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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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Ἀβελτεροκόκκυξ
silly cuckoo
The vacuous and silly man.
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Ἀβελτερώτατοι
most thoughtless, very thoughtless
Aristophanes [writes]: "before this most/very thoughtless men used to sit gaping -- Dolts, Half-wits".
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Ἀβέλτερος νοῦς
foolish mind
"[A foolish mind,] empty, naive, young."
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Ἀβρότονον
wormwood
Type of plant.
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101
Ἄβυδος
Abudos, Abydos, Abydus
A city. The word is applied to an informant [sukofa/nths] because of the common belief that the people of Abudos were informers. Also [sc. attested is] an adverb, *)abudo/qi, [meaning] in Abudos. Also [sc. …
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Ἀβυρτάκη
sour-sauce, aburtake, abyrtake, abyrtace
A sharp-flavored barbarian dish, prepared from leeks and cress[-seeds] and pomegranate kernels and other such things, quite clearly pungent. Theopompus in Theseus [writes]: "he will reach the land of the Medes, where aburtake is …
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Ἀγαθὴ καὶ μάζα μετ' ἄρτον
after bread a barley cake is good too
In reference to those who give or take second-best. *ma/za [barley cake] has an acute [accent]; for a circumflex does not occur before the position of a long vowel. Aristophanes, though, gives ma/za a …
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Ἀγαθικά
good things
[Meaning] excellent things.
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123
Ἀγαθῶν ἀγαθίδες
skeins of good things
The proverb is used in the comic poets in reference to a lot of good things. Also [sc. attested is] 'sea of good things', in reference to an abundance of good things. Also [sc. …
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131
Ἄγαλμα
decoration, delight, ornament, statue
Anything in which someone takes delight. "And he [A] gives silver, so that he [B] might complete the statue with the utmost artisanry, adding the size and prescribing the nature of the stone."
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138
Ἄγαμαι καρδίας
I admire at heart
An Atticism, meaning I marvel [at]. Aelian [writes]: "since, also, the [behaviour? remark?] of Menelaus to Paris the son of Priam I neither praise nor admire." "Personally I admire these men as well, and …
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143
Ἄγαν ἐγκεῖσθαι τῷδε
to be too vehement against someone
For instance to make accusations and to lambaste.
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146
Ἀγανόφρονος
kindly-minded
"And the cheerful face of kindly-minded peace." [Meaning] easygoing and gentle.
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149
Ἀγανώτερον
milder, kindlier
[Meaning] more/rather desirable, more/rather gentle.
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152
Ἀγαπησμός
affection
They call friendliness "affection" and "lovingness". In Synaristosai [Ladies Who Lunch] Menander [writes]: "and the affection, such as it was, for each other that arose from difficulty."
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217
Ἀγῆλαι
to celebrate, to glorify
[Meaning] to honor a god with celebrations. Thus Eupolis in Demes [writes]: "now we too should dedicate to these the twin woolly wreaths and approach in celebration. Hail everyone, we welcome [you]!" Aristophanes in …
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251
Ἀγκύλη
thong, hook
A kind of javelin. Also [sc. attested is the related participle] h)gkulwme/nos ["armed with a javelin"], [meaning] wielding a javelin. But [sc. the headword] also signifies some furnishing of the tent of Moses.
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255
Ἀγκυλοχείλης καὶ Ἀγκυλόχειλος
crooked-beaked
Bent-beaked, an epithet of the eagle, which has curved talons. But in reference to Cleon [it means] having crooked hands for theft and seizure.
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261
Ἀγκύρισμα
anchor-hold
[Meaning] a kind of 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]: …
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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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270
Ἄγλιθες
garlic-crowns
[Meaning] the heads of garlic plants. Aristophanes [writes]: "like field-mice, you dig garlic-crowns with a peg".
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280
Ἄγνον
chaste-tree, withy
They are not speaking of the lugos. And Chionides uses it in the masculine in Heroes: "and verily, by Zeus, I don't seem anymore to be different from an agnos growing in a mountain …
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286
Ἄγνωτα
unknown
From the [adjective] a)/gnwtos, [neuter nominative/accusative plural]. For there is no transformation from a)gnw/s into a neuter gender. "Words [...] unknown to the audience." Aristophanes in Frogs [sc. says this].
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299
Ἀγορά
agora, assembly, market-place
[Meaning] the [sc. place of] assembly, whence Nestor [is] an a)gorhth/s ['agora-man']; also the place where the wares are sold, and the wares themselves.
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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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304
Ἀγοράσαι
to buy at market
Hyperides [sc. uses this] to mean to purchase. They say a)gora/sw, a)gorw= being sub-literate; there are plenty of examples everywhere, but take for instance [one] of Aristophanes, from Aiolosikon: "but hurry, there was no …
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Ἀγοράσω
I will go to market
Meaning I will spend time in [the] marketplace. Aristophanes [writes]: "and I will go to market in arms alongside Aristogeiton." Meaning I will spend time in the market with Aristogeiton, near Aristogeiton. That is, …
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306
Ἀγορᾶς ὥραν
market's hour, market's time
[Meaning the hour/time] not for selling things, but for the other transactions that go on in the marketplace at dawn, or indeed before the marketplace gets full. Pherekrates [writes]: "always to drink and get …
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308
Ἀγοραῖος νοῦς
marketplace mind
[Meaning] the one altogether cheap and vulgar and not elite or thoughtful. Also [sc. attested is] Agoraios Hermes. Aristophanes [writes]: "by Hermes Agoraios, I look and I perjure myself." That is, [Hermes] who is …
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