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Ἔβασον
allow!
[Meaning the same as] e)/ason.
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Ἔβρασεν
tossed ashore
[Meaning he/she/it] threw out of the sea onto the land. "The sea churned up by Orion [Author, Myth] tossed ashore a many-footed skolopendra onto the rocks of the Iapyges."
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Ἑβραῖοι
Hebrews
[sc. Named] from Heber son of Sal, who distributed the land to the tribes after naming the settlers Hebrews. This man did not labor alongside the tower-builders, and his language remained unchanged.
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ε
41
Ἕβρος
Hebros, Hebrus
A river of Thrace, with its tributaries flowing down out of Rhodope, the Thracian mountain.
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short
ε
49
Ἐγένετο καὶ Μάνδρωνι συκίνη ναῦς
even Mandron got a fig-wood ship
[sc. A proverbial phrase] used in reference to those who have been fortunate beyond their hopes and deserts, and then give themselves airs at their present circumstances. For Mandron was chosen admiral amongst Athenians, …
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short
ε
52
Ἔγεστα
egesta, agesta
A military device, erected out of stones and timbers and earth. "Those working on this make a screen of goat-hair cloths, which are called Cilician, having sufficient thickness and length, and they attached them …
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short
ε
74
Ἔγκαρπον
fruit-containing, fruitful
[Meaning] pregnant. "Philippos had a liaison with Arsenoe, but then left her fruit-containing by him, and he took Olympias as his wife".
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short
ε
75
Ἐγκάρσιον
athwart, oblique
[Meaning] transverse.
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ε
77
Ἐγκατελέγησαν λίθοι
stones were laid in
Meaning were built in. And Homer [writes]: "and laying dry-stone walls."
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ε
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Ἐγκατέσκηψαν
they fell upon
[Meaning] they rushed at, they ran upon, they laid hold of. "The evils of the Egyptians, those in the city of Alexandria, fell also upon Rome." Varro says [this].
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short
ε
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Ἐγκαίνια
Consecration, Dedication, Encaenia
A festival to mark the renewal of something.
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ε
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Ἐγκαινίδες
gunwales
[Meaning] some part [sic] of a ship. "Placing straight timbers just like thwarts and gunwales above cross-wise -- not all throughout but only at the ends and in the very middle -- tightening them …
high
short
ε
86
Ἐγκεκορδυλημένος
bundled up
[Meaning] swaddled up, covered up and wound up so as not even to present the shape of a human, but to appear as a heap of coverings. For kordu/lh is used idiomatically for a …
high
medium
ε
87
Ἐγκεκοισυρωμένην
Koisyra-ed out
Meaning excessively adorned, adopting the manners of Koisyra. The name is an Eretrian one. These men [sc. the Eretrians] are criticized for their luxury. She was wedded to Peisistratos after he had tried to …
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medium
ε
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Ἐγκεχείρικα πάντα Τιμολέοντι
I undertook everything for Timoleon
[no gloss]
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short
ε
97
Ἐγκιλικίζεται
is acting the Cilician
[Meaning he/she/it] is acting maliciously, is behaving badly. For the Cilicians had a reputation for wickedness. Hence they also say *kili/kios o)/leqros ["Cilician doom"]. For to act like a Cilician [is] to behave maliciously.
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ε
102
Ἔγκλισις
inclination
Anaxagoras says [...] so that the pole which is always visible was directly above the earth, but later it acquired its inclination. That is, a deviation.
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ε
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Ἐγκολπίζονται
they engulf
"The barbarians engulf the citadel, having pretended to be about to come over to the Romans; they were 400 in number."
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Ἐγκομβώσασθαι
to bundle oneself up
Apollodorus in Karystian Deserters [writes]: "folding my tunic double over me, I bundled myself up." Epicharmus [writes]: "now if indeed that he has bundled himself up well..." [He writes this] in Amykos.
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ε
113
Ἐγκοπή
hindrance, incision
[Meaning an] obstacle, obstruction. "Without incisions and rungs it was not [possible] to climb up the rock."
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short
ε
116
Ἐγκώμιον
in the village
[Meaning] in the town. For a village [kw/mh] [is] the town's constituent-parts. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] e)gkwmia/zw se ["I praise you"]: [i.e. used] with an accusative.
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short
ε
131
Ἐγκρυφίας
ash-baked
[Meaning a] loaf of bread covered in wood-ash. The 3 measures of flour, out of which the e)gkrufi/as was made, alludes to the three-day burial of the Bread of Life.
high
short
ε
134
Ἐγκύκλιος
cyclical, periodic
[Referring to] the annual giving of money. "And when the Khagan, the leader of the Avars, asked for the cyclical wealth, which they would get each year from the Romans [...]". And elsewhere: "the …
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short
ε
141
Ἐγγλωττογάστωρ Ἐγγλωττογάστορες
tongue-belly
Tongue-bellies, those who make their living by their tongues, like e)gxeiroga/stores, those [who do so] by their hands.
high
short
ε
143
Ἔγνω
condemned, convicted
Meaning [he/she/it] judged. "So the king/emperor convicted them of injustice. But they went into exile." Also [sc. attested is the plural] e)/gnwsan ["they condemned/convicted"], meaning they judged. "And Mancinus they condemned to be handed …
high
short
ε
147
Ἐγνωσμένον
determined
[Meaning that which has been] judged. Arrian [writes]: "[...that] it had been determined, when the Moors attacked them, that those who were in front of them should flee as if they had been routed, …
high
short
ε
162
Ἔγρυπε
it wrinkled
"There was an earthquake," Melanthius says, "and the earth wrinkled." See under grupa/nion ["wrinkled"].
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ε
163
Ἐγγύη
surety
[Meaning] a secure and reliable claim. [The term comes] from gh= ["earth"], [come] gu/h [a measure of land] and e)ggu/h. For the earth [is] more solid than the other elements.
high
short
ε
166
Ἐγγύθετος
near-situated
[Describing] a place which is close by.
high
short
ε
168
Ἔγγυον
secure
[Meaning something] safe. Also [sc. attested is] e)/gguos, [meaning] one who gives a security. Also [sc. attested is the related feminine participle] e)gguwme/nh, [meaning] making sure. The Pisidian [writes]: "now let the moon shine …
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