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Δάα
Daa
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Δαβαινίτης
Dabaina, Dabaena
Name of a place. Also [sc. attested is its ethnikon] Dabainite.
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Δαγών
Dagon
An idol worshipped by the foreigners, [the one] to whom they dedicated the casket when they had taken it.
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bears a torch, is a torch-bearer
[Meaning he/she/it] shines. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'having been a torch-bearer in Athens'. "As those of the Athenians who are renowned for determining these things say: they pray to Boulaia and to …
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20
Δάκες
Dakes, Dacians
Those who are now called Patzinakitai. The nominative da/kos, [dative] da/kei; [plural] da/kh and da/keta, [meaning] beasts, venomous serpents. Also dake/tas similarly.
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short
δ
23
Δακία χώρα
Dacian region, Dacian territory
That which Trajan colonized in the regions on the other side of the Istrus. And Aurelian abandoned this [region], once the region of the Illyrians and the Mysians had become afflicted [sc. by the …
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28
Δάκτυλοι
fingers, finger[-dates]
Among many [sc. this is the name for] the dates of the date palm. And [there is] a proverb: "Daktylos' day"; in reference to those passing their days happily. For Daktylos was a man …
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short
δ
29
Δακίβιζα
Dakibiza, Dakibyza
The name of a place. Also search in [the entry on] Valens.
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short
δ
30
Δάλδις
Daldis
A city of Lydia.
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short
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33
Δαμάγητος
Damagetos, Damagetus
A proper name. The Herakleote.
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short
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38
Δαμασκηνός
Damascene
[Meaning someone] from a place [sc. called Damascus].
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39
Δαμάσκιος
Damaskios, Damascius
Stoic philosopher, Syrian, [but] a disciple of Simplicius and Eulalios the Phrygians; he flourished in the time of Justinian. Commentaries on Plato, On First Principles, and Philosophical History were written by him.
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short
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40
Δάμασος
Damasos, Damasus
Bishop of Rome, naturally adept at epic poetry, he produced many short [pieces] in heroic meter, and he died at age eighty under the Emperor Theodosius. He also wrote many other things.
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short
δ
41
Δαμάστης
Damastes
A Sigean, from Sigeion in the Troad, son of Dioxippos, born before the Peloponnesian War, contemporary of Herodotus, among the wealthiest of men, historian. He wrote On Events in Greece, On the Children and …
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Δαμιανός
Damianus, Damianos
Of Ephesus. Sophist. He was raised to consular rank under the emperor [Septimius] Severus, was governor of Bithynia, and constructed the domed stoa which extends to the shrine outside Ephesus.
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46
Δάμις
Damis
A man not without learning, an inhabitant of ancient Nineveh. This man was a philosophical associate of Apollonius and wrote up his travels, which he says he, too, shared. He wrote up his opinions …
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medium
δ
49
Δαμόκριτος
Damokritos, Damocritus
Historian. [He wrote] Tactics in 2 books, [and] On the Jews; in which [latter] he says that they used to bow down to the golden head of an ass, and every seven years hunted …
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δ
50
Δαμόξενος
Damoxenos, Damoxenus
An Athenian, a comic poet. One of his plays is Foster-Brothers, as Athenaeus says in [book] 3 of Deipnosophists; and [another is] Being One's Own Mourner, as the same [writer says] later, in his …
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δ
57
Δανάη
Danaë
A proper name. The [daughter] of Acrisius. "Go be judged: you are not Danaë the [daughter] of Acrisius." For when she was responding stubbornly to a lawsuit, a certain wiseguy said to her: "Go …
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δ
59
Δανάκη
danake
This is the name of a coin, which in the old days they gave to the corpses as they buried [them]; [it was the] passenger's-fare on the Acherousian boat. Acherousia is a lake in …
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δ
63
Δάοχος
Daochos, Daochus
This man is one of those who betrayed [control of] the affairs of [the] Thessalians to Philip.
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short
δ
68
Δάρας
Daras
Procopius [writes]: "the Romans' cavalry were leaders of the cavalry which had previously withstood the battle at Daras".
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short
δ
69
Δαρδανεύς
Dardaneus, Dardanian
The name of a people. Also [sc. attested are] Dardanioi.
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short
δ
71
Δαρετίου
Daretian
"[I say Gelon, Hieron, Polyzelus and Thrasybulus] dedicated a tripod of a hundred litrae and fifty talents' [weight] of Daretian gold, the tithe of a tithe."
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short
δ
72
Δαρεικούς
Darics
It was a gold currency, which Darius first devised. When Xerxes sent an envoy to him and offered him three thousand Darics, [Aristides] said that he had no use for Persian wealth, living the …
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73
Δαρεικούς
Darics
Darics are gold staters; each of them had the value of what the Athenians call a "gold." They were named not after Darius the father of Xerxes but after some other more ancient [Persian] …
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short
δ
79
Δάσκιος
thick-shaded
[Meaning] that which is very shady.
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short
δ
82
Δασμός
dasmos, tribute
[Meaning] division, first-fruits of tribute. Xenophon [writes]: "they found 17 colts raised for tribute to the king." And elsewhere: "fearing Minos' fleet, the Athenians and decided to bring tribute to Crete, whomever they [sc. …
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short
δ
89
Δᾶτις
Datis
A Persian, who made it his business to speak Greek [sc. but did so badly]. They say he used xai/romai, instead of saying xai/rw. And that [sort of thing] is "Datism". Datis: "this man …
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medium
δ
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Δατόν
date
Among Romans [it is] the designation of the day and the time when someone is sent off either from the city or from some place. Mark you, perhaps this is what even now is …
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