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Ἄβαξι
[in/on/with] planks, abacuses
What we call a)ba/kia. The Lawmaker [says] in the Martyrdom of Saint Thecla: "Tryphaina was overcome by suffering, and was seen lying like the dead on the slabs." So he says.
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Ἀθήλυντον
unwomanish
[Meaning someone or something] inflexible, hard.
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Ἄκαινα
akaina
[Meaning a] ten-foot measure. It is a rod, by which they goad their cattle, with the Pelasgians having invented this.
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Ἀναξίμανδρος
Anaximandros, Anaximander
Son of Praxiades, Milesian, philosopher, a relative and student and successor of Thales. He first discovered an equinox and solstices and hour-indicators, and that the earth is situated in the very middle [of the …
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Ἀναπεμπάζειν
to ponder, to calculate, to count over
[Meaning] to go over in the mind, to recollect. It is created from those counting continually and repeatedly with the five fingers of their hand, as if counting by fives [kata\ penta/da]. Also [sc. …
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Ἀξιώματα
axioms
Thus Aristotle calls both the propositions requiring demonstration and the indemonstrable ones, as [is] his custom.
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Ἀριθμῶ
I count
[Used] with an accusative. Also [sc. attested is the participle] a)riqmou=nta ["him counting"], [meaning him] assigning. "And counting some men to the bodyguards/spear-carriers". The Pythagoreans gave a name to every number. The number adds …
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Ἁρματωλία
chariot-driving
[Meaning] the driving of chariots. "And they have been nibbling at the [sc. calendric] cycle by chariot-driving." Meaning sparing the chariots themselves. But harmatrochia ["chariot-wheel track"] [is] the furrow of the chariot. There is …
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Ἀρουραία μάντις
field mantis
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those who are sluggish and ineffectual. There is a clumsy locust, green, called a mantis, whose movements some heed and [thereby] prophesy. The aroura contains 50 feet.
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Δαρεικούς
Darics
It was a gold currency, which Darius first devised. When Xerxes sent an envoy to him and offered him three thousand Darics, [Aristides] said that he had no use for Persian wealth, living the …
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Δεκαταῖος
for ten days; ten days old
[Meaning] tenth.
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Δεκάχοια
tenfold
[Meaning] ten times.
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Διαβήτης
compass
The compass [is] an instrument, useful for many crafts, [which is shaped] rather like the letter l[ambda]. By inserting one half of this instrument and moving the other half around, they make circles. The …
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Διάμετρος
diameter
A kind of geometrical [term]. Eunapius [writes]: "the diametrically opposed shafts making a kind of cross at the tongue with the conjunction of the counter-posed arrowheads." But Dinarchus calls the residue from something that …
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Δικαίαρχος
Dikaiarkhos, Dicaearchus
Son of Pheidias, Sicilian, from the city of Messene. Pupil of Aristotle. Philosopher and rhetorician and geometrician. [He wrote] Measurements of the Mountains in the Peloponnese; Life of Hellas in 3 books. This man …
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Διόπτρα
dioptra
A mechanical implement, with which the geometers used to assess with precision the measure of battlements from a distance. The Pisidian [writes]: "you see these things from far away with your dioptra".
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Διόφαντος
Diophantos, Diophantus
A proper name.
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Δοκίδες
beams, meteors
Names of stars.
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Δωδεκατημόριον
twelfth-part
[Meaning] the twelfth portion.
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Δυοκαιδεκάτη
twelfth
[*duokaideka/th] and duokaide/katos [sc. are attested], but [sc. so too are] duwdeka/th and [for "twelve"] duw/deka.
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Δυωδεκάτη
twelfth
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Ἑβδομάτη
seventh
[e(bdoma/th is the same as] e(bdo/mh.
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Ἑκατοστός
hundredth
The [sc. ordinal] number.
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Ἑκατοντάρχης
leader of a hundred; centurion
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Ἐκλογιστίαν
reckoning
[Meaning an] accounting. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "he reckoning the multitude of the army," meaning he counting [it]. And [sc. it is also used] meaning intending. "He reckoning skillfully and wisely." "He …
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Χίλια
thousand
A number.
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590
Χοίνικες
choinix, choenix
The noun means not only the measure [sc. of that name], but also fetters. Choinikes are fetters of a certain kind; a choinix [is] anything rounded. Hence also the measure is named a choinix. …
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Χοίνικες
choinix, choenix
[Meaning the units] by which Egyptians measure [time-]periods. "The category of supremely contemplative souls [is] rarer than that of the choinix, by which Egyptians measure [time-]periods; the likes of Amous and Antonios".
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