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Ἀβιμέλεχ
Abimelech
Proper name. The son of Gideon. He smote his brothers, seventy sons of Gideon's wives, upon a single stone, and none of them was left except Jotham the youngest son, who ran away. As …
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Abraham
The first among patriarchs; [it was he] in whom the Hebrew people took pride at first, before they rebelled against God, became estranged from Him, and shed upon themselves the blood of His Only-Begotten …
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Adam
The first human, he who was shaped by the hand of God and formed in the image and likeness of the Creator and Founder; he was also deemed worthy of a dwelling in Paradise. …
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Ἀδριανός
Hadrianos, Hadrianus, Hadrian
Emperor of the Romans. He was of senatorial descent, his father having been the general Afer -- for thus he was [sur]named; he was by nature fluent in each language; and he left behind …
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Ἀέτιος
Aetios, Aetius
From Antioch in Syria, the teacher of Eunomios, he happened [to be] of poor and lower-class parentage. His father was one of those in the army who were faring rather poorly; when he had …
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Ἀλέξανδρος
Alexander, Alexandros
The son of Philip and Olympias, who was king of the Macedonians from age 18 and died at 33 years of age. This man was "very beautiful in body and very devoted to hard …
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Ἀννίβας
Hannibal
The Carthaginian was so called. "For the Carthaginians chose as general Hasdrubal, son-in-law of [Hamilcar] Barca. And he chose as lieutenant-general Hannibal, the man who became famous not much later for military commands. Hannibal …
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Ἀντίοχος
Antiochus, Antiochos
[Antiochus], a king. This man seemed at first to be an attempter of great things and daring and able to follow through on his what had been begun, but as he moved along in …
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Ἀντωνῖνος
Antoninus, Antoninos
Emperor of [the] Romans, the son of Severus, in addition to other evils and murders his soldiers also took up using violence and plundering and still did not waver in their arrogance at all. …
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Ἀπολλώνιος
Apollonios, Apollonius
Of Tyana, philosopher, son of Apollonios and a mother from that town, members of the gentry. With him in her womb, his mother saw a genius standing near saying that he himself was the …
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Ἀσκληπιόδοτος
Asklepiodotos, Asclepiodotus
This man from earliest childhood was agreed to be the keenest and most learned of his age-mates, to the extent that he did not stop busying himself with each of the things which he …
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Ἀσκὸς ἐν πάχνῃ
a wineskin in a frost
David says: "I have become as a wineskin in a frost." A wineskin when heated becomes porous and when inflated it swells, but in the frost it is hardened and frozen. Thus also the …
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Ἀττικός
Attikos, Atticus
Bishop of Constantinople after Arsacius, the one who presided by proxy of [John] Chrysostom; his descent was from Sebasteia of [= in] Armenia, and from youth he was taught to philosophize by a monk …
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Αἰδεσία
Aidesia, Aedesia
Wife of Hermeias. She was related by birth to the great Syrianos, and was the fairest and finest of all the women in Alexandria. In her character she was similar to her husband: simple, …
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Βραχμάν
Brahman, Brachman
A king, who also gave his name to the country. He wrote the Laws of the Brahmans and a Constitution of the same people in his own language. "The Brahmans are a very pious …
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Δημοκήδης
Demokedes, Democedes
[Son] of Kalliphon (a priest of Asklepios born in Knidos); a Krotoniate, a doctor. He practised medicine in Aigina [Myth, Place], where he married, and he also acted as physician to Polykrates, the tyrant …
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Δημοσθένης
Demosthenes
A knife-maker, of the [sc. Athenian] deme Paeania; Demosthenes the rhetor was his son. When he was orphaned he had 3 guardians, Aphobus, Demophon and Therippides; they neglected him and his property, so he …
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Δημόφιλος
Demophilos, Demophilus
Bishop of Constantinople, he was a man inclined to mix everything together in a disorderly rush like a wild torrent, gathering a great heap of rubbish in his words, as one will know at …
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Διονύσιος ὁ Ἀρεωπαγίτης
Dionysios the Areiopagite, Dionysius the Areopagite
Bishop of Athens, a most illustrious man, who reached the highest level in Greek culture. A disciple of Paul, who introduced him to the Christian faith, Dionysius was enthroned by him as the bishop …
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Δομετιανός
Domitian, Domitianus, Dometianos
Emperor of [the] Romans, brother of Titus, whose successor he became. He emulated not his father's or his brother's habit of good government, but, on the contrary, the appetite for iniquity of Tiberius and …
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Δομνῖνος
Domninos, Domninus
A philosopher, Syrian by descent, from both Laodicea and Larissa, a city of Syria; a pupil of Syrianus and the schoolmate of Proclus, according to Damascius. He was a capable man in mathematics, but …
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Δύναμις
capability, capacity, ability, potentiality, power
Suppose someone should represent the ability of one of the persons to be avoided, as if in defining a thief or a sophist or a slanderer he would say that the slanderer is someone …
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Ἐπιστολὴ Ἀναστασίας τῆς μάρτυρος πρὸς Χρυσόγονον
Epistle of Anastasia the martyr to Chrysogonos
"Anastasia to the holy confessor of Christ Chrysogonos, greetings! Although my father used to worship the idols very much, nevertheless my mother Phaneia, being always one of the Christians, from the time she gave …
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