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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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Ἀγρεῖφνα
rake, harrow
A farm tool, with which they collect hay. "Alkimos [dedicated] his toothless rake and a share of a noise-loving shovel bereft of its olivewood handle."
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356
Ἀγριόθυμος
savage-minded, wild-minded
[Meaning] savage in the soul.
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Ἀγριοποιόν
wild-maker, wild-making
And a wild-making fellow. [sc. Meaning him who is] introducing savage heroes. Aristophanes [says] about Aeschylus: "I know him and understand him well; I've watched him for a long time; a wild-making fellow, stubborn …
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$10Ἀγριωπός
wild-eyed
"The wild-eyed, uncontrollably boastful." He is speaking of sin. From w)/y, [genitive] w)po/s, which means the eye; that is, the shameless and wild [kind].
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Ἀγρολέτειρα
land-waster
[sc. An epithet of] Artemis.
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Ἀγρονόμοι
country-dwellers
Those living in the country. "Singing cicada drunk on dewdrops, you celebrate the country-dwelling Muse who sings in solitude." In the Epigrams.
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Ἀγροῦ πυγή
rump of the country; fat of the land
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to the comfortably-off and those attending perseveringly to some kind of task.
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375
Ἀγροικίζω
I am a boor
Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] a)/groikos, [meaning] senseless, ill-tempered; harsh and uneducated, or someone living in the country. But it is as a metaphor that some define rusticness as harshness of character; …
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422
Ἄδακρυς πόλεμος
tearless war, war without tears
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those who succeed in their affairs without any risk and with great ease and against expectation.
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Ἀδάμ
Adam
The first human, he who was shaped by the hand of God and formed in the image and likeness of the Creator and Founder; he was also deemed worthy of a dwelling in Paradise. …
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426
Ἀδαμάντινα
adamantine [things]
[Meaning] solid [ones]. Apollonius, as if conversing with himself, used to say 'I know', and 'it seems to me' and 'where are you headed', and 'one needs to know'." And [his] opinions [were] brief …
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428
Ἀδάμαστος
unmastered
Maiden, unyoked. Sophocles [writes]: "but now Zeus' fierce-eyed maiden goddess [...] has ruined [me], planting in me a berserk illness."
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Ἀδέρκτως
unseeingly, blindly
[They are] not looking, but closing the eyes: "we pass by unseeingly."
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447
Ἄδεια
impunity
[Meaning] relaxation, lack of fear. Josephus [writes]: "when the conspirators saw the Romans they initiated a wicked agreement and asked one another: why should they stay there? Why on earth should they endure three …
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ᾌδειν κελεύονθ' ὡσπερεὶ τέττιγα ἑστιῶντα
asking [me] to sing as if entertaining cicadas
For it is a talkative creature. But [sc. differently-accented] a)dei=n [means] to please.
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Ἀδηκότες
being sated
[Meaning they] having suffered hardship.
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463
Ἄδην
enough, to excess
[Meaning] plenty or to surfeit, sufficiently, abundantly. Or furiously, in excess. In Charmides [sc. Plato writes]: "since we have enough of those things." And Herodotus [writes]: "when they had had enough killing, they drove …
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Ἀδηφαγία
greed
[Meaning] insatiability. Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] adephagos ["greedy"], [meaning someone] incessantly eating, omnivorous, gourmandizing. "Greedy triremes" would be a name for ones on full pay and costing a lot, as a …
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Ἀδικία
injustice
Plato says that injustice is a disease of the soul. No disease of the soul is beneficial. And so every evil is harmful to the one possessing it; injustice [is] an evil; so [it …
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Ἀδύνατα εἶναι
to be impossibles
Instead of impossible. For often Thucydides has used plurals instead of singulars, especially for this expression. Impossible is that which is not capable of being true; such as, the earth flies. 'With the general …
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546
Ἀελλάδες ἵπποι
storm-swift mares
[Meaning] the fast [ones]. This too [is] an expression from tragedy.
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547
Ἀελλόπους
storm-footed
[Meaning she who/that which is] swift with respect to the feet.
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550
Ἄελπτον
beyond expectation, unexpected, unhoped-for
Sophocles [writes]: "nothing is beyond expectation, but the dreadful oath is conquered and so are stubborn minds." Ajax says [this]. *)/aelpton [sc. is the same as] a)ne/lpiston. Or [something] hard, difficult to manage.
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553
Ἀένναος
ever-flowing
[Meaning] that which is always running, that is, flowing. Justinian, "like an ever-flowing river, each day kept slaughtering and plundering his subjects."
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563
Ἀερονηχεῖς
air-swimming
The clouds swimming in the air. Aristophanes [sc. uses the word].
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572
Ἀετίτης καὶ ἀχάτης καὶ λυχνίτης
eagle-stone and agate and lychnite
[sc. Each one is] a type of stone.
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