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Χαβρίας
Khabrias,Chabrias
A proper name.
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Χαγάνος
Khagan, Khan
This man was...
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Χαγάνος
Khagan, Khan
"The Khagan was giving his oaths to the [winds] to carry and, lifting up the trumpet dear to war, he gathered his forces together."
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Χαλάσαι
to loosen
[Meaning] to be untied, to be slackened. "[that] water falling out of the sky loosened the [bow-]strings of the foreigners, softened the horns of the bows, and took away the force and accuracy of …
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Χαλάσω τὴν ἱερὰν ἄγκυραν
I will loose the holy anchor
An anchor [features in this phrase] figuratively from ships, [meaning] safety. So Sophocles in Phaedra and Euripides in Hecuba [also use it]. [It is called] holy [meaning that it is] a large [anchor or] …
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Χαλεπαίνει
is vexed
[Used] with a dative. [Meaning he/she/it] is antagonised, is enraged. "More of the Romans fell, and Trajan was vexed at what had happened". And elswhere: "because of often having seen him before, he recognised …
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Χαλεπωτάτους λόγους
most difficult words, very difficult words
[Meaning ones] able to deceive. Candidus [writes]: "having picked out the more difficult men and assigned public [monies?] to them he persuaded them as a result of this even to yield to the governors …
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Χαλίσεια
Chaliseia, Chalisia
[no gloss]
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Χαλκεῖα
Chalkeia, Bronzes
A festival among Athenians, celebrated on the last day of [the month] Pyanepsion, for craftsmen in general and bronze-smiths in particular, as Apollonius says. But Phanodemus maintains that the festival is celebrated not for …
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Χαλκιδεύς
Chalkideus
A proper name.
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Χαλκιδικὸν δίωγμα
Chalkidian pursuit, Chalcidian pursuit
At the Thesmophoria [festival] at Athens [there was] a certain ritual [commemorating an occasion when] in wartime the women had prayed that the enemy be pursued, and what happened was that they were expelled …
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Χάλος
Chalos, Chalus
A river, one plethron [= 100 feet] wide, full of large, tame fish.
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Χαμαιεύρετος
found-on-the-ground
"He found me found-on-the-ground and reared me."
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Χαμαίζηλοι
ground-seeking [ones]
[Meaning] lowly [ones]; or [in reference to] hollow chariots. "With ground-seeking wheels turning beneath them."
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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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Χαναάν
Canaan
A proper name. And out of it [comes] Canaanites. "Moses spent 40 years until his death with the chosen people, and he left behind Joshua the son of Nun as his successor, who took …
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80
Χανδόν
gapingly
[Meaning] continuously, untrustworthily, insatiably, graspingly. To drink gapingly. "But Eutropius sucking in every opportunity and chance, immoderately and gapingly, and taking his fill and busybodying, so that a father would not escape his notice …
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Χαραδροῦται
is being gullied
[Meaning he/she/it] is being dug out, is being hollowed out.
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Χάρακα
palisade, palisaded camp
[Meaning a] vallum, enclosure.
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Χαρακτῆρες
characters
"[Characters] of expressive speeches [are] lofty, plain, [and] intermediate. Thucydides favoured the lofty, as suited to his own nature."
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Χάραξ
Charax
Of Pergamum, a priest and philosopher. I found in an ancient book the following epigram about him: "I am Charax, a priest from the venerable heights of Pergamum, where once Telephus, blameless son of …
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Χαριεστέρους
more satisfactory
[Meaning] more esteemed, fitter-looking. Eunapius [writes]: "Procopius, having inducted the more satisfactory men, was converging through Phrygia upon the Emperor Valens."
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109
Χαριέττων
Charietton
A proper name.
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Χάριτας
favors; Graces
[Meaning] privileges, kindnesses. "He sent Theodorus to promise favors, in return for the fact that he had honored the greatest emissary of the Romans to the utmost." Also [sc. attested is] a proverb: 'the …
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126
Χαριτία
jest, joke
[Meaning] amusement.
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Χάρμα
delight
[Meaning] joy, pleasure. Polybius [writes]: "delight and grief came over his heart at the same time."
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136
Χάρων
Charon, Kharon
Of Lampsakos; son of Pythokles; lived during the reign of the first [King] Dareios, in the 79th Olympiad; but rather in the time of the Persian Wars, the 75th Olympiad. A historian, he wrote …
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137
Χάρων
Charon
of Carthage, a historian. He wrote Tyrants of Europe and Asia, Lives of Famous Men (in 4 volumes), Lives of Women (likewise in four).
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Χάρων
Charon, Kharon
Of Naukratis, a historian. [He wrote] Priests in Alexandria and in Egypt and the events under the tenure of each, Kings of each people from earliest times and [On] Naukratis, and others works about …
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144
Χάρυβδις
Charybdis
It sucks up the sea around Gadeira and furiously spirals around again. It is said that it all leads down to chaos and destruction. Priscus says about Charybdis: "They sail by Sicily in front …
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