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Ἀασάμην
I was addled
[Meaning] I did wrong, I slipped up; I was damaged, in the sense of "I was overcome by folly."
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Ἀβάσκανος
unprejudiced
[Meaning someone/something] deceit-free, envy-free. "He [Mithradates] became an unprejudiced witness to Caesar of the achievements of Antipater."
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Ἀβδέλυκτα
unhateful [things]
[Meaning] those which do not cause pollution, at which one would not feel disgust or hatred. The word [is] somewhat tragic. Aeschylus in Myrmidons [writes]: "indeed, for I love them, they are unhateful to …
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Ἀβέβαιος
unreliable, unsteady
[Meaning he who/that which is] unstable and easily overturned.
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Ἀβέβηλα
inviolable [places]
[Meaning] places that must not be walked on, holy and sacred places. For be/bhla meant what is not holy or sacred, where anyone may walk. Also [sc. attested is] be/bhloi, [meaning] those who do …
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Ἄβελ
Abel
Son of Adam. This man was chaste and just, and a shepherd of flocks; out of these he offered a sacrifice to God and was accepted, but was then killed because he was envied …
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Ἀβελτεροκόκκυξ
silly cuckoo
The vacuous and silly man.
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Ἀβέλτερος
thoughtless
[Meaning] mindless, stupid. For the intelligent man [is] be/lteros ["thoughtful, superior"]. "No, by Zeus, not the greedy and thoughtless fellow, but the mindless and conceitedly slow-witted." Menander in Perinthia [writes]: "any servant who takes …
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Ἀβελτερώτατοι
most thoughtless, very thoughtless
Aristophanes [writes]: "before this most/very thoughtless men used to sit gaping -- Dolts, Half-wits".
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Ἀβέρβηλος
unsteady
[Meaning someone or something] unstable. There is also a word a)bu/rbhlon, [meaning something] shameless, hateful.
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Ἀβεσαλώμ
Abesalom, Absalom
Proper name. [The man] who rose up against his own father David and was destroyed by him in the war.
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Ἀβής
stupid
[Meaning someone or something] unintelligent.
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Ἀβίωτον
unlivable
[Meaning something] bad [and] annoying, painful. "He found it an unlivable situation if he could not control the city". Also [sc. attested is the masculine] a)bi/wtos, he who is not alive.
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Ἄβιτος
Abitos, Abitus
Proper name. "Abitos built himself an ascetic's cell."
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Ἀβλεμέως
fecklessly, heedlessly
[Meaning] thoughtlessly.
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Ἀβλεπτήματι
by an oversight
[Meaning] by a mistake. "He bore the oversights of ordinary folk patiently, but those of more intellectual people grieved him." Also [sc. attested is the participle] a)bleptou=ntes. "Those committing oversights and ashamed to face …
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Ἀβληχρήν
feeble
[Meaning] weak. For what is strong [is] blhxro/n. Aelian [writes]: "so she brought her life to an end gently and with a calm and feeble death, such as even Homer seems to me to …
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60
Ἀβουλεί
inconsiderately, unintentionally
[Meaning] without consideration, mindlessly, ignorantly. "Though he certainly had not guessed the king's opinion, he accomplished it quite unintentionally."
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Ἀβούλητον κακόν
involuntary evil, undesired evil
[Meaning something] unwanted, what one does not want. Also [sc. attested is] abouletos, he who does not wish; but Aboulitos [is] a proper name, with the 'i'.
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Ἀβουλία
ill-advisedness
[Meaning] unrefinedness, foolishness. Also stupidity.
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Ἀβούλως
ill-advisedly
[Meaning] unthinkingly, ignorantly. A line [of verse]: "badly, ill-advisedly, unthinkingly, without reason."
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Ἄβρα
favorite
Not simply a maidservant nor even the pretty maidservant is called [favorite], but a daughter of one of the house slaves and an honored one, whether born in the house or not. Menander in …
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Ἁβρὰ βαίνων
walking delicately
[Meaning someone] being conceited, being indolent. "Walking truly delicately, that fellow seemed to be holding his eyebrows up in the air."
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Ἀβέλτερος νοῦς
foolish mind
"[A foolish mind,] empty, naive, young."
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Ἀβρογάστης
Abrogastes, Arbogast
A Frank, who was fierce as flame from strength of body and ruggedness of spirit; by happenstance second in rank to Baudo. He was especially solid and complete in regard to self-control and made …
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Ἁβροδιαίτῃ
with luxurious living
[Meaning] with a soft and dainty life. Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] habrodiaitos: a softy, a soft-liver. "The lifestyle of the Romans [is] not inclined toward soft-living, especially since they are warlike …
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84
Ἀβρόμιος
Bromios-less, Bromius-less
[Meaning] without wine. "If I escape through the wave of destructive fire, I tell you I will drink for one hundred suns from dewy streams, Bromios-less and wine-less." In the Epigrams.
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Ἁβρόν
delicate
In Herodotus [sc. this means something] beautiful, stubborn, awe-inspiring, dainty.
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Ἁβρός
delicate
[Meaning] bright, delicate, tender. In the Epigrams: "a cicada sat above a cithara delicately murmuring." "All the same that fellow is dainty and delicate and weakened by the softness of his body and depraved …
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Ἁβρὸς λειμὼν καὶ νοτερὸς καὶ εὐθαλής
a meadow delicate and moist and flourishing
"All decked out as luxuriously as possible and in a manner that was amazing in terms of wealth, for someone, that is, who marvels at wealth."
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