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α150Ἀγαπᾶνto love, to receive favorably, to be content with.[Meaning] to give a favorable reception [to someone/something]. [*)agapa=n] to love: to be satisfied with something and to seek nothing more. Hence also the [phrase] "I would love [it/you if]...".highshort
α302Ἀγορανομίαςmarket-supervisorship, market-supervisorships[Meaning] auditorship/s. The term is applied to those who oversee sales in the cities. Also [sc. attested is the related concrete noun] "market-supervisors" [agoranomoi]: the officials who manage the sales in the marketplace [sc. …highmedium
α304Ἀγοράσαι

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Ἀγαπᾶν

to love, to receive favorably, to be content with.

[Meaning] to give a favorable reception [to someone/something]. [*)agapa=n] to love: to be satisfied with something and to seek nothing more. Hence also the [phrase] "I would love [it/you if]...".

Ἀγαπᾶν· ἀποδέχεσθαι. Ἀγαπᾶν· τὸ ἀρκεῖσθαί τινι καὶ μηδὲν πλέον ἐπιζητεῖν. ἐξ οὗ καὶ τὸ ἀγαπῴην ἄν.

mythology

mythology

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trade and manufacture7

trade and manufacture7

gender and sexuality5

gender and sexuality5

meter and music4

meter and music4

to buy at market

Hyperides [sc. uses this] to mean to purchase. They say a)gora/sw, a)gorw= being sub-literate; there are plenty of examples everywhere, but take for instance [one] of Aristophanes, from Aiolosikon: "but hurry, there was no …

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α307Ἀγοραίαν δίκηνagora lawsuit, forensic lawsuit[Meaning] the (?)defense plea.highshort

α426Ἀδαμάντιναadamantine [things][Meaning] solid [ones]. Apollonius, as if conversing with himself, used to say 'I know', and 'it seems to me' and 'where are you headed', and 'one needs to know'." And [his] opinions [were] brief …highshort

α2024Ἀναπλήσαςhaving filled up, having defiled[Meaning he] having made full. But Plato [uses it] to mean he having polluted.highshort

α3275ἈπογράφωI enroll, I register[Used] with an accusative. "But you, enroll us properly."highshort

α3400ἈπολογίζωI discount, I reckon[Meaning] I banish and I reject what I do not accept. It also means I calculate. Also [sc. attested is] a)pologi/sasqai, [meaning] to investigate every detail. Demosthenes [sc. uses the word].highshort

α3427ἈπολοίμηνI might perish, may I perishOptative. Also [sc. attested is the third person plural] a)po/lointo ["they might perish/may they perish"]. "So may evil perish". There are two ways of saying [the infinitive]: a)pollu/ein and a)pollu/nai. [This is] also [true …highshort

α3438Ἀπὸ μηχανῆςfrom a machine[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to unexpected and unbelievable things. For the tragic poets, when they brought onto the stage a bold move designed to make the spectators disturbed at the things that …highmedium

α3694Ἀπρόσβλητονunassailable, unapproachable[Meaning] genuine; that which no one is able to assail. [Alternatively, one] not having a methodical reason.highshort

α4189Ἀσολοίκωςsolecism-free, without solecismsThe [word that means] in a plain style.highshort

α4425Αὐθέκασταmatter-of-fact things[Meaning] just the things that happen, that is indiscriminately, and abruptly, and precipitously. Or simple things and true things, with the epitome of precision. Also [sc. attested is the masculine nominative singular] authekastos, a …highshort

α4426ΑὐθέντηςperpetratorThe one [doing something] with his own hand, or the one who kills himself. Hence in Isocrates perpetrator. Lysias applies it in a special sense to the 30, even though they had their murders …highmedium

α4434ΑὐλαίαcurtainThat which is hung alongside the stage. Hyperides uses it in his [speech] Against Patrokles. Polybios [writes]: "hearing all these things through the curtain the king was laughing." And elsewhere: "he took a rope …highshort

α4435Αὐλητρὶς πέπτωκενthe girl piper has fallenAn ambiguity of expression, signifying two or even more things both colloquially and properly. For through [this expression] it is revealed both that the house has fallen three times and that the girl musician, …highshort

α4599Ἀφεὶς καὶ Ἀπαλλάξαςhaving let go and having set free'Having let go' is when someone releases [someone] from the charges which he charged against him. But 'having set free' is when he persuades the person doing the charging to withdraw and cease bringing …highmedium

αι110Αἰθαλοκομπίαιςwith sooty boastings[Meaning] with smoke and false statements.highshort

αι333ΑἴσωποςAesop, 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 …highshort

αι349ΑἰσχίνηςAeschines, Aischines, AiskhinesThe 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 …highmedium

αι355Αἰσχροκερδήςshamefully-greedyand [sc. also attested is] the feminine ai)sxroke/rdeia ["shameful-greediness"].highshort

αι365ΑἴτησιςquestioningIn 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 …highshort

β137Βασανίζεινto testIt does not mean abusing or punishing or whipping in the Attic [authors], but interrogating without blows and investigating the truth through words; from the goldsmith's touchstone [ba/sanos], used metaphorically. And Polybius [writes]: "then, …highmedium

β139Βάσανοςtouchstone, testIt is the stone which tests gold when it is rubbed against it. Thus Antiphon and Pindar and Sophokles. But Hyperides calls ba/sanoi the things said in interrogation by those who are being tested …highmedium

β157ΒασιλικήbasilicaIn the basilica behind the Milion -- where also the exammon was up until the time of the emperor Heraclius -- stood a gilt statue of a man on bended knee, Justin the tyrant. …highmedium

β523ΒραχίωνarmFiguratively [this represents] ability, since humans naturally do work with it. David: "that the arms of the sinful will be shattered."highshort

β525Βραχέσινshortness of utterance[Meaning] shortness of speech. Also [sc. attested is] 'short [ones],' meaning trifling [ones].highshort

β570Βρύειteems, is teeming[Used] with a dative. "I fear that you, teeming with ulcers, are introducing something uncurable." Also [used] with a genitive: "teems of [= with] plants and flowers."highshort

δ557Διάθεσιςdeposing, disposing[Deposing/disposing] and to depose: each of these applies to the writing of depositions. Isaeus in the Response to Aristogeiton: "Yet after this reponse they brought another deposition, which they said Archepolis deposed in Lemnos." …highmedium

δ580Διακεχείρικεhas managed[Used] with a genitive. "[...] thus agreeing that his whole life was subject to scrutiny for the things which he has managed or has administered among us." But 'I manage' [is also used] with …highshort

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