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Ἀδόκιμος
unsatisfactory, reprobate, disreputable
[Meaning someone or something] unscrutinized.
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540
Ἀδύνατοι
incapables, handicappeds
[Meaning] those incapacitated in the body. After being approved by the [sc. Athenian] council, these men received, some say two obols a day, some say an obol. But Philochorus says nine drachmas a month.
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591
Ἀζήμιθρον
loss-free
[Meaning] penalty-free.
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592
Ἀζήμιος
penalty-free, with impunity
[Meaning] unharmed. Strictly speaking a "zemia" is the loss of life [zwh=s mei/wsis]; alternatively, what is abominable in life [e)n zwh=| miaro/n]. Aristophanes in Wealth [writes]: "you surely do not expect, after cheating us, …
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598
Ἀζήτητον
uninvestigated
[Meaning]that which is prevented from undergoing investigation and prosecution. Thus Aeschines [sc. uses the word].
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610
Ἀειγυβένς
aeigubens
That is, " listen [all]" in Latin. The aei means "listen" and the bens means "all."
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628
Ἀειλογεῖς
you are always speaking; you are a chatterbox
[Meaning] You always talk. Also [sc. attested is the related noun] aeilogia, saying a lot or saying the same thing or forever finding it possible to speak. [sc. Another sense of] aeilogia: being always …
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646
Ἀειφυγία
permanent exile, perpetual exile
[Meaning] exile lasting for ever. "[...] to give way to them whole-heartedly, if they drive the murderer from the army with perpetual exile." That is, with banishment.
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short
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714
Ἀθέμιστα
lawless [things]
[Meaning] unjust [ones]. Also [sc. attested is the masculine nominative singular] a)qe/mistos, [meaning] unlawful. Also said is a)/qesmos, [meaning] illegal. "Piasos the Thessalian loved Larissa, his own daughter -- a love both illegal and …
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715
Ἀθέμιτον
lawless
[Meaning] that which is unjust. Also [sc. attested is the superlative] a)qemito/taton; (?)spelled in two ways.
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723
Ἀθέσμιον
unlawful
[Meaning] that which is unjust.
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747
Ἀθῷος
guiltless
[Meaning] not liable to punishment. "I washed my hands in guiltless things". Meaning I kept myself guiltless, I took no part in evil. Guiltless, then, [means] not being at fault. Meaning going around, loquacious.
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768
Ἀθύρειν
to sport
The [verb that means] to play. Plato in Laws [writes]: "again our maid and mistress, charmed by the pastime of the dance, did not take the view that one should sport with empty hands." …
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783
Ἀκάκιος
Akakios, Acacius
The patriarch of Constantinople, he was revered as no other. For he was the guardian of orphans, and it was evident to all that he managed the affairs of the orphans well and with …
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801
Ἀκαρῆ
bit, pittance, scrap
[sc. Something] short, sharp, impossible to cut. Aristophanes [writes]: "somehow or other you've been duped, you who rule many and do not get any benefit of it except that pittance you take away. And …
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853
Ἀκέφαλος
headless
[Meaning] one who is rightless. And [there is] a proverb: Headless story. The proverb is spoken in reference to those speaking unfinished things.
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924
Ἀκόνιτον
aconite
A kind of plant [sc. which is also a] drug. "But by drinking aconite he escaped this [sc. charge] a)koniti/." That is, without trouble.
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984
Ἀκρισία
lack of judgment
[Meaning] misjudgment; bad judgment. And Libanius [says]: "accordingly, there is bad judgment in both our approaches, but mine has a certain benevolence." And another by way of humor. "When a certain woman named Danae …
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989
Ἀκριτί
judgmentlessly
[Meaning] without judgment.
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1039
Ἀκοινώνητος
incommunicable, unshared, unsociable
[Meaning one who/that which is] strict.
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1044
Ἀκύλλιος
Aquillius, Aquilius
Proper name.
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1109
Ἀλεαίνοιμι
I might keep warm
[Meaning] I might make myself warm. "Then I put this on, so that I might keep warm." Aristophanes [sc. writes this]. [The verb] a)leai/nein [comes] from us gathering together [a)olli/zesqai] during the days. And …
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1124
Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μαμαίας
Alexander Mamaias, Alexander son of Mamaia
Ruling with his mother he administered everything subordinate to her; it was she who took care of the empire in every respect. So she persuaded him to judge trials for the most part, so …
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medium
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1129
Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μιλήσιος
Alexandros of Miletos, Alexander of Miletus
He was nicknamed Polyhistor ["Very Learned"] and [sc. also] Cornelius, because he was taken prisoner and sold to Cornelius Lentulus, for whom he became pedagogue; he was then freed. He was in Rome at …
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medium
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1140
Ἀλεξόμενον
warding off, resisting
[Meaning him who is] defending. "[That] he who has begun evilly means to do evil - just as in cases of private wrongs the law-makers and the judges relate all the harm that has …
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medium
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1231
Ἁλιμούσιος
Halimousian, Halimusian
Halimous is a deme of [the Athenian tribe] Leontis. Agasikles is said to have bribed the Halimousians and because of this, although a foreigner, was registered in the citizen body.
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short
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1250
Ἁλίσκει
you are captured, you are caught, you stand convicted
[Meaning] you are conquered. Also [sc. attested is the third person] a(li/sketai, [meaning he/she/it] is taken, is overpowered.
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short
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1313
Ἀλογίου δίκη
prosecution for lack of accounting
A prosecution in which the defendants are officials, (prosecuted for) not giving an account of the sums of money administered during the tenure of their office.
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short
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1324
Ἀλοκίζειν
to trace a furrow
Aristophanes [writes]: "me, I have been wanting to trace a furrow [in] my place."
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1328
Ἁλόντες
having been caught, having been convicted
[Meaning they] having been taken.
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