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Βάσις
stepping
[Meaning] walking. "Like some keen-scented stepping of a Spartan bitch."
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189
Βατράχειον
frog-green
A type of color. From this also [comes] the frog-green coat. They used to color their faces with frog-green before masks were invented. Also [sc. attested is] 'frog-green [coat]', a type of brightly-colored clothing, …
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210
Βαιαί
little (ones), scanty (ones)
[Meaning] small [ones]. Also [sc. attested is the masculine singular] baio/s ["scanty"], in the special sense of "one". Sophocles [writes]: "was he traveling 'scanty' or with many men as attendants?". Also in Captive Women: …
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218
Βέβηλος τόπος
profane place
[Meaning] one accessible to everyone and unpurified. Also [sc. attested is] "profane man," he who is uninitiated and defiled. Euripides [writes]: "[it is] not right for the profane to touch the temple". Also: "I …
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583
Διακλιμακίσας
having used the klimax
[Meaning he] having wrestled with. For klimax and klimakismos ['executing the klimax'] [are] a certain type of wrestling-hold.
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586
Διακναιόμενος
being worn away
[Meaning someone or something] being filed smooth, or being pained. Aristophanes [writes]: "some strange desire presses upon me, which has worn away at me."
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590
Διάκονος
deacon, messenger
The alpha [is] long. "He was a clergyman, with the rank of deacon." And Philoctetes [in Sophocles says]: "but either they have died, or, as I think likely, the messengers considering me unimportant hastened …
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659
Διαμπάξ
through and through
[Meaning] altogether, throughout.
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676
Διανταίᾳ πληγῇ
with a wound extending throughout
"For with the injury in the area of the arm weighing him down with a wound extending throughout, he was worn out [by] the pains."
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739
Διαρτίζεται
whizzes through (?)
[Meaning he/she/it] goes forth.
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short