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μ724Μεταπήδαhop about, leap about, spring about[Meaning] go across, change place. Aristophanes [writes]: "but swift/swiftly, when you fall into a cul-de-sac, hop/leap/spring to another thought of mind." ['Cul-de-sac' means a situation] where no way forward can be found. He is …Matched in headwordhighmedium
μ538ΜέλλωI am about [to do], I put off [doing]… Sophocles [writes]: "for always putting off doing something I have destroyed my present and absent hopes." And Aristophanes [writes]: "I beg you not, except when I am about to vomit." That is, if you …Matched in headwordhighmedium
α344Ἀγραφίου δίκηdike agraphiou, lawsuit about erasure… result of a conviction, those in charge at the time about these matters write the debtors' names on notice-boards, appending how much the debt is [sc. in each case]. Whenever each one pays, the …Matched in headwordhighmedium
ε3006Ἐρριπτασμένονtossed about, prostrated again and again[Meaning] exhausted by exercise, found. So that I, full of anxiety, toss and turn; for that is the way the anxious are. But it is better to think of it as a metaphor from …Matched in headwordhighmedium
μ681Μεταβολήchange; about-turn… being corrupted, on the contrary, [changes from form into matter]. 'About-turn' is the double turn [klisis] in the same direction, changing what the hoplites are looking at rearwards; alternatively two versions, the one [turning] …Matched in headwordhighmedium