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α234Ἁγίασμαsanctuary, holy place… David [says]: "Judah was his sanctuary." Also [sc. attested is] a(giasti/a ["sanctity"], [meaning] holiness. But a)gistei/a [sc. is spelled with] with a diphthong.Matched in headwordhighshort
ε3396Εὐγηρότατοςaging very well[Referring to an] excellent old man, worthy of honor.Matched in headwordhighshort
α293Ἀγομένων τῶν ἡμετέρωνour [possessions] being led off… 22.3, 7 postquam res sociorum ante oculos prope suos ferri agique vidit; 38.15 ut ferri agique res suas viderunt, 3.37 (the same). [2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable. …

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Ἁγίασμα

sanctuary, holy place

[Meaning] the divine temple. David [says]: "Judah was his sanctuary." Also [sc. attested is] a(giasti/a ["sanctity"], [meaning] holiness. But a)gistei/a [sc. is spelled with] with a diphthong.

Ἁγίασμα· ὁ θεῖος νεώς. Δαβίδ· ἐγενήθη Ἰουδαία ἁγίασμα αὐτοῦ. καὶ Ἁγιαστία, ἡ ἁγιωσύνη. ἀγιστεία δὲ διφθόγγῳ.

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α4140Ἀσέλγειαlicentiousness… prodigiously fat": Aristophanes says [this] in Wealth. Meaning heavy. "Being agitated and croaking with licentiousness, just as crows caw." Meaning they are being awfully noisy. Also [sc. attested is] a)selgh/s, in reference to a …Matched in translationhighmedium

γ98ΓεδεώνGideon… by their enemies. And there were 300 found who drank agitatedly with their hands.Matched in translationhighmedium

δ1012Διηρέθιζενprovoked[Meaning he/she/it] stirred, agitated, rekindled. "He [sc. would have] incited and provoked beastliness and savagery, if he had ever become lord of the land."Matched in translationhighshort

ε1379Ἓν κηρίονa single honeycomb[sc. A proverbial phrase] applied to those who are voicing the same views, or [fellow-]agitators, or [fellow-]conspirators.Matched in translationhighshort

ε3968Ἐφρύαξανthey raged[Meaning] they were agitated.Matched in translationhighshort

ι500Ἰωρόςioros… the proverb was applied to people making threats and being agitated.Matched in translationhighshort

κ1944Κολόκυμαroller… wave, not splashing against anything. "Pushing forth a roller and agitating and stirring [the sea]". Aristophanes [sc. says this].Matched in translationhighshort

α3460Ἀπόνοιαsenselessness… in fact a misrepresentation: Justinian (cf. iota 446) openly supported, agitated, and fired-up the Blues; cf. Procopius, Secret History 7.6 (web address 2). The Blues and Greens were rival circus guilds and enjoyed imperial …Matched in noteshighmedium

ε1055Ἐμποίνιμοςpunishable… beta 433 but presumably the Republican tribune (103-99 BCE) and agitator L. Appuleius Saturninus. Though never consul, he did surrender under a promise of official safety (fides publica) before being murdered by a mob.Matched in noteshighshort

ε3569Εὔλογον ἀξίωμαprobable assumption, reasonable proposition… BCE (at the age of c.24) would become the reforming Agiad King Cleomenes III. How far, if at all, the teachings of Sphaerus can be supposed to underpin Cleomenes' measures has been much debated: …Matched in noteshighmedium

κ1723ΚλεομένηςKleomenes, Cleomenes… of Sparta c.235-222 (for which see Polybius 2.46-70, 5.35-9; Plutarch, Agis and Kleomenes) and focuses on the end of his life. After the Macedonians defeated the Spartans at Sellasia, Kleomenes escaped to Alexandria, meeting …Matched in noteshighshort

λ272ΛεωνίδηςLeonides, LeonidasLeonidas (the appropriate Doric form) was Agiad king of Sparta between c.490 and 480 BCE, in which year he perished heroically in the defense of Thermopylai. See generally OCD(4) s.v. Leonidas(1); Poralla/Bradford, A Prosopography …Matched in noteshighmedium