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α4072Ἀρχαῖονprincipal, ancientThe orators used [the word] "principal" of borrowed money, the money which some call "capital", kephalaion, according to a certain custom of usage. Demosthenes in the [speech] Against Nikostratos [writes]: "he lent money to …Matched in translationhighmedium
η404Ἤνυστρονfourth stomach… kekru/falon ["second stomach"]. "But I having gulped down a cow's fourth stomach and a pig's belly [...]."Matched in translationhighshort
α4069Ἀρχαῖαprincipals… Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "[weep, you moneylenders] yourselves and your principals and your compound interests."

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The orators used [the word] "principal" of borrowed money, the money which some call "capital", kephalaion, according to a certain custom of usage. Demosthenes in the [speech] Against Nikostratos [writes]: "he lent…

Ἀρχαῖον· ἐχρήσαντο οἱ ῥήτορες τῷ ἀρχαίῳ ἐπὶ τοῦ δανειζομένου τὸ ἀργύριον, ὅπερ ἔνιοι κατά τινα συνήθειαν κεφάλαιον ὀνομάζουσι. Δημοσθένης ἐν τῷ κατὰ Νικοστράτου· δανείσας ἀργύριον…

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β432Βούλει διαμάχεσθαι Γηρυόνι τετραπτίλῳdo you want to do battle with a four-winged Geryon?That is, with a three-headed [one]. For he had three crests on his helmet and gave Herakles a hell of a struggle.Matched in headwordhighshort

ε470Ἐκκλησία κυρίαprincipal assemblyThe ekklesia [assembly] in which they used to confirm [make kyrios] the decrees, is called kyria. There are regular ekklesiai, those that are called kyriai, three per month at Athens, on the first and …Matched in headwordhighshort

ε2807Ἐποποῖepopoi (in hoopoe-ese)… in one musical sequence, and line 242 combines the third, fourth and fifth phrases into a single sequence (as the writer of the article probably intended). The rising crescendo at the end of each …Matched in noteshighlong

ε3012ἜριφοςEriphus, Eriphos… plays include Aeolus, Peltast, Meliboea, as Athenaeus says in the fourteenth [book] of the Deipnosophists.Matched in translationhighshort

β110Βάρβιτονbarbitos, long-armed lyre… However, they contend that it is incoherent there as a fourth couplet to 7.23 and endorse Joseph Justus Scaliger's (1540-1609) argument that these lines belong as the opening of another epigram otherwise lost (ibid.). …Matched in noteshighshort

β488Βωμολοχεύσαιτο(if one) were to play the wit at the altar… the fifth century BC and at least some of the fourth (here associated with Phrynis). Most take it for modulation between the new scales made possible by the new models of cithara (see West …Matched in noteshighmedium

κ2161Κοτίνου στεφάνῳwith a wreath of wild olive… the Olympic games, where he gathers all the Greeks every fourth year, he proclaims the victors in the events by crowning them with a crown of the wild olive? Surely he ought to use …Matched in noteshighmedium

α1785Ἀμφορεαφόρουςamphora-bearers, amphora-carriers… "he bought up with a Tyrian coin, which is worth four Attic [drachmas], four amphoras, and then sold [them] for the price of half an amphora and made a lot of money." And Aristophanes …Matched in translationhighmedium

γ254ΓηρυόνηςGeryones, Geryon… Aristophanes [writes]: "do you want to do battle with a four-winged Geryon?". Meaning four-headed. A riddle referring to the helmet of Lamachos, which has three crests; from the feathers on it. What he is …Matched in translationhighshort

ε1326Ἔνιis in… want to go with these people for the sake of virtue: those in whom is natural ability, in whom is boldness, in whom is wisdom, in whom is prudent patriotic virtue."Matched in translationhighshort

μ115Μᾶλλον μᾶλλονmore and more… is used both positively and negatively, as when we say 'virtue does more good than harm'. For [by that] we mean that virtue does good, but does not do harm.Matched in translationhighmedium

α3729Ἀράβιος ἄγγελοςArabian messenger… plays the pipe for a drachma, but he stops for four." Also "Arabian piper", in reference to the unceasing. Cantharus in Medea [writes]: "strike up this dance on an Arabian kithara." The Arabians greatly …Matched in translationhighmedium

κ2745Κύρβειςkyrbeis, kurbeis, crested stelae, crested tablets… And [there is] a proverb: 'kyrbeis of evils'. [Kyrbeis] are four-angled tablets among the Athenians, on which they used to write the laws, as well as prescribe the punishments of the wrong-doers. The proverb …Matched in translationhighmedium

κ2290Κῷος πρὸς ΧῖονCoös against Chios, Coan against Chian… Chios meant not a single ace but the throw of four aces and Coös the throw of four sixes. This would give a better sense to the proverb "Chios, standing beside, does not allow …Matched in noteshighshort

γ352Γνώσῃ δὲ τοὺς τούτου τε κἀμοῦ μαθητάς τούτου μὲν Φορμίσιος Μεγαίνετός θ' ὁ Μάνηςyou will recognize his pupils and mine -- his are Phormisios and Megainetos the Manes… Appreciation of the joke here would be easier if all four individuals (Phormisios, Megainetos, Kleitophon, Theramenes) were securely identifiable; nevertheless, as three of them were prominent anti-democracy figures of the day (Phormisios, Kleitophon, Theramenes: …Matched in noteshighshort

δ1227Δίωκε ἀρετήνpursue excellence… simplicity". The usage of the verb diw/kw with reference to virtue is widespread among Christian writers (cf. also John Chrysostom In Ep. 2 ad Cor. 61.488.4 Migne: tou=to di/wke, filosofi/an kai\ a)reth\n "love of …Matched in noteshighshort

ε2914Ἐραῖαeraia, wool-decorated branch… prevalence of the olive in Attica the olive branch was principally used for these woolly branches. Compare Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon, who glosses the word qallo/s as 'any branch. But principally the branch of the …Matched in noteshighshort

α425ἈδάμAdam… coursed through all nature, accurately and unerringly anticipating the particular virtue of each thing. Those who judged him were not men, who often make judgments in an erroneous fashion, but the God of everything, …Matched in translationhighlong

α2082Ἀνάστατοιanastatoi… moon. Accordingly they would sacrifice this ox in addition to four round-cakes and call it "fifth ox". But rather, "seventh ox" in addition to the six [mooncakes]. In reference to those who are unfeeling.Matched in translationhighmedium

α2684Ἀντιμάχου καταπυγοσύνης ἀναπλήσειhe will fill [you] with the buggery of Antimachos… his villainy. And a third, known as Psekados. And a fourth, a banker, of whom Eupolis makes mention in Demoi. A fifth [is] a historiographer.Matched in translationhighshort

α3361Ἀποκναίεινto wear out… mean Herakles of course -- with the magnitude of the virtue [of Herakleios] by putting him in second place, if we leave them side by side." Theophylactus Simocatta [sc. writes this]. And elsewhere: "mankind …Matched in translationhighmedium

α4304Ατταwhichever, someHas four meanings. Meaning as many as or whichever in Antiphon, but meaning some or some kind of in Demosthenes in the Philippics. But sometimes atta is redundant. In the speech On the Fraudulent …Matched in translationhighmedium

α4462Αὐστηρόςsevere… that all people of wisdom and character are severe, by virtue of the fact that they neither interact with people in accordance with pleasure, nor do they approve of what is done among others …Matched in translationhighshort

α4660Ἀφύα ἐς πῦρanchovy into fire… anchovy, and another from small fish. The aphritis is the principal one. "Apicius the gourmet presented Nicomedes, the king of the Bithynians who was far from the sea and had his heart set upon …Matched in translationhighmedium

β69Βαλβίς Βαλβῖδοςstarting-post; starting-post's… column, the starting-point, and the turn. "Just like those driving four-horse chariots despatched from some starting-post, once the gate had been opened." Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "at [the] starting-posts", meaning at the …Matched in translationhighmedium

δ201ΔέλταdeltaThe fourth letter. It also signifies the female genitalia. "Delta-plucked women".Matched in translationhighshort

δ1516Δραχμήdrachma… proverb: "for a drachma he plays the pipes, but for four he stops." See under "Arabian messenger."Matched in translationhighmedium

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