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Ἀκελιμᾶς
Akelimas, Akepsemas, Akepsimas
[no gloss]
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832
Ἀκερδὴς χάρις
unprofitable reward
[Meaning] one given not appropriately [i.e. disproportionately]. [One] whose profit [is] evil. "May I not somehow, for seeing a cursed man face to face, meet an unprofitable reward."
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833
Ἀκέραιον
unblemished
[Meaning] free from evil, whole, pure. It indicates also the man without blemishes.
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834
Ἀκέραιον συνειδός
unblemished consciousness, sound conscience
One pure and unalloyed. Damascius says: "for there is none of human qualities worth as much as an unblemished consciousness. For one must coexist with his fellows in proper fashion. Even if the true …
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835
Ἀκέραιον
uncorrupted
From the writing of Marcus Antoninus: "even if you are going to live three thousand years and as many tens of thousands, remember nevertheless that no one loses a life other than the one …
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837
Ἀκεραιοσύνη
unblemishedness
But [sc. also spelled] a)kerwsu/nh.
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839
Ἀκερσεκόμης
unshorn-haired
[Meaning someone] not shearing the hair.
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848
Ἀκέσματα
remedies
[Meaning] medicines, things that heal. "Avoiding the guards she ran up with her daughter, carrying a remedy for the coming shortage." "There was a man in the Galeotis, formidable both in telling cures of …
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849
Ἀκεσώ
Akeso
A proper name, female.
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851
Ἀκέστας
healers
[Meaning] doctors. Also [sc. attested is] a)ke/stwr, [genitive] a)ke/storos, [also meaning] doctor.
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852
Ἀκέφαλος
headless
A heresy, whose leader was Severus. And look under the [entry] "Eutyches".
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855
Ἀκειρεκόμης
unshorn-haired
[Meaning someone] not shearing the hair.
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860
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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2342
Ἀνευάσαι
to raise the cry Euoi!
The [verb that means] to sing Euoi! This is a hymn to Dionysus.
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4250
Ἀστράγαλος
knucklebone, astragal
Properly, the customary meaning; also the vertebra of the neck, and (the piece?) for playing the board-game pessoi; and a plant is so called. Finger-joint (wrist?): that which Belshazzar, the son of Nebuchadnezzar, sitting …
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64
Αἴγλη
radiance; Aigle
[Meaning] a throw at dice, brilliance, gleam. Cratinus [sc. uses the word]. And [sc. in so doing] he reveals [that it is] a type of round sacrificial cake, and rite of sacrifice, as Leagoras …
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252
Αἴολος
Aeolus, Aiolos
A proper name.
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487
Βωμολοχεύμασι
with the low buffoonery and rascally tricks of the altar-ambushers.
[Meaning] with all sorts of rascally subterfuges.
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489
Βωμολόχος
altar-ambusher
[Meaning] he who lies in wait around the altars, with the purpose of getting something from those who are sacrificing. But metaphorically also [it means] he who flatters certain people, in pretty much the …
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490
Βωμολόχος
altar-ambusher
[Meaning one who is] an evildoer, sacrilegious. From those who lie in wait for the sacrifices placed on the altars, or for those who perform sacrifices, to ask them and take something. Also [sc. …
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642
Διαμαρτάνω
I fail completely, I miss the mark
[Used] with a genitive. "And they seem, at least to me, to miss their goal."
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1029
Διθυραμβοδιδάσκαλοι
dithyramb-directors
[Dithyramb-directors] talk much about things in the sky and about the clouds, and they used to make up compound words and said endiaeriaierinechetous; such a man was Ion of Chios, the poet. He wrote …
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1030
Διθύραμβος
dithyramb
[Meaning] a hymn to Dionysus. "Apollonius practised a form of discourse not dithyrambic and swollen with poetic expressions."
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1490
Δράγματα
handfuls of uncut corn, trusses
[Meaning] first-fruits. "Heronax consecrated [sc. to the Satyrs and Bacchus] as the first handfuls of his planting these triple casks from triple vineyards."
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1492
Δράκαυλος
drakaulos; living with a snake
Sophocles in Tympanistae [sc. uses the word]. [sc. It is appropriate] since Athena seems to place the snake among them, [i.e.] the daughters of Cecrops. Because they dwell in the same courtyard, as you …
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1498
Δρᾶμα
act, drama
[Meaning a] thing done, deed. As also to act [means] to do. Drama means also the things done in imitation by theatre-people [= actors] as in playing a speaking part [? = declaiming]. But …
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1499
Δραματουργήσας
having staged a drama, having fabricated
[Meaning he] having put together.
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1514
Δραστηρίοις
efficacious, energetic
[Meaning] most/very active/effective.
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1650
Δυσκολοκάμπτους ᾠδάς
intricate-twisted songs
[Meaning] ones in broken rhythm/voice. Aristophanes [writes]: "if one of them were to [...] twist a tune, such as these intricate-twisted ones today in the style of Phrynis that singers today sing, let him …
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