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- δ458Δημοσιεύωνbeing a public [doctor][Used] with an accusative. [Meaning] I do my work as a gift. Aristophanes writes: "but, my poor fellow, I do not happen to be a public doctor". For the doctors appointed by popular vote …
- δ461Δημοσίων πραγμάτων διοικητήςadministrator of public affairs[Administrator of public affairs], as if to say curator of choregy, of trierarchy and of suchlike. But in the private sphere, as if to say he provided his opinion if anybody was the object …
- δ500Διαβάλλεινto bring across, to cross, to mislead, to slander[Meaning] to deceive and to lead astray. Thucydides [in Book] 1 and Crates [sc. use the word]. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "to cross the sea", [meaning] to pass over it. "Thereupon he …
- δ843Διὰ χρόνουafter a timeMeaning after a long time. "[Trygaeus] "Does it seem to you that I would be hurt, master Hermes, if I banged Opôra after a time?" -- [Hermes] "No, not if you should drink a …
- δ845Διαψαλάττεσθαιto set apart[Meaning] to separate in a search. For what [is] apsalakton [is] untouched. So Crates [sc. uses the word].
- δ848Διαψαίρουσιthey brush away[Meaning] they blow away. For sailors call blowing 'brushing'.
- δ1547Δρύοχοιstocks[Meaning] pegs, the ones which are placed in a ship while it is being built. But by a misuse of language [it also denotes] the proems. Aristophanes [writes]: Agathon is beginning "to put in …
- δ1587Δυσάλγητοςhard-hearted[Meaning] without fellow-feeling.
- δ1596Δυσαρεστούμενοςdispleased[Meaning someone who is] not satisfied. "The Romans maintained that the senate was displeased at the destruction of the walls at Sparta". And elsewhere: "so it is difficult to admonish peevish men, if you …
- δ1601Δυσβουλίαill-counsel[Meaning] bad/evil counsel.
- δ1602Δυσβράκανοςhard to deal with[Meaning] hard to understand.: for brakana are wild vegetables hard to wash clean.
- δ1603Δυσγάργαλιςskittish, ticklish[Meaning] disobedient. For gargali/zein means to move and to provoke to laughter.
- δ1667Δυσόμοιαdissimilar[Meaning] unlike. Strattis [sc. uses the word].
- δ1688Δυσπινῆsqualid (things)[Meaning] ones that have been made filthy, dirty ones. For squalor [pinos] [is] filth. Aristophanes [writes]: "but now do you wish for the squalid robes [which Bellerophon wore]?" And elsewhere: "then he put on …
- ε65Ἐγκάθηνταιput-in secretly[Meaning one who is] treacherous, a spy. Also [sc. attested is the related verb] e)gka/qhntai ["they are concealed in"], [meaning] they are hidden; for those being hidden are concealed. "[...to see] that stones are …
- ε73Ἐγκάναξονslosh in![Meaning] shake in, bring/add, pour in! The word is a compound. Aristophanes [writes]: "come now, slosh in [wine] for me and plenty of it". [Meaning] swallow, gulp down, drink out.
- η62Ἡ γλῶττα τῷ κήρυκι τούτων τέμνεταιthe tongue of these is cut for the heraldThat is the tongue of the [victims] being sacrificed is given to Hermes. But Callistratus says that the tongues of the victims are set aside for the [sc. human] heralds.
- η86Ἤδηalready, by this time, now[Meaning] from now/henceforth.
- η88Ἤδηby this timeMeaning in future, speedily. Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "you might shun the wicked by this time". And Iamblichus [writes]: "for already I pity you, because I am unlucky in the same things as you". …
- η95Ἥδομαί σοιI take pleasure in you[Used] with a dative. [Meaning] I get delight from you. Also [sc. attested is] h(/domen ['we please'], [meaning] we delight.