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Ἀββακούμ
Habakkuk, Abbakoum, Avvakoum
[A name meaning] father of awakening. For the [word] abba means father, and koum means awakening. So also in the Holy Gospel: "Talitha, koum," that is, "young girl, get up." From which [it is] …
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Ἀβασάνιστος
untested
[Meaning someone/something] unexercised or unexamined, unscrutinized. The word comes from the test of the goldsmith's stone, on which they scrutinize gold. Aelian in his On Providence used the word 'untested' to mean 'without pain'.
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Ἀβελτεροκόκκυξ
silly cuckoo
The vacuous and silly man.
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Ἀβρόμιος
Bromios-less, Bromius-less
[Meaning] without wine. "If I escape through the wave of destructive fire, I tell you I will drink for one hundred suns from dewy streams, Bromios-less and wine-less." In the Epigrams.
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Ἁβρότερον
more delicately
"But they behaved more delicately than them and were full of Sybaris."
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Ἀβυδηνὸν ἐπιφόρημα
Abydene dessert
Whenever something unpleasant happens as a result of someone having shown up at the wrong time, we are accustomed to call it an "Abydene dessert." This is because the people of Abydos, whenever they …
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Ἄβυδος
Abudos, Abydos, Abydus
A city. The word is applied to an informant [sukofa/nths] because of the common belief that the people of Abudos were informers. Also [sc. attested is] an adverb, *)abudo/qi, [meaning] in Abudos. Also [sc. …
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Ἀγαθῶν ἀγαθίδες
skeins of good things
The proverb is used in the comic poets in reference to a lot of good things. Also [sc. attested is] 'sea of good things', in reference to an abundance of good things. Also [sc. …
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Ἀγαθώνιος
Agathonios, Agathonius
A proper name. [The man] who was king of Tartessos. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "Agathon's pipe-playing": the soft and relaxed [kind]; alternatively that which is neither loose nor harsh, but temperate and …
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Ἀγάλακτες
milkmates
[Meaning] those who are members of the same family, blood-kin, brothers. But others [sc. define the terms as] those sharing priesthoods and [sc. who are also] fellow-family-members. But some [sc. define it as] those …
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Ἀγαλματοφορούμενος
image-bearing, image-carrying, enshrined as an image
[Meaning] carrying in one's mind images or impressions of things that one has thought of. Philo [sc. uses the term] this way.
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Ἀγανόφρονος
kindly-minded
"And the cheerful face of kindly-minded peace." [Meaning] easygoing and gentle.
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Ἄγγαρος
a)/ggaros
and a)ggarei/a, public and compulsory servitude. "For just as to him eating seemed to be a mere distraction, with nature as it were putting him into compulsory servitude [a)ggareuome/nhs] when it came to food."
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Ἀγάστονος
much-groaning
[Meaning] copiously moaning.
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Ἀγάστορες
womb-mates
[Meaning] brothers, natural brothers, twins. Those from the same womb.
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Ἀγελάρχης
herd-leader
The leader of the herd of oxen.
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Ἀγελαῖος
ordinary
[Meaning] no-account fellow [i)diw/ths]. Or the lead animal in the herd. Also [sc. attested is the genitive plural] "of a)gelai=oi", of no-account fellows, of rustics. "Such-and-such is likely enough of [= in] ordinary men". …
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Ἀγεληδόν
gregariously, herd-fashion, in a herd
An adverb.
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Ἀγέληφιν
in a herd
[Meaning] from/out of the herd.
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Ἀγκιστρεύει
angles for
[Meaning he/she/it] entices with bait.
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Ἀγκυλομήτης καὶ Ἀγκυλομήτεω καὶ Ἀγκυλομῆται
crooked of counsel
[a)gkulomh/ths] and a)gkulomh/tew. Also [sc. attested is] a)gkulomh=tai: men of devious devices.
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Ἀγκυλοχείλης καὶ Ἀγκυλόχειλος
crooked-beaked
Bent-beaked, an epithet of the eagle, which has curved talons. But in reference to Cleon [it means] having crooked hands for theft and seizure.
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Ἄγκυρα πλοίου
anchor of a ship
See under embryoikos.
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Ἀγκύρισμα
anchor-hold
[Meaning] a kind of wrestling-move. Also [sc. attested is the related participle] a)gkuri/sas, meaning [someone] wrestling down or taking down by the knee. An 'anchor-hold' is also a hunter's container of figs. Aristophanes [writes]: …
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Ἀγλωττία
tonguelessness
[Meaning] quiet, silence. Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] tongueless, [meaning] voiceless, speechless. "Now having fallen to the earth, tongueless and voiceless, I lie, refusing emulous ambition."
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Ἀγναπτότατος βάτος αὖος
stiffest dried skate
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to one who is harsh and obstinate by temperament.
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Ἀγγοπήνια
angopenia
[Meaning] the honeycombs of bees. That is, woven vessels; like xruseoph/nhta ["gold-woven"].
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Ἀγοστῷ
in an embrace
[Meaning] in the embrace. In the Epigrams: "you did not go unnoticed by the Graces nor by joyful Academe, in whose embrace I tell all comers of your beneficence".
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Ἀγωνιούμενοι
about to be contenders
[Meaning they who are] about to enter contests. "About to be contenders, they might not avert their enemies without a fight."
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Ἀγώνισμα
achievement, prize
[Meaning] effort, diligence. "An achievement is there for him to take". Aristophanes [writes]: "personally, I would like to meet some ("wild beast" is left out) and take an achievement worthy of the journey." A …
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