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- γ244Γήπεδονearth-plot… piece of land. Just like house-plot [oi)ko/pedon], the one uniting earth and dwellings.
- κ2147Κόσμοςcosmos, kosmos; order, ornament, decorum, universe[Meaning] the system and the union [formed] from heaven and earth and those things in the middle. "[The entity] which is a totality of the forms. Since it was necessary that none of the …
- γ226Γηγενεῖςearth-born (ones)… "did you learn these clever things by going to the earth-born ones?" Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "by an earth-born gust", meaning one great enough that it makes earthquakes; for [it was] an …
- κ2198Κούφη γῆ τοῦτον καλύπτοιmay light earth cover him, may the earth covering him be lightMeaning hanging [sc. in space]. Earth is called "lighter than earth," not being light in a plain sense; and fire [is called] "heavier than fire," not being heavy in a plain sense; but that …
- γ468Γρυπάνιονwrinkling… second [book] of Truth says: "for he was burning the earth and is making a mass of wrinkling." And Melanthius says "there was an earthquake, and the earth wrinkled."
- δ595Διακόσμησιςorderly arrangement[Meaning] the disposition of the universe. "The earth is in the middle, corresponding to a center; after which [is] the water, shaped like a sphere, with the same shape as the earth, so that …
- α1986ἈναξίμανδροςAnaximandros, Anaximander… discovered an equinox and solstices and hour-indicators, and that the earth is situated in the very middle [of the universe]. He also introduced a sundial and explained the basis of all geometry. He wrote …
- χ5Χάλαζαhail, hailstorm… through the air by the wind and carried down to earth. But snow [is] moisture, frozen out of a cloud. Hailstorms: they are freezings of the moisture overhead in the air, above the earth; …
- ε102Ἔγκλισιςinclination… the pole which is always visible was directly above the earth, but later it acquired its inclination. That is, a deviation.
- α1568Ἀμείδητοςgloomy… if you are ruler of the gloomy dead beneath the earth, Persephone."
- κ1377Κεραυνόςthunderbolt[A thunderbolt is] "a violent kindling falling upon the earth with great force, from clouds being rubbed together or broken... But others [say that it is] a gathering of fiery air moving violently downwards." …
- α1956Ἄναμμαfireball, ignited mass… fresh waters, becoming compounded with air and being near the earth."
- ε2626Ἐπιστήμηscience, understanding… science, having first learned it from the immensity of the earth and the division of the lands, and then having written it down.
- κ2558Κοινόνcommon, ordinary… application: (i) what is divisible into parts, such as the earth obtained by allotment; (ii) what is indivisible, [such as] what is taken for common usage; (iii) what is appropriated to oneself with anticipation …
- α1018Ἀκροσφαλεῖςprecarious… precarious Huns". For a Hun would not easily tread the earth without horses.
- γ164Γεωμετρίαgeometry… science, having first learned it from the immensity of the earth and the division of the lands, and then having written it down.
- α124ἈγάθωνAgathon… Agathon?" -- "He's gone and left me." -- "Where on earth is the wretch?" -- "At a banquet of the blessed." This Agathon was good by nature, "missed by his friends" and brilliant at …
- χ234Χειμὼνwinter[*xeimw/n, genitive] xeimw=nos. Winter is the air above the earth that is frozen because of the departure of the sun. Homer [says]: "they fled winter". [He is speaking] about the cranes. He is referring …
- α537Ἀδύνατα εἶναιto be impossibles… which is not capable of being true; such as, the earth flies. 'With the general finding it impossibles to take so great a risk of war.'
- α2786Ἀνύπαρκτονnon-existent… exist. And Homer in one [verse] has demonstrated this sufficiently: "earth nourishes nothing weaker than man."
- α425ἈδάμAdam… wisdom and discrimination. Instead all humans scattered across the entire earth continue following his pronouncements unaltered. And the first-born one's surpassing judgment in all things did not stop there, but also extended to the …
- λ692Λουτράbaths… and artificial, some bubbling up from the bosom of the earth and overflowing, with pleasure for men and usefulness and enjoyment for those who appear [...] giving himself to be borne down along the …
- ι212Ἰζηματίαςsubsidence-causingA kind of earthquake.
- ε3253Ἐσχατιάνextremity, farthest part[Meaning an] ultimate place of earth/land. Or those regions which have pasturages, as Aristotle also says in [book] 8 of Politics. [Note] that the [nouns] meaning collection and property are all oxytone: a)xurmia/ ['chaff'], …
- α4452Αὔξηincrease… the whole by means of the natural power in the earth. Thus 'to be increased' is employed in the case of things that have souls and have parts.
- δ119Δαίμωνgod, demi-god, spirit, fortune, genius… he who surveys everything and examines 'what is under the earth', [as] he says, and seeks out with evidence what is in the souls of his neighbors, but does not perceive that it is …
- λ658Λόγοςdiscourse; language… is a logos too. Aristophanes [writes]: "provide Euripides with a plot, and it becomes a tragedy". Search for Chrysippus' "abominable discourses" in the "Chrysippus" [entry].
- ε3605ΕὔξενοςEuxenos, Euxenus… especially when they see them gluttonous and flying towards the earth because of the smell of meat: so also Apollonios attended to Euxenos while he was still a child and was led by him …
- δ1183Διονυσίων σκώμματαinsults of the Dionysia… as the poet says -- a 'useless weight on the earth'". "But he has been tossed to the crows and is gone unseen, unheard of, shown to be twistier than a hinge in matters …
- α3242Ἄπνουςnot breathing… stop the [strength] of restless winds, which arising on the earth lay waste to the fields with their blasts; and again, if you wish, you shall bring back winds in requital. You shall make …