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χ328Χθονίας βροντάςearth-shaking thunderclaps"Celebrate [his] earth-shaking thunderclaps". Meaning sing a hymn. "Earth-shaking" [meaning] frightening. For they trace the genealogy of all terrible things to the earth. But others [see this as thunderclaps] that bring about a loud …Matched in translationhighmedium
χ5Χάλαζαhail, hailstorm… through the air by the wind and carried down to earth. But snow [is] moisture, frozen out of a cloud. Hailstorms: they are freezings of the moisture overhead in the air, above the earth; …Matched in translationhighmedium
χ84ΧάοςChaos… Chaos, Night, black Erebus, and broad Tartarus. There was neither earth, nor air, nor heaven. Black-winged Night begat the first wind-egg in the boundless bosom of Erebus. And after the cycles of the years, …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ1504Δραπέτης κλῆροςrunaway lot… of Aristodemus: that Cresphontes wickedly threw a moist lump of earth into the water-pot when lots were cast for Messenia. Sophocles [writes]: "not tossing the lot as a runaway down in the middle [...], …Matched in translationhighmedium
α124ἈγάθωνAgathon… Agathon?" -- "He's gone and left me." -- "Where on earth is the wretch?" -- "At a banquet of the blessed." This Agathon was good by nature, "missed by his friends" and brilliant at …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ808ΛύκιςLykis… of being a frigid poet. Aristophanes [writes] : "why on earth should I have carried these bags, if I shall be doing none of the things Phrynichus created, and Lykis and Ameipsias". So these …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ467Ληρεῖςyou are babbling[Meaning] you are chattering. Aristophanes [writes]: "what on earth are you babbling about? It's as if you've fallen off a donkey!" They also say: "off the top of your head." And elsewhere: "you are …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε2978Ἐριβρεμέταςloud-thundering… indeed those [words] at the beginning of the Prometheus: "To earth's remotest limit we come, to the Scythian land, an untrodden solitude. And now, Hephaestus, yours is the charge to observe the mandates laid …Matched in translationhighmedium
α1183Ἀληλεσμένονground-up… change of life, previously wild and thorny, before tending the earth and seeds came about. Hence from this care came the saying a)lhlesme/non bi/on.Matched in translationhighmedium
γ184Γέρανοι λίθους καταπεπωκυῖαιshe-cranes which have swallowed stones… finished their journey; but if [the stone goes] to the earth, they take a rest. Aristophanes says this: "cranes having swallowed stones". Cranes flying carry pebbles in their mouths as a support so as …Matched in translationhighmedium
α2010Ἀναπειστηρίανpersuasive[Meaning] able to persuade the listeners. Aristophanes [writes]: "how on earth could this [youth] learn acquittal from a lawsuit, or a summons, or persuasive hot air? Yet Hyperbolos learned this for a talent." Summons: …Matched in translationhighmedium
α732Ἀθηναίων δυσβουλίαAthenians' ill-counsel… were the first to work the soil [chthon], namely the earth, or on account of their not being incomers.Matched in translationhighmedium
ε3580ΕὐμενίδεςEumenides… Eumenides. Sophocles [writes]: "for the terrible goddesses, maidens of the earth and darkness, hold them." And [there is] a proverb: "different things [are] beautiful in different places." Inasmuch as some call the Eumenides differently. …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ119Δαίμωνgod, demi-god, spirit, fortune, genius… he who surveys everything and examines 'what is under the earth', [as] he says, and seeks out with evidence what is in the souls of his neighbors, but does not perceive that it is …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ658Λόγοςdiscourse; language… is a logos too. Aristophanes [writes]: "provide Euripides with a plot, and it becomes a tragedy". Search for Chrysippus' "abominable discourses" in the "Chrysippus" [entry].Matched in translationhighmedium
κ2153Κοτταβίζεινto play kottabos… a game among Athenians: a long staff fixed in the earth and another on top of it, moved as on a draft-animal -- it had two disks hung from it and two mixing-bowls of …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ1183Διονυσίων σκώμματαinsults of the Dionysia… as the poet says -- a 'useless weight on the earth'". "But he has been tossed to the crows and is gone unseen, unheard of, shown to be twistier than a hinge in matters …Matched in translationhighmedium
α2082Ἀνάστατοιanastatoi… when the sun and the moon appear early over the earth; but Apollodorus [says that it is] because they fasten bundles of firewood to them when bringing them. But a phthoïs are[sic!] pastries, which …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ89ΔᾶτιςDatis… to make trial of the cities and to ask for earth and water. All the islanders gave it to them; but the Athenians took deep offense and banished the envoys. The Lacedaemonians agreed to …Matched in translationhighmedium
α104Ἄβυσσονabyss… and small seas, David naturally called this [i.e., abyss] the earth's surrounding garment. Also, "abyss calls to abyss", the same prophet says, meaning figuratively military divisions and the excessive size of the multitude. "I …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ1205ΔιοσημείαZeus-omen, Zeus-sign… that [phenomenon] is called dioshmi/a". Some natural phenomena, such as earthquakes, thunders and storms, were held by the Athenians to be bad omens, so that they would interrupt an assembly and suspend a deliberation …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1054Διιτρέφης πυτιναῖα ἔχων πτεράDiitrephes with wicker-flask wings… if [Aristophanes] said: with nothing other than wine-jar feet and earthenware knobs. This man [Dieitrephes] was nouveau riche and grasping and wicked. Plato in Festivals [writes]: "and a foreigner, the madman, the Cretan, the …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε1546Ἐξάντηdanger-free, out of danger… [his] daughter, who was ignorant of that man's schemes and plots against him, comes safe out of the evil [situation]." It is also an interjection. "Being safe I see another man having my misfortune." …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ240ΚαλλισθένηςKallisthenes, Callisthenes… he was killed, at the same time as Nearchos, for plotting against Alexander. [He was] naturally impulsive, and [was said] to be motivated by great passion. And a story is told that Kallisthenes ruined …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε3695ΕὐριπίδηςEuripides… enjoying the highest honor. Euripides met his end at the plotting of Arrhibaeus of Macedonia and Crateuas of Thessaly, poets jealous of him. They bribed, with ten minas, a servant of the king's, named …Matched in translationhighmedium