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Ἂ ἄ
ah! ah!
In Aristophanes an adverb accompanying surprise and command. "Ah! ah! Don't get that torch near me!" 'Ah! ah!' must be read separately, not elided; and they both have smooth breathing.. For if they were …
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Ἀαγές
unbroken, unbreakable
[Meaning something] unshattered, strong.
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Ἄαπτος
irresistable, invulnerable
[Meaning someone/something] unharmed. Herodianus says about a)/aptos that it comes from i)a/ptw ['I harm'], and after adding alpha-privative and dropping the 'i' [it becomes] a)/aptos, "whom no one can harm." Or perhaps the 'a' …
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Ἀασάμην
I was addled
[Meaning] I did wrong, I slipped up; I was damaged, in the sense of "I was overcome by folly."
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Ἀάσαι
to harm, to infatuate
has four meanings: to glut, to go to sleep, to harm, to cause pain.
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Ἀάσχετος
irresistible
[Something/someone] uncontrollable.
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Ἀβάκησαν
they kept quiet
[Meaning] they were unaware, they did not understand.
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Ἀβάλε
would that
[Meaning] o that. "Would that [...]."
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Ἀβάντειος
Abanteios, Abantius, Abantian
The [house] of Abas. Also [attested is] Abantiades.
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Ἀβαχθανῆ
abakhthani
A Hebrew expression.
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Ἀβληχρήν
feeble
[Meaning] weak. For what is strong [is] blhxro/n. Aelian [writes]: "so she brought her life to an end gently and with a calm and feeble death, such as even Homer seems to me to …
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Ἀβούλως
ill-advisedly
[Meaning] unthinkingly, ignorantly. A line [of verse]: "badly, ill-advisedly, unthinkingly, without reason."
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Ἀβέλτερος νοῦς
foolish mind
"[A foolish mind,] empty, naive, young."
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Ἀβρόμιος
Bromios-less, Bromius-less
[Meaning] without wine. "If I escape through the wave of destructive fire, I tell you I will drink for one hundred suns from dewy streams, Bromios-less and wine-less." In the Epigrams.
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Ἄβρομος
noisy
A clamorous person.
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Ἁβρὸς λειμὼν καὶ νοτερὸς καὶ εὐθαλής
a meadow delicate and moist and flourishing
"All decked out as luxuriously as possible and in a manner that was amazing in terms of wealth, for someone, that is, who marvels at wealth."
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Ἁβροσύνη
splendor
[Meaning] brightness.
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Ἀβρότη
divine, holy
[sc. a term applied to] night. Because it is deprived [a-] of people [brotoi].
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Ἁβροχίτων
delicate-tunic'd
[Meaning someone] wearing delicate things.
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Ἀγαθοὶ δ' ἀριδάκρυες ἄνδρες
tearful men are good
In reference to those who are strongly inclined toward pity.
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Ἀγάλακτες
milkmates
[Meaning] those who are members of the same family, blood-kin, brothers. But others [sc. define the terms as] those sharing priesthoods and [sc. who are also] fellow-family-members. But some [sc. define it as] those …
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Ἀγάλλει
glorifies, honours
[Meaning he/she/it] makes, prepares, adorns.
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Ἀγάλλων
glorying, taking pride
[Meaning one who is] engaging in self-glorification.
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Ἀγανώπιδος
mild-eyed
[Meaning] having a gentle countenance.
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Ἀγάσματα
objects of wonder
[Meaning] objects of awe, things at which one would wonder [a)ga/saito]. Sophocles uses [the word].
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Ἀγάστονος
much-groaning
[Meaning] copiously moaning.
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Ἀγάστορες
womb-mates
[Meaning] brothers, natural brothers, twins. Those from the same womb.
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Ἄγαυρος
wastrel
A dandy; but some [say] a good-for-nothing; [used] by Ionians [to mean] a pauper, but by Attic writers [to mean] a fop.
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Ἄγε δῆτα
hey there
[Meaning] come now, you there, over here. And [there is] an epigram addressed to Diogenes the Cynic: "' Hey, Diogenes, tell [us], what fate took you to Hades?' 'A dog's bite took me'". But …
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190
Ἀγελείη
Ageleie, Booty-driver
[An epithet of] Athena. From the [fact of her] "driving booty", [a)/gein lei/an]; that is, as a soldier.
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