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Δάρας
Daras
Procopius [writes]: "the Romans' cavalry were leaders of the cavalry which had previously withstood the battle at Daras".
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92
Δάτος
Datos, Datus, Daton, Datum
A city of Thrace, exceptionally well-favored. From it comes the proverb: "Datos of good things". This city and the adjacent territory have names in both feminine and masculine.
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158
Δεδοξοποιημένον
with a reputation for judgment
[Meaning someone] adorned with judgment. Polybius [writes]: "for whereas other creatures are the slaves of their bodily desires, [...] the human race, despite the expectations placed on it, goes astray no less through thoughtlessness …
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171
Δέκα
ten
['Ten'] and 'tenth-man'. "[sc. The] ten were in office, the ones set up after the Thirty"; however, each of these officials was called a tenth-man, as Lysias shows.
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172
Δεκαδαρχίαι
tenfold-regimes
Historians consistently give the name "tenfold-regimes" to the [regimes] set up in the cities by Spartans. And Philip, however, set up a tenfold-regime amongst [the] Thessalians, as Demosthenes [shows] in the sixth of [the] …
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175
Δεκαμναιαῖον
ten-mina, ten-mna
[Meaning] of ten m[i]nai. "Scopas, general of the Aitolians, unsuccessful in his military campaign, wrote laws. And the king gave him a ten-m[i]na daily allowance for food, with those appointed under someone's command getting …
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184
Δεκατευτήριον
tithe-station, customs-house
[Meaning] the ferry-crossing at Abydos. "...that he will immediately ravage Abydos and the customs-house there".
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206
Δελφίνιον
Delphinion, Delphinium
It is of course a place in Chios; but there is also a shrine of Apollo in Athens so called, where the Delphinion lawcourt used to be.
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261
Δερμιστής
skin-eater
Lysias maintains that the worm is so called, whereas Aristarchus [applies the term to] the snake. But perhaps, rather, someone who eats skins would be more appropriately so called.
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291
Δευσοποιός
deep-dyed
In an exact sense it is the word applied to purple which retains the bloom of the dye permanently and indelibly; metaphorically speaking [it is applied] to everything else which retains its color permanently …
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medium
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412
Δημαγωγικός
demagogue-like, like a demagogue
[Meaning] general-like. Polybius [writes]: "Molpagoras, a man competent to speak and act, but by choice demagogue-like and greedy; having secured autocratic power for himself he was killed by certain people". And elsewhere: "for demagogy …
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422
Δημαίνετος
Demainetos, Demaenetus
A proper name
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469
Δημοφάνης
Demophanes
A proper name.
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472
Δημοχάρης
Demochares
A nephew of Demosthenes. Concerning him, Timaios says that, having acted like a rent-boy with the upper parts of his body he was unworthy to blow the sacred flame, and that in his [sexual] …
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medium
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653
Διάμετρος
diameter
A kind of geometrical [term]. Eunapius [writes]: "the diametrically opposed shafts making a kind of cross at the tongue with the conjunction of the counter-posed arrowheads." But Dinarchus calls the residue from something that …
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758
Διασκηνητέον
separate quarters should be occupied
[sc. a single encampment] should be dissolved. Xenophon [writes]: "it was decided that separate quarters should be occupied in the villages under cover".
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851
Διαψήφισις
review-ballot
In a special sense [it refers] to the investigations in the demes, which examine each of those exercizing deme-membership, [to see] whether he is a genuine citizen and demesman or, in being an alien, …
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901
Διεθρόησαν
they spread the word
Thucydides [writes]: the Athenians' envoys "spread the word that they had seen lots of money." Meaning they talked about [them], they made an uproar about [them].
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968
Διέσχεν
passed through; separated
[Meaning] went through. 'For some of them separated (meaning divided) the phalanx; and after sliding over [the shields] the wagons did little harm'.
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983
Διεφόρησαν
they carried away
[Meaning] they conveyed out. "The materials remaining in the camp, which were many, they carried away as for a lengthy siege".
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986
Διέχουσαν
distant
[Meaning] settled at a distance. "[Chosroes] arrived at Seleukeia, a coastal city 130 stades distant from Antioch".
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987
Διεψευσμένοι
deceived
[Meaning] ignorant. Polybius [writes]: "of all these things the Aetolians were deceived". And elsewhere: "they were deceived in their calculations; for Hannibal forestalled them by taking the city [of Saguntum]".
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1000
Διῆγε
drew out
[Meaning he/she/it] extended. John of Antioch [writes]: "[it was he] who having captured isolated outposts drew out the war greatly, blunting Hannibal's sharpness with lengthy delays."
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1001
Διηγκυλημένον
thong-secured
[Meaning] the javelin made ready. Meaning [sc. one who is] controlling the spear in the armpit. Xenophon [writes]: "he gave an order to all [the peltasts] to advance [with javelins] thong-secured, so as to …
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medium
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1009
Διήνεγκαν
they withstood
[Used] with a genitive. [Meaning] they survived, they endured. Procopius [writes]: "the Romans' cavalry were leaders of the cavalry which withstood the battle at Daras". That is they prevailed, or they handled. And elsewhere: …
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1019
Διήρκεσε
endured, sufficed
[Meaning he/she/it] persisted, remained. "The injunctions, which he had enjoined upon the kings, and the orders [sc. given] to the Celts sufficed to such a degree towards putting right the wrongs that they gave …
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1033
Δίθυρσον
double-thyrsus
Arrian [writes]: "the double-thyrsus, the spear and the anklet, with which she freely raved, whenever she went to Dionysus".
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short
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1047
Διισθμήσαντα
having di-isthmusized
[Meaning him] having crossed the isthmus [sc. of Corinth]. "He called upon him to assist, once he had di-isthmusized his boats".
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1085
Δικαιώσεις
justifications
Lysias calls pleas of justification [this], and Thucydides punishments.
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short
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1096
Δίκης ὀφθαλμός
eye of justice
"[...] with the result that everyone acknowledged that, as the proverb says, 'there is an eye of justice', which mere mortals [must] never despise".
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