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Ἂ ἄ
ah! ah!
In Aristophanes an adverb accompanying surprise and command. "Ah! ah! Don't get that torch near me!" 'Ah! ah!' must be read separately, not elided; and they both have smooth breathing.. For if they were …
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Ἀβαχθανῆ
abakhthani
A Hebrew expression.
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83
Ἁβροκόμας
Abrokomas, Habrokomas, Abrocomas
This man was satrap under Artaxerxes, king of the Persians.
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Ἀγάπιος
Agapios, Agapius
Athenian philosopher, after the death of Proclus, under Marinus. He was admired for his love of learning and for his setting of dilemmas that were hard to solve.
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195
Ἀγέλιος
Agelios, Agelius
This man was bishop of Constantinople during the reign of Valens. He lived an apostolic life, for he always went about unshod and wore only a single tunic, in observance of what the Gospel …
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196
Ἄγγελος
angel
The angels are circumscribed only by the comprehension of the intellect; not in space, nor in body, nor in time; for they came into existence before the sun. Scripture calls the servants of retribution …
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230
Ἀγήτας
Agetas
The general of the Aetolians.
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258
Ἄγκυραν
anchor
[Note] that Anacharsis the Scythian philosopher invented the anchor and the potter's wheel. He lived in the time of Croesus.
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259
Ἀγκυρανῶν πόλις
Ankyrans' city, Ancyrans' city
[Note] that the present Ankyrans were called of old Hellenogalatians.
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269
Ἀγλευκές
sour
[Meaning] what is bitter. Xenophon used [the word] in the Oeconomicus. But the word seems to be foreign, Sicilian; at any rate it is much used later in Rhinthon. Also [sc. attested is the …
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345
Ἀγράφου μετάλλου δίκη
prosecution for an unregistered mine
When those who worked the silver mines [sc. in Athens] wanted to begin a new working, they would notify those the people had put in charge of mines and would register a twenty-fourth part …
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379
Ἀγροιλῆθεν
from-Agroile; Agryle
Agroile is a deme of the Erechtheid tribe [sc. in Athens]. A demesman [sc. of this deme] used once to be called Agroileus ["Agroilian"].
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486
Ἀδικίου
misdemeanor
A sort of crime. It is the name of a lawsuit. It requires single payment, if it is returned before the ninth prytany; if not, the payment is double.
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528
Ἀδριανός
Hadrian, Adrianos, Adrian, Hadrianos, Hadrianus, Adrianus
Sophist. A pupil of Herodes; floruit under Marcus Antoninus; as a teacher he was a rival to the rhetor Aristides in Athens. He was also sophist in Rome, and was secretary with responsibility for …
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529
Ἀδριανοί
Adrianoi, Hadrianoi, Adriani, Hadriani
A city of Mysia, [the area which is] the present Bithynia.
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707
Ἀθάνατοι
immortals
Ten thousand select [troops] of the Persians. [The ones] which Ardabourios destroyed and obliterated during Theodosius' reign. [The ones] which Xerxes, son of Darius, had.
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784
Ἀκάκιος
Akakios, Acacius
An extremely eloquent rhetor in the time of Julian and the sophist Libanius. He attacked Julian and found fault with his judgments, along with Tuscianus from Phrygia, himself an eloquent rhetor.
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942
Ἀκουσίλαος
Akousilaos, Akusilaos, Acusilaus
Son of Kabas; an Argive, from the city of Kerkas, which is near Aulis; a very ancient historian. He wrote Genealogies from bronze tablets, which, the story goes, his father found while digging a …
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943
Ἀκουσίλαος
Akousilaos; Akusilaos; Acusilaus
An Athenian, son of Agathokleia. He acquired a passionate enthusiasm for oratory in Athens, went to Rome under Galba and devoted himself to rhetorical discourse. From the interest earned on his business dealings, on …
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1138
Ἄλεξις
Alexis
Of Thourioi, [the place] previously called Sybaris; a comic playwright. He produced 245 plays. He was the paternal uncle of Menander the comic playwright. And he had a son, Stephanos, a comic playwright himself.
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1166
Ἀλείψας
having oiled
[Used] with an accusative. [Meaning he] having stimulated. From a metaphor of athletes. "Oiling into endurance those who are being wronged". And Aristophanes [writes]: "you oiled from these [sc. olives] at the New-moons". Because …
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1213
Ἀλίβυες
Alibyes
[Another name for] Zeugnitai. In olden days the term for two horses yoked at the neck was horse-attached. On the one there was a driver, and on the other a hoplite. And now they …
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1273
Ἀλκαῖος
Alkaios, Alcaeus
An Athenian, a tragic poet, whom some people want [to say] was [the?] first tragic poet.
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1274
Ἀλκαῖος
Alkaios, Alcaeus
A Mytilenian, then an Athenian; a comic poet of the Old Comedy - the fifth; son of Mikkos. He wrote ten plays.
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1292
Ἀλκμαιονίδαι
Alkmaionidai, Alkmeonidai, Alcmaeonidae, Alcmeonids
[sc. The name of] certain illustrious men in Athens, [named] from Alkmaion, the one [who lived] during the time of Theseus. Also [sc. attested is] "of Aktaionid [ones]", [singular] of an Aktaionid [one]; "you …
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1338
Ἄλλος οὗτος Ἡρακλῆς
this man is another Herakles
[sc. A saying] in reference to those accomplishing something by force. Something proverbial said first about Theseus or about the Herakles [who was one] of the Idaean Dactyls or about the son of Alcmene …
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1368
Ἅλω
threshing-floor
The nominative [is] a(/lw. For the a(/lws [version is] a modern mistake.
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1389
Ἀλωπεκόννησος
Alopekonnesos, Alopeconnesus, Fox-Island
It is a city, one among those in Cheronnesos. Ainos is a city of Thrace, which Greeks first colonized for the Alopekonnesians, and later they introduced additional settlers from Mytilene and Kyme.
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1407
Ἄλπειον
Alp
Name of a mountain. Also [sc. attested is] Alps, "extensive mountains, which nature raised just like a fortification for Italy, their height above the clouds, and so very extensive that, divided, they reach the …
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1506
Ἀμασεία
Amaseia, Amasia
Name of a city; But Amasis [is] a proper name. He was the first man to conquer Cyprus, subdue it and make it tributary. There is also Amasis [as] a name of a city.
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