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Ἄβαρις
Abaris, Avars
Scythian, son of Seuthes. He wrote the so-called Scythinian Oracles and Marriage of the river Hebros and Purifications and a Theogony in prose and Arrival of Apollo among the Hyperboreans in meter. He came …
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Ἄβας
Abas
A sophist, who left Historical Commentaries and an Art of Rhetoric.
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22
Ἀβάσκανος
unprejudiced
[Meaning someone/something] deceit-free, envy-free. "He [Mithradates] became an unprejudiced witness to Caesar of the achievements of Antipater."
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Ἄβελ
Abel
Son of Adam. This man was chaste and just, and a shepherd of flocks; out of these he offered a sacrifice to God and was accepted, but was then killed because he was envied …
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Ἀβέλτερος
thoughtless
[Meaning] mindless, stupid. For the intelligent man [is] be/lteros ["thoughtful, superior"]. "No, by Zeus, not the greedy and thoughtless fellow, but the mindless and conceitedly slow-witted." Menander in Perinthia [writes]: "any servant who takes …
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Ἀβίγας
Abigas
A river.
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Ἀβίσαρος
Abisaros, Abisareis
Name of a place.
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55
Ἀβλεπτήματι
by an oversight
[Meaning] by a mistake. "He bore the oversights of ordinary folk patiently, but those of more intellectual people grieved him." Also [sc. attested is the participle] a)bleptou=ntes. "Those committing oversights and ashamed to face …
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60
Ἀβουλεί
inconsiderately, unintentionally
[Meaning] without consideration, mindlessly, ignorantly. "Though he certainly had not guessed the king's opinion, he accomplished it quite unintentionally."
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Ἀβούλητον κακόν
involuntary evil, undesired evil
[Meaning something] unwanted, what one does not want. Also [sc. attested is] abouletos, he who does not wish; but Aboulitos [is] a proper name, with the 'i'.
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Ἀβραάμ
Abraham
The first among patriarchs; [it was he] in whom the Hebrew people took pride at first, before they rebelled against God, became estranged from Him, and shed upon themselves the blood of His Only-Begotten …
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Ἀβρέας
Abreas
Proper name.
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Ἀβριόρηξ
Abriorex, Abriorix
Proper name.
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Ἀβρογάστης
Abrogastes, Arbogast
A Frank, who was fierce as flame from strength of body and ruggedness of spirit; by happenstance second in rank to Baudo. He was especially solid and complete in regard to self-control and made …
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Ἁβροδιαίτῃ
with luxurious living
[Meaning] with a soft and dainty life. Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] habrodiaitos: a softy, a soft-liver. "The lifestyle of the Romans [is] not inclined toward soft-living, especially since they are warlike …
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Ἁβροκόμας
Abrokomas, Habrokomas, Abrocomas
This man was satrap under Artaxerxes, king of the Persians.
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Ἁβρόν
delicate
In Herodotus [sc. this means something] beautiful, stubborn, awe-inspiring, dainty.
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Ἁβρός
delicate
[Meaning] bright, delicate, tender. In the Epigrams: "a cicada sat above a cithara delicately murmuring." "All the same that fellow is dainty and delicate and weakened by the softness of his body and depraved …
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354
Ἀγριᾶνες
Agrianes, Agrianians
A military unit.
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Ἀγριότης
wildness
[Meaning] impulse. "For an amazing motive force, it seems, pushing a man in this direction [is?] wildness." In reference to a love of money. Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] a)griw/tatos ["most/very wild"], …
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372
Ἀγρωνίδης
Agronides
{Meaning] the son of Agron.
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382
Ἀγυιάν
alleyway, path
Xenophon [calls] the narrow street [this]. And altogether the unusual words in his work [are] many.
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399
Ἀγχίθυρος
next-door, near the door
[Meaning] closest. A neighbor. "Their forces were situated next-door and as neighbors to each other."
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Βαβύλας
Babylas
Bishop of Antioch. When Numerianus -- or some say Decius -- was prompted by some demon to go into a crowded church, Babylas stood in front of the door and kept him from coming …
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Ἐάν
if
Those who deal with Thucydides unanimously say that [this e)a/n spelling occurs] when h)\ ["or"] precedes it, but that when [the words] are not in this order he uses the contraction [h)/n]. In the …
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