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μ712Μεταμώνιοςwindbag[sc. Someone] worthless, useful for nothing. Aristophanes [writes]: "a windbag would go to the crows".Matched in translationhighshort
χ514Χρηστόνdecent, serviceable[*xrhsto/n means the same as] xrh/simon ["useful"]. "[They] having bought a decent bit of salt fish for the field."Matched in translationhighshort
α2508Ἀνθηράflowering, fresh… what is new and fresh is popular". Birds which are useful and fresh we raise at home, while we eat those that are not fresh. Aristophanes in Acharnians [writes]: "you saw, o whole city, …Matched in translationhighshort
γ201Γέρων γέροντοςold man [and] old man's… w)= ge/ron. And [there is] a proverb: "never do anything useful to/for an old man." It recommends not doing good indiscriminately.Matched in translationhighshort
κ2319Κραμβοτάτουloudest, quite loud, very loud… an improviser in his plays. Or [meaning] air-dried; or very useful.Matched in translationhighshort
δ507ΔιαβήτηςcompassThe compass [is] an instrument, useful for many crafts, [which is shaped] rather like the letter l[ambda]. By inserting one half of this instrument and moving the other half around, they make circles. The …Matched in translationhighshort
ν393ΝικόλαοςNikolaos, Nicolaus… for free men, as well as much of what was useful for life, and most of all what was accessible to both youth and old age, and said that in addition the Muses were …Matched in translationhighlong
β425Βούλευμαdecision, resolution… finding a boulema that would be good and noble and useful for every task."Matched in translationhighshort
λ794ΛυκαβηττὸςLykabettos, Lycabettus… and the heights of Parnassoses, is this teaching what is useful?". In reference to those boasting for some reason. Aristophanes [sc. says this].Matched in translationhighshort
ν528Νωγαλέονattractive, dainty… such things, including also the nw/gala, indicate a particular preparation useful for feasting.Matched in translationhighshort
ε1047Ἔμπορός εἰμι σκηπτόμενοςI am a merchant-shipper as an excuse… merchant-shippers did not go out on campaign because of their useful role in provisioning.Matched in translationhighshort
α1590Ἀμίδαchamberpot… plural] a)mi/das, [meaning] service-implements. "This is a wise thing and useful for an old man that you have invented, really a remedy for bladder troubles." [So says] Aristophanes [after]: "this chamberpot here, if you …Matched in translationhighshort
χ135ΧάρωνCharon… describe what is useless, since a donkey's wool is not useful. And the proverb is also uttered in the case of what is endless, just as we say "You are decorating a pot." Things …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ2798Κυφόνbent… saying] in reference to people/things easily despised in aspect, but useful.Matched in translationhighshort
μ1291ΜοῦσαMuse… many, because learning and education has great variety and is useful for every need.Matched in translationhighshort
ε669Ἔκτοπονstrange… has grown strange, above Kardia -- Kleonymos: not at all useful, and otherwise terrible and big. In the spring this [tree] always grows and spreads slander, but in winter it drops shields like leaves." …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ1189Καιρόςopportune time… means that the opportune time is the timely and most/very useful [thing] for each activity: where even serious [efforts] occurring at the wrong time are not accepted, as a physician conversing with one who …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ1560Δοῖδυξpestle… this man had not become great in the city, two useful implements would not exist, a pestle and a grinder". See in the entry a)letri/banos ['grinder'].Matched in translationhighshort
α848Ἀκέσματαremedies… certain religious rites how to change and in offering certain useful solutions. Minos summoned this man to Crete, they say by gifts, so that he might track down the celebrated disappearance of Glaucus." Also …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ517Κατὰ δάκτυλονby a dactyl… occurs: Socrates tells Strepsiades that this is one of the useful skills he will learn in the musical part of the Thinkery's curriculum. See text at web address 1. [1] In the sense -- …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1618Κιμωλίαcimolite, Cimolian earth… high level absorptive power. These factors make the compound very useful as a detergent or soap and was often used as such through much of antiquity. [Note courtesy Carl Widstrand.] See Encyclopedia Brittanica entry …Matched in noteshighshort
δ843Διὰ χρόνουafter a time… several Greek authors in the medical field for its many useful qualities. In Hippocrates, first it is considered useful in gynaecologic aspects, but in De diaeta 54.36 he adds: *glh/xwn qermai/nei kai\ diaxwre/ei, “pennyroyal …Matched in noteshighmedium
α3049Ἀπεροῦνταseeking to avert… the Roman frontier, on the grounds that they might be useful future allies against the Goths; cf. Kaldellis (96). [3] Aristophanes, Lysistrata 164-5 (web address 3), with comment from the scholia there.Matched in noteshighshort
α4576Ἀφελέςsimple… something which, while foreign and simple, was nevertheless effective [and] useful: that it is necessary first to scare away the bees and then to take up the honey in a more leisurely [fashion]." Also …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε45Ἐγγαστρίμυθοςventriloquist… 252C. [4] Aristophanes, Wasps 1019. MacDowell (see Bibliography) has a useful note there (p.264). [5] Philochorus FGrH 328 F78. [6] For this episode see I Samuel 28 LXX. The present entry's allusion to it …Matched in noteshighmedium
γ457Γρῖφοςriddle, conundrum… for a prize of forfeit." Athenaeus, in his lengthy and useful discussion of riddles at dinners and symposia (10.69-89 Kaibel = 448B-459C, cf. Epitome, ed. S.P. Peppink, 2.2.44-52), attributes this definition to Clearchus of …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3864Ἐφέσια γράμματαEphesian letters… full dossier of the primary sources. His article is very useful even if one dissents from the specific views its author holds and argues for, such as the Orphic origin/character of the grammata (and …Matched in noteshighshort
χ296Χιάζεινto play the Chian… different type of music. [2] West (see Bibliography) makes a useful distinction between modern chromatism (196ff.), the insertion of exharmonic semitones and other intervals as colors extraneous to the key or scale in which …Matched in noteshighshort
ε1162Ἐν δέοντιas needed, when required[Meaning] for usefulness. "It was good work on his part to die, and as needed by the city, or at least before pouring in the relish over us." That is, before throwing us into …Matched in translationhighshort

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