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Ἄβαξι
[in/on/with] planks, abacuses
What we call a)ba/kia. The Lawmaker [says] in the Martyrdom of Saint Thecla: "Tryphaina was overcome by suffering, and was seen lying like the dead on the slabs." So he says.
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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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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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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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Ἀβεσαλώμ
Abesalom, Absalom
Proper name. [The man] who rose up against his own father David and was destroyed by him in the war.
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Ἀβιμέλεχ
Abimelech
Proper name. The son of Gideon. He smote his brothers, seventy sons of Gideon's wives, upon a single stone, and none of them was left except Jotham the youngest son, who ran away. As …
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Ἀβίωτον
unlivable
[Meaning something] bad [and] annoying, painful. "He found it an unlivable situation if he could not control the city". Also [sc. attested is the masculine] a)bi/wtos, he who is not alive.
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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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74
Ἀβρέας
Abreas
Proper name.
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80
Ἀβριόρηξ
Abriorex, Abriorix
Proper name.
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81
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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354
Ἀγριᾶνες
Agrianes, Agrianians
A military unit.
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357
Ἄγριον ὑποβλέπει με
looks at me angrily
To be used in preference to "stares at." "The elephants were running up and trumpeting in anger." Also [sc. attested is] "[they] looking angrily". And elsewhere: "he would have incited and provoked beastliness and …
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363
Ἀγρίππας
Agrippa
Proper name.
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Ἀγρωνίδης
Agronides
{Meaning] the son of Agron.
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Ἀγύλαιος
Agylaios, Agylaeus
Proper name.
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396
Ἀγχιάλη
Anchiale, Anchialeia
A city, which Sardanapalus, the king of the Assyrians, built in one day. He built Tarsus the same way.
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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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Αἰάντειος γέλως
Aiantean laughter, Ajax's laughter
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those laughing insanely. Also [sc. attested is] "Aiantean house," [meaning] that of Ajax. Also [sc. attested is] "Aiantian tribe," [meaning] that of Ajax.
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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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