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Αἰγαῖος κόλπος
Aegean gulf
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Αἰγεῖδαι
Aigeids, Aegeids, Aigeidai, Aegeidae
Demosthenes in the Funeral Speech -- if it is really by him -- [mentions them]. There is a tribe Aigeis [sc. in Athens named] from Aigeus the son of Pandion, and its tribesmen [are] …
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Αἰγεῖον
Aigeion, Aegeum
[Meaning] the oracle of Aigeus. Dinarchus in the [speech] Against Polyeuktos [mentions it]. [The] Aigeion is a hero-shrine of Aigeus in Athens.
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Αἰγιλία
Aigilia, Aegilia
A deme of [sc. the Athenian tribe] Antiochis, of which the demesman [is an] Aigialeus. [sc. Or?] Aigilieus.
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78
Αἰδέσασθαι
to be ashamed, to be reconciled
Meaning to be persuaded to change. So Lysias and Demosthenes [sc.use the word]. But in the [speech] Against Aristokrates [Demosthenes uses it] to mean to atone and to persuade.
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110
Αἰθαλοκομπίαις
with sooty boastings
[Meaning] with smoke and false statements.
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Αἴ κε πάθοι τά κ' ἔρεξε δίκη δ' ἰθεῖα γένοιτο
if he should endure the sufferings which he has inflicted, the punishment would be just
An oracle given concerning the murders and injustices of Aurelian. Aristophanes [writes]: "every one of the Athenians when he goes in yells at the servants and asks: 'Where is my pot? Who gave away …
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178
Αἰλιανός
Aelian, Aelianus, Ailianos
Of Praeneste in Italy. High-priest and sophist; surnamed Claudius. He was nicknamed 'honey-tongued' or 'honey-voiced'. He was a sophist in Rome itself in the period after Hadrian.
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222
Αἴνικος
Eunikos, Eunicus
An Athenian comic poet. He belongs to the Old Comedy. His plays [include] Anteia. There is also a sophist Ainios, [amongst] whose books [is] Hucksters.
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Αἴνιον
Ainion, Aenium
[Ainion] and Ainioi: [sc.both are] cities. "It happened that the Aenians were formerly split by factions; but recently some inclined towards Eumenes, others to Macedonia."
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230
Αἶνος
tale, story
[Meaning a] proverbial story. Or [intended as] praise, and encomium. There is a certain tale: how a man and not a man killed me, a bird and not a bird, but just the same …
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242
Αἰξωνηίς
Aixonian
It is a deme of the [sc. Athenian] tribe Kekropis. They used to be ridiculed in comedy as slanderers. Hence they used to call speaking ill [of someone] "playing the Aixonian".
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273
Αἰπόλος
herds of goats
[Meaning] flocks of goats. Also [sc. attested is] ai)po/los, [meaning a] goatherd. Also [sc. attested is the related verb] ai)polw= ["I herd goats"]; [used] with a dative.
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293
Αἱρετώτερον
preferable, more choiceworthy
[Meaning] more worthy of selection. "What is preferable is not in a parallel relationship with what is better, but what is better is more than what is preferable. For what is preferable is only …
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313
Αἱρούμενος
choosing
[Meaning he] wanting. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] dei=pnon ai(roume/nois ["to those choosing dinner"] meaning to those who had chosen to dine. Also [sc. attested is] ai(rh=| ["you choose"] meaning you take, you …
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320
Αἴσιμος
Aisimos, Aesimus
A lame and dishonored and unlearned man. Aristophanes [writes]: "examine, each of you, what he will gain, as the community is tossed about just like Aisimos."
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322
Αἴσιος
appropriate, right
[Meaning] one which is proper, true. Menander [writes]: "but fortune did not breathe upon them rightly: for those doing wrong deliberately were not removed." And elsewhere: "and this would not seem right for a …
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325
Αἰσθέσθαι
to perceive
[The aorist] ai)sqe/sqai differs from [the present] ai)sqa/nesqai. For ai)sqe/sqai [is used] in reference to knowing something accurately, but ai)sqa/nesqai [is used] in reference to conjecturing something. And as regards ai)sqa/nesqai, Antiphon in Proems …
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333
Αἴσωπος
Aesop, Aisopos, Aesopus
[sc. The name of] Mithridates' secretary. He wrote Concerning Helen, in which he says that there is a whale-like fish called a 'Pan', and that in this [fish] a precious stone is found which …
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335
Αἴσωπος
Aesop
The composer of stories, a Samian, a slave not more by fortune than by his own choosing; neither senseless nor in terms of this very thing a man. For as the law [or: custom] …
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347
Αἰσχίνης
Aeschines, Aischines, Aiskhines
Of Athens. Rhetor. Son of Atrometus and Glaucothea; he studied rhetoric with Alcidamas of Elea. Some have written that his parents were slaves. This man, when he was collaborating in some legal case and …
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348
Αἰσχίνης
Aeschines, Aischines, Aiskhines
Of Athens; son of the elementary teacher Atrometus and Leucothea the priestess. He himself was an actor, then a secretary, then an orator; he was a traitor, who betrayed Cersobleptes and the Phocians. He …
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349
Αἰσχίνης
Aeschines, Aischines, Aiskhines
The son of Lysanias. This man went to Dionysios in Sicily on account of money. And Plato is said to have compassed Charybdis three times on account of Sicilian lucre. Aristippos of Cyrene and …
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355
Αἰσχροκερδής
shamefully-greedy
and [sc. also attested is] the feminine ai)sxroke/rdeia ["shameful-greediness"].
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359
Αἰσχύνη πόλεως πολίτου ἁμαρτία
the citizen's error (is) the city's disgrace
[no gloss]
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365
Αἴτησις
questioning
In Aristotle 'questioning' is the derivation of the opposite in arguments, the eliciting of something from a respondent and afterwards trying to elicit that which is contrary to it from him, and by this …
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372
Αἰτιῶμαι
I blame
[Used] with a dative. But it also occurs with an accusative: "unless one might blame the doctor as well." "Why do you blame us as if [we were] responsible?"
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