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Δημός
fat
[Meaning] lard. "A fig-leaf baked thoroughly with ox fat". A dish made with brains [wrapped] in fig-leaves, that is, in the leaves of the fig-tree.
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Δημοσιώνης
revenue-farmer
[Meaning one who is] worthless. "The others met with acceptance, but this man, seeming to be a revenue-farmer, was overlooked."
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Δημοτελῶς
at public expense
[Meaning] for the whole people.
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Δημοῦσθαι
to talk popularly
[Meaning] to court the mob and to play in response to them.
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Διὰ γὰρ μαχαιρῶν καὶ πυρὸς ῥίπτειν δεῖ
for it is necessary to throw (oneself) through knives and fire
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to people who take risks and do reckless things.
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516
Διαγέγραπται
has been struck through
[Meaning he/she/it] has been smoothed away, has been removed from the clerk's tablet, where lawsuits used to be registered, and the introduction of lawsuits. Aristophanes [writes] in Clouds: "I am happy, because a five-talent …
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520
Διαγκωνισάμενος
elbow-leaning
[Meaning] reclining on the elbow. "And elbow-leaning on the pallet-bed, he looked at the image of Asclepius and said, "o master, what was your order?"'
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528
Διάγραμμα
register
[Meaning] the price-list. For the market-regulators used to keep a register [showing] how much each courtesan ought to charge.
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1088
Δικέραιον
two-horned
[Meaning] having two horns. In the Epigrams: "but having torn away from its forehead the skin and the two-horned tyne, he placed it in the temple of the huntress maiden."
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1101
Δικλίς
double-folding
[dikli/s, genitive singular] dikli/dos and [accusative plural] dikli/das, a double door. In the Epigrams: "Galateia swung the double-folding [doors] in my face."
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1439
Δωδεκαδώρῳ
twelve hand's-breadths in length
[Meaning] being of twelve palms [in breadth]. For the palm [is] a hand's-breadth. In the Epigrams: "having drawn back the [bullock's] neck they sacrificed it to Cyllenius and with a long nail they fixed …
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