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Ἀγαθοῦ Δαίμονος
of the Good Spirit
The ancients had a custom after dinner of drinking 'of the Good Spirit', by taking an extra quaff of unmixed [wine]; and they call this 'of the Good Spirit', but when they are ready …
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Ἀγάθων
Agathon
A proper name. He was a tragic poet; but he was slandered for effeminacy. Aristophanes [writes]: "Where is Agathon?" -- "He's gone and left me." -- "Where on earth is the wretch?" -- "At …
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Ἀγάλματα
delights, ornaments, statues
[Meaning] the likenesses of the gods, and anything that is decorative in some way. Homer [writes]: "but it is stored away as a delight for the king." And Hesiod calls a necklace an "ornament"; …
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Ἄγανον
firewood, broken; good, gentle
With proparoxytone accent [this means] wood that has been cut up. Or brushwood and [wood that is] ready to be cut up. But some [sc. define it as wood] which is not chopped. But …
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Ἄγευστος θοίνης
without a taste of the feast
[Meaning someone] living a (?)refined life. Also [sc. attested is the plural] a)/geustoi, [meaning those] lacking experience. [Something] "lacking taste" has four meanings: either that which is lacking flavor as yet, but capable of …
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Ἄγειν καὶ φέρειν
to plunder and to pillage
Marauding and despoiling. But a)/gein [can mean], without distinction, both to carry away things, even from dead bodies, and to gather [them]. "When [Baian] crossed to the land opposite the stream, immediately he set …
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Ἀγείρει
collects
[Meaning he/she/it] gathers. Also [sc. attested is the participle] "those who collect". "For their manner was sacred and nothing like those who collect [alms?]." And elsewhere: "wishing to go undetected, he shaves his head …
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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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Ἅμματα
[Kasiotic] knots
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those who are crooked in their ways. [So called] from the Pelousians in Kasion, who by natural skill used to weave knots in order to attach one …
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Ἀμυστὶ πιεῖν
to drink in one gulp
['In one gulp' is] an adverb. It is said in reference to those who drink without breathing and without resting, that is without even closing the mouth. Related to this is also the [verb] …
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Ἀνακωχεύει
refrains
In Sophocles [this means] reins in. Also [sc. attested is the infinitive] a)nakwxeu/ein, [meaning] to fix the sails and let the ship ride when a storm arises at sea. Strictly speaking one says 'to …
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Ἀπομαγδαλία
crumb, sop
[Meaning] the dough with which cooks wipe things up -- they used to call it a handwiper -- which they would toss to the dogs when they were done with work. Or, food for …
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Ἀπὸ μηχανῆς
from a machine
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to unexpected and unbelievable things. For the tragic poets, when they brought onto the stage a bold move designed to make the spectators disturbed at the things that …
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Ἀρκαδία
Arkadia, Arcadia
A territory. Also a proper name. "There is a gravestone for Arkadia, the second wife of Zenon, in the Arcadian [baths] in the part near to the group of monuments known as 'Places' in …
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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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Ἄρχων χρότιος
ruler in the flesh
[Meaning] supreme-ruler, leader. "Time [is the] ruler of pains." [Someone says that] it is necessary for the ruler to perform all his duties for the sake of the ruled. But Hegias deemed it right …
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Αὐθέντης
perpetrator
The one [doing something] with his own hand, or the one who kills himself. Hence in Isocrates perpetrator. Lysias applies it in a special sense to the 30, even though they had their murders …
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Αὔξη
increase
[Meaning] growing. 'To be nourished' and 'to be increased' are spoken of in the following ways. Those things that are nourished in each of their parts are also increased. But the things that seem …
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Αὐτάγγελος
self-announcing, announcing what one has seen
[Meaning] that which delivers announcements from itself. "For the oak herself will tell you, self-announcing"; for it has writings. And elsewhere: "he would have come from the king/emperor as an announcer of these things …
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Αὐτόθεν
from this very place, from that very place
Meaning from here/hence/thence. "There is no way they will not go thither from this very place." [So says] Aristophanes in Acharnians. And elsewhere: "yet it was necessary to set out from that very place, …
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Ἀφειδήσας
having been unsparing
[Used] with a genitive. [Meaning he] having been neglectful. "And in your manner you two were very unsparing and very murderous." Also [sc. attested is the related abstract noun] a)feidi/a ["unsparingness"], [meaning] relentlessness. Also …
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Ἀφεὶς καὶ Ἀπαλλάξας
having let go and having set free
'Having let go' is when someone releases [someone] from the charges which he charged against him. But 'having set free' is when he persuades the person doing the charging to withdraw and cease bringing …
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Ἀφηλικέστερος
rather superannuated
"Caesar dismissed those of his troops who were rather superannuated but put on shows for those who were of an age suitable for military service". Arrian [writes]: "[...] since the protectorship of that superannuated …
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Αἰδώς
shame
[Meaning] honor. And [there is] a proverb: "shame is not good for a man who is a beggar in need." In reference to those whose pleasantness harms them. Homer [says this]. Hesiod [writes]: "shame …
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Βασανίζειν
to test
It does not mean abusing or punishing or whipping in the Attic [authors], but interrogating without blows and investigating the truth through words; from the goldsmith's touchstone [ba/sanos], used metaphorically. And Polybius [writes]: "then, …
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Βάσανος
touchstone, test
It is the stone which tests gold when it is rubbed against it. Thus Antiphon and Pindar and Sophokles. But Hyperides calls ba/sanoi the things said in interrogation by those who are being tested …
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Βράβηλα
sloes
What are called Damaskenes. Theocritus [writes]: "...shoots weighed down to the ground with sloes." Athenaeus in Book 2 of the Deipnosophists says that Seleucus uses the words 'plums' and 'sloes' and ba/drua. It has …
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Βρενθύεσθαι
to be haughty, to take umbrage
[Used] with an accusative. [Meaning] to get carried away by rage or to pretend to be angry. "But he, putting on airs, got far more haughty." Also [sc. attested is] brenqu/etai ["is haughty"], [meaning] …
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Βριμούμενος
roaring
[Meaning he] being enraged. "The consul was in no way charmed, roaring with rage at his underlings." Also [sc. attested is the corresponding indicative] brimou=tai ["he/she/it roars"], [meaning] threatens. Also [sc. attested is] brimoume/nais …
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Βρύχιος
underwater
[Meaning] submerged in water. Also [sc. attested is] e)mbru/oikos ["seaweed-dwelling"], the anchor that dwells in the deep. Also [sc. attested is] e)/mbruon ["fetus"], the infant in the womb. In the Epigrams: "seaweed-dwelling, ship-saving anchor." …
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