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α238Ἅγιος ἅγιος ἅγιος κύριοςholy, holy, holy LordThose who say the Lord is ten thousand times holy and those who dare to misinterpret this are clearly refuted by the [verse]: "I have sought out your countenance, your countenance, o Lord, I …Matched in headwordhighmedium
γ98ΓεδεώνGideon… by their enemies. And there were 300 found who drank agitatedly with their hands.Matched in translationhighmedium
μ772Μετέωροςraised-up, stirred-up… raised-up." [The phrase occurs] in Thucydides. Meaning they had been agitated and were not keeping quiet.Matched in translationhighmedium
α1685Ἀμύσσεινto mangle[Meaning] to agitate, to lacerate, to scrape, to tear at. "Now mangling his cheeks with his talons, now pecking his eyes with his beak." "When he came out of his own division, a raven …Matched in translationhighmedium
μ214ΜάρκοςMarcus… why. And Marcus responded, "[It is] good even for an aging man to learn. I am on my way to Sextus the philosopher to learn things I do not yet know." And Lucius lifted …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε2471ἘπιμενίδηςEpimenidesSon of Phaistos or Dosiadas or Agiasarchos and, as his mother, Blasta; a Cretan from Knossos; an epic poet. Of him there is a story that his soul could leave his body on any …Matched in translationhighmedium
α3567Ἀποσυκάζειςyou are fig-squeezing… is blackmailing; and "he presses" by taking bribes from and agitating those who are held accountable for their conduct, that is those who have not yet presented the accounts of the office with which …Matched in translationhighmedium
α4140Ἀσέλγειαlicentiousness… prodigiously fat": Aristophanes says [this] in Wealth. Meaning heavy. "Being agitated and croaking with licentiousness, just as crows caw." Meaning they are being awfully noisy. Also [sc. attested is] a)selgh/s, in reference to a …Matched in translationhighmedium
α4378Ἄτρακτονarrow; spindle… the spinning thread." And elsewhere: "and the staggering whistling spindle, agile spinner of the pliant thread."Matched in translationhighmedium
α3834ἈρειανόςArian… for the following reason. The contentious questions which were daily agitated among them led them to assert some absurd propositions. For whereas it is believed in the Church that God is the Father of …Matched in translationhighmedium
α3460Ἀπόνοιαsenselessness… in fact a misrepresentation: Justinian (cf. iota 446) openly supported, agitated, and fired-up the Blues; cf. Procopius, Secret History 7.6 (web address 2). The Blues and Greens were rival circus guilds and enjoyed imperial …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3569Εὔλογον ἀξίωμαprobable assumption, reasonable proposition… BCE (at the age of c.24) would become the reforming Agiad King Cleomenes III. How far, if at all, the teachings of Sphaerus can be supposed to underpin Cleomenes' measures has been much debated: …Matched in noteshighmedium
η100ὅςquoth heSame material in Photius (Lexicon eta51); similarly elsewhere. See also eta 101. [The SOL headword, mistakenly, gives only the second element of the phrase.] [1] Eratosthenes [the great Alexandrian scholar: epsilon 2898] fr. 52 …Matched in noteshighmedium
λ272ΛεωνίδηςLeonides, LeonidasLeonidas (the appropriate Doric form) was Agiad king of Sparta between c.490 and 480 BCE, in which year he perished heroically in the defense of Thermopylai. See generally OCD(4) s.v. Leonidas(1); Poralla/Bradford, A Prosopography …Matched in noteshighmedium