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841
Ἀκέσασθαι καὶ Ἀκέσαι
to heal
[Meaning] to heal. Whence Athenians [or: Attic-dialect-users] call the needlewoman an akestria.
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842
Ἀκεσίας ἰάσατο
Akesias healed
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those who heal for the worse. It seems that Akesias treated someone for the worse.
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851
Ἀκέστας
healers
[Meaning] doctors. Also [sc. attested is] a)ke/stwr, [genitive] a)ke/storos, [also meaning] doctor.
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856
Ἀκεῖσθαι
to heal
[a)kei=sqai means the same as] qerapeu/ein. *)akei=sqai: to say to heal in comedy.
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1302
Ἁλμάδες
salteds
[Meaning] brine-steeped olives.
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1303
Ἅλμη οὐκ ἔνεστ' αὐτῷ
there is no salt in him; there is no sauce in him
[sc. A proverbial saying] in reference to the sour and unpleasant [man].
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2310
Ἀνέρριπτον
I was tossing in the air, they were tossing in the air
I was/they were undertaking. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "the die has been thrown"; in effect, has been put at risk. "So speak, as I have been tossed by you, your final throw …
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2383
Ἀνεῖναι
to toss, to let go (up), to roll (dice)
[Meaning] to let loose/let go. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] to roll a die, meaning to throw up a die.
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4147
Ἀσία
Asia
[The name of] a land, that of the east. Also [sc. attested is] "notes (twangs?) of an Asias," [meaning] of the kithara. Thus Aristophanes [uses the phrase]. Or "notes of an Asiatis." Also [sc. …
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64
Αἴγλη
radiance; Aigle
[Meaning] a throw at dice, brilliance, gleam. Cratinus [sc. uses the word]. And [sc. in so doing] he reveals [that it is] a type of round sacrificial cake, and rite of sacrifice, as Leagoras …
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244
Αἰόλαν
undulating; leaping in undulating circles; of intricate, dazzling, multicoloured design
[Meaning] leaping/hopping. "We croaked an undulating dance-chorus brekekex."
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245
Αἰόλαν
darkening, discolouring
[Meaning] dark/shadowy.
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253
Αἰόλος
undulating, wavelike, advancing in a winding or rolling fashion, agile in turning side to side; multicoloured, discoloured, black or chestnut with white markings; easily moved, changeable, wily, quick-witted, liable to metamorphosis, disturbed in mind; whirling; self-generating in movement, ever-turning; lively, flashing, shimmering
[Meaning] easily-moved/agile, multicoloured [or: intricate, or: changeable]. Or swift; [so called] from the whirlwind [hurricane or tornado], which comes from ‘to blow’ and ‘to wind/roll up’.
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487
Βωμολοχεύμασι
with the low buffoonery and rascally tricks of the altar-ambushers.
[Meaning] with all sorts of rascally subterfuges.
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645
Διαμάρτῃ
that he would fail; that he would miss the opportunity
[... that he would fail/miss the opportunity], that man. Subjunctive.
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692
Διαπέσοιμι
may I collapse, may I fail
i.e. may I fail to achieve my hope. Aristophanes [writes]: "unless I exterminate you, if there is any one of my lies left in me, may I collapse over the place!"
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1030
Διθύραμβος
dithyramb
[Meaning] a hymn to Dionysus. "Apollonius practised a form of discourse not dithyrambic and swollen with poetic expressions."
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1031
Διθυράμβων νοῦν ἔχεις ἐλάττονα
you have less sense than dithyrambs.
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to silly/unintelligible people.
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1488
Δρᾷ
acts
[Meaning he/she/it] does. Or will furnish.
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1489
Δρᾶ
get done!
Meaning "do!" In the imperative. Aristophanes in Birds [writes]: "you now get the other things done yourself!"
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1492
Δράκαυλος
drakaulos; living with a snake
Sophocles in Tympanistae [sc. uses the word]. [sc. It is appropriate] since Athena seems to place the snake among them, [i.e.] the daughters of Cecrops. Because they dwell in the same courtyard, as you …
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1498
Δρᾶμα
act, drama
[Meaning a] thing done, deed. As also to act [means] to do. Drama means also the things done in imitation by theatre-people [= actors] as in playing a speaking part [? = declaiming]. But …
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1500
Δράμῃς
you would run
Aorist subjunctive.
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1508
Δρασείεις
you wish to do
[Meaning] you have it in mind to do. "O Zeus, what do you wish to do, longingly, to the people?" Aristophanes [says this]. Also [sc. attested is the participle] drasei/ontes, [meaning they] desiring to …
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1511
Δρᾶσον
do! , get it done!
Aristophanes in Birds [writes]: "but do you know what [to] do?" In Attic [dialect]. "Hit the rock with your leg!"
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1650
Δυσκολοκάμπτους ᾠδάς
intricate-twisted songs
[Meaning] ones in broken rhythm/voice. Aristophanes [writes]: "if one of them were to [...] twist a tune, such as these intricate-twisted ones today in the style of Phrynis that singers today sing, let him …
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χ
296
Χιάζειν
to play the Chian
Praxidamas [says that] Democritus of Chios and Theoxenides of Siphnos were the first to arrange their personal composition [? = poetry] with exharmonic colors [or: to the chromatic scale]; as Isocrates in the Against …
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