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Χαγάνος
Khagan, Khan
This man was...
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Χαγάνος
Khagan, Khan
"The Khagan was giving his oaths to the [winds] to carry and, lifting up the trumpet dear to war, he gathered his forces together."
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Χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά
excellent things are difficult
[sc. It is on record that] as Pittakos was laying aside his authority, he said to those who were amazed, "It is difficult to be noble." [Also that] Solon, recognizing his weakness, said, "Excellent …
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Χάονες
Chaones; Chaonians
An Epirote people. Aristophanes [writes]: "his ass-hole is exactly over the Chaonians." Since Geres was also being accused of effeminacy. And elsewhere Aristophanes [writes]: "it's not possible to elude the Paphlagonian. For he sees …
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136
Χάρων
Charon, Kharon
Of Lampsakos; son of Pythokles; lived during the reign of the first [King] Dareios, in the 79th Olympiad; but rather in the time of the Persian Wars, the 75th Olympiad. A historian, he wrote …
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137
Χάρων
Charon
of Carthage, a historian. He wrote Tyrants of Europe and Asia, Lives of Famous Men (in 4 volumes), Lives of Women (likewise in four).
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Χαυνοπολίτας
gaping-citizens
[Meaning them] gaping about the government, or the city.
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199
Χερεκράτης
Cherekrates
and Cherondas [are spelled] with an epsilon.
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259
Χειροσκόποι
hand-counters, tellers
[Meaning] they who observe votes by show of hands.
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Χειροτονήσαντες
having elected
[Meaning they] having picked out.
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Χειροτονία
vote, show of hands
[Meaning] selection, ratification of everyone/everything. "Therefore, since the vote was proclaiming them, they were announced as 'Augustuses'."
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305
Χιλίαρχος
chiliarch; tribune
When fifteen years in addition to the three hundred since the first founding of the city had elapsed, the chiliarchs gained control of the empire of the Romans.
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Χλαμύς
chlamys
Numa, the first king of the Romans, when he received an embassy of the Isaurians and observed their type of apparel, borrowing from them invented the wearing of the chlamys, uniting royalty with the …
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351
Χλωθάριος
Chlotharius, Chlothar, Clotaire, Lothair, Lothar
A proper name.
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352
Χλωθοαῖος
Chlothoaeus, Chlodovechus, Clovis
A proper name.
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353
Χλωθόμυρος
Chlothomurus, Clodomer, Clodomir
A proper name.
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378
Χολαργέων
of Cholargeis, of Cholargos
Cholargeis [is] a deme of Attica. The nominative [singular is] Cholargeus.
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381
Χολλεῖδαι
Cholleidai
A deme of [sc. the Athenian tribe] Leontis.
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Χωρεῖν
to advance; to progress
[Meaning] to march, to set out. "[...] but to advance and to join in dying at the attempts of the matters." "With matters in Sicily not progressing for him in accord with his intention …
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479
Χρηματίζεσθαι
to gain, to make a profit
[Meaning] to make money [xrh/mata]. But if someone should say the word in the active voice, xrhmati/zei, it no longer means the same thing, but [it means] "to conduct business"; as we say, "the …
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481
Χρηματίζει
negotiates, does business [with]
[Used] with a dative. [Meaning he/she/it] answers, manages an affair. Thus Appian the historian [uses this word]. "He negotiated with the ambassadors [of Antiochus]." To conduct business [xrhmati/zein] is to exchange words with one …
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Χρηματισμός
business, money-making
"Everyone was assigned the task of doing business." That is, administration. And elsewhere: "receiving the ambassadors readily, he did business with them." Meaning he took counsel, he had conversation. And elsewhere: "[he] having established …
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517
Χρηστῶς
decently, well
Meaning conservatively. Aristophanes [writes]: "the city of the Athenians, if it did this decently, wouldn't it be secure, if it didn't keep coming up with some new thing or other?" Meaning if it kept …
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560
Χρυσῆ εἰκών
golden image
The archons at Athens used to swear to dedicate a golden image of themselves in the city, [sc. and] at Pytho, [sc. and] at Olympia, to deter them from transgressing against those over whom …
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