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Ἀγένεια
low birth
Bad birth.
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Ἀγορανομίας
market-supervisorship, market-supervisorships
[Meaning] auditorship/s. The term is applied to those who oversee sales in the cities. Also [sc. attested is the related concrete noun] "market-supervisors" [agoranomoi]: the officials who manage the sales in the marketplace [sc. …
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Ἀπογράφειν
to register
['To register'] and 'registration': those who owed the people money as a result of a [court's] judgment, and who did not pay it by the [end of the] 9th prytany, were confined to the …
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Ἄρχων Ἄρχοντες
archon (and) archons
[There are] nine of them: six thesmothetes, archon [eponymous], king, polemarch. And before the laws of Solon they were not allowed to sit in judgment together; instead, the king sat by what was called …
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Αἴθυγμα
glimmer
[Meaning a] stirring. "He dreamed his way through his reign and produced a kind of glimmer or apparition of monarchy. In this way he was no obstacle to the man becoming consul."
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Αἰμίλιος
Aemilius
The consul, who defeated Perseus the king of the Macedonians. He was a judicious man who knew how to handle good fortune and was self-sufficient. For he received the man along with his royal …
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Αἰψηρήν
swift
Meaning swiftly, speedily. "They dissolved the assembly swift." Not in reference to the market-place. Also [sc. attested is masculine] ai)yhro/s, [meaning] a speedy [person]. From the [verb] yai/rein ["to flutter"], which means to speed …
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Βάρβιος
Barbios, Barbius
"Philippicus; this man held office in the time of the Three Tyrants. He was obsequious in his manner and a flatterer, and yet he was numbered among the coterie of Antonius. And this office, …
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524
Βραχμάν
Brahman, Brachman
A king, who also gave his name to the country. He wrote the Laws of the Brahmans and a Constitution of the same people in his own language. "The Brahmans are a very pious …
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Δήμαρχοι
tribunes, demarchs, leaders of the people
The people, having returned to their former good order, elected as tribunes Sicinnius and Brutus, who being invested with power equal to that of the consuls, wielded that authority for a year. They demagogued …
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Δημήτριος
Demetrios, Demetrius
[Demetrios] the son of Antigonos [I] and Ptolemy [I] agreed that there was a treaty of alliance between them for the liberation for all Greece and for the mutual defense of each others' territory. …
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Ἑλληνοταμίαι
Hellenotamiai, Treasurers of Greece
The Athenians took over the leadership [among the Greeks], and the allies were willing to let them because of their hatred for Pausanias . The Athenians decided which of the cities would provide money …
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