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Ἄκρων
Akron, Acron
Of Akragas; physician, son of Xenon; he taught at Athens contemporaneously with Empedocles; so he is older than Hippocrates. He wrote On Medicine in the Doric dialect, and On Nutrition of the Healthy in …
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1033
Ἀκταίνειν
to lift up, to raise
[Meaning] to be licentious. To prance and to leap irregularly, or to start towards intercourse.
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1039
Ἀκοινώνητος
incommunicable, unshared, unsociable
[Meaning one who/that which is] strict.
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1041
Ἀκύλας
Aquila
Philosopher. Wrote scholia on the logic of syllogisms.
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1048
Ἀλλά
but
[Used] instead of "but when" and instead of "at least" [ge].
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1052
Ἀλλὰ γάρ
but for all that
Instead of "but". Eupolis [sc. uses the idiom]. "But for all that, despondent men never yet set up a trophy." The proverb [is used] in reference to those who because of despondency are unable …
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1058
Ἀλαζών
boaster, imposter
[Meaning] a wanderer. So Alkaios [sc. uses the word]. But Plato [says] a)lazo/nes meaning liars. Or a)lazw/n, [meaning] one who boasts and holds an opinion of himself greater than he deserves. "But he used …
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3119
Ἀπείκασμα
copy, representation
[Meaning a] likeness.
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3132
Ἀπείρηκα
I have renounced
[Used] with a dative. [Meaning] I am tired out. "But he being in the last stage of life had grown old and seemed to have renounced his cares." And elsewhere: "because of this, you …
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3142
Ἀπῆγεν
led away
[Meaning he/she/it] prevented, deterred. Damascius [writes]: "but Sal[l]ustius led the young men away from philosophy, for one or the other of two causes: either to disagree with their teachers, out of hatred for them …
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3157
Ἀπηλοίησεν
bruised, crushed
[Meaning he/she/it] cut off; but a)phlloi/wse [means he/she/it] differentiated.
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3189
Ἀπηχές
discordant
Properly [this means] something hard. [Something] false, grievous, unpleasant, hateful. Something from the very sound of which we turn away. "Not to rebuke in a reproachful way those who utter something barbarous or ungrammatical …
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3194
Ἄπια
pears
A kind of fruit. Plato said a)pi/ous in Laws. It occurs also in Alexis and in Savages of Pherecrates: "grab the pears before stirring [them] up."
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3219
Ἀπιστεῖν
to distrust, to disobey
[Used] with a dative. The [verb that means] to be disobedient. They also say a)pisti/a, [meaning] disobedience. Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] a)/pistos, [meaning] one who does not obey. Thus Plato [sc. …
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Ἄπλαστος
unfashioned, unfeigned
[Meaning] true, without deceit. "And rushing upon them together sweet dignity and unfeigned modesty informed the philosopher sufficiently and already made the young man known to him." But a)/plastos [also means] large. "Him a …
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3225
Ἄπλετον
unbounded, boundless
[Meaning] unlimited. Unapproachable.
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Ἁπλότης
simplicity
[Simplicity is] of two kinds. The one [is] intelligent and just, the other foolish and unjust. After all, the contemporary multiplicity also develops in some with justice and good sense, but in others with …
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3238
Ἁπλῷ λόγῳ
in a simple statement
[Meaning] without qualification. Also Aristotle says a(plw=s "simply," that which is true when said without any qualification. For the Ethiopian being in some respect white -- for he is white in respect to the …
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3242
Ἄπνους
not breathing
They say that Empedocles told [sc. his friend] Pausanias about the Non-Breather. [He said that] the Non-Breather was someone who for 30 days kept his body without breath and without food. This man [Empedocles] …
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Ἀριστοτέλης
Aristoteles, Aristotle
Son of Nikomakhos and Phaistias. Nikomakhos was a physician in the tradition of the Asklepiads, from Nikomakhos the son of Makhaon. [Aristotle came] from Stageira, a city of Thrace; he was a philosopher, a …
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Ἀριστοτέλης
Aristotle, Aristoteles
"Timaios says against Aristotle that he was arrogant, reckless, and headstrong . . . (but not) a pedantic and detestable sophist who had just locked up his precious surgeon's shop, and who besides [this] …
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Ἀστρονομία
astronomy, astrology
[Meaning] the arrangement of the stars. Babylonians were the first to discover this through Zoroaster; and with them Ostanes. They established that [events] happen by a heavenly motion around those who are being born. …
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Αὐγοειδής
luminous
So Isidore used to say that he had heard this also from him, that the soul has a kind of luminous so-called vehicle, star-like and eternal. And indeed for some this astral body is …
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Αἰδοῖος
venerable
[Meaning] one worthy of reverence and respect. Damascius [says]: "Isidore was awestruck at the sight of Proclus, venerable and marvelous to see; he thought he was seeing in him the very face of true …
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Αἰεὶ ἐστώ
eternal being
Antiphon [uses this word for] eternity and that which always stands in the same [form], just as happiness is called eu)estw/ ["well-being"]. The reading of Diogenianus in the second [book] of Antiphon's Truth.
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Αἰθήρ
aether, ether
[Meaning] the upper air, which [being] above the air is heated by the sun.
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Αἴ κε πάθοι τά κ' ἔρεξε δίκη δ' ἰθεῖα γένοιτο
if he should endure the sufferings which he has inflicted, the punishment would be just
An oracle given concerning the murders and injustices of Aurelian. Aristophanes [writes]: "every one of the Athenians when he goes in yells at the servants and asks: 'Where is my pot? Who gave away …
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Αἷμα
blood
[Meaning] the vital [part] of a man.
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Αἷμα
blood
[Blood] and family. "I claim to be of this family and blood." And the most vital of the four humors which are in us. Sophocles in Electra calls the knife "blood."
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Αἱμύλα
wheedling
[ai(mu/la.] Also [sc. attested is] ai(mu/los], [meaning a] flatterer, [someone] deceiving. "Some of the flatterers and smart people will suppose that I am joking." [These words are] paroxytone: ai(mu/los, *tertu/los, *rwmu/los, *ai)sxu/los. And [the …
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