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Ἀγγοπήνια
angopenia
[Meaning] the honeycombs of bees. That is, woven vessels; like xruseoph/nhta ["gold-woven"].
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Ἀκρώνυξ
nail-tip, mountain-top
[Meaning both] the tip of the nail and the top of the mountain. And [sc. also attested is] a)krwnuxi/a [used] likewise. "When he happened upon a detachment guarding a position at the top of …
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1028
Ἀκρώρεια
mountain-ridge
[Meaning] prominence, summit. For the mountain was divided into three parts: into ridge, into slopes, into limit. The ridge is the summit, while the sides of the mountain [are its] slopes, and the last …
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1050
Ἀλαβαστοθήκας
perfume-bottle boxes, scent-bottle boxes
Demosthenes calls boxes of scent-bottles [this]. In common parlance they call them murothekai ["unguent-boxes"]. Alabastoi are flasks of which one cannot take hold because of [their] smoothness. Aristophanes [writes]: "into the scent-bottle one ladle …
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1054
Ἄλλαγμα
exchange, price, sale
The prophet says: "and there was no profit in our outcries."
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3117
Ἀπειθῶ
I disobey
[Used] with a dative. [Spelled] with a diphthong [ei]. But a)piqw= [is] perispomenon, as in "whom oak trees did not disobey, whom the lifeless rock followed."
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3137
Ἄπειροι γῦπες
inexperienced vultures, innumerable vultures
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those keeping watch upon someone for inheritance or for profit; as vultures attend upon those who are dying.
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3169
Ἀπηνθηκώς
having finished blooming, having lost one's bloom
"With the Greeks having lost their bloom, the Christians began to make progress."
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3185
Ἀπήστραψεν
flashed forth
[Meaning he/she/it] shone forth.
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3189
Ἀπηχές
discordant
Properly [this means] something hard. [Something] false, grievous, unpleasant, hateful. Something from the very sound of which we turn away. "Not to rebuke in a reproachful way those who utter something barbarous or ungrammatical …
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3191
Ἀπηχημένον
discordant, out-of-tune
[Meaning] to be discarded [sc. as bogus], different from the common sound.
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Ἀπίθανον
unbelievable, unconvincing
[Meaning] untrustworthy. Also [sc. attested is the related verb] a)pi/qhsan ["they disobeyed"] [spelled] with iota, from the [verb] piqw= [which is] perispomenon. "Whom oak trees did not disobey, and the lifeless rock followed."
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Ἁ πίτυς
the pine-tree
[a( pi/tus is the equivalent of ] h( pi/tus. Theocritus [writes]: "sweet is the whispered music and that pine tree, goatherd."
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Ἁπλήγιος
single-garmented
With rough breathing, [meaning] simple. And Eupolis in Cities [writes]: "he is not a busybody but single-garmented." Also [sc. attested is the related noun] a(plhgi/s, a garment of moderate size. In Anagyros Aristophanes [writes]: …
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Ἀπληστία
insatiable desire
[Meaning] gluttony. And [there is] a proverb: "Insatiable Jar", the one in Hades, the perforated one. In reference to those who eat a lot; from the myth of the Danaids, inasmuch as they used …
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Ἁπλοΐδας
shifts, simples
[Meaning] single upper-garments. In the Epigrams: "a shift with ample folds covered the girl as with fire." Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] a(ploiko/s ["plain"], [meaning] simple and without superfluity. Also [sc. attested …
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Ἁπλοῦν θύλακον πάτει
treads a single sack
[sc. A proverbial saying] in reference to people/things easily despised.
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Ἀριστοτέλης
Aristotle, Aristoteles
"Timaios says against Aristotle that he was arrogant, reckless, and headstrong . . . (but not) a pedantic and detestable sophist who had just locked up his precious surgeon's shop, and who besides [this] …
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4184
Ἀσκώνιος Παιδιανός
Askonios Paidianos, Asconius Pedianus
"When Blaesus was invited to the feast, he brought with him Asconius Pedianus like an uninvited follower; for it was permitted to invite additionally certain extra guests like shadows of oneself."
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Ἄτλας
Atlas
He of whom myth tells that he holds up earth and heaven. "And iron shoulders of Atlas." And a proverb [sc. is attested]: "Atlas the heaven." It omits "you lifted up." In reference to …
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Αὐγοειδής
luminous
So Isidore used to say that he had heard this also from him, that the soul has a kind of luminous so-called vehicle, star-like and eternal. And indeed for some this astral body is …
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Αὐήνας
having dried, having withered
[sc. Means] having dessicated. "having dried [it, Komaulos] dedicated to wine-loving Dionysus the one stealing the gifts of Dionysus." He says [this] about a hedgehog. From the verb au)ai/nw ["I dry"]. "If now while …
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Αἰθὴρ
ether, sky
Homer [treats] ai)qh/r as feminine: "out of [the] bright sky." And Pindar also: "through [the] desolate sky." [sc. He calls it 'desolate'] because being fiery it gives no nourishment. And elsewhere: "driving a chariot …
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Αἷμα
blood
[Blood] and family. "I claim to be of this family and blood." And the most vital of the four humors which are in us. Sophocles in Electra calls the knife "blood."
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207
Αἱμοπότης
blood-drinker
[Meaning] a murderer.
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247
Αἰόλη νύξ
sparkling night, swift-circling night, ever-turning night
That is black, or speckled because of the stars.
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255
Αἰών
aion, eon, age, marrow
[Meaning] the marrow of the spine; or endless time. But [the word] has 5 meanings. *ai)w/n [is] also the present life. David [says]: "our life [is exposed] to the light of your countenance."
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Αἰωνοάριος
Aionoarios
[Meaning] the month of January. Longinus insists that it [i.e. January] should be interpreted thus, as if year's [ai)w=nos] father.
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Αἰωροῦνται
they are hung up, they depend
[Meaning] they are suspended. "Upon whom the affairs of the Carthaginians were depending."
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Αἰπεινή
lofty
[Meaning] tall. "Strife roused the lofty fir tree to speak unseemly words." Also [sc. attested is the dative plural] ai)peinai=s, [meaning] tall, long. In Fables: "a bird quarreled with lofty fir trees, for she …
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