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1260
Ἐνεσκευασμένην
pre-prepared
Meaning [one that has been] prepared, and shaped. Isaeus and
Demosthenes
[sc. use the term].
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1232
Διώκω σε
I am pursuing you
… Nemean 5.24. [2] The quotation of the following passages from
Demosthenes'
oration 18 On the Crown (56 and 59, see web address 1) as examples of a rule requiring a genitive with diw/kw is …
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3501
Ἀπόρρητα
unspeakable [things]
… Unspeakable [things are] the ones prohibited in the laws. Thus
Demosthenes
[uses this word] in the [speech] In Defence of Ctesiphon. Everything which is prohibited they also call forbidden. Aristophanes [writes]: "he does not …
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ε
485
Ἐκκλώζετο
you were booing
… Harpokration s.v., the Suda's source, this verb was used in
Demosthenes
21, Against Meidias. It does not appear in any of the manuscripts of that speech, but is a conventional emendation of the second …
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α
3012
Ἀπέλθῃ
would depart
Meaning [he/she/it] would return. Thucydides [sc. uses the word]. But
Demosthenes
[sc. uses this verb] with the meaning to run away.
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α
1458
Ἅμα
as soon as, at the same time
[Used] with a dative.
Demosthenes
used this for "straightway" and "on the spot", and in his treatise For Orators he says: "death, you see, is not a piteous plight to those who think rightly; …
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ε
563
Ἐκ περιουσίας
superfluously, advantageously
… to become healthy is preferable to dealing with philosophy." And
Demosthenes
in the [speech] On behalf of Ctesiphon [says]: myself, I am risking the ultimate, "but this man is prosecuting [me] ek periousias." Meaning …
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α
3367
Ἀπόκριναι
answer!
[Used] with a dative. [Meaning the same as] a)pokri/qhti.
Demosthenes
[writes]: "come here and answer me!" But they say a)pokrinei=tai ["he/she/it will answer"] rather than a)pokriqh/setai. Menander in Basketbearer [writes]: "but these things he …
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α
4304
Αττα
whichever, some
… in Antiphon, but meaning some or some kind of in
Demosthenes
in the Philippics. But sometimes atta is redundant. In the speech On the Fraudulent Embassy
Demosthenes
used the expression as equivalent to o(/sa; …
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α
4599
Ἀφεὶς καὶ Ἀπαλλάξας
having let go and having set free
… the charging to withdraw and cease bringing the charge. Thus
Demosthenes
and Isaeus [sc. use these word]. But one can also use the terms in the following way: one 'releases' [someone] only from those …
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αι
78
Αἰδέσασθαι
to be ashamed, to be reconciled
Meaning to be persuaded to change. So Lysias and
Demosthenes
[sc.use the word]. But in the [speech] Against Aristokrates
[Demosthenes
uses it] to mean to atone and to persuade.
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α
2667
Ἀντικαταλλαττόμενος
changing, coming to an agreement
… but also, often, for someone changing money in the assembly.
Demosthenes
[writes]: "but he also showed us [his gains] by cheese-selling, house-building, boasting that he would be going [on an embassy] even if you …
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α
3658
Ἀποψηφισθέντα
voted-off, voted-out
… the charge] he was admitted into the citizen-body. Thus [says]
Demosthenes:
"for which of you does not know Antiphon, the man voted-off?" See under diapsephisis ["registration vote"].
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α
1787
Ἀμφοτερόπλουν
round-trip voyage
… one back again, this is called a round-trip voyage. Thus
Demosthenes
[sc. uses the term].
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α
2124
Ἀναφοράν
referral
… means] referring the blame of [= for] crimes to others.
Demosthenes
[in the speech] Against Ctesiphon [sc. uses the term]. Also [sc. attested is the genitive] a)nafora=s ["recourse"]: "the [matter] being ordered by one …
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α
2184
Ἀνδροληψία
abduction, seizure
… stand trial for the murder; and this was called androlepsion.
Demosthenes
in the [speech] Against Aristokrates [mentions this]: in addition, if they neither submit to trial for what has happened nor hand over the …
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α
2456
Ἀνίδρυτοι
unstable
[Meaning they who/which are] unsettled.
Demosthenes
in the [speech] Against Aristogeiton [sc. uses the word] to mean implacable.
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α
2614
Ἀνταπαιτῆσαι κἀπαιτῆσαι
to demand in return and to demand
… attested are] 'to give back' and 'to take in return':
Demosthenes
in the [speech] Against Leptines [sc. uses these verbs].
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α
2833
Ἄξονες
axones, axles
… been inscribed on wooden axles. They were square in shape.
Demosthenes
in the [speech] Against Aristokrates mentions the word. Axones and kyrbeis are different. Homer speaks of the 'axle' of a wagon.
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α
2861
Ἄπαγε
stop! arrest!
… Alternatively arrest!, meaning employ [the procedure of] arrest [a)pagwgh/]. So
Demosthenes
[sc. mentions this]. And [there is] a proverb: "stop a stranger in a storm"; in reference to troublesome people/things.
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α
3559
Ἀποστολαί
dispatches
… triremes. But a)po/stoloi [are] the sendings-out of the ships. So
Demosthenes,
both in the [speech] For Ktesiphon and in the First Philippic.
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β
168
Βασκαίνει
is malevolent, is slanderous
… with a dative. Meaning complains and blames and maligns. So
Demosthenes
in the [speech] For Ktesiphon [sc. uses the word]. And later he says "no measure of mine has been malevolent and harsh and …
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δ
172
Δεκαδαρχίαι
tenfold-regimes
… Philip, however, set up a tenfold-regime amongst [the] Thessalians, as
Demosthenes
[shows] in the sixth of [the] Philippics.
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δ
895
Διεγγύησιν
surety-provision
Meaning establishment of sureties.
Demosthenes
[sc. uses the word].
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δ
1307
Διψῶ
I thirst [after]
… [sc. attested is the related noun] di/ya ["thirst"], [meaning] desire.
Demosthenes
[says]: "I thirst after hemlock."
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δ
1328
Δοκιμασθείς
having been scrutinized
Demosthenes
[uses this word] to mean having been registered amongst [the] adults. For he also refers to having been scrutinized before the archons. The term "having been scrutinized" used also to be applied to …
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ε
386
Ἐκδέξασθαι
to take over
… examine what was transmitted in the 5th Philippic [sc. of
Demosthenes]:
"the matter of seeming to take over something of what he did".
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ε
1197
Ἕναι
old
[Meaning] officials whose term is over.
Demosthenes
[in the speech] Against Aristogeiton [sc. uses the term].
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α
284
Ἀγνωμόνως
senselessly
… are called senseless -- without discernment -- in Plato. And
Demosthenes
in the Philippics [sc. uses the word] to mean a)logi/stws ["without reason"] and a)bou/lws ["without counsel"]. And the Theologian [writes]: "o [you], even …
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343
Ἀγραφίου
de-listing
… up for this, but erased before they paid it. So
Demosthenes
and Dinarchus and Lycurgus.
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