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500
Διαβάλλειν
to bring across, to cross, to mislead, to slander
[Meaning] to deceive and to lead astray. Thucydides [in Book] 1 and Crates [sc. use the word]. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "to cross the sea", [meaning] to pass over it. "Thereupon he …
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medium
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515
Διαγεγονότος
elapsed, gone through, surviving
[Meaning] past. "Them surviving after the first rebuilding of the city". But diaginw/skein is to examine the matter with a precise scientific method, after a preliminary investigation.
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517
Διαγγέλλω
I give notice by a messenger
[Used] with a dative. Also [sc. attested is the participle] diaggellome/nous ["them passing on the message"], [meaning them] having given the order. Xenophon [writes]: "when [the Greeks] became aware that they were wishing to …
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526
Διαγωνιάσαντες
dreading
[Meaning they] considering/reflecting. "But since they were dreading giving the impression, because of a prior defeat, of having been thrown into complete panic, they marched out in full force at daybreak". ['Dreading'] meaning being …
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short
δ
842
Διαχώρους
intervals
[Meaning] the distances of [= between] battalions. "And thus [he] filled up the intervals by the close formation of the army".
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δ
847
Διαψᾶν
to scratch through
[Meaning] to dig through, to scoop out. "[...] to order everybody to scratch through the sand and to make good-sized hollows".
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1571
Δύναμις
power
[Meaning] the military force. "When a power of extraordinary magnitude had been brought together". And elsewhere, "the biggest possible", according to Attic phraseology, meaning large in number. Power is the name for both strength …
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1591
Δυσανασχετοῦσι
they are displeased
[Meaning] they will take [it] badly, they are rejecting [it]. "Being distressed at the misfortune, [Heracles] departed from Kalydon together with Deianeira."
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δ
1592
Δυσανασχέτως
with displeasure
[Meaning] reluctantly, with disbelief. "He received the royal gifts with displeasure".
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1594
Δυσαῶν ἀνέμων
of tempestuous winds
[Meaning] of [ones] blowing vigorously. "With tempestuous winds coming upon those men, they sank".
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δ
1596
Δυσαρεστούμενος
displeased
[Meaning someone who is] not satisfied. "The Romans maintained that the senate was displeased at the destruction of the walls at Sparta". And elsewhere: "so it is difficult to admonish peevish men, if you …
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1611
Δυσεκλογίστων
hard to calculate
[Meaning ones] hard to appease, hard to distinguish. "With actions in wartime being obscure and hard to calculate [...]."
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1614
Δυσέμβολος
hard to enter
[Meaning] hard to attack. Also [sc. attested is the superlative] dusembolw/taton ["most/very hard to enter"]. "A hill-fort of Armenia which seemed to be immune from pillage since [it was] very hard to enter". "While, …
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δ
1615
Δυσέντευκτος
hard to deal with
[Meaning] hard to live with.
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1625
Δυσειδής
misshapen, unshapely
[Meaning] shapeless.
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δ
1626
Δυσείκαστον
hard to make out
[Meaning something] unsuitably represented.
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1632
Δυσήνυκτον
hard to accomplish
[Meaning] hard to succeed in.
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1638
Δυσθανατῶντα
longing for death, about to die a difficult death
[Meaning] bringing one's life to an end forcibly. "In a part of the path they observed a Roman soldier on the point of a painful death, his body adorned by four wounds".
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1640
Δυσθετήσας
dissatisfied
"But Nabis, dissatisfied with the agreements, did not attend to the written terms". Meaning not pleased with the agreements, not abiding by [them]. Also [sc. attested is] dusqetou/menoi, meaning [they who are] ill-disposed. And …
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1665
Δυσοδία
badness of roads
[sc. Referring to] the bad road.
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1674
Δυσωπεῖσθαι
to look askance at
[Meaning] to look sideways at, and to treat suspiciously, to fear with suspicion. "Observing that the brother was looking askance at everything and was looking sideways at none of the relishes without suspicion". Also …
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1677
Δυσωπῶ
I put to shame; I exhort
[Used] with an accusative. [Meaning] I supplicate. *duswpw= [is] also [used] in the sense of "I exhort" and in the sense of "I feel respect". "Hoping to put the Jews to shame by being …
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61
Ἐγηγερμένος
raised, risen
[Meaning] standing aloof from.
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66
Ἐγκαθειργνύντες
shutting up
[Meaning they] shutting off from.
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69
Ἐγκαθίζουσιν
they sit upon, they position
[Meaning] they lie in ambush. "They position ambushes in the advantageous positions of the area."
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71
Ἐγκαλοῦμαι
I reproach
[Used] with a dative. [As in] "I reproach you for laziness". But [middle-voice] e)gkalou=mai [is used] with an accusative . [As in] "for our part we reproach the most shameful, almost like actions".
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ε
72
Ἐγκαλλωπισαμένου
having adorned himself [with]
[Meaning] priding himself [on]. "Or with the king/emperor having adorned himself with the falsehood".
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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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