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α425ἈδάμAdam… his original foundation and position and caused him to be borne headfirst into pit-like and unlit places which reach all the way down to the joyless recesses of Hades. And from this point human …Matched in translationhighlong
ε3510ΕὔθυμοςEuthymos, Euthumos, Euthymus… also spelled Theogenes and Theugenes (each meaning "He Who Is Born Of God[s]) -- won at Olympia in boxing (480 BCE) and in pankration (476). He is reported to have won twelve hundred crowns …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1124Διμήτωρtwice-born… grape-clusters -- the god thus being considered as having been born once from the earth and again from the vine"), and generally LSJ s.v.Matched in noteshighshort
λ271Λέων λέων σοι γέγονεν ἔκμαγμα σόνa lion a lion has been born to you (as) your (very) imageIn reference to women being debauched and giving birth. A 'cell' [is] the cover of the acorn, where the acorn is situated. "Both in each and every other respect and in having a penis …Matched in headwordhighshort
δ28Δάκτυλοιfingers, finger[-dates]… those passing their days happily. For Daktylos was a man born in Athens who had the greatest honors.Matched in translationhighshort
α2735ἈντιφάνηςAntiphanes… Dionysius a Rhodian; a comic poet of the middle comedy, [born] from slaves as some [say]. He was born in the 93rd Olympiad and he wrote 365 comedies, though others [say] 280; he won …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ1203Διὸς ἄνθοςZeus' blossom, Zeus' flower[The name of] a thorny plant.Matched in headwordhighshort
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 …Matched in translationhighshort
α1683Ἀμύξειςyou will scratch, you will tear[Meaning] you will grieve, you will wound, you will strike. And [there is] a proverb: "not even a thorn scratches good men." Also [sc. attested is the singular] a)/mucis ["a scratching"], [meaning] a tearing, …Matched in translationhighshort
ε947Ἔμβολαbolts, rams[Meaning] bars, locks. "And becoming rams for ships, the statues did no good." In the Epigrams: "bronze-born rams, voyage-loving walls of ships, we lie as witnesses to the war at Aktion." Aristophanes [writes]: "they …Matched in translationhighshort
κ318ΚανοῦνbasketA small basket. At the festival of the Dionysia at Athens the well-born women used to be basket-carriers. The baskets on which they put the first-fruits of all [crops] were made of gold. [The …Matched in translationhighmedium
μ244ΜασσανάσσηςMassanasses, Masinissa… piece of evidence: while he had many children who were born and died, there were never less than 10 [sc. who survived]. He left behind at age ninety a child of four years old. …Matched in translationhighmedium
α297Ἀγόνων χοῶν[than] unfruitful drink-offerings… and passive senses of the adjective ("not bearing" and "not born"): see LSJ entry at web address 1, and again at alpha 337. [2] Scholion on Gregory of Nazianzus (PG 36.378b), who does use …Matched in noteshighshort
α2492Ἀνθέμωνflowers… "who has a wreath of flowers". That is, of roses. Zeuxis the painter drew in the temple of Aphrodite a most youthful Eros, encircled with roses.Matched in translationhighshort
μ504Μελίαιash [spears]… ash-spear, rest by the long roof-pillar, awaiting the rites of Zeus the diviner."Matched in translationhighshort
αι237Αἲξ οὐρανίαheavenly goat… officials]. Cratinus [says that] just as the goat Amaltheia was Zeus' nurse, so too a heavenly goat was [the nurse of] those accepting bribes. But others are accustomed to call and understand thus that …Matched in translationhighmedium
α1410Ἄλσοςgrove… groves and the place that grew its foliage long for Zeus, rotted away."Matched in translationhighshort
ε1870ἘξυπτιάζωI turn on my back, I fall backwards… fall backwards on their heads." So e)cuptia/zein [means] to be borne backwards.Matched in translationhighshort
μ438Μεθύση κύωνdrunken bitch… him. And then he said, "o bitch, bitch, if (by Zeus) instead of your evil tongue you would buy wheat from somewhere, you would seem to me to be in your right mind."Matched in translationhighshort
α1001Ἀκρόδρυαfruits[Meaning] tree-borne crops, all crops which grow on trees. "They threw [things] at them, one a Persian cloak, another fruits".Matched in translationhighshort
ε524Ἐκκοκκίσαςde-seeding, removing the seeds… seeds. The rustic [Trygaeus] used this metaphor. Aristophanes [writes]: "o Zeus, do you not see that you are de-seeding your own cities?"Matched in translationhighshort
λ236Λέκιθοςpease-pudding, pulse… seed-seller. And [sc. the word also occurs] in Lysistrata: "by Zeus, I myself saw a long-haired man, a phylarch on a horse, putting into a bronze cap pease-pudding [sc. that he had bought] from …Matched in translationhighshort
α280Ἄγνονchaste-tree, withy… uses it in the masculine in Heroes: "and verily, by Zeus, I don't seem anymore to be different from an agnos growing in a mountain stream." Plato [writes]: "for this plane-tree [is] very wide-spreading …Matched in translationhighshort
δ1447ΔωδώνηDodone, Dodona… oak-tree was moved and made sounds. [The prophetesses] declared that "Zeus says this." And a statue stood in a lofty position holding a staff, and beside it a cauldron stood; and the statue would …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε3605ΕὔξενοςEuxenos, Euxenus… they learn from humans. For "rejoice" and "do well" and "Zeus [is] propitious" and such [sayings] the birds declare without knowing what they say, or being well-disposed towards humans, but with their tongues trained. …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ2161Κοτίνου στεφάνῳwith a wreath of wild olive… olive, the ko/tinos, that stood southwest of the temple of Zeus in the Altis at Olympia was called the e)lai/a kalliste/fanos, the cultivated "Olive of the Beautiful Crown" (Pausanias 5.15.3). The Greek phrase does …Matched in noteshighmedium
χ362Χοᾶchous; pitcher… keep up his strength ... such as kings reared by Zeus eat." Those invited [to dinner] used to bring pitchers, so that they would not share another drinking-vessel because of the blame that befell …Matched in translationhighmedium
α4463Αὐτάγγελοςself-announcing, announcing what one has seen… [2] A (poor) iambic trimeter; perhaps from a story concerning Zeus's sacred oak at Dodona (see delta 1447). [3] Quotation unidentifiable. [4] Quotation unidentifiable.Matched in noteshighmedium
κ1786Κληρωτήριαallotment-machines… flour-market stoa." -- "To gorge themselves (kaptôsin)?" -- "No, by Zeus. Just to dine there.!" -- "So if someone's letter is not drawn, for them to dine under, do they then get drawn away …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ1996Κομῆταιcomets… "torch", [are] fires which arise when thick air has been borne up to the ether-like region. A flame, a kindling of accumulated fire that turns around rapidly and presents the appearance of length. There …Matched in translationhighmedium