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Ἁβροχίτων
delicate-tunic'd
[Meaning someone] wearing delicate things.
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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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289
Ἀγνύθες
loom-weights
[Meaning] the stones of the loom.
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298
Ἀγγοπήνια
angopenia
[Meaning] the honeycombs of bees. That is, woven vessels; like xruseoph/nhta ["gold-woven"].
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300
Ἀγοράζειν
to frequent the market-place; to market
[Meaning] to buy something and to spend time in [the] marketplace. Aristophanes in Wealth [sc. applies this verb] to what we customarily [say] for to buy. "And to market a dress for his sisters."
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350
Ἀγρεία ἀοιδή
rustic song
The rural [kind]. "He stretched the hide down a rustic plane tree." In the Epigrams. Also [sc. attested is] a)grei=os, [meaning] the yokel, the ignoramus. Or someone from the country. Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: …
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460
Ἀδηλώσας
having disguised, having obfuscated
[Meaning he] having made [someone or something] unrecognizable. "Having disguised himself with a dirty cloak and taken a scythe as a worker on the land would [sc. wear/carry ...]."
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short
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476
Ἀδιάσκευον
unequipped
[Meaning] unadorned, unoutfitted. "Taking an unequipped horse and inconspicuousness armouring, he drove [them?] at a march against the enemy".
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short
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510
ᾍδου κυνῆν
Hades' helmet
See under "helmet".
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675
Ἄϊδος κυνῆ
Hades' dog-skin [helmet]
A proverb [directed] toward those concealing themselves with certain devices. For such was the dog-skin [helmet] of Hades, which Perseus used when he cut the throat of the Gorgon.
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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 …
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839
Ἀκερσεκόμης
unshorn-haired
[Meaning someone] not shearing the hair.
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855
Ἀκειρεκόμης
unshorn-haired
[Meaning someone] not shearing the hair.
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940
Ἄκουρον
untrimmed, unshaven
"[o] people-hater, lover of monarchy, and [...] wearing woolly fringes and keeping your beard untrimmed!" Aristophanes says [this].
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1001
Ἀκρόδρυα
fruits
[Meaning] tree-borne crops, all crops which grow on trees. "They threw [things] at them, one a Persian cloak, another fruits".
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1005
Ἀκρόκομοι
crown-haired
[Meaning men] wearing their hair moderately, or to excess, or wearing it on the crowns of the head.
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1136
Ἀλεξιβέλεμνον
dart-averting
[Meaning] one which repels missiles. In the Epigrams: "and the dart-averting tunic from the chest".
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1172
Ἄληθες
truly
Meaning really. They think it right to give the first [syllable] an acute accent, when what is said in a question means [something like] this, such as "really, truly." "Truly, o child of the …
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short
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1224
Ἄλλικα
allix, mantle
A chlamys according to Thessalians: "an allix fastened with gilt brooches." The locals(?) call this gallix.
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1239
Ἀλιπαρῆ
miserable, unfit for a suppliant
Meaning wretched. Or importunate, out of which [sc. comes the idea that] we will importune [liparh/somen] him. Sophocles [writes]: "and from poor me, these things small but nonetheless wh' I have, give him: this …
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short
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1308
Ἀλογία
disregard
[Meaning] unconcern. Herodotus [writes]: "the scout discovered the Lacedaemonians combing [their hair] and was amazed, to have encountered such great disregard. And Xerxes, hearing these things, had no means of gauging their reality."
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1357
Ἁλουργά
sea-wrought
[Meaning of] sea-purple. "The girdles, and the sea-wrought undergarment, and the Laconian robes."
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1359
Ἁλουργίς
sea-robe
[Meaning a] purple mantle. Since the rose [is] purple, Aristophanes introduced the halourgis for a wreath of roses. But a(lourgh/s ["sea-wrought"] [sc. is an adjective describing] clothing, [genitive] a(lourgou=s, [dative] a(lourgei=. "Sea-wrought clothing."
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1360
Ἁλουργοπωλική
sea-wrought-selling
The so-called purple-selling [porfuropwlikh/]. Thus Isaeus [sc. uses the term].
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1387
Ἀλωπεκιανός
Foxy, Mangy
Also [sc. attested is] a)lwpeki/a, a head-covering.
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short
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1438
Ἁλυσείδιον
chain-mail
[Chain-mail]; and [sc. also attested is the phrase] 'chain-mail corslet'.
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short
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1440
Ἁλύσιον
necklace
[Meaning a] type of chain around the neck. Menander in Carian Woman [writes]: "let someone give you a necklace around your neck."
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short
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1606
Ἀμιτροχίτων
with mitra-less chiton
[Meaning] one not employing a mitra.
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short
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1623
Ἀμόργεια
Amorgian
[Meaning a] kind of color, [named] from the island of Amorgos, as Therian [is] from the island of Thera.
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short
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1625
Ἀμόργινον
amorginos, Amorgian, mallow-fibered fabric
[Meaning something] like linen and expensive. Also found is amorgina in the feminine.
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