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history10
historiography9

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high54

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David Whitehead27
Catharine Roth18
Marcelo Boeri3
Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝2
Anne Mahoney1
D. Graham J. Shipley1

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Tony Natoli1
William Hutton1

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ει4Εἰ ἐπιστολήif ... message"If you heed, [you will be?] first, but if not, yet that abominable [thing/event] goes away, let my message be to you alone".highshort
ει22Εἰδέαidea, form, aspect, figurePlato makes use of different names with the same meaning. At any rate he names an idea 'form', 'genus', 'paradigm', 'principle', 'cause', [this form being] neither liable to change nor remaining [the same], and …highmedium
ει25Εἰδεχθέςugly, unsightly[Meaning something] misshapen, unseemly, foul, rotten, loathsome. And [there is a] feminine [abstract noun] ei)de/xqeia ["odious look"].

ει4

Εἰ ἐπιστολή

if ... message

"If you heed, [you will be?] first, but if not, yet that abominable [thing/event] goes away, let my message be to you alone".

Εἰ ἐπιστολή· εἰ μὲν εἰσακούσαις πρώτη, εἰ δ', ἀλλ' ἀπείη τὸ ἀπευκταῖον, μόνη μοι ἔστω πρὸς σὲ ἡ ἐπιστολή.

gender and sexuality3

gender and sexuality3

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ει28Εἰ δεῖif one must[Meaning] if one should.highshort

ει45Εἴδωλονlikeness, image, phantom[Meaning] a shadowy image; or an appearance of a body, a certain cloudy shadow. As Bacchylides [writes]: "dark-dyed likeness of an Ithacan man." Also the Poet [writes] about Antikleia: "three times like a shadow …highmedium

ει46Εἴδωλονimage[Meaning] the likeness of an appearance. Sophocles [writes]: "[Odysseus] 'I see that we who are alive are nothing but images or an insubstantial shadow.' [Athena] 'Therefore seeing such matters, do not say any insolent …highshort

ει68Εἰ καὶ νῦν ἐγὼeven if now I myself"[Even if now I myself] -- because I wish my father, having been freed from these early-rising-blackmailing-litigating-hardgoing ways, to live a gentleman's life like Morychos -- stand accused of doing these things because I …highshort

ει71Εἰκαῖονrandom, aimless[Meaning] vain, useless. "The care of the spirit [dai/mwn] in each of us [is] to keep it pure from passion and frivolity and dissatisfaction with what comes [to us] from god and men." And …highshort

ει76Εἰκῇat random, randomly[Meaning] purposelessly/vainly. Meaning falsely. "This is one of the things which are believed at random."highshort

ει77Εἰκῇat random[Meaning] in vain/to no purpose. [There is] a proverb: 'don't at random to Abydos'. It leaves out 'sail' or 'journey'. It is said in reference to those taking risks.highshort

ει83Εἰκόςprobable[Meaning something] fitting, or consequent, reasonable. It is also applied to possibility [sc. of something]. "Of those who had overpowered Caesar, he did not pursue any; as it seems to me and as probability …highmedium

ει97Εἰλαπίνηrevel[Meaning] a festival, a banquet. [The term comes] from spending abundantly. For la/ptein [is] to empty out [sc. the coffers].highshort

ει118Εἴληφεν ἡ παγὶς τὸν μῦνthe trap caught the mouse[sc. A proverbial saying] in reference to those deservedly caught.highshort

ει132Εἵλωςhelot[genitive] ei(/lwtos: the slave. And the ethnic Heilotes [is used] among Lakedaimonians [for] illegitimate men and those slaves born from captives; from the [word] Helos. Helos [is] a polis in the Peloponnese. So the …highshort

ει143ΕἱμαρμένηfateThe [existing] things that lie beyond the [sphere of the] moon [exist] on account of the [following] four causes: according to god, according to fate, according to our choice, according to chance. For example, …highmedium

ει144ΕἱμαρμένηfateThey said that fate is a necessary power and that it sets matter in motion. And Plato calls chance 'cause that is produced incidentally as a coincidental occurrence either of nature or of choice'. …highmedium

ει146Εἰ μὲν οὖνso if"[So if] the fellow, who must be the object of many insults, had himself been obvious, I would not have made mention of a [man who is a] friend; but as it is, everybody …highmedium

ει149Εἰ μὴ πατὴρ ἦσθαwere you not my fatherBy abbreviation. The full version [is], "[were you not my father] I would say you are not in your right mind."highshort

ει175Εἴποις τὰ τρία παρὰ τῇ αὐλῇyou might say the three things by the courtThose being led to their death used to have freedom of speech, once they were full of food and wine, to say three things which they wanted; after which they were silenced and led …highshort

ει178Εἰργασμένος πλοῦτοςmanufactured wealth"Many being ashamed at the sight of [their?] manufactured wealth".highshort

ει181Εἴρεροςbondage[Meaning] slavery.highshort

ει191ΕἰρηνεύωI bring to peace, I reconcile[Used] with an accusative.highshort

ει192Εἰρηναίωςpeaceably[Meaning] amicably. "For they were peaceably equipped without bodyguards while performing the ritual".highshort

ει194Εἰρηνήσεινto be at peace[A verb] of the first conjugation of those with a circumflex accent on the final syllable. "For I/they had a great hope to be at peace". "Though it was possible for him to be …highshort

ει206Εἴρωνdissembler[Meaning] one who makes fun of everything and is continually joking. Also [sc. attested is the related participle] ei)rwneuo/menos ["dissembling"] in speech; from the [verb] ei)/rw [which means] I speak. A cheat and a …highshort

ει207Εἴρωνdissembler[Meaning] one who is able to do something while saying he is not able; but an a)lazw/n ["braggart"] is the opposite to this, an arrogant man; [sc. that is the] distinction. "He did not …highshort

ει208Εἰρωνευόμενοιdissembling, perplexing[Meaning they who are] jesting. "Perplexing all the nations with the intricacy of expressions and the deviousness of intention." Also [sc. attested is] ei)rwneu/etai ["he/she/it dissembles"], [meaning] plays a role, pretends.highshort

ει209Εἰρωνεύσεταιwill dissemble[Meaning he/she/it] will play a role. For this is said in reference to one making a deceitful experiment and pretending to be a person who does not know how to speak concerning anything whatever.highshort

ει210Εἰρωνείαdissimulation, irony[Meaning] jesting, or pretense. It is divided into 5 [kinds]: into joking, sneering, sarcasm, mock-modesty.highshort

ει215Εἰρύσατοdrew to himself, took over[Meaning he/she/it] dragged, took. "He rejoiced in the nonsenses of Epicurus, and out of them drew to himself two evils, [i.e.] to be an atheist and licentious."highshort

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