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Χαλαζᾷ
is hailing
i.e. is loose. "If he is hailing in the arse". But this is a disease of animals, which escapes notice while they are living, but becomes apparent when they are dead and cut up. …
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Χαλβάνη
all-heal
An ointment effective for horses.
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Χαλδαϊκοῖς ἐπιτηδεύμασι
Chaldean rituals
As Proclus was puzzled by Isidore's imitations of birds and their voices and sounds sometimes during the Chaldean rituals, he himself demonstrated the way of imitation of the fluttering of other [birds including] sparrows …
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Χαλεπὸν χορίου κύνα γεύειν
[it is] dangerous when a dog tastes [the] afterbirth
The covering of the foetus is called afterbirth [chorion]. Once the dogs have tasted this they scheme against the foetuses too, because of greed.
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23
Χαλινός
bit, bridle
[Meaning] bit/rein.
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24
Χαλινῶ
I check, I curb, I bridle
[Used] with an accusative.
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45
Χαλκίς
chalkis
A kind of bird; the owl.
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51
Χαλκοκρότων
brazen-hoofed
[Meaning] brazen-footed. That is, having strong hooves; for what happens is that the ground resonates and rings out, hammered by the feet of the horses.
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59
Χάλος
Chalos, Chalus
A river, one plethron [= 100 feet] wide, full of large, tame fish.
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69
ζῷον
chamaeleon, chameleon
A creature [of that name], changing into any colour except white.
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70
Χαμαίλεον
chamaileon
A type of plant. Also [sc. attested is] xamai/mhlon ["ground apple"], a type of plant.
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83
Χάος
chaos, space
Also the air, in Aristophanes in Birds: "you shall not grant passage to the smell of the [sc. burning sacrificial] thighs through your foreign city and the space." Also [sc. attested in the phrase] …
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Χάος
Chaos
Aristophanes [writes]: "First was Chaos, Night, black Erebus, and broad Tartarus. There was neither earth, nor air, nor heaven. Black-winged Night begat the first wind-egg in the boundless bosom of Erebus. And after the …
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86
Χαράδρα
charadra, ravine
[Meaning a] trench full of dirt, [something] dangerous, having no water. Aristophanes [writes]: "it had the destructive voice of a ravine that has given birth." In the Epigrams: "whenever he searched it out among …
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Χαραδραῖος λέων
ravine lion
[Meaning] one [which lives] in the ravines. Unless it means the Thespian [lion], which was the first one Heracles killed, in Thespiae. That place is called "Ravine" (xara/dra).
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90
Χαραδριός
charadrios, plover
A bird, which people suffering from jaundice look at, as the story goes, and easily get over the disease. Hence people who are selling them hide them so that those who are sick will …
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Χάρμα
delight
[Meaning] joy, pleasure. Polybius [writes]: "delight and grief came over his heart at the same time."
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Χαροπός
bright, glassy, blue-grey
[Meaning] exceedingly glad, beautiful-eyed.
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Χάρων
Charon
[Synonymous with] death. And queries and announcements associated with his ferrying come from Charon [Author, Myth]: "Who [is going] to a rest from evils (toils) and troubles?" "Who [is going] to the Plain of …
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147
Χάσμασιν
gaping mouths
"The Parthians used to fasten the heads of wild animals to their helmets and use the gaping mouths of the wild animals."
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148
Χαυλιόδων
tusked
[Meaning one] having protruding loosened teeth. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'tusked animals', [meaning] those displaying their teeth outside [sc. their mouths], like the blind mole rat, the elephant, and anything else [like …
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153
Χαιός
crook
[Meaning] a staff.
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160
Χαιρεφῶν
Chairephon, Chairephon
[A name] applied to pale and withered men. And [there is] a saying: 'you will differ in no way from Chairephon'. Inasmuch as he has been immersed in wisdom. Hence he was also called …
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163
Χαίρειν
to say 'hello'
Just like birds, [which] learn these things from men. Birds exclaim "hello!" and "good luck!" and "[May] Zeus [be] sweet!" and these sorts of things, neither knowing what they are saying nor being well-disposed …
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171
Χαιριδεῖς
Chairideis
[Meaning those] educated from [= by] Chairis. Or practising [sc. with him]. Chairis [was] an uncultured Theban piper. So Attic [writers] say Chairideis from Chairis and peristerideis from peristera\ ['dove']. This man used to …
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180
Χαιτήεις ἵππος
flowing-maned horse
[Meaning] one growing its mane.
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185
Χελιδόνας
chelidon; Chelidon
A sort of fish. Chelidon is also a name for the [sc. sexual] part of women; and the hollow of the hoof of horses; some also [apply it to] the same part of dogs; …
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186
Χελιδόνιον μέλος
swallow's song
[Meaning that] of the swallow. Her voice is not a lamentation, but a commendatory and hortatory song directed toward actions. For this reason during winter [the swallow] neither flies nor cries.
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Χελιδόνων μουσεῖα
swallows' museums
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those who do foreign and barbarian things. For the [term] 'swallow' [is] applied to barbarians; for it implies 'Thracian swallow'. And in what follows: "where the swallow …
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188
Χελιδόνων φάρμακον
swallows' drug, swallows' potion
In Hipponax [this means] the love-charm that is applicable whenever someone first sees a swallow.
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