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962
Ἀκρατοπότης
unmixed-wine-drinker
[Meaning] a drunkard, one who drinks unmixed wine insatiably.
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short
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970
Ἀκραιβατηνή
Akraibatene, Acraebatene
Name of a city.
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short
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975
Ἀκραίφνιον
Akraiphnion, Acraephnium
Name of a city.
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1603
Ἀμινσηνός
Aminsenos
From [the name of] a place.
high
short
α
1605
Ἀμισώδαρος
Amisodaros, Amisodarus
A proper name.
high
short
α
1608
Ἀμνειός
Amneios
[(?)Name of] a river; and [referring to] a lamb.
high
short
α
1610
Ἀμνησός
Amnesos, Amnisos
Name of a mountain.
high
short
α
1616
Ἀμμοάτιν
ammoatis, sand-snake
A type of snake.
high
short
α
1623
Ἀμόργεια
Amorgian
[Meaning a] kind of color, [named] from the island of Amorgos, as Therian [is] from the island of Thera.
high
short
α
1624
Ἀμόργη
lees
[Meaning] the sediment.
high
short
α
1625
Ἀμόργινον
amorginos, Amorgian, mallow-fibered fabric
[Meaning something] like linen and expensive. Also found is amorgina in the feminine.
high
short
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1626
Ἀμοργίς
mallow-stalk
Properly [this means] fine flax, from which is made garments called amorginian. Or the sediment of the olive and the lees of the wine. The mallow-stalk is like unscutched flax. They peel it and …
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short
α
1627
Ἀμοργοί πόλεως ὄλεθρος
squeezers [are] a city's ruin
Cratinus in Seriphians [sc. uses the phrase]. They also call them morgoi, taking away the alpha, as in other cases: for they call amauron mauron and asphodelon sphodelon.
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short
α
4221
Ἀστάρτη
Astarte, Ashteroth
The one called Aphrodite by the Greeks, who took the name from the planet. They tell in myth that the morning star is hers.
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short
α
4222
Ἀστάρτη
Astarte, Ashteroth
Goddess of [the] Sidonians, and Chamos, god of [the] Ammonites, whom Solomon served. He married wives from the gentiles, who, together with the Israelite wives, were seven hundred, as well as three hundred concubines. …
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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
1145
Διογένης
Diogenes
Because Diogenes had a son in love and because he was a harsh father, he did not condone his son’s brashness, but shutting him up and hindering his desire, he sharpened the passion all …
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medium
δ
1149
Διόδωρος
Diodoros, Diodorus, Diodore
[sc. At first] a monk, [sc. but later] in the times of Julian and Valens bishop of Tarsus of Cilicia. He wrote a variety of things, as Theodore Lector says in his Ecclesiastical History. …
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medium
δ
1476
Δῶρος
Doros, Dorus
The one from Arabia. As Damascius says in his Philosophical History, he was a most remarkable investigator of the truth. Isidore the philosopher perceived initially that he was caught up in Aristotle’s propositions, seeing …
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medium
χ
78
Χαμώς
Chamos, Chemosh
He was a god of [the] Tyrians or the Ammonites, just as Astarte [was] a goddess of [the] Sidonians, [sc. both of] whom Solomon served.
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short