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δ516Διαγέγραπταιhas been struck through[Meaning he/she/it] has been smoothed away, has been removed from the clerk's tablet, where lawsuits used to be registered, and the introduction of lawsuits. Aristophanes [writes] in Clouds: "I am happy, because a five-talent …highshort
δ1088Δικέραιονtwo-horned[Meaning] having two horns. In the Epigrams: "but having torn away from its forehead the skin and the two-horned tyne, he placed it in the temple of the huntress maiden."highshort
δ1101Δικλίςdouble-folding[dikli/s, genitive singular] dikli/dos and [accusative plural] dikli/das, a double door. In the Epigrams: "Galateia swung the double-folding [doors] in my face."

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has been struck through

[Meaning he/she/it] has been smoothed away, has been removed from the clerk's tablet, where lawsuits used to be registered, and the introduction of lawsuits. Aristophanes [writes] in Clouds: "I am happy, because a…

Διαγέγραπται· κατέξυσται, ἀνῄρηται ἀπὸ τῆς τοῦ γραμματέως δέλτου, ὅπου αἱ δίκαι ἀνεγράφοντο, καὶ αἱ εἰσαγωγαὶ τῶν δικῶν. Ἀριστοφάνης Νεφέλαις· ἥδομαι, ὅτι πεντετάλαντός μοι…

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δ1107Δίκραιροςtwo-horned"A two-horned to a two-horned, a shaggy-haired to a shaggy-legged". In the Epigrams.highshort

δ1268Δισκεύωνdiscus-throwing[Meaning] receiving; or rolling along. And in the Epigrams [there occurs the phrase]: "and now a discus [is] a rattle for me."highshort

δ1439Δωδεκαδώρῳtwelve hand's-breadths in length[Meaning] being of twelve palms [in breadth]. For the palm [is] a hand's-breadth. In the Epigrams: "having drawn back the [bullock's] neck they sacrificed it to Cyllenius and with a long nail they fixed …highshort

δ1634Δυσηχήςdissonant[Meaning] ill-sounding. In the Epigrams: "the shield which saved Python from dissonant war is hung in the sanctuary of Athena."highshort

ε118Ἔγκοτονspite, spiteful[Meaning] hostile, innate. Also [sc. attested is the related adverb] 'spitefully', [meaning] angrily. "What envy, which is always spiteful towards good people, holds the sons of Theseus?" So long-lasting anger [is] spite [or: spiteful].highshort