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Ἄγνος
chaste-tree, withy
A plant, which they also call lugos. But it is also a kind of bird.
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Ἀγόμενος διὰ φρατέρων κύων μαστιγοῦται
a dog led through phratry-members is whipped
[no gloss]
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295
Ἀγονία
sterility
Childlessness, barrenness. Aelian [writes]: "the young generation was being destroyed, and there was also sterility both of the women and of the four-footed flock."
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Ἀγγοπήνια
angopenia
[Meaning] the honeycombs of bees. That is, woven vessels; like xruseoph/nhta ["gold-woven"].
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301
Ἀγορὰ Κερκώπων
market of Kerkopes
They were in Ephesus. Herakles bound them on the orders of Omphale, but he shrank from killing them since their mother begged him. The proverb is spoken in reference to ill-behaved and knavish people.
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302
Ἀγορανομίας
market-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. …
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319
Ἀγωγεύς
prosecutor, thong
The person introducing the lawsuit, the prosecutor. Also [sc. attested is] a)gwgeu/s [sc. in another sense], thong. Also [sc. attested is] a)gwgei= ["with a thong"], [meaning] with a rein, by which horses are guided.
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325
Ἀγωαῖος
for leading
In the Epigrams: "and a dog-leash for leading".
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336
Ἀγώνισμα
achievement, prize
[Meaning] effort, diligence. "An achievement is there for him to take". Aristophanes [writes]: "personally, I would like to meet some ("wild beast" is left out) and take an achievement worthy of the journey." A …
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340
Ἀγναπτότατος βάτος αὖος
stiffest dried skate
In application to one harsh and obstinate by temperament.
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341
Ἄγραυλοι
field-dwelling
[Meaning] those passing the night or camping in a field.
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346
Ἀγρέμιος
quarry, prey
What [comes] from the hunt. "Having found quarry out of the grey sea."
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347
Ἀγρεσία
hunting
[Another word for] the hunt. In the Epigrams: "the three kinsmen dedicated these nets, o rural Pan, each from a different hunting."
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348
Ἀγρεύς
hunter, huntsman
[Meaning] one [who engages] in the hunt.
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352
Ἀγρία μέλιττα
wild bee
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those who are exceedingly wicked and cruel.
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356
Ἀγριόθυμος
savage-minded, wild-minded
[Meaning] savage in the soul.
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357
Ἄγριον ὑποβλέπει με
looks at me angrily
To be used in preference to "stares at." "The elephants were running up and trumpeting in anger." Also [sc. attested is] "[they] looking angrily". And elsewhere: "he would have incited and provoked beastliness and …
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366
Ἀγρολέτειρα
land-waster
[sc. An epithet of] Artemis.
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368
Ἀγρονόμοι
country-dwellers
Those living in the country. "Singing cicada drunk on dewdrops, you celebrate the country-dwelling Muse who sings in solitude." In the Epigrams.
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369
Ἀγρότας
countrymen, rurals
[Meaning] rustics. Also [sc. attested is the nominative singular] a)gro/ths ["countryman"], [meaning] he who lives in the country. "But you were bent over like a drunken countryman." And in the Epigrams: "the three kinsmen …
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371
Ἀγροῦ πυγή
rump of the country; fat of the land
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to the comfortably-off and those attending perseveringly to some kind of task.
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373
Ἀγρώσσω
I go hunting
The [verb that means] I hunt. Also [sc. attested is the related noun] a)grw=stai, [meaning] huntsmen, from the verb a)grw/ssw. Homer [writes]: "[he] goes hunting fish".
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388
Ἀγύρτης
mendicant
[Meaning a] beggar, mountebank. One who asks for more, greedy. Or a vulgar person. And it is also a throw with dice and a Gallus and a seer, as Apion [says]. In the Epigrams: …
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short
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393
Ἀγχηστῖναι
close, in heaps
[Meaning] dense/tightly-packed [ones]. Also [sc. attested is] a)gxhsti=nos, the [masculine] nominative [singular].
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418
Ἀγχώμαλον
closely-matched
Also [sc. attested is] a)gxwma/lou, [meaning] equal, nearly even. "After they engaged and fought a closely-matched battle, neither taking any prisoners nor making any further headway, they departed." And elsewhere: "a ferocious cavalry battle …
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425
Ἀδάμ
Adam
The first human, he who was shaped by the hand of God and formed in the image and likeness of the Creator and Founder; he was also deemed worthy of a dwelling in Paradise. …
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long
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433
Ἄδεν
pleased
[Meaning he/she/it] sufficed. In Fables: "nor did the gleaming leopard please him, since he was filled with rage."
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437
Ἀδεκατεύτους
not having tithed
Aristophanes [sc. says this for those who are in the position of] not having paid taxes; for they dedicated in the Prytaneion tithes of the bellies of the sacrificial animals as their tenth share.
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454
ᾌδειν κελεύονθ' ὡσπερεὶ τέττιγα ἑστιῶντα
asking [me] to sing as if entertaining cicadas
For it is a talkative creature. But [sc. differently-accented] a)dei=n [means] to please.
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469
Ἀδηφαγία
greed
[Meaning] insatiability. Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] adephagos ["greedy"], [meaning someone] incessantly eating, omnivorous, gourmandizing. "Greedy triremes" would be a name for ones on full pay and costing a lot, as a …
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