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ε
1168
Ἐνδειξαμένῳ
demonstrating
Meaning speaking in one's own defence. Also [sc. attested is the related noun] e)/ndeixis, [meaning] defence.
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2786
Ἀνύπαρκτον
non-existent
… truth do not exist. And Homer in one [verse] has
demonstrated
this sufficiently: "earth nourishes nothing weaker than man."
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α
3634
Ἀπόφημι
I speak out plainly
… explain. Also [sc. attested is] a)pofh=nai ["to declare"], [meaning] to
demonstrate.
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dreams
2
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α
4009
Ἅρπυιαι
Harpies, Snatchers
[The name of] rapacious [female]
demons.
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β
444
Βουλυτός
ox-loosening [time]
… and shook his crest, just like a exultant hoplite, and
demonstrated
his consideration of foolish things."
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δ
1183
Διονυσίων σκώμματα
insults of the Dionysia
… is boastfully stingy, doggier than dogs and more troublesome than
demons."
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δ
1352
Δομετιανός
Domitian, Domitianus, Dometianos
… shameful of fates. This man, under the influence of some
demonic
bewitchment, grew spiteful of his brother and did away with him by poison, out of his passion for power. And although the affairs …
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long
δ
1447
Δωδώνη
Dodone, Dodona
… a certain harmonious sound came. But the utterances of the
demons
are inarticulate.
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ε
2221
Ἐπιάλτην
nightmare
… and Hesiod and the Attic [Greeks] [mean by epialtes] the
demon
[of that name], but with a phi [they spell the name of] the man Ephialtes. And [sc. note also] that which is called …
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ε
3718
Εὐρύβατος
Eurybatos, Eurybatus
… guards got drunk and untied him, they urged him to
demonstrate
how to clamber up on top of buildings. At first he refused, but they kept asking, though he was not willing, and when …
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ε
3996
Ἔχετος
Echetus, Echetos
… with pitiless bronze". And another [passage?]: "Festus sends out, to
demonstrate
that the poetical and legendary Echetus, and any other such [tyrant] from Sicily or Thessaly, were gold and a festival".
Matched in translation
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α
245
Ἄγκεσι
[in] forests
… It is perhaps extracted from the quotation given, though not
demonstrably
so; there are other extant possibilities in e.g. Theocritus and Oppian. [1] For this glossing cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 18.321, where …
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short
α
557
Ἀεργηλή
non-working
… nominative singular of the epic/poetic adjective a)erghlo/s, perhaps (though not
demonstrably)
generated by the feminine genitive singular a)erghla=s in the quotation given. [1] cf. Hesychius' glossing of a)erghlo/n with a)rgo/n. [2] An abbreviation of …
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α
663
Ἀήσυρον
light-as-air
… adjective. It must be quoted from somewhere; possibly, though not
demonstrably,
the quotation given here. [1] These glosses also occur, in various permutations, in Hesychius and elsewhere, including Apollonius's Homeric Lexicon. (But no instance …
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α
864
Ἀκήλητον
inexorable
… Hesychius, shows), is evidently quoted from somewhere; perhaps, though not
demonstrably,
the epigram quoted. For the glossing cf. also the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 10.329, where a)kh/lhtos occurs. [2] Greek Anthology 7.9.7-8 (Damagetus, Damagetos), …
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α
1578
Ἀμησάμενος
having shovelled up
… more generally alpha 1574, and delta 654). Perhaps, though not
demonstrably,
extracted from the first quotation given. (Ostensibly, the headword occurs also in Homer, Odyssey 9.247, but there it is from the LSJ's a)ma/w …
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short
α
2087
Ἀνάστρῳ
starless
… headword, dative singular of this adjective, is probably (though not
demonstrably)
extracted from the quotation given. [1] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 12 Habrich. (This poetic statement is a faint echo of Homer, Iliad 18.61.)
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α
2209
Ἀνεβάλλετο
was striking up, was starting up
… other lexica and scholia. The headword is perhaps (though not
demonstrably)
extracted from the first quotation given. [1] Arrian, History of Alexander's Successors fr. 21 Roos-Wirth (FGrH 156 F124). [2] See already alpha 1810.
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α
4636
Ἀφοπλίζειν
to strip of arms
The headword infinitive is perhaps (though not
demonstrably)
extracted from the quotation given. [1] Likewise already, it seems, in Hesychius alpha8718, though truncated there. [2] Quotation unidentifiable. [3] From a scholium on Homer, Iliad …
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