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Ἀσκήσασα
having tricked out
[Meaning she] having adorned, having woven with care.
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Ἀσκητός
tricked-out
[Meaning one who/which is] adorned with care. "Wearing a woman's chiton [and] tricked-out with well-wreathed ivy clusters."
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Ἀσκληπιόδοτος
Asklepiodotos, Asclepiodotus
This man from earliest childhood was agreed to be the keenest and most learned of his age-mates, to the extent that he did not stop busying himself with each of the things which he …
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Ἀσκὸς ἐν πάχνῃ
a wineskin in a frost
David says: "I have become as a wineskin in a frost." A wineskin when heated becomes porous and when inflated it swells, but in the frost it is hardened and frozen. Thus also the …
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4178
Ἀσκοπήρα
scrip
[Meaning] a pouch, that is, a little wallet.
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4180
Ἀσκούμενος
tricking himself out
[Meaning one who is] equipping, adorning [sc. himself].
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4232
Ἀστέρειος
of a star, star's
[A] possessive [adjective]. Also [sc. attested is] a)stero/enta ["starred/starry"], [meaning] having stars woven in. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] a)ste/rwn te/qrippos ["stars' four-horser"], [meaning] the chariot of the sun. Also [sc. attested is] …
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Ἀσφαδάστῳ
unconvulsive
[Meaning] without struggling, not having spasms. Meaning briefly. So that when an opportune blow has come along there should be neither spasm nor much time spent in dying. For sfada/zein ["to convulse"] is used …
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Ἀσχάλλων
being vexed
[Meaning someone] being troubled, being grieved, taking it badly. "But he was vexed at being surpassed in reputation by a young man who thought only of his hair and other bodily training." And elsewhere: …
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4377
Ἀτραβατικάς
Atrabatic
In festivals and triumphs and when ambassadors are present [the Romans] used to put on many-colored chitons and cloaks, with gold and purple and otherwise costly, and ones scarlet in color in common assemblies, …
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Αὐθέντης
perpetrator
The one [doing something] with his own hand, or the one who kills himself. Hence in Isocrates perpetrator. Lysias applies it in a special sense to the 30, even though they had their murders …
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Αὐλίσκοι
little pipes, little tubes
[no gloss]
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Αὐξέντιος
Auxentios, Auxentius
Bishop of Mopsuestia, he was one of the so-called confessors. He was one of those attending the emperor Licinius in a prominent capacity in the army, having become one of the clerks whom the …
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4539
Αὐτῷ στεφάνῳ
crown and all, garland and all
[Meaning] with the crown itself. "So that each man, drunk, can take a torch and depart, crown and all."
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4549
Ἄφαλόν τε καὶ ἄλοφον
both boss-less and crest-less
[Meaning] such that it might escape notice. For phaloi ["bosses"] are the shiny little disks of helmets, lophoi ["crests"] the gatherings of hair.
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Ἀφιματῶσαι
to take off [clothing]
[Meaning] to strip [it] off.
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4653
Ἀφροδίτη
Aphrodite, Venus
They sculpt the statue of her holding a comb, since a pestilential itch once afflicted the womenfolk of the Romans, and when they all shaved themselves, their combs became useless to them; they prayed …
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Ἀχίας
Ahijah, Achias, Akhias
This prophet lived when Jeroboam was king of the Hebrews. During that time when his child was sick, he told his wife to go where Achias stayed to ask about her child's health after …
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Ἄχθομαι
I am sick [of], I am grieved by
[Meaning] I am distressed, I am irritated. Aristophanes [writes]: "I am sick of their peacocks and their quackery." Meaning their ornamental gowns; since a peacock [is] ornamental; or because they used to wear purple …
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Ἀψήκτῳ κοθόρνῳ
with an untanned boot
[Meaning] with an unsoftened [one], a hard [one], [as if to say] I will strike your jaw with an intractable sandal.
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Αἰγίζειν
to rend asunder
[Meaning] to tear apart. [The verb is formed] out of a metaphor; from which also 'to be rent asunder' [ai)gi/zesqai] [is derived] from squalls [kataigi/des]. Aeschylus [uses the word]. The same [author] in Hedone …
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Αἰγίοχος
Aegis-bearer
[Referring to] Zeus.
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Αἰγίς
aegis, aigis, goatskin
[Meaning] the hide which Libyans wear.
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Αἰγίς
garment; net; web; cuirass; wood-grain
[Meaning] the [thing] plaited from garlands and the net that has been braided from garlands. So Lycurgus and Herodotus [sc. use the word]. The priestess in Athens carrying [or: wearing] the sacred aigis used …
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158
Αἰθύξασα
having stirred
[Meaning she] having moved. "[She] having stirred a small cloth right there out of the bed."
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Αἰθύσσω
I stir up
The [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 …
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Αἱμαλέας
bloody
"Eight...cuirasses and just as many bloody scimitars."
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Αἰμιλία
Aemilia, Aimilia
The wife of Scipio the Great; she made a practice of participating in the women's processions with a show of pomp that was magnificent, since she reached her peak at the same time that …
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Αἰολομίτρης
agile with a waistband [or: having a multicoloured or twisted or flashing waistband]; having a multicoloured diadem
[Meaning] having a multicoloured [or: intricately-crafted] mitre.
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Αἰσχύλος
Aiskhylos, Aischylos, Aeschylus
Athenian, tragic poet, son of Euphorion and brother of Ame[i]nias, Euphorion, and Kynageiros, who [all] fought bravely at Marathon together with him. He also had two sons who were tragedians, Euphorion and Euaion. He …
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