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Ἔβα με
came upon me
[Meaning he/she/it] seized me. Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "what debt came upon me after Pasias?"
high
short
ε
45
Ἐγγαστρίμυθος
ventriloquist
[Meaning a] belly-diviner; what some people now [call] a Python, but Sophocles [calls] a chest-diviner, and the philosopher Plato [calls] a Eurycles, from a diviner of such a kind [named] Eurycles. Aristophanes in Wasps …
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46
Ἐγεγήθει
rejoiced
[Meaning he/she/it] was glad.
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ε
53
Ἐγεύσαντο
tasted
"And some even tasted each other". Meaning [ate] themselves. So [say] Euripides and Thucydides.
high
short
ε
78
Ἐγκατῳκοδόμησεν
immured, walled in
The father, angry with his son because of his concubine, mutilated the youth and immured him. Hieronymos relates the story, in his [treatise] On Tragic Poets.
high
short
ε
79
Ἐγκαταζεύξας
having yoked in together
[Meaning he] having attached, having fitted together. "[Aias] having yoked in together new plans to his new ways." Sophocles [says this].
high
short
ε
132
Ἐγκυκλήθητι
have yourself rolled out
"If you don't have leisure to come out, have yourself rolled out." That is, have yourself wheeled out. And ekkyklema is the name for a wooden [theatrical] machine, which had wheels. [This was] the …
high
short
ε
137
Ἐγκυρῆσαι
to light upon
Meaning to meet with. So Cratinus [sc. used the word].
high
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ε
150
Ἐγᾦδα
I myself know
[Meaning] I myself recognize. Concerning Aeschylus: "I myself know this man and have examined him long since, a man who makes wild [characters]."
high
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ε
152
Ἐγὼ δ' ὁ πάντα κωφὸς ὁ πάντ' ἄϊδρις κατημέλησα
I who am entirely deaf and entirely ignorant took no care
Meaning [who am] without common sense.
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ε
154
Ἐγὼ μὲν ἐκ τοῦ καλοῦ εἰς καλὸν μετήνεγκα
I myself changed out of good into good
[Meaning] out of kithara-playing, which is a good thing, into tragedy. In reference to those doing something similar [sc. to what they were doing before].
high
short
ε
184
Ἔγχος
lance
[Used] allegorically in Sophocles [to mean] assistance, from the [verb] e)/xesqai ["to be held"]. "Nor to [the] mind [is] a lance of thought." [It is] as if [he said] the mind does not have …
high
short
ε
197
Ἔδαισεν
gave a feast [for someone]
[Meaning he/she/it] entertained sumptuously.
high
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ε
198
Ἐδαίσατο
feasted on
[Meaning he/she/it] devoured.
high
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ε
204
Ἔδεθλον
floor
[Meaning] foundation.
high
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ε
211
Ἐδεστή
edible
[Meaning something] to be eaten.
high
short
ε
230
Ἔδησα
I bound
[Meaning] I fettered.
high
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ε
255
Ἑδώλια
decking
[Meaning] the planks of ships; strictly speaking, the ones on which the rowers sit. Thrones. Alternatively seats, [as in] Sophocles: "anciently-wealthy seats of his father". Meaning ancient residences.
high
short
ε
257
Ἑδωλιάσαι
to floor
['To floor'] and 'to deck'. [sc. Writers] used each of them. So 'to floor' [means] for example putting together from certain timbers which have simply been put together for a certain place, whereas 'to …
high
medium
ε
265
Ἑδράνων
of seats
[Meaning] of thrones. Sophocles [writes]: "but lord of seats, where you sit in a long pause." And in the Epigrams: "and the anchor, support of unsteady ships." ['Support'] meaning foundation.
high
short
ε
271
Ἒ ἔ
e e, woe woe
An adverb expressive of anger.
high
short
ε
279
Ἔζη
was seething
[Meaning he/she/it] was boiling. But e)/zh [spelled] with an eta means he was living.
high
short
ε
323
Ἐθηλύνθην
I was emasculated, I was enervated, I was weakened
[Meaning] I was bewitched. "Like iron in a tempering-bath, I was emasculated in the mouth." In tempering, the iron is not softened, but is made hard; so a distinction must be made as follows. …
high
medium
ε
333
Ἔθρισεν
mowed
[Formed] out of the [verb] qeri/zw.
high
short
ε
337
Ἑκάβη
Hekabe, Hecuba
[sc. The name means] she who from afar [hekathen] has come [bebekuia] to her husband. For her father Dymas, the Phrygian, gave her in marriage to Priam in Troy. Thus Priam fights alongside the …
high
short
ε
374
Ἐκβακχευθείς
frenzied
[Meaning he who was] driven mad. "Frenzied, Valens announced a massed expedition against the enemy."
high
short
ε
399
Ἐκδίκους
avenging; lawless
[Meaning both] just people and those who are outside of justice. "He was both lawless and outlawed." Instead of a)/dikos. Sophocles [writes]: "Thebes did not nurture evil, for it does not desire to bring …
high
short
ε
403
Ἔκδοτος
given-up
[Meaning one who/which has been] betrayed.
high
short
ε
487
Ἐκλωπίζω
I lay bare
[Meaning] I skin.
high
short
ε
510
Ἐκνάπτετο
was being carded
[Meaning he/she/it] was being scraped, was being expended.
high
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