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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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1943
Ἀνάλογον
proportion, proportionate
The definition of proportion is this: it has a size proportionate to the reciprocal things which display the same a)nqufai/resis -- Aristotle's word for a corresponding diminution. Those things which have proportion to one …
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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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2000
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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Ἀπαρτίαν
chattels, household utensils, moveables
[Meaning] removal/baggage, fulfilment of a completion. Also [sc. attested is the adverb] a)partizo/ntws ["precisely,"], [meaning] the [condition of] neither surpassing nor lacking. "For a term is a word which, when analyzed, is uttered precisely." …
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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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Ἄρτια
even, exact
[Meaning things that are] fitted, complete, sound. These things are also said to be "joined" [a)/rmena]. Also [sc. attested is the related verb] a)rtia/zein, [meaning] to play at odds or evens [a)/rtia]. "We play …
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