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politics338
definition242
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rhetoric93
law84

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imagery73
daily life68
economics67
religion60
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philosophy35
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medicine22

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Α alpha125
Ε epsilon88
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Χ chi32
Β beta17
ΑΙ alphaiota8

Vetting status

high338

Length

Short253
Medium83
Long2

Translator

Jennifer Benedict114
David Whitehead55
Catharine Roth38
William Hutton35
Malcolm Heath19
Antonella Ippolito10

31 more

Anne Mahoney5
Craig Gibson5
Debra Hamel5
Robert Dyer5
Marcelo Boeri4
Nicholas Wilshere4

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α49Ἀβίωτονunlivable[Meaning something] bad [and] annoying, painful. "He found it an unlivable situation if he could not control the city". Also [sc. attested is the masculine] a)bi/wtos, he who is not alive.highshort
α83ἉβροκόμαςAbrokomas, Habrokomas, AbrocomasThis man was satrap under Artaxerxes, king of the Persians.highshort
α117ἈγαθοκλῆςAgathokles, AgathoclesThis man became tyrant [of Syracuse] and, as Timaeus says, in his early youth was a common prostitute, ready [to give himself] to the most debauched, a jackdaw, a buzzard, presenting his backside to …highmedium

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Ἀβίωτον

unlivable

[Meaning something] bad [and] annoying, painful. "He found it an unlivable situation if he could not control the city". Also [sc. attested is the masculine] a)bi/wtos, he who is not alive.

Ἀβίωτον· κακὸν ἀηδὲς, ὀδυνηρόν. ὁ δὲ ἀβιώτως εἶχεν, εἰ μὴ κρατήσοι τῆς πόλεως. καὶ Ἀβίωτος, ὁ μὴ ζῶν.

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α169ἈγασικλῆςAgasikles, AgasiclesA proper name. He is said to have bribed the Halimousians, and for that reason, although he was a foreigner, to have been accorded [sc. Athenian] citizenship.highshort

α197Ἀγένειαlow birthBad birth.highshort

α255Ἀγκυλοχείλης καὶ Ἀγκυλόχειλοςcrooked-beakedBent-beaked, an epithet of the eagle, which has curved talons. But in reference to Cleon [it means] having crooked hands for theft and seizure.highshort

α285ἈγνώνειοςHagnoneian, HagnonianThe son of [H]agnon. Also [sc. attested is] [H]agnonides.highshort

α305ἈγοράσωI will go to marketMeaning I will spend time in [the] marketplace. Aristophanes [writes]: "and I will go to market in arms alongside Aristogeiton." Meaning I will spend time in the market with Aristogeiton, near Aristogeiton. That is, …highshort

α314Ἄγοςpollution, leaderPollution, or elbow. What is honourable and worthy of reverence is also called agos; hence priesthoods [are called] all-holy [panageis], and a number of other things. Thucydides [writes]: "the Spartans sent envoys to Athens …highshort

α357Ἄγριον ὑποβλέπει μεlooks at me angrilyTo be used in preference to "stares at." "The elephants were running up and trumpeting in anger." Also [sc. attested is] "[they] looking angrily". And elsewhere: "he would have incited and provoked beastliness and …highshort

α385ἈγύρριοςAgyrrhios, AgyrrhiusA proper name. [The man] who was slandered for weakness, that he actually breaks wind. Aristophanes in Plutus [says this]. And he was also ridiculed for over-boldness. Also [sc. attested is] Agyrrhios, an Athenian …highshort

α402Ἀγχίνουςtight-witted[Meaning] intelligent, mentally acute. "When the emperor advocated [sc. for his strategy] and the holy congress praised the tight-wittedness and good counsel of the emperor...". [It is said] that there are three parts to …highshort

α410Ἀγχίστροφοιchangeable[Those] gathered together, or quickly turning about. Procopius [writes]: "the battle had become fierce and at close range, and both sides were making quick-turning pursuits against each other." And elsewhere: "then you, deploying the …highshort

α485ἈδικίαinjusticePlato says that injustice is a disease of the soul. No disease of the soul is beneficial. And so every evil is harmful to the one possessing it; injustice [is] an evil; so [it …highmedium

α494Ἀδμισουνάλιοςadmissionalis, usherThe foremost of the silentiarii.highshort

α735ἈθηνόδωροςAthenodoros, AthenodorusStoic philosopher, of the time of the Roman emperor Octavian. Under Octavian there was every reason for unbridled excess of power to be a universal misfortune, but the aforementioned Athenodoros persuaded him away from …highmedium

α801Ἀκαρῆbit, pittance, scrap[sc. Something] short, sharp, impossible to cut. Aristophanes [writes]: "somehow or other you've been duped, you who rule many and do not get any benefit of it except that pittance you take away. And …highshort

α836Ἀκέραιοςuncorrupted, intact, fresh, unblemished[Meaning] complete. "Succeeding [sc. those who were] uncorrupted and not expecting, they controlled the land." And elsewhere: "but the honey, inasmuch as [it was] impure and drawn not from thorns but from serpents, upset …highmedium

α860Ἀκηδήςuncared-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 …highmedium

α940Ἄκουρονuntrimmed, unshaven"[o] people-hater, lover of monarchy, and [...] wearing woolly fringes and keeping your beard untrimmed!" Aristophanes says [this].highshort

α941Ἀκουσίθεονgod-heardThat which comes into a god's hearing. "If he cleaves to me and prays, I will shine a god-heard light."highshort

α957Ἄκρας νυκτόςat dead of night[Meaning] around the onset of sleep. "For at dead of night, when evening watch-fires no longer burned, that man [took up a sword]." When the evening [sc. watch-fires] would not show forth any longer, …highshort

α1015ἈκρόπολιςacropolisDamascius [writes]: "for the most prominent of the fortresses have, by and large, a shared nature. One would recognize what is being said from what happens where acropoleis are concerned. For while these seem …highshort

α1044ἈκύλλιοςAquillius, AquiliusProper name.highshort

α1073Ἀλλ' ἅπαν γένοιτ' ἂν ἤδηbut now anything might happen["But now anything might happen.] I applaud the old proverb. For one must look under every stone, lest a politician bite." The proverb [is as follows]: "under every stone a scorpion sleeps: watch out!"highshort

α1124Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ ΜαμαίαςAlexander Mamaias, Alexander son of MamaiaRuling with his mother he administered everything subordinate to her; it was she who took care of the empire in every respect. So she persuaded him to judge trials for the most part, so …highmedium

α1249Ἁλισθείσηςhaving been mustered[Meaning] having been assembled.highshort

α1280ἈλκιβιάδηςAlcibiades, AlkibiadesThe son of Kleinias and of Perikles' sister. An Athenian, a philosopher and a politician. A pupil first of Sophilos, then of Sokrates, whose lover he was too, as some say. Some also record …highmedium

α1371Ἁλῶconvicted[sc. This verb is used] with a genitive of possession; "if someone is arrested after being convicted of maltreatment of his parents." And "if someone is convicted of making an illegal proposal or of …highshort

α1458Ἅμαas soon as, at the same time[Used] with a dative. Demosthenes used this for "straightway" and "on the spot", and in his treatise For Orators he says: "death, you see, is not a piteous plight to those who think rightly; …highmedium

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