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α1759Ἀμφιρύτηsea-girt… Epigrams: "sea-girt Cos, yet again you bear sorrow, as for Hippocrates."Matched in translationhighshort
α4705Ἄχναιfoam, down… the phrase] "fire's foam", [meaning] smoke. And "sleep's foam", [as] Hippocrates says, and "hunger's foam". It also indicates fine lint.Matched in translationhighshort
α464Ἀδηνέωςunpremeditatedly, without malice… attestations outside lexicography include one in Galen, apparently deriving from Hippocrates, and one (cited in LSJ s.v.) in an inscription from Chios. For the epic/poetic neuter plural dh/nea see LSJ s.v. (The Suda has …

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Ἀμφιρύτη

sea-girt

[Meaning] encircled with a current. In [the] Epigrams: "sea-girt Cos, yet again you bear sorrow, as for Hippocrates."

Ἀμφιρύτη· περιρρεομένη κύκλῳ. ἐν Ἐπιγράμμασι· ἀμφιρύτη Κῶος, καὶ πάλιν πένθος ἔχεις οἷον ἐφ' Ἱπποκράτει.

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αι246Αἰόλλειturns, variegates… belongs to the medical verb ai)ola/omai, used only in the Hippocratic Corpus at De mulierum affectibus (On women’s disorders) 2.174b. The best-known use of the headword is the one cited above: Homer, Odyssey 20.27, …Matched in noteshighshort

αι255Αἰώνaion, eon, age, marrow… the Creation to the general Resurrection. (v) spinal marrow (citing Hippocrates). [3] Psalm 89.8 LXX.Matched in noteshighshort

δ1631Δυσηνίουςhard to bridle, hard to rein, refractory… is normally used, as indicated, of unbroken horses, although in Hippocrates and Galen it can mean a state of affliction in human beings. Also, it is used in many authors in figurative senses (intractable, …Matched in noteshighshort

ε428Ἐκεῖνοςthat… use of the two can be observed in the Corpus Hippocraticum and in Herodotus, although the manuscript tradition shows much oscillation between the two forms. As for Aristophanes, sometimes the shorter one appears to …Matched in noteshighshort