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ε
2628
Ἐπιστήμονος
of a wise [person], wise person's
[Meaning] of an experienced
[person].
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χ
418
Χοσρόης
Chosroes, Khosrau, Khosraw
The
Persians'
king. "They praise him and they wonder at his merit -- not [only] the
Persians,
but even some of the Romans -- since (they say) he was a lover of literature and …
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ι
122
Ἰδιώτης
layman, private individual, unskilled person
… similarly among the philosophers he was both a taciturn and
person
of hidden thoughts for the most part, but he had poured out his whole soul towards the common increase of virtue and the …
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ε
3601
Εὔνους
well-disposed, well-minded
… friend does not think entirely properly. This topos has something
persuasive
and acceptable and dialectic to it, but is not something that is sound in respect to everything; for one who has a good …
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δ
930
Διεξοδικούς
detailed, discursive, elaborate
… in accordance with circumstances and fortunes and times and the
persons
and the places and such things as are appropriate to the particular circumstances: for political debates, panegyrics, and judicial trials concern such things. …
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δ
1573
Δύναμις
capability, capacity, ability, potentiality, power
Suppose someone should represent the ability of one of the
persons
to be avoided, as if in defining a thief or a sophist or a slanderer he would say that the slanderer is someone …
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α
4576
Ἀφελές
simple
… Ilissos of the throat; what should I say? If a
person
does not stop up his mouth, you will deluge their mouths."
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ε
2766
Ἐπίχαρμος
Epicharmos, Epicharmus
… He was producing plays in Syracuse six years before the
Persian
Wars; in Athens [sc. at this time] Euetes and Euxenides and Mylos were exhibiting [their plays]. This man [was] also the inventor of …
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α
2015
Ἀνάπηρον ψυχήν
crippled soul, mutilated soul
… Bryzakios and the victory over his forces by having the
Persian
officer killed at a banquet (spring/summer of 591); cf. de Boor (197-198), Whitby (139), and delta 125. On Chosroes,
Persian
king 590-628, see …
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ε
2306
Ἐπίδοξος
likely, glorious
… buy back her grandson." And elsewhere: "he reported that the
Persians
were likely to invade the Roman territory." Meaning [they were] expected. And elsewhere: "... to leave the road, by which the
Persians
were …
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α
2532
Ἄνθρωπος
man
The appellative. Also [sc. attested is] Anthropos, a
personal
name of the Olympic boxing victor, whom Aristotle mentions in Ethics. "But
personally,
I said, I think that this is the only thing needed by …
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δ
627
Διαλεκτική
dialectic
… by the politicians, about appropriate sketching [of] characters from adopted
perspectives,
and about a style of speaking. Dialectic is a skill of words, through which we refute and construct arguments by questioning and answering …
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ι
437
Ἰουλιανός
Ioulianos, Iulianus, Julian
… Julian the transgressor, the godless: "but, when you conquer the
Persian
blood for your kingdom as far as Seleucia, clashing with your swords, then the fiery chariot will take you to Olympus mixed up …
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ε
3344
Ἔτυχον
hit (the target), succeeded (through preparation) in obtaining, achieving or winning, met; coincided, happened (to hit), chanced
This second aorist -- here in the first
person
singular or third
person
plural; either way, evidently quoted from somewhere -- is assigned in modern grammars and dictionaries to tugxa/nw (tau 1147, web address …
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α
3460
Ἀπόνοια
senselessness
… it out forever, as long as possible, just like the
Persians.
But the hair on their heads in the front they cut up to their temples; the hair in back they allowed to hang …
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δ
559
Διαθέσεις
dispositions
… as heat and cold and sickness and health. For a
person
is disposed according to it in some way, but quickly changes from hot to cold and from being healthy to being ill, unless …
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δ
1019
Διήρκεσε
endured, sufficed
[Meaning he/she/it]
persisted,
remained. "The injunctions, which he had enjoined upon the kings, and the orders [sc. given] to the Celts sufficed to such a degree towards putting right the wrongs that they gave …
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ε
2110
Ἔπεχε
hold back
[Meaning]
persist,
maintain, guard. "Plato, in the case of the things he understands, makes a declaration and refutes the false utterly, but concerning unclear matters he holds back." "Arkesilaos the philosopher, because of holding …
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ε
2195
Ἐπῆρας
you stirred up, you induced
[Meaning] you
persuaded.
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α
328
Ἀγωνάρχαι
contest-judges
… in the paroemiographers, e.g. Apostolius 1.25.) Possibly Contest, the divine
personification
of the agon (cf. Pausanias 5.26.3), though the apparently
personifying
language does not guarantee this. See further, next note. [3] Used in Plato, …
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δ
6
Δᾳδουχεῖ
bears a torch, is a torch-bearer
… Likewise or similarly in other lexica. The headword -- third
person
singular, present indicative active, of this verb -- must be quoted from somewhere. (Extant possibilities are all late.) [2] On the daduch in …
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δ
1170
Διονύσιος ὁ Ἀρεωπαγίτης
Dionysios the Areiopagite, Dionysius the Areopagite
… a woman called Damaris and others. Further evidence about his
person
is wanting. Down the ages a great number of theological writings were attributed to a "Dionysius of Athens", generally identified with the Areopagite. …
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ε
1141
Ἔναυλον
fresh in the memory
… events before Heraclius's (cf. eta 465 generally) attack on the
Persians
at Nineveh (cf. nu 415, Barrington Atlas map 89 grid F4) in early December 627. Fragment 34, in particular, refers to the
Persian
…
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ι
545
Ἱππίας
Hippias
… 7.259 (ascribed to Plato), an epitaph for Eretrians buried in
Persia;
cf. Page (171-173). The ancient city of Susa (Sousa) was located in the lower Zagros Mountains, about 240 km. north of the
Persian
…
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χ
539
Χρῶμα
color
… cf. Aristotle, Metaphysics 1030b17-19, 1037a31, 1064a25. [4] George of Pisidia,
Persian
Expedition 3.37, Eraclio e le guerre di
Persia
3.37 Tartaglia; on the poet's veracity; cf. alpha 3499, Aeschylus fr. 176, and Euripides Phoenician …
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α
979
Ἀκριβής
accurate, precise
… to establish [the statement] that every assumption of a serious
person
[is] accurate. For "accurate" seems to be [the assumption] which occurs through necessary [causes], ones in which every assumption of a serious
person
…
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ε
3404
Εὐδαιμονία
happiness
… since it is possible that someone, even being an excellent
person,
is not happy. And if he is excellent, he is necessarily not bad. For virtue and vice are not without intermediate. And the …
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ε
3633
Εὐπάθεια
good affective state
… opposite to fear, being a rational avoidance. For the wise
person
is not affected by fear in any way but will be cautious. And wish is opposite to appetite, being a reasonable desire. Now …
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ε
3835
Εὔψυχος
of good courage, good-souled
… being of good courage in dying. Not only the valiant
person,
if we analyze the term 'of good courage' etymologically, but also the one who possesses his soul well, (is such). But to be …
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η
685
Ἠχώ
echo
… opposite and smooth, especially the hollow ones. For the speaking
person
thrusts away almost all of the air surrounding him, and especially the air in front of him; this is the reason why we …
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