"[[Like] barley-fed] mules on account of laziness and satiety." The linguists [write] kriqiw/sais ["grain-fed"]; for akostai is what they call krithai and take [the word] from akos, "cure"; that is, rest from hunger and …
high
short
α
949
Ἀκόλῳ τὰ χείλη οὐ σύκῳ βύσαι
to stuff the lips with a crumb (and) not with a fig
[no gloss]
high
short
α
953
Ἄκρα κόρυμβα
high-points; fruit-clusters
[Meaning] the high-posts of ships, the parts projecting out at the stern or prow. [The places] on which they used to draw/inscribe the totems. Korumboi [are] berries which hang on the branches in grape-cluster …
high
short
α
976
Ἀκρεμόνες
branches
[Meaning] boughs, shoots. "Equally-downy [...] growing on the end of leafy branches." Has an oxytone accent, a)kremw/n, like h(gemw/n.
high
short
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