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Ἀγίνεον
they were bringing
[Meaning] they were carrying. For
a)ginw=
[is] the present.
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αι
250
Αἰολομίτρης
agile with a waistband [or: having a multicoloured or twisted or flashing waistband]; having a multicoloured diadem
… illustration of the mitre as girdle) and increased his upper-body
agility
in shield and spear fighting. We may, with some confidence, take this as the meaning of the headword in Homer. (ii) After Homer …
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αι
253
Αἰόλος
undulating, wavelike, advancing in a winding or rolling fashion, agile in turning side to side; multicoloured, discoloured, black or chestnut with white markings; easily moved, changeable, wily, quick-witted, liable to metamorphosis, disturbed in mind; whirling; self-generating in movement, ever-turning; lively, flashing, shimmering
[Meaning] easily-moved/agile, multicoloured [or: intricate, or: changeable]. Or swift; [so called] from the whirlwind [hurricane or tornado], which comes from ‘to blow’ and ‘to wind/roll up’.
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3073
Ἀπεστυφέλιξεν
drove away by force
[Meaning he/she/it] moved,
agitated.
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δ
1315
Δνοπαλίξεις
shakings
That is movements and
agitations
of the hands. The nominative [singular is] dnopa/licis ["shaking"].
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ε
698
Ἐκύκα
was mixing up
[Meaning he/she/it] was
agitating.
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ε
2471
Ἐπιμενίδης
Epimenides
Son of Phaistos or Dosiadas or
Agiasarchos
and, as his mother, Blasta; a Cretan from Knossos; an epic poet. Of him there is a story that his soul could leave his body on any …
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αι
252
Αἴολος
Aeolus, Aiolos
… case the name in Linear B does not mean “Swift,
Agile,”
and could belong to either a horse or a bull (see the controversy over Sir Arthur Evans’ identification of the ideogram as a …
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η
100
ὅς
quoth he
Same material in Photius (Lexicon eta51); similarly elsewhere. See also eta 101. [The SOL headword, mistakenly, gives only the second element of the phrase.] [1] Eratosthenes [the great Alexandrian scholar: epsilon 2898] fr. 52 …
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