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α687Ἀΐξαςhaving darted[Meaning] having rushed. "Having darted into the coop sheltering your chicks, a four-coiled serpent deprived you of your young."highshort
α688ἌϊροςAirosA proper name.highshort
α689Ἄϊςinvisible, Hades[Meaning] one who is not being looked at.highshort
α690Ἀΐσθωνbreathing out[Meaning] one who/which is exhaling.highshort
α691Ἀΐσσουσινthey dart[Meaning] they rush, they flit. Polybius [writes]: "for in Rome Marcus Porcius when he heard of the prowess of Scipio, when another man said to him "what have you heard?" said "he alone has …highshort
α693Ἄϊστοςunseen[Meaning] unrecorded, invisible.highshort
α700Ἀϊχθήτηνthey two were driven[Meaning] they were set in motion.highshort
α705ἈθάνατοςimmortalPhilosophers 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 …highmedium
α710Ἄθεif only, would thatSignifier of a prayer, instead of ei)/qehighshort
α712Ἀθεείgodlessly[Meaning] without [sc. the help/wish of] a god.highshort
α720Ἀθέρισονslight, make light of[Meaning] reject as unworthy.highshort
α736Ἀθηρηλοιγόςchaff-consuming[Referring to] the winnowing-fan, the thing that is destroying the chaff.highshort
α756Ἀθρήσειενgazed at[Meaning he/she/it] scrutinized.highshort
α762Ἄθροι καταρρέοντες(they) flowing down in a bodyMeaning [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 …highshort
α786Ἀκαλαρρείτηςsoft-flowing[Meaning] one which is flowing gently. "Out of the soft-flowing, deep-flowing Ocean".highshort
α790Ἀκάμανταuntiring[Meaning one who/which is] inexhaustible. "Untiring destroyer of grape shoots, a boar".highshort
α794Ἀκάματον πῦρtireless fireHomer [writes]: "[she] kindled out of his helmet and shield a tireless fire."highshort
α822Ἀκαχείατοthey were grieving[Meaning] they were mourning. Also [sc. attested is the imperative] a)kaxi/zeo ["grieve"], [meaning] mourn.highshort
α823Ἀκαχημένηgrieving[Meaning she who is] mourning. Also [sc. attested is] a)kakh/menon, neuter.highshort
α831Ἀκέωνwordless(ly), in silence, speechless, (?)attentive(ly)[Meaning someone] being at peace. In Homer it is derived from a middle in place of 'at peace'. And elsewhere "but you feast sitting wordlessly".highshort
α832Ἀκερδὴς χάριςunprofitable reward[Meaning] one given not appropriately [i.e. disproportionately]. [One] whose profit [is] evil. "May I not somehow, for seeing a cursed man face to face, meet an unprofitable reward."highshort
α839Ἀκερσεκόμηςunshorn-haired[Meaning someone] not shearing the hair.highshort
α848Ἀκέσματαremedies[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 …highmedium
α854Ἀκειόμενοςhealing[Meaning one who is] tending to [someone/something] medically.highshort
α856Ἀκεῖσθαιto heal[a)kei=sqai means the same as] qerapeu/ein. *)akei=sqai: to say to heal in comedy.highshort
α857Ἀκήpoint[Meaning a] point of iron. Also [sc. attested is] a)kh/n, [meaning] peace/silence.highshort
α859Ἀκήδεστοιuntended.[Meaning they who are] getting no care/attention. Or a)kh/deutoi and unburied. Also [sc. attested is] a)kh/distoi [used] likewise.highshort
α861Ἀκήδεσενtook no heed of[Meaning he/she/it] did not consider.highshort
α864Ἀκήλητονinexorable[Meaning one who/which is] implacable, harsh. In the Epigrams about Orpheus: "who even charmed with his lyre the heavy intent and inexorable wrath of cruel Klymenos."highshort
α866Ἀκήματαcures[Meaning] remedies. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "curing of pains", [meaning] the baths; and they relax fatigue in the sea, which is especially good for the nerves, but slackening the crampings of the …highshort

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