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Δέον
appropriate
[Meaning] that which is seemly. "[Good is binding] because it constrains [people] within what is necessary." Procopius [writes]: "since there was a single spring, [it was] not appropriate for it to be dried up …
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421
Δήμαρχοι
tribunes, demarchs, leaders of the people
The people, having returned to their former good order, elected as tribunes Sicinnius and Brutus, who being invested with power equal to that of the consuls, wielded that authority for a year. They demagogued …
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431
Δημήτριος
Demetrios, Demetrius
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[Demetrios] the son of Antigonos [I] and Ptolemy [I] agreed that there was a treaty of alliance between them for the liberation for all Greece and for the mutual defense of each others' territory. …
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532
Διαγραφή
assessment
"This also happened under Justinian, to subject the city to many penalties."
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579
Διακεχαραγμένος
having been riven apart
[Meaning he] having been struck with swords. "Although having been riven apart throughout his body he was brought safe to Narses."
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619
Διαλλάττειν
to reconcile
"[... to reconcile] us with Lakonian men, in whom [there is] no more trustworthiness than in a wolf agape." The proverb [is] in reference to those who pillage other people's property. For in the …
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620
Διαλλάττω
I reconcile, I exchange
The [verb that means] I am brought to terms; [used] with a dative. "Come now, first be reconciled with your brother." But diala/ttw with an accusative [sc. also occurs, in the sense of 'exchange']: …
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635
Διάληψις
judgment, grasping
[Meaning] realization, or recognition. Polybios [writes]: "for because of his excessive desire in this direction, there was this judgment concerning him: that he considered nothing more beneficial in life than hunting." "For the majority …
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647
Διαμαρτυρομένους
enjoining
[Meaning them] speaking out beforehand, discouraging. "They sent envoys [sc. whose task was] enjoining them not to establish the city nor to do anything contrary to the treaties." Also [sc. attested is] diamartu/rasqai ["to …
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649
Διὰ μάχης ἐλθεῖν
to engage in battle
"Since absolutely nobody wanted to engage in battle with them nor even to be arrayed against them in any way whatever."
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650
Διαμέλλει
hesitates
[Meaning he/she/it] engages in procrastination. "But he, angrily despising and not trusting very much, hesitated."
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694
Διαπεινῶμεν ἀεὶ πρὸς τὸ πῦρ
we always go hungry by the fire
[sc. This is said] contrary to expectation. As if he said 'we always drink by the fire'; but he said 'we go hungry' instead. For during winter drinks are taken by the fire. But …
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762
Διασπεύσας
having incited
[Meaning he] having aroused, having encouraged. "Having incited the soldiers, and having exhorted the chiliarchs to take the matter in hand [...]."
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772
Διαστολή
expansiveness
[Meaning] discrimination, prominence. "There is no need to wonder, if [= that] we are narrating rather ambitiously the affairs involving Scipio and reporting with expansiveness every one of his statements."
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775
Διασχών
having kept away
[Meaning he] having come between, having separated. Polybios [writes]: "but he, having kept away from the enemy by about three stadia, set up camp, keeping the river between them."
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776
Διατάγματα
edicts
"But he, laying the edicts before them, started beseeching the people to enter into negotiations and promising them an amnesty." Meaning forgiveness of misdeeds.
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778
Διατατικώτερον
more urgent, rather urgent
Polybios [writes]: "this [they were] understanding to be better and more/rather urgent, something neither in occasion/opportunity nor in the oratorical and exhortatory dispositions [?failing to?] surpass the opponents."
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779
Διαταφρεύει
tunnels through
[Meaning he/she/it] digs through.
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791
Διατιτρᾶν
to bore through
[Meaning] to perforate. "[sc. They were] boring through upwards into the most precipitous parts." And elsewhere: "to bore through the skins with small daggers."
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792
Διατορηθῆναι
to be pierced through
"Two of the tunnels were advanced underwater and below the palisade to be pierced through the earth underneath the enclosure itself." Thus "to be pierced through" means to be cut through, to be bored …
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798
Διατροπή
compassion
[Meaning] sympathy, pity. "With the Carthaginians producing abundant wailing along with tears, the council was overcome with immense compassion."
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800
Διατυπῶν
fashioning
[Meaning he] arranging for the better. "And giving order to the disorderly and transforming the undisciplined into discipline."
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809
Διαυχενίζεσθαι
to stick the neck out
"He was inciting the minds and the spirits of the soldiers and challenging them to stick their necks out in pursuit of pridefulness and derring-do in their exercises." Meaning to hold the neck high.
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818
Διαφέρων
carrying out; exceptional
[Meaning he] preparing. "Formerly carrying out the war as a side-issue, Justinian made his preparation for it most noteworthy." Also [sc. attested is the genitive plural] diafero/ntwn ["exceptional"], meaning select. "[He] learning that the …
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819
Διαφερούσῃ
providing
[Meaning] being abundant [in]. "He set up camp in an area providing all manner of produce."
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822
Διαφεῖναι
to dismiss
[Meaning] to break up. Also [sc. attested is the related participle] diafei/s ["dismissing"], meaning dissolving, terminating. "Dismissing the officers, he mobilised his vanguard."
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831
Διαφορῆσαι
to tear apart
"[...] that the horses were wild, and spooked all the more by the unfamiliarity of the binding and by the attached weight, they tore him apart."
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833
Διάφοροι
differers
[Meaning] enemies. [The term comes] from the fact that they differ [diaphoreisthai] in their opinions. One can also speak of a 'different matter;' [that is,] a valuable one. "They tortured many of them, since …
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1078
Δικαιοῦν
to think just, to exact justice
[It] means two [things], both to punish and to consider just; thus Herodotos [uses this verb]. "[He] thinking it just to defend themselves against the Skythians with the same means which they themselves had …
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1180
Διονύσιος
Dionysios, Dionysius
Of Miletos, a historian. [He wrote] Events after Dareios in 5 books, Description of the Inhabited World, Persian History in Ionic dialect, 3 books of The Trojan War, Myths, Historic Cycle in 7 books.
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