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Ἀκήν
in silence
[Meaning] quietly.
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Ἀκηράσιον
unmixed
[Meaning something] unadulterated. Deathless, uncorrupted. And Homer [writes]: "sweet [and] unmixed, a divine drink."
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872
Ἀκηχέδαται
they are in mourning
[Meaning] they are grieving.
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877
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Ἀκιδνόν
feeble
[Meaning] that which is weak. Also [sc. attested is the comparative] a)kidno/teros ["more/rather feeble"], likewise. Homer [writes]: "earth fosters nothing more feeble than man."
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879
Ἄκικυς
powerless
[Meaning] one who/which is not sharp.
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890
Ἀκίχητα
unattainable [goals]
[Meaning] unreachable [ones].
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893
Ἀκλειῶς
disreputably, ingloriously
[Meaning] dishonorably.
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904
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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medium
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907
Ἄκμηνος
fasting
[Meaning] untasting. "Fasting from supper."
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908
Ἀκμῆτες
untiring, unwearied
[Meaning they who are] not toiling. Also [sc. attested is the singular] a)kmh/ths, [meaning] he who is not tiring.
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911
Ἄκνηστις
chine, small (of the back)
[Meaning] the backbone. [sc. Etymologically the word means] that which one cannot easily scratch [knh/qesqai].
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917
Ἄκολος
crumb
[Meaning] the little morsel. Also [sc. attested is the accusative plural] a)ko/lous, [meaning] bits and pieces of loaves. [sc. So called] because they do not stick together [kolla=sqai]. "[I am] begging crumbs, not trophies …
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927
Ἀκοντιστύς
javelin-hurling
[Meaning] javelin-throwing.
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933
Ἄκοσμα
disorderly [words]
[Meaning] unseemly [ones], unorganised [ones].
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934
Ἀκοστήσας
grain-fed, having fed on grain
Out of a)kostai/ [come] kriqai/. kriqia/sas ["barley-fed"]: [meaning] either a)kolasth/as through syncope; or becoming pained by standing; or seeking some cure and remedy for standing. Also in the Epigrams: "the pierced reed pipe, your …
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935
Ἀκοστώσαις
barley-fed, grain-fed
"[[Like] barley-fed] mules on account of laziness and satiety." The linguists [write] kriqiw/sais ["grain-fed"]; for akostai is what they call krithai and take [the word] from akos, "cure"; that is, rest from hunger and …
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short
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936
Ἀκουάζεσθε
you hear
[Used] in Homer meaning you perceive, since hearing is the route of perception. As [in] the [phrase]. "but they, perceiving [a)i+/ontes] the blow."
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953
Ἄκρα κόρυμβα
high-points; fruit-clusters
[Meaning] the high-posts of ships, the parts projecting out at the stern or prow. [The places] on which they used to draw/inscribe the totems. Korumboi [are] berries which hang on the branches in grape-cluster …
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short
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955
Ἄκραντον
unfinished [task]
[Meaning one] unfulfilled, incomplete. "A flying reed-arrow carried him off swiftly to the immortals with the speech still unfinished on his lips."
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short
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983
Ἀκρίζω
I tip, I top
The [verb that means] I cut [off] the tip/top.
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987
Ἀκρισιώνη
Akrisione, Acrisione
A proper name.
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short
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988
Ἄκριτα
unceasing [things]
[Meaning] incessant [ones].
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short
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990
Ἀκριτόμυθος
confusedly-speaking
[Meaning] loquacious, prone to rash words.
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992
Ἀκριτόφυλλον
indistinguishably-leaved
[Meaning one] grown-together with many trees, so that one cannot distinguish among them which leaves which ones bear. Or shaded.
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994
Ἀκροατὴς καὶ Ἀκροᾶσθαι
hearer and to hear
[sc. This noun and verb mean, respectively] the learner and to learn. Damascius [writes]: "he heard words [which were] aged and tempered by a certain wisdom". Also [sc. attested is the related noun] a)kroama/twn …
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1004
Ἀκροκελαινιόων
growing black at the top
[Meaning] blackening the top of the wave.
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1005
Ἀκρόκομοι
crown-haired
[Meaning men] wearing their hair moderately, or to excess, or wearing it on the crowns of the head.
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1007
Ἀκρόλιον
opening-sacrifice
[Meaning] first-fruit; just like a first-sacrifice. "The Greeks sacrificed Polyxena as an opening-sacrifice". And elsewhere: "as many votive offerings and opening-sacrifices as there were to the gods".
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1009
Ἄκρον ἐπιλίγδην
grazing the surface
["Grazing" is] an adverb [indicative] of moderation. Meaning e)piyau/dhn, as if to touch only lightly. And [note] that [this occurs in] the Iliad once and in the Odyssey once.
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short
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1016
Ἀκροπόλοισιν
in the ranges, in lofty places
[Meaning] on mountain-ridges.
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