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Ἀθηναία
Athenaia, Athenaea
[A variant term for] the goddess [Athena], but [sc. also] a woman citizen [of Athens].
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743
Ἀθμωνεύς
Athmoneus, Athmonian
Athmonia is a deme of the Kekropid [sc. tribe in Athens]; the demesman from it [is] an Athmoneus. Also [sc. attested is] Athmonis, a proper name. [See] the Peiraieus; peaks - the high ones; …
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762
Ἄθροι καταρρέοντες
(they) flowing down in a body
Meaning [doing so] together. The noun should have proparoxytone accent and the first syllable should be aspirated in the Attic dialect. "Flowing down" [katarre/ontes] meaning descending suddenly. The metaphor [comes] from river currents. Homer …
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Ἀκαμαντίς καὶ Ἀκάμας
Akamantis and Akamas, Acamantis and Acamas
[sc. Akamantis is] one of the ten [Athenian] tribes, [named] from Akamas the son of Theseus .
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1231
Ἁλιμούσιος
Halimousian, Halimusian
Halimous is a deme of [the Athenian tribe] Leontis. Agasikles is said to have bribed the Halimousians and because of this, although a foreigner, was registered in the citizen body.
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1249
Ἁλισθείσης
having been mustered
[Meaning] having been assembled.
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1282
Ἀλκίμαχος
Alkimakhos, Alkimachos, Alcimachus
This man is a general, from the deme Anagyrous. Another is the Macedonian, whom Hyperides mentions.
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Ἀλογίου δίκη
prosecution for lack of accounting
A prosecution in which the defendants are officials, (prosecuted for) not giving an account of the sums of money administered during the tenure of their office.
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Ἀλλ' οὐ λαχοῦσ' ἔπινες ἐν τῷ γράμματι
so did you not drink in your letter once you had been allotted it?
Aristophanes [sc. writes this]. ["Drink"] meaning served as a juror. For the Athenians were allotted [to juries] by letter from the 10 tribes. For example, the first [tribe] had alpha as its symbol, the …
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1371
Ἁλῶ
convicted
[sc. This verb is used] with a genitive of possession; "if someone is arrested after being convicted of maltreatment of his parents." And "if someone is convicted of making an illegal proposal or of …
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1690
Ἀμφάρης
Amphares
A proper name.
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1761
Ἄμφισα
Amphisa, Amphissa
It is a city of Locris. Amphisa was [so] named because it is a place surrounded on all sides by hills.
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2141
Ἀναψηφίσασθαι
to put to the vote again
[Meaning] to change a vote. In Slave Tutor Pherecrates [writes]: "and put to the vote again [your decision] to give the money back." And the Attic [writers] say [it] with the syllable lengthened.
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Ἀνεμεστώθη
was filled up full
Meaning was made full of the desire to be a secretary and [so] not to serve in the army, or [sc. this is said] as a slander on the secretaries for evil-doing. Aristophanes in …
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Ἀνείλιττε
was unraveling
[(He) was unravelling] the tyranny.
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Ἀντεχειροτόνησεν
voted against
[Meaning he/she/it] opposed. "If he had added those things, no-one would have voted against it."
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Ἀντίγονος
Antigonos, Antigonus
This man was called benefactor and saviour amongst all the Greeks. For having conquered in battle Kleomenes, the king of the Lakedaimonians, he became himself the ruler of Sparta and had the authority to …
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Ἀωρίαι
late, out-of-season
Meaning inopportunely and not at the required moment. For a)/wra are [crops] being harvested at the wrong time. Aristophanes [writes]: "the prytaneis are coming, but late." "For it is not permitted for Babylonians to …
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Ἀπαξιῶν
deeming unworthy
[Used] with an accusative. [Meaning he] believing [someone/something to be] unworthy. Appian [writes]: "the people did not elect Marcius to a share in the consulship, not deeming the man unworthy, but fearing his arrogance".
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Ἀπέδοξεν
it seemed good not, it was resolved not
Meaning how did it not seem good.
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Ἀπεκαρτέρησεν
starved himself to death.
[Meaning] he disposed of himself. "Lycurgus came to Crete and starved himself to death, in order that he would not destroy the laws which he had established."
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Ἀπογνούς
having renounced
Demosthenes [sc. uses this word] to mean having given up hope, Dinarchus [uses it] to mean having voted off.
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Ἀποκαρτερήσαντα
having killed oneself by abstinence
[Meaning him] having taken himself out of life by starvation or by hanging. "[sc. It is said that] Lycurgus the Spartan lawgiver, after laying down the laws, came into Crete and killed himself by …
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Ἀπόκλητοι
select-men, apokletoi, apocleti
[Meaning] they who have been summoned. "Not confiding in the general council or informing the select-men, but considering [only] their own judgements, they made war." And again Polybius: "they appointed 30 of the select-men …
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Ἀποσυκάζεις
you are fig-squeezing
[Meaning] you are accusing, you are testing. For a)posuka/zein is to examine the ripened figs. Therefore he added "pressing". For we test whether the figs have ripened or not by squeezing [them]. So since …
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3587
Ἀποτέλειοι
magistrates
The leaders of the Judaeans in each of their cities.
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Ἀπὸ τοῦ κρατίστου
in all good faith
[Meaning] powerfully. "With the Carthaginians obedient, in all good faith, to all the commands." And Polybius [writes elsewhere]: "and in antiquity monarchy existed in all good faith amongst the Romans; but in our times …
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Ἀποτραχηλίζοντες
throttling
[Meaning they] strangling. Eunapius [writes]: "and they were killing them, throttling them with ropes." And elsewhere: "you will not stop [enacting] the decrees until someone grabs you by the leg and breaks your neck."
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Ἀργέου υἱός
Argeas' son
"And somehow the son of Argeas, contrary to the blow he intended, unfortunately struck his brother's chest [with his spear] and killed him." "Many other sins were committed by Theramenes, the teacher of Isocrates, …
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Ἀρεοπαγίτης
Areopagite
Spelled in two ways. And [there is] a saying, "Areopagite", in reference to those who look glum and are solemn and silent. Also "Ares' chick" [*)/arews neotto/s], and "Ares' child" [*)/arews paidi/on], in reference …
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