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- λ622Λιτότηςplainness[Meaning] simplicity.
- γ303Γλώττῃ πολεμίζωνfighting a war with the tongue[Meaning someone who is] not making war on the tongue itself, but using the tongue like a weapon.
- α2248Ἀνελεῖνto overturn; to take up… or indeed broken it, [the council] passed a vote about itself, [to the effect] that it should be crowned. But the [version] with dative [sc. must be understood differently]: having overturned this law, [the …
- μ1009ΜητροφάνηςMetrophanesof Eucarpia in Phrygia. Sophist. He wrote on Phrygia itself (2 books); On Types of Style; On Issues; a commentary on Hermogenes' Art; a commentary on Aristides.
- κ1985Κόμματαkommata… of the [parts] occurring in the ear, round the grain itself, or of the beards.
- ε2662Ἐπιτάφιονfuneral"The blow itself was also a funeral encomium of his virtue".
- ε117Ἐγκώμιονencomium… one action, but encomium [is] an encomiastic discourse encompassing in itself many actions. And a letter praising one action of someone is called 'epainetic', but 'encomiastic' [when praising] many [such actions].
- α3289Ἀπόδειξιςdemonstration… something is present primarily, this also belongs to it by itself. And [the expression] "by itself" means "what is according to substance". But it is not the case that if something is present by …
- ε3358Εὐαγέςguiltless, pollution-free… was from a conspicuous family, one which did not boast itself in luxurious power, nor in sycophantic excess of wealth."
- α4096Ἀρχὴ ἄνδρα δείκνυσινoffice exposes a man… men before holding office but become violent in the post itself. They say that this a dictum of Solon's, though Aristotle and Theophrastus [says it is] Bias's.
- α4070Ἀρχαϊκόνarchaic"Since they understood the simplicity and archaic [nature] of Spyridon's share of piety and moreover his utter ignorance of Greek education, they used to prevent him from going out in public and contending with …
- ε1618Ἐξέλιπε φυσητήρ ἐξέλιπε μόλιβδοςthe blower gave out (and) the lead gave out… burns together it evaporates and takes up the impurity into itself.
- κ171Κακοῦ κόρακος κακὸν ᾠόνbad crow's bad egg… winged creature [of this name], because it is not edible itself, and nor is the egg which it lays. But others say it comes from Corax [Crow] the Syracusan, who was the first to …
- ε1923Ἐπαγωγήinduction; sequence-formation… means of certain true things,properly infers a truth similar to itself. There are two modes of induction: the one proceeding by contrariety and the one proceeding by reciprocal implication. Now the mode of induction …
- α2245Ἀνελέγετοused to read through… which he said everything was wasted by time, but time itself was everlasting and undying because of memory." It is written: and a certain song was sung [by him] on memory.
- χ342Χλίδοςslime, sludge… the result of which was that he made the road itself higher and narrower". Slime is the word for a whole mass. And it is a sort of pile, particularly that of dross and …
- αι178ΑἰλιανόςAelian, Aelianus, Ailianos… nicknamed 'honey-tongued' or 'honey-voiced'. He was a sophist in Rome itself in the period after Hadrian.
- κ2759Κυρίαsovereignty… and statutory day. "Crowded together in the sovereign [sc. assembly] itself, having fallen upon the leaders, they killed them all." Also [sc. attested is] kuriw/taton ["most/very important"], [meaning] the ultimate. Polybius [writes]: "it was …
- δ1170Διονύσιος ὁ ἈρεωπαγίτηςDionysios the Areiopagite, Dionysius the Areopagite… Dionysius was enthroned by him as the bishop of Athens itself. As for the skills in the Greek disciplines, his inherited culture, he was judged the most eminent of all [his equals], for generally …
- α3438Ἀπὸ μηχανῆςfrom a machine… bring on gods; not setting them out on the stage itself, but on high by means of some kind of machine. The spectators would see this machine beforehand, but at the appointed time he …
- ε1296Ἔνην καὶ νέανold-and-new… day after tomorrow" the [period] to the third; and by itself e(/non, roughly aspirated, signifies what is prior and past.
- μ214ΜάρκοςMarcus… a student of Sextus, a philosopher from Boeotia, in Rome itself, seeking him out and going to [his] house. A certain rhetorician named Lucius, an associate of the rhetorician Herodes Atticus, asked him, as …
- α1751ἈμφίωνAmphion… man discovered not only the scales but also the lyre itself with them, either by using a rather marvellous intelligence or some divine gift, through an unassisted success? And most of the ancients, especially …
- δ930Διεξοδικούςdetailed, discursive, elaborate… more common. Rhetoric, on the other hand, does not concern itself with every sort of subject matter in the fashion of dialectic (for the orator is chiefly concerned with politics) and for the most …
- ε3074Ἐρώτησις ἔνδοξοςprobable question… white or black, and what good thing is choiceworthy in itself, and who is [the person] seated. And there is another kind of question [which is] about substance; for instance, when [we are investigating …
- ει222Εἰσαγγελίαimpeachment, eisangelia… loses his citizen rights. However, Isaeus [in] On the estate itself named the same procedure "impeachment" and "public prosecution". "This affair [is] plainly in accordance with the decree of Kannonos: I must fuck you …
- ε1468Ἔντευξιςconversation… him whether or not it seems [likely] that the good itself makes good people, just as what is white also [makes] people white, and what is warm makes people warm, and then, when this …
- μ618ΜένωνMenon, Meno… of his desires he saw perjury and lying and deceit; simplicity and truth, on the other hand, was something he considered foolish. It was obvious that he felt no affection for anyone; rather, whenever …