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Ἄβαρις
Abaris, Avars
Scythian, son of Seuthes. He wrote the so-called Scythinian Oracles and Marriage of the river Hebros and Purifications and a Theogony in prose and Arrival of Apollo among the Hyperboreans in meter. He came …
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Ἁβρός
delicate
[Meaning] bright, delicate, tender. In the Epigrams: "a cicada sat above a cithara delicately murmuring." "All the same that fellow is dainty and delicate and weakened by the softness of his body and depraved …
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Ἀγαθίας
Agathias
A lawyer, of Myrina; the one who wrote the History as a continuation of Procopius of Caesarea, [comprising] the affairs involving Belisarius and the events in Italy and Libya; that is the affairs involving …
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Ἀγάθων
Agathon
A proper name. He was a tragic poet; but he was slandered for effeminacy. Aristophanes [writes]: "Where is Agathon?" -- "He's gone and left me." -- "Where on earth is the wretch?" -- "At …
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Ἀγάλματα
delights, ornaments, statues
[Meaning] the likenesses of the gods, and anything that is decorative in some way. Homer [writes]: "but it is stored away as a delight for the king." And Hesiod calls a necklace an "ornament"; …
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Ἄγανον
firewood, broken; good, gentle
With proparoxytone accent [this means] wood that has been cut up. Or brushwood and [wood that is] ready to be cut up. But some [sc. define it as wood] which is not chopped. But …
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Ἀγορανομίας
market-supervisorship, market-supervisorships
[Meaning] auditorship/s. The term is applied to those who oversee sales in the cities. Also [sc. attested is the related concrete noun] "market-supervisors" [agoranomoi]: the officials who manage the sales in the marketplace [sc. …
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524
Ἀδράστεια
Adrasteia
Some say she is the same thing as Nemesis, and that she took the name from a particular king, Adrastos. Alternatively from the ancient Adrastos who suffered divine wrath [nemesis] for his boasts against …
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Ἀηδών καὶ ἀηδοῦς
nightingale, songstress
And [in the genitive singular] a)hdou=s; such [was] Sappho according to Mytilenians. Sophocles [writes]: "ill-starred, she will not sing the lament of the piteous nightingale, but she will sing shrill dirges and the thuds …
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Ἀήθεσσον
they were unaccustomed (to)
[Meaning] they were unused [to]. Also [sc. attested is] a)hqe/ssousin ["they are unaccustomed (to)"], [meaning] they are unacquainted [with]. The present tense a)hqe/ssw ["I am unaccustomed (to)"], [like] a)hdi/zomai ["I am disgusted"], a)i/w ["I …
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Ἄϊδος κυνῆ
Hades' dog-skin [helmet]
Aristophanes [writes]: "take for my sake the shadow-shaggy Hades helmet from Hieronymos." The proverb was [sc. originally] said about those who are invisible. But now about those who grow their hair exceedingly long. For …
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Ἀθηναίας
Athenaiai, Athenaeae, Athenian women
Metakleides in his books about Homer said the women were not called [Athenaiai] but Attikai, and he also gives the reason: "for the men alone there," he says, "they call Athenaioi, but women Attikai, …
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Ἀκηδής
uncared-for, uncaring
[Meaning one who/which is] unburied, neglected. "The Romans could not stand seeing their own enemies uncared-for." Also [sc. attested is the adverb] a)khdw=s ["in uncared-for fashion"], meaning in unburied fashion. "Seeing a body of …
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Ἀκμή
moment, point, still
[Meaning] sharpness, the exact decisive moment of the intensity of the matter, and power, and youth. But "akme of opportunity" [means] good fortune. Thus Isocrates [writes]: "[it is best] to grasp the akme of …
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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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Ἄλη
roaming, delusion
[Meaning] wandering. "He supposed that no one would surpass him in courage, and this delusion got the better of him to such an extent that he adopted the attire of Achilles and thus went …
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Ἀλκμάν
Alkman, Alcman
A Laconian from Messoa; but according to Crates -- who is mistaken -- a Lydian out of Sardis; a lyric poet, son of Damas or Titaros. He was born in the 27th Olympiad, when …
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Ἀλκυονίδες ἡμέραι
Alcyon days, Halcyon days, kingfisher days
[Meaning] those of fine weather. People differ on their number. For Simonides in Pentathla says they are 11, as does Aristotle in [his book] Concerning Animals, but Demagoras of Samos [says] 7, and Philochorus …
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Ἅμματα
[Kasiotic] knots
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those who are crooked in their ways. [So called] from the Pelousians in Kasion, who by natural skill used to weave knots in order to attach one …
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Ἄμαχον
impossible, unconquerable
[Meaning something] difficult to overcome. Pindar [writes]: "[it is] impossible to conceal one's inherent nature." Aelian [writes]: "they brought back an impossible multitude of fishes and raised up a trophy and erected altars." And …
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1639
Ἀμμωνιανός
Ammonianos, Ammonianus
Grammarian, honoured by his association with Syrianus and also by their innate similarity in character and physique -- in Homer's words, 'in appearance and stature and nature most similar'; for each of them was …
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1654
Ἀμπλάκημα
failure
[Meaning a sc. moral] mistake. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] a)mplaki/ais ["with failures"], [meaning] with [sc. moral] mistakes. The Stoics believe that all [sc. moral] mistakes should be regarded as equal. For if …
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Ἀμπρεύοντες
hauling
[Meaning they who are] conveying. For an a)/mpron is a sort of rope, with which they usually drag or convey large loads. But a)mpreu/ein ["to haul"] [is] properly to convey with a wagon, but …
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1676
Ἀμύνασθαι
to ward off, to requite, to repay
Thucydides [sc. uses this word] to mean a)mei/besqai ["to requite"], but Simonides [uses it] to mean to return favours, and Sophocles to mean a)palech=sai ["to ward off"]. The orators apply the [word] a)mu/nasqai to …
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1796
Ἀναβάδην
lifted up; propped up
[Meaning] on high, to lie down and have ones legs up. Aristophanes [writes]: "now I take a rest starving with my feet lifted up." Or sitting down on a high place. And again: "how …
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1842
Ἀναγυράσιος
Anagyrasian
Anagyrous is a deme of the [sc. Athenian] tribe Erechtheis, the demesman from which [is an] Anagyrasian. Also [sc. attested is the proverbial phrase] "Anagyrasian spirit". And [there is] a shrine of Anagyros in …
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1862
Ἀναδρομαί
retreats, returns
[Meaning] ways back. "'Let there be a return, and we are not overthrown'. It is necessary always to have this verse at the ready. Lucius the Roman did not do this and suffered a …
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Ἀνακρέων
Anakreon, Anacreon
Of Teos. Lyric poet. Skythinos' son, though some suggested Eumelos', others Parthenios', others Aristokritos'. He wrote elegies and iambics, all in Ionic dialect. He was born in the time of Polykrates the tyrant of …
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Ἀνάχαρσις
Anacharsis
The son of Gnouros and of a Greek mother, a Scythian, a philosopher, brother of Kadui[d]as the king of Scythia. He wrote Customs of the Scythians in verses, Concerning the simplicity of those things …
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Ἀνέδην
freely
[Meaning] abundantly, without hindrance, excessively, ad lib. Arrian [writes]: "they positioned guards by the wells, so that no one could freely fetch water as he liked, but all the water was drawn to be …
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