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α841Ἀκέσασθαι καὶ Ἀκέσαιto heal[Meaning] to heal. Whence Athenians [or: Attic-dialect-users] call the needlewoman an akestria.highshort
α842Ἀκεσίας ἰάσατοAkesias healed[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those who heal for the worse. It seems that Akesias treated someone for the worse.highshort
α848Ἀκέσματαremedies[Meaning] medicines, things that heal. "Avoiding the guards she ran up with her daughter, carrying a remedy for the coming shortage." "There was a man in the Galeotis, formidable both in telling cures of …highmedium
α851Ἀκέσταςhealers[Meaning] doctors. Also [sc. attested is] a)ke/stwr, [genitive] a)ke/storos, [also meaning] doctor.highshort
α856Ἀκεῖσθαιto heal[a)kei=sqai means the same as] qerapeu/ein. *)akei=sqai: to say to heal in comedy.highshort
α1298Ἀλκυονίδες ἡμέραιAlcyon days, Halcyon days, kingfisher days[Meaning] those of fine weather. People differ on their number. For Simonides in Pentathla says they are 11, as does Aristotle in [his book] Concerning Animals, but Demagoras of Samos [says] 7, and Philochorus …highmedium
α1302Ἁλμάδεςsalteds[Meaning] brine-steeped olives.highshort
α1303Ἅλμη οὐκ ἔνεστ' αὐτῷthere is no salt in him; there is no sauce in him[sc. A proverbial saying] in reference to the sour and unpleasant [man].highshort
α2310ἈνέρριπτονI was tossing in the air, they were tossing in the airI 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 …highshort
α2383Ἀνεῖναιto 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.highshort
α4147ἈσίαAsia[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. …highshort
αι64Αἴγληradiance; 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 …highshort
αι244Αἰόλανundulating; leaping in undulating circles; of intricate, dazzling, multicoloured design[Meaning] leaping/hopping. "We croaked an undulating dance-chorus brekekex."highshort
αι245Αἰόλανdarkening, discolouring[Meaning] dark/shadowy.highshort
αι253Αἰόλοςundulating, 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’.highshort
β487Βωμολοχεύμασιwith the low buffoonery and rascally tricks of the altar-ambushers.[Meaning] with all sorts of rascally subterfuges.highshort
β488Βωμολοχεύσαιτο(if one) were to play the wit at the altarMeaning [if] one were to say something vulgar or cheap. Aristophanes in Clouds on corruption of the harmonics: "[them] tuning the harmony that our fathers passed on. But if one of them were to …highmedium
β489Βωμολόχοςaltar-ambusher[Meaning] he who lies in wait around the altars, with the purpose of getting something from those who are sacrificing. But metaphorically also [it means] he who flatters certain people, in pretty much the …highmedium
β490Βωμολόχοςaltar-ambusher[Meaning one who is] an evildoer, sacrilegious. From those who lie in wait for the sacrifices placed on the altars, or for those who perform sacrifices, to ask them and take something. Also [sc. …highmedium
γ457Γρῖφοςriddle, conundrum[Meaning] a [sc. fishermen's] net. It also means an utterance hard to explain and intricately woven. The [utterance] having a feature in it unexpressed.highshort
δ645Διαμάρτῃthat he would fail; that he would miss the opportunity[... that he would fail/miss the opportunity], that man. Subjunctive.highshort
δ692Διαπέσοιμιmay I collapse, may I faili.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!"highshort
δ1029Διθυραμβοδιδάσκαλοιdithyramb-directors[Dithyramb-directors] talk much about things in the sky and about the clouds, and they used to make up compound words and said endiaeriaierinechetous; such a man was Ion of Chios, the poet. He wrote …highmedium
δ1030Διθύραμβοςdithyramb[Meaning] a hymn to Dionysus. "Apollonius practised a form of discourse not dithyrambic and swollen with poetic expressions."highshort
δ1031Διθυράμβων νοῦν ἔχεις ἐλάττοναyou have less sense than dithyrambs.[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to silly/unintelligible people.highshort
δ1488Δρᾷacts[Meaning he/she/it] does. Or will furnish.highshort
δ1489Δρᾶget done!Meaning "do!" In the imperative. Aristophanes in Birds [writes]: "you now get the other things done yourself!"highshort
δ1492Δράκαυλοςdrakaulos; living with a snakeSophocles 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 …highshort
δ1498Δρᾶμαact, 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 …highshort
δ1500Δράμῃςyou would runAorist subjunctive.highshort

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