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- α4509Αὐτομαχεῖνto fight one's own battle… au)tomaxh=sai: when someone lays claim to a house or a plot of land, and the seller is of sufficient means to appear [sc. to be able] to pay the penalty and to settle the …
- α124ἈγάθωνAgathon… Agathon?" -- "He's gone and left me." -- "Where on earth is the wretch?" -- "At a banquet of the blessed." This Agathon was good by nature, "missed by his friends" and brilliant at …
- α2786Ἀνύπαρκτονnon-existent… exist. And Homer in one [verse] has demonstrated this sufficiently: "earth nourishes nothing weaker than man."
- α3860Ἄρρητονaccursed… one which should not be spoken. Sophocles [writes]: "how on earth do I tell an unspeakable story?" Having written [of] or even done something more unspeakable than unspeakable things and beyond evils. "Who then …
- α1183Ἀληλεσμένονground-up… change of life, previously wild and thorny, before tending the earth and seeds came about. Hence from this care came the saying a)lhlesme/non bi/on.
- α2010Ἀναπειστηρίανpersuasive[Meaning] able to persuade the listeners. Aristophanes [writes]: "how on earth could this [youth] learn acquittal from a lawsuit, or a summons, or persuasive hot air? Yet Hyperbolos learned this for a talent." Summons: …
- α732Ἀθηναίων δυσβουλίαAthenians' ill-counsel… were the first to work the soil [chthon], namely the earth, or on account of their not being incomers.
- α30ἌβελAbel… it happened that Cain offered from the fruits of the earth." Cain was disgraced by the fact that the produce he offered to God was not the first-fruits but that which was some days …
- α4452Αὔξηincrease… the whole by means of the natural power in the earth. Thus 'to be increased' is employed in the case of things that have souls and have parts.
- α3242Ἄπνουςnot breathing… stop the [strength] of restless winds, which arising on the earth lay waste to the fields with their blasts; and again, if you wish, you shall bring back winds in requital. You shall make …
- α2082Ἀνάστατοιanastatoi… when the sun and the moon appear early over the earth; but Apollodorus [says that it is] because they fasten bundles of firewood to them when bringing them. But a phthoïs are[sic!] pastries, which …
- α104Ἄβυσσονabyss… and small seas, David naturally called this [i.e., abyss] the earth's surrounding garment. Also, "abyss calls to abyss", the same prophet says, meaning figuratively military divisions and the excessive size of the multitude. "I …
- α1827Ἀναγκαῖονnecessary… whole [universe] and thus engendering all compounds: fire, water, air, earth. For these things are certain composites of atoms and which are unaffected and unchangeable on account of their firmness. Everything occurs by necessity, …
- α3597Ἀποτιμηταὶapotimetai, guarantors… husband[-to-be] a security for the dowry - a house or plot of land of equal value. [In such circumstances] the giver of the guarantee was said "to guarantee" it, in the active sense, while …
- α4084ἈρχέλαοςArchelaos, Archelaus… one fragment, "coldness is the connection" (presumably which holds the Earth in a solid state); see Diels and Kranz, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 60B1a. From surviving testimonia (principally Hippolytus), he would seem to have …
- α449ἌδερHadad, Ader, Aderos… him in and gave to him a house and a plot of land for sustenance and when [Hadad] came to his prime he loved him very much, so he gave him the sister of …
- α1475ἈμαλασούνθαAmalasountha, Amalasuntha… the barbarian custom." She did not approve, but fearing some plot by them agreed to everything which the barbarians wanted."
- α3678Ἀπωτέρωfurther off, quite far off… myself. For since he attacked that man, he might be plotting against me. Also [sc. attested is the masculine] a)pw/teros ["farther off"], [meaning] a longer distance away. *)apwta/tw ["farthest off"], far off, a long …
- α334ἈγωνιῶI am in a torment… someone] fearing. "Fearing the fickleness of the Celts and the plots against his life." "But he feared the soldiers, if the ration-money were to run out." Also [sc. attested in the plural] a)gwniw=ntes, meaning …
- α2130ἈνάχαρσιςAnacharsis… died performing Greek rites in Scythia, when his brother was plotting against him: according to some he [lived] into extreme old age and almost up to one hundred years old.
- α4309ἈταλάντηAtalante, Atalanta… wishing to sleep with her. Having laid an ambush, he plotted against Peleus -- who, perceiving this, waged war against him, having invited as allies both the Tyndaridai and Jason (who was an enemy …
- α3909ἈρίστιπποςAristippos, Aristippus… cast off what's weighing you down." When he was being plotted against on a voyage he cast into the sea the things on account of which he was being conveyed. "For," he said, "the …
- α3744ἌρατοςAratos, Aratus… was] second to none. Again, in concocting operations, deceits, and plots against the enemy and in bringing these to a conclusion through his own endurance and daring, he was tremendous. Yet this same man, …
- α4316ἌτταλοςAttalos, Attalus… it gives birth both to feelings of envy and to plots, and exercises great influence in the direction of corruption of body and soul; and there are [only] a few particular souls able to …
- α1124Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ ΜαμαίαςAlexander Mamaias, Alexander son of Mamaia… Nevertheless, Elagabalus lost the support of the Senate and began plotting against his cousin Alexander, whom he recognized to be broadly supported by the Praetorian Guard. At the age of eighteen, along with his …
- α118Ἀγαθόνgood… Aristotle, Topica 1094a2-3, with Alexander of Aphrodisias's commentary 93.8. [6] Plotinus, Enneads 1.7.1, 21-22 (identified by Henry [below] 157 n.2, as noted in Adler's addenda).