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Ἄβυσσον
abyss
[Meaning] that which not even a deep [buqo/s] can contain; but Ionians pronounce buqo/s as busso/s. From which also bussodomeu/ein ["to build in the deep"] appears to be said, from the verb du/nw ["I …
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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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Ἀηδών καὶ ἀηδοῦς
nightingale, songstress
And [in the genitive singular] a)hdou=s; such [was] Sappho according to Mytilenians. Sophocles [writes]: "ill-starred, she will not sing the lament of the piteous nightingale, but she will sing shrill dirges and the thuds …
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Ἀήθεσσον
they were unaccustomed (to)
[Meaning] they were unused [to]. Also [sc. attested is] a)hqe/ssousin ["they are unaccustomed (to)"], [meaning] they are unacquainted [with]. The present tense a)hqe/ssw ["I am unaccustomed (to)"], [like] a)hdi/zomai ["I am disgusted"], a)i/w ["I …
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Ἀθάνατος
immortal
Philosophers assign the [word] "immortal" to animate things, but the [word] "imperishable" to inanimate ones. "Plato, when maintaining that the soul is immortal, assigns an equivocal term to immortal things. [This is] because what …
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Ἀκέσματα
remedies
[Meaning] medicines, things that heal. "Avoiding the guards she ran up with her daughter, carrying a remedy for the coming shortage." "There was a man in the Galeotis, formidable both in telling cures of …
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Ἀκμή
moment, point, still
[Meaning] sharpness, the exact decisive moment of the intensity of the matter, and power, and youth. But "akme of opportunity" [means] good fortune. Thus Isocrates [writes]: "[it is best] to grasp the akme of …
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Ἄλη
roaming, delusion
[Meaning] wandering. "He supposed that no one would surpass him in courage, and this delusion got the better of him to such an extent that he adopted the attire of Achilles and thus went …
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Ἁλιεύς ἁλιέως
fisherman [and] fisherman's; seaman [and] seaman's
and [sc. also attested is the plural] a(liei=s, in reference also to rivers. "Seamen mustered out of the surrounding cities set out on the day appointed for the launch." Arrian says [this]. And [there …
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Ἀλύειν
to be beside oneself, to be overwhelmed
The [verb that means] to be vexed in distraction. It sometimes also means to rejoice, from warmth [alea] and frenzy. Homer [writes]: "are you beside yourself because you have beaten that vagabond Irus?" Hence …
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Ἀλφειός
Alpheios, Alpheus
A river [of that name]. Homer [writes]: "[the river Alpheios,] which flows broad through the land of the Pylians." [The one] which "is hidden immediately after its source and carries on for quite a …
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Ἀμμωνιανός
Ammonianos, Ammonianus
Grammarian, honoured by his association with Syrianus and also by their innate similarity in character and physique -- in Homer's words, 'in appearance and stature and nature most similar'; for each of them was …
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Ἀναβάδην
lifted up; propped up
[Meaning] on high, to lie down and have ones legs up. Aristophanes [writes]: "now I take a rest starving with my feet lifted up." Or sitting down on a high place. And again: "how …
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Ἀναξιμένης
Anaximenes
Son of Aristocles, of Lampsacus, rhetor; pupil of Diogenes the Cynic and the grammarian Zoilus of Amphipolis, who abused Homer; teacher of Alexander of Macedon, and accompanied him on his campaigns. When king Alexander …
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Ἄνδρα
man
[Meaning] him [sc. that is so] by nature. Arrian [writes]: "a man brash because of youth, ignorant because of inexperience of matters, and trustworthy to the masses on account of strength of body and …
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Ἀντικρύ
over against, right opposite; right on, straight on
[Meaning] opposite, from an opposite position. But [sc. differently-accented] a)/ntikrus [means] altogether, or completely, or obviously. [Meaning] in the face of, clearly. The poet says [it] with the syllable long and without the sigma. …
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Ἀνύπαρκτον
non-existent
[Meaning] that which does not exist. Compare the Pindaric [phrase]: "What is anyone? What is he not? Man is a dream of a shadow." Meaning more non-existent than the non-existent. But here this word …
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Ἄξιος λαβεῖν ὁ μισθός
the wage [is] worth taking
This [is in reference to] those trained for beauty, meaning something like this: "the wage is worthy, so that [one should] take it." It is in Cratinus. Homer was the first to use this …
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Ἀπείπατο
denied, refused
[Meaning he/she/it] abjured. "He denied his fatherland and was declared a Thurian." Also [sc. attested is] a)pei=pen, he/she/it forbade. He/she/it declared. "He forbade all of them to take breakfast or to doze off or …
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Ἀπήμονα
unhurt
[Meaning] unharmed. Homer [writes]: "them he found no longer altogether unhurt nor without slaughter." He has combined two ideas, meaning some not unhurt, [i.e.] the wounded, and others not unslaughtered, [i.e.]the dead. *ph=ma [means] …
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Ἀπίων
Apion
Son of Plistonicus; nicknamed Mochthus ["Toil"]; of Egypt (but according to Heliconius, a Cretan). Grammarian. A pupil of Apollonius son of Archibius; he also attended Euphranor's lectures when he was an old man, more …
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Ἀπολάψεις
you will lap up
If it is a)pole/yeis with the epsilon, that is a)polepi/seis ["you will peel"]. Having peeled the shell. Having peeled [her] just like an egg. But if [it is] a)pola/yeis ["you will lap up"], [it …
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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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Ἄρατος
Aratus, Aratos
From Soloi in Cilicia (for there is also a city Soloi on Cyprus), son of Athenodoros. His brothers [were] Myris, Kalondas, Athenodoros. He was a student of the grammarian Menecrates of Ephesus, and of …
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Ἀρβαζάκιος
Arbazakios, Arbazacius
The Isaurian, [who lived] in the time of the emperor Arcadius, whom they called "Harpazakios" ["grabby"] because of his greed. For he was from Armenia, and he was seized by three afflictions at the …
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Ἀργαλέον φρονέοντα παρ' ἄφροσι πόλλ' ἀγορεύειν
painful for someone of sound mind to say many things to the senseless
A saying of Euripides in Bacchae. Also [sc. attested is] a)rgale/on ["painful"], [meaning] difficult. It is said from a)/lgos ["pain"], a)lgale/on with a change of lambda into rho. Something difficult was called "work" [e)/rgon] …
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Ἄρης
Ares
Properly [it means] iron. "Having plunged Ares inside [your] hollow flanks." It also means war. [The term comes] from the [verb] r(w= [meaning] "I speak," (future r(h/sw), [whence] r(h=s, and with the alpha privative …
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Ἄρρητον
accursed
[Meaning] something harmful. But a)/rrhton lo/gon ["unspeakable word"] [means] a bad word, one which should not be spoken. Sophocles [writes]: "how on earth do I tell an unspeakable story?" Having written [of] or even …
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Ἀρίων
Arion
Of Methymna, a lyric poet, son of Kykleus. He was born in the 38th Olympiad. Certain people recorded that he was even a pupil of Alkman. He composed songs: [namely] preludes in 2000 verses. …
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Ἄρτια
even, exact
[Meaning things that are] fitted, complete, sound. These things are also said to be "joined" [a)/rmena]. Also [sc. attested is the related verb] a)rtia/zein, [meaning] to play at odds or evens [a)/rtia]. "We play …
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