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Ἑανῷ λιτί
with fine linen
Thus he called the light [fabric]. And elsewhere: "great Egypt tore her locks with a fine garment."
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Ἐβαρύνετο
was weighed down
[The form e)baru/neto is] more correct; for one should not say e)barou=nto ["they were weighed down"] or barou=mai ["I am weighed down"] or barou/menos ["being weighed down"] nor make any other inflected form from …
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Ἐβάστασεν
weighed
Meaning [he/she/it] scrutinized. "[She] examined all appearances, weighed everything in her mind, and found words abundant and elegant".
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Ἑβδομαῖος
seventh-day
[Meaning] seventh. Besides six mooncakes they used to dress a "seventh ox", which had horns replicating the early moon. So [there arises the phrase] "seventh ox", applied to those who are unfeeling. The wise …
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Ἐβύνουν
they used to stuff
[Meaning] they used to fill, they used to block. Aristophanes [writes]: "[the foreigners] used to stuff the mouth[s] of these men with gold". That is, [the mouths] of the orators.
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Ἐγανώθην
I brightened
[Meaning] I was pleased, I rejoiced. From the [verb] ga/numai ["I brighten"]. Homer [says]: "and the shepherd brightens in his heart." From a metaphor of gleaming bronzeware.
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Ἐγγαστρίμυθος
ventriloquist
[Meaning a] belly-diviner; what some people now [call] a Python, but Sophocles [calls] a chest-diviner, and the philosopher Plato [calls] a Eurycles, from a diviner of such a kind [named] Eurycles. Aristophanes in Wasps …
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Ἐγενήθη
became
In reference to creation [sc. this verb is spelled] with one nu, but in reference to conception with two. And David [says]: "my tears became bread for me." That is, I am making my …
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Ἔγγειον
earthly, landed, terrestrial
[Meaning] on land, dry. The Pisidian [writes]: "having traversed this route of exile, o most powerful one, like a terrestrial road." [sc. Another illustration of] e)/ggeion: "he allotted the territory, giving to each a …
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Ἐγκάθηται
lies in wait
[Meaning he/she/it] lies in ambush. David [writes]: "an ambush lies in wait in the midst of the wealthy." Or [lies in wait] in ambush.
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<20Ἐγκαλινδεῖσθαι σωματικοῖς παθήμασι
to wallow in bodily affections
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Ἐγκαλλωπισαμένου
having adorned himself [with]
[Meaning] priding himself [on]. "Or with the king/emperor having adorned himself with the falsehood".
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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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Ἐγκαταζεύξας
having yoked in together
[Meaning he] having attached, having fitted together. "[Aias] having yoked in together new plans to his new ways." Sophocles [says this].
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Ἐγκεκορδυλημένος
bundled up
[Meaning] swaddled up, covered up and wound up so as not even to present the shape of a human, but to appear as a heap of coverings. For kordu/lh is used idiomatically for a …
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Ἐγκεράσαι
to mix in
[Meaning] to pour in.
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Ἐγκολπίζονται
they engulf
"The barbarians engulf the citadel, having pretended to be about to come over to the Romans; they were 400 in number."
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Ἐγκρυφίας
ash-baked
[Meaning a] loaf of bread covered in wood-ash. The 3 measures of flour, out of which the e)gkrufi/as was made, alludes to the three-day burial of the Bread of Life.
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Ἐγκύρτια
fish-trap entrances, weel entrances
[Meaning] the woven parts in fish-traps. But Plato uses the term in Timaeus in reference to the throat.
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Ἐγκυτί
to the skin
Meaning close. So Callimachus [uses the word].
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Ἐγγλωττογάστωρ Ἐγγλωττογάστορες
tongue-belly
Tongue-bellies, those who make their living by their tongues, like e)gxeiroga/stores, those [who do so] by their hands.
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Ἐγγλωττοτυπεῖν
to beat with the tongue, to talk loudly about
[Meaning] to make a noise with the tongue about the accomplishments and to speak gravely about their accomplishments and always to have [them] on one's tongue.
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Ἐγὼ δὲ καὶ σὺ ταὐτὸν ἕλκομεν ζυγόν
you and I are dragging the same yoke
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to people experiencing similar and comparable things.
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Ἐγὼ δ' ὁ πάντα κωφὸς ὁ πάντ' ἄϊδρις κατημέλησα
I who am entirely deaf and entirely ignorant took no care
Meaning [who am] without common sense.
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Ἔγρυπε
it wrinkled
"There was an earthquake," Melanthius says, "and the earth wrinkled." See under grupa/nion ["wrinkled"].
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Ἔγγυον
secure
[Meaning something] safe. Also [sc. attested is] e)/gguos, [meaning] one who gives a security. Also [sc. attested is the related feminine participle] e)gguwme/nh, [meaning] making sure. The Pisidian [writes]: "now let the moon shine …
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Ἐγχέλεις θηρώμενος
(someone) hunting eels
In reference to those stirring up trouble for their own benefit. For whenever the water is still, they catch nothing; but when they stir up the water above and below, they take and catch …
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Ἐγχεία
lance, spear
"[...] and the lance which often tasted the enemies' guts."
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Ἐγχειρογάστορες
hand-bellies
[Meaning] those who live by their hands.
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Ἔγχος
lance
[Used] allegorically in Sophocles [to mean] assistance, from the [verb] e)/xesqai ["to be held"]. "Nor to [the] mind [is] a lance of thought." [It is] as if [he said] the mind does not have …
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