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α2786Ἀνύπαρκτονnon-existent[Meaning] that which does not exist. Compare the Pindaric [phrase]: "What is anyone? What is he not? Man is a dream of a shadow." Meaning more non-existent than the non-existent. But here this word …Matched in translationhighmedium
α3741Ἄρασθαιto lift up, to raise up… this greatness and immensity and 'I decline' the priesthood like Pindar, not as something baser, as he [did], but as something better than myself."Matched in translationhighmedium
β139Βάσανοςtouchstone, test… gold when it is rubbed against it. Thus Antiphon and Pindar and Sophokles. But Hyperides calls ba/sanoi the things said in interrogation by those who are being tested and written up. And [there is] …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ1109Κατωκάραhead downwards… downwards" amongst Attic [speakers], not separately, but as one [word]. Pindar [writes]: "they have been bound head downwards with chains." Agathias [writes]: "slipping on the declivity and falling headlong into the sea, they were …Matched in translationhighmedium
β144Βασιλεὺς μέγαςGreat King… by force. But [some] use both nouns without distinction. For Pindar calls Hieron a king, although he was a tyrant, and [others do the same with] Dionysios; and Eupolis calls Peisistratos a king. And …Matched in translationhighmedium
α1514Ἄμαχονimpossible, unconquerable[Meaning something] difficult to overcome. Pindar [writes]: "[it is] impossible to conceal one's inherent nature." Aelian [writes]: "they brought back an impossible multitude of fishes and raised up a trophy and erected altars." And …Matched in translationhighmedium
α133Ἀγάλματαdelights, ornaments, statues… the king." And Hesiod calls a necklace an "ornament"; but Pindar uses this term for the decoration on a tomb, and Euripides uses it for the adornments for corpses. Also something in which someone …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ523ΔιαγόραςDiagoras… applied himself to the lyric art, being in time after Pindar and Bacchylides, but older than Melanippides: he flourished in the 78th Olympiad. And he was called Atheos since he held such an opinion, …Matched in translationhighmedium
ει83Εἰκόςprobable… that one who undertakes the deed will suffer harm;" like Pindar's phrase, "doing something also to suffer harm." And Herodotus [writes]: "as I myself think and probability allies itself with me, [Demaratos] was not …Matched in translationhighmedium
α3750Ἀράχνηspider's web… dedicated [...]." The spider is mentioned in Hesiod and in Pindar and in Callias. They also say a)raxnika/ ["spidery things"], from the nominative a)ra/xnhs. Callias in Cyclopes [writes]: "weaving their way just like a …Matched in translationhighmedium
ει45Εἴδωλονlikeness, image, phantom… kind of idols, [they are] a shadow of dreams in Pindar's phrase. "And [the] sons of Ephraim happened to be worshippers of idols."Matched in translationhighmedium
α729ἈθηναίαςAthenaiai, Athenaeae, Athenian women… the daughter of Themistocles was a "foreign Athenaia"; and [likewise?] Pindar in (?)scholia. However, Phrynichus maintains that this word is un-Attic and wonders how Pherekrates, being so very Attic, uses this expression.Matched in translationhighmedium