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Ἄγουσιν ἑορτὴν οἱ κλέπται
the thieves are keeping festival.
The expression [is] very charming and suitably witty in accordance with the charm of comedy. It signifies those who steal with impunity.
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Agonis
A name of a courtesan.
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336
Ἀγώνισμα
achievement, prize
[Meaning] effort, diligence. "An achievement is there for him to take". Aristophanes [writes]: "personally, I would like to meet some ("wild beast" is left out) and take an achievement worthy of the journey." A …
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Ἀγωνοθέτης
agonothete
The man [engaged] in [organising] the theatrical [competitions]; but athlothete [is] the man [engaged] in [organising] the athletic [competitions].
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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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358
Ἀγριοποιόν
wild-maker, wild-making
And a wild-making fellow. [sc. Meaning him who is] introducing savage heroes. Aristophanes [says] about Aeschylus: "I know him and understand him well; I've watched him for a long time; a wild-making fellow, stubborn …
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360
Ἀγρίους
wild men
Aeschines in the speech Against Timarchos calls men who are very agitated by the love of boys "wild men". And Menander says a gambler is "wild" if he is too eager for gambling. The …
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371
Ἀγροῦ πυγή
rump of the country; fat of the land
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to the comfortably-off and those attending perseveringly to some kind of task.
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377
Ἄγροικος ὀργήν
boorish in anger
Litigious, choleric, prone to anger. Aristophanes [writes]: "for we have a master who is boorish in anger." Also [sc. attested is] a)groi/ths, [meaning] the country man.
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378
Ἀγροίκου μὴ καταφρόνει ῥήτορος
don't despise a rustic rhetor
[Said] because one should not despise even worthless things.
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385
Ἀγύρριος
Agyrrhios, Agyrrhius
A proper name. [The man] who was slandered for weakness, that he actually breaks wind. Aristophanes in Plutus [says this]. And he was also ridiculed for over-boldness. Also [sc. attested is] Agyrrhios, an Athenian …
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408
Ἀγχιστεία
closeness, being next of kin, right of inheritance
The sharing of property. In Aristophanes: "let there be no anchisteia for a bastard". Also [sc. attested is] a [related] verb a)gxisteu/w ["I am an anchisteus"]; [used] with a genitive.
high
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410
Ἀγχίστροφοι
changeable
[Those] gathered together, or quickly turning about. Procopius [writes]: "the battle had become fierce and at close range, and both sides were making quick-turning pursuits against each other." And elsewhere: "then you, deploying the …
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412
Ἀγχόνη
noose, strangling
Slipknot, rope, [when it is] paroxytone; but "strangling", the deed, [is] oxytone. The activity. Also [sc. attested is the related aorist participle] a)gxonh/sas ["he having strangled"]: he having choked. But [sc. also attested is] …
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short
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416
Ἄγχουσα
alkanet, bugloss, rouge
A type of plant, which has a red root used by women to redden their faces. "Alkanet will harm [you] as will that white lead of yours".
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short
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430
Ἀδαχεῖν
to scrape
The [verb that means] to grate, not [spelled] with the "o" [i.e. not] o)dach=sai. Also [sc. attested is] a)daxei=n, [meaning] to be grating. "For he is always grating the barley right here and gathering …
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431
Ἀδαῖον
unfired, Adaios, Adaeus
[Meaning] unburnt. Also [sc. attested is] Adaios, a proper name.
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437
Ἀδεκατεύτους
not having tithed
Aristophanes [sc. says this for those who are in the position of] not having paid taxes; for they dedicated in the Prytaneion tithes of the bellies of the sacrificial animals as their tenth share.
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short
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441
Ἀδελφειός
brother
[Meaning the same as] a)delfo/s; but a)delfidou=s [is] first cousin. And [sc. the accusative is] to\n a)delfidou=n. Also [sc. attested is the cognate verb] a)delfi/zein, meaning "to call [someone] brother". Isocrates and Hecataeus the …
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453
Ἀδείμαντος
Adeimantos, Adimantus
A general of the Corinthians, who called Themistocles a city-less man. But he said "Who [is] city-less, when he has 200 triremes?". Plato, too, mentions this man in the Protagoras. For he was one …
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short
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454
ᾌδειν κελεύονθ' ὡσπερεὶ τέττιγα ἑστιῶντα
asking [me] to sing as if entertaining cicadas
For it is a talkative creature. But [sc. differently-accented] a)dei=n [means] to please.
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short
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469
Ἀδηφαγία
greed
[Meaning] insatiability. Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] adephagos ["greedy"], [meaning someone] incessantly eating, omnivorous, gourmandizing. "Greedy triremes" would be a name for ones on full pay and costing a lot, as a …
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short
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501
Ἀδολεσχία
idle talk
[Meaning] tactlessness, nonsense, incessant [chatter]. Attic [writers] lengthen the alpha. But a)dolesxi/a ["meditation"] in the Scripture [is] continuous attention. And [it is construed] with the genitive. [Note also the future tense] a)dolesxh/sw, meaning I …
high
short
α
515
Ἀδωνία
Adonia, Adonis-mourning
With a short vowel [sc. in the penultimate syllable]. "We hold the Adonia and we weep for Adonis." Pherecrates [sc. writes this]. They also call the image of Adonis, in this way, an Adonion. …
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short
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521
Ἀδραμύτειον
Adramyteion
Thus [writes] Eupolis. But also [sc. attested is] Adramytenos; and Thucydides [writes] Atramytteion.
high
short
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551
Ἄελπτα
unexpected [things]
[Meaning] unhoped-for [ones], unlooked-for [ones]. Aristophanes [writes]: "in truth there are many unexpected [things] in this long life."
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short
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561
Ἀεροβατεῖν
to tread the air
To walk on the air. To go on the air. And Socrates said: "I tread the air and I observe the sun, so that it does not draw the moisture into the watercress".
high
short
α
563
Ἀερονηχεῖς
air-swimming
The clouds swimming in the air. Aristophanes [sc. uses the word].
high
short
α
565
Ἀέροψ
aerops, bee-eater
is declined [with the genitive] a)e/ropos.
high
short
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570
Ἀετιδεῖς
eaglets
[Meaning] the offspring of eagles. Aelian [sc. uses the word]. Also [attested is] pelargidei=s ["storklets"], [meaning] the offspring of storks.
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short
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