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μ137ΜανδραγορίζωI drug [someone] with mandrake.[no gloss]Matched in headwordhighshort
κ2216Κῴδιονsmall fleece, small sheepskin rug (for sleeping on) or cloak (against rain)… he is again competing and writes the theatre piece Pytine against himself and his drinking. Cratinus made up the comedy to be that his wife both stopped wanting marital relations with him and took …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ417Καρποῦ δίκηproduce lawsuitThey used to bring lawsuits against someone who had damaged produce.Matched in translationhighshort
κ418Καρποῦ δίκηproduce lawsuit… claiming that [a piece of land] is theirs bring suit against the possessors; then if they win they sue for the produce also. This is called a produce suit. And Lysias in the [speech] …Matched in translationhighmedium
χ342Χλίδοςslime, sludgeDemosthenes 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 …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε770Ἑλλεβοριᾶνto need hellebore… is present infinitive of a desiderative verb e(lleboria/w. [1] sc. against madness; cf. Aristophanes, Wasps 1489. [2] Callias fr. 28 Kock (35 K.-A.). Entry thus far = Photius, Lexicon epsilon640 Theodoridis. [3] And so …Matched in noteshighshort
α3334Ἀπὸ καλοῦ ξύλου κἂν ἀπάγξασθαιshould be hanged from a fine timber… necessary to suffer, better to suffer at the hands of someone good than someone base. And Aristophanes [writes]: "if you should stumble, at least [you will hang] from [a timber that is] worthy."Matched in translationhighshort
α3156Ἀπηλοημένοςthreshed-out… threshed, that is, being trodden. So Demosthenes in the [speech] against Phainippos [uses the term].Matched in translationhighshort
ε3156Ἐσκορόδισαςyou gave the garlic treatment[Meaning] you made [someone] cry. From those who crush garlic cloves; or [meaning] you disgusted, you irritated; or you caused pain.Matched in translationhighshort
δ100Δαφνίνην φορῶ βακτηρίανI am carrying a laurel staffThis is what those being conspired against by certain people were accustomed to say, inasmuch as laurel [is] an antidote.Matched in translationhighshort
μ284Ματιολοιχόςsmall-licker… For mátion (as is better accented) [is] something small. Or someone who eats little, since mation is what they call a minimum. Or someone making decisions in vain [mataia], and waiting in ambush [lochôn], …Matched in translationhighshort
κ692Κατάπαστοςsprinkled[Meaning someone/something that is] filled, full, decorated with colors. "You would act according to my liking, [...] again you will come to us sprinkled with wreaths."Matched in translationhighshort
ε3157Ἐσκοροδισμένοςgarlicked[Meaning someone] eating garlic. [The term come] from the cocks: for when they put them together for a fight they give them garlic, so that they will be fiercer in the fight.Matched in translationhighshort
ε722Ἐκφυλλοφορῆσαιto leaf out… [him] out and a leafing-out. So Demosthenes in the [speech] Against Neaira.Matched in translationhighmedium
α2146Ἄνδηραborders [for plants or flowers]… "[...] so that he could remove the irregularity of the plot by the construction of the borders and the water-conduits".Matched in translationhighshort
α4677ἈχαρνείτηςAcharnite[Meaning someone/something] from Athens. "Often in orchestras and on stages the curving blooming Acharnite ivy adorned his hair."Matched in translationhighshort
κ750Κατάρδωνbesprinkling[Meaning someone] pouring out promises and soaking you with praises like plants. Aristophanes [sc. means by this] not deceiving, nor giving fees to people to have them praise him, "nor besprinkling, but teaching what …Matched in translationhighshort
α836Ἀκέραιοςuncorrupted, intact, fresh, unblemished… they, being unconquered, had fought intact in body and spirit against them." Meaning confident. "[He] wishing to use fresh troops against the attacks of the Celts." Meaning from a state of intactness. And elsewhere: …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε3605ΕὔξενοςEuxenos, Euxenus[sc. was someone] not at all serious nor practicing philosophy energetically. For he was subject to his stomach and to sexual desires, and he patterned himself on Epicurus. He knew the doctrines of Pythagoras, …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ1544Δρυμόςcopse, thicket… when they are shaken by a violent wind and rub against one another."Matched in translationhighshort
γ327Γνάφαλοιmattress-stuffing, flockSomeone seemed [in a dream] to have sheaves of wheat in his mattress instead of stuffing [...] And he begot a male infant. "With the feathers lying beneath jaws."Matched in translationhighshort
α796Ἄκανθαprickle, thorn, spike… design] from this. "The wild beast in violent onslaught strikes against his bonds with his spike and cuts through them". And [there is] a proverb in reference to the dumb and unrefined: "a prickly …Matched in translationhighshort
α261Ἀγκύρισμαanchor-hold… wrestling-move. Also [sc. attested is the related participle] a)gkuri/sas, meaning [someone] wrestling down or taking down by the knee. An 'anchor-hold' is also a hunter's container of figs. Aristophanes [writes]: "striking, anchoring, then turning …Matched in translationhighshort
κ2275Κωνειαζομέναιςwomen dosed with hemlock… very probably (as twice in Stobaeus) from a mention of someone or something 'in' Menander's comedy of this name.Matched in noteshighshort
ε3510ΕὔθυμοςEuthymos, Euthumos, Euthymus… Locrian of those around Cape Zephyr, who competed in boxing against Theagenes of Thasos. Theagenes defeated him, treating Euthymos insolently. Theagenes, however, was not able to win the wild olive in pankration, having been …Matched in translationhighmedium
β423ΒούλγαροιBulgars… all the Bulgars and issued decrees as their lawgiver: if someone accused someone, he should not be listened until hе was tied up and interrogated; and if he was found to be a false …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ1546Κηρύκειονherald's wand… on either side twisted around and lying face to face against each other. Heralds used to carry this with them, and the people the heralds went away from were not allowed to do them …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ313Κανθήλιοςpack-ass[sc. Someone] slow to understand, or dull. Or a large ass/donkey. Xenophon says: "in Babylon the date-palms are not less than a plethron in size: indeed, when they are under great pressure, they bend …Matched in translationhighshort
χ97Χάραξ τὴν ἄμπελονa stake (deceived) the vine… stake deceived the vine" (of the retaliation of Aristophanes himself against Kleon). cf. eta 672, epsilon 1740; and see also chi 96, end, and cf. generally chi 98.Matched in noteshighshort
β579Βρύχιοςunderwater… of Emperor Heraclius 200,000 men were killed in the war against the Isaurians. But Emperor Heraclius sends a very great amount of money along with gold and silver and precious stones, all of which …Matched in translationhighmedium

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