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α2248Ἀνελεῖνto overturn; to take up… or indeed broken it, [the council] passed a vote about itself, [to the effect] that it should be crowned. But the [version] with dative [sc. must be understood differently]: having overturned this law, [the …Matched in translationhighmedium
α3477Ἀπόπειραtrial… fire. Unless it satisfies the test, through which the thing itself is a test, this eagerness only pretends to exist and lies in wait for flighty youthful whims. Me at any rate it hindered, …Matched in translationhighmedium
β440Βουλιμιᾶνto be starving… Xenophon says "to be starving" when the stomach is eating itself with hunger. "Going to the yoke beasts, if he ever saw some food he gave it to those who were starving." "And when …Matched in translationhighmedium
α2245Ἀνελέγετοused to read through… which he said everything was wasted by time, but time itself was everlasting and undying because of memory." It is written: and a certain song was sung [by him] on memory.Matched in translationhighmedium
α2130ἈνάχαρσιςAnacharsis… He wrote Customs of the Scythians in verses, Concerning the simplicity of those things pertaining to human life, all in eight hundred verses. He discovered the anchor and the potter's wheel. He lived in …Matched in translationhighmedium
α2533Ἄνθρωποςman… body in life of the animal, it becomes better than itself, and it becomes prophetic in sleeps, by dreams, and in delirium during illnesses, much more is it improved when it is completely separated …Matched in translationhighmedium
α2751Ἀντλίαbilge, bilge-water… ship]. "So I will seize and take away the bilge[-water] itself". From a metaphor of ships. For antlia is also said to be the efflux of a ship. And the Pisidian [writes]: "from those …Matched in translationhighmedium
α4289ἈσσύριοιAssyrians… time of the successors of Alexander, it was weakened in itself, [...] being conquered by the Romans. For the Greek forces were not worthy to be compared with them. For the Athenians ruled only …Matched in translationhighmedium
α1751ἈμφίωνAmphion… man discovered not only the scales but also the lyre itself with them, either by using a rather marvellous intelligence or some divine gift, through an unassisted success? And most of the ancients, especially …Matched in translationhighmedium
α2733Ἀντιτυπῆσαιto resist, to strike against… from tangible things,' says Aristotle. Because even though it concerns itself with a particular kind of tangible thing, yet one sort which is not visible falls under the category of touch; through this [touch] …Matched in translationhighmedium
α3816Ἀραῖοςaccursed… address 2). [3] cf. alpha 3814, alpha 3836. (The headword itself is properispomenon: a)rai=os.) [4] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 24 Habrich.Matched in noteshighmedium
κ2147Κόσμοςcosmos, kosmos; order, ornament, decorum, universe… of nature, that each natural thing beget another such as itself. And since we require engendering, but genetic ability occurs in limited power, on account of this we require increase. Since increase occurs because …Matched in translationhighmedium
α2101Ἀνατεινάμενοςhaving held out as a threat… Similarly in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon and in Photius. The phrase itself must be quoted from somewhere but is unidentifiable.Matched in noteshighmedium
α4544Αὐχμεῖς αἰσχρῶςyou are shamefully dirty… transmitted as the particle me/n, and omitted from the quotation itself.) [4] Here in the genitive case, evidently quoted from somewhere. [5] Again this must be a quotation.Matched in noteshighmedium
γ98ΓεδεώνGideon… Antiquities 5.210 & 215-217 (web address 1 below). Josephus' account itself summarizes Judges 7.1-8 LXX. Ending the story where he does, the lexicographer misses the crucial point which emerges both in the Septuagint and …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε1421Ἐν παντὶ μύθῳ καὶ τὸ Δαιδάλου μύσοςin every myth (there is) also the defilement of Daedalus… and other paroemiographers. (There is wordplay, mythos/mysos, in the proverb itself which gets lost in translation.) For Daedalus (Daidalos) cf. generally delta 106, delta 107, delta 108, delta 109, delta 110; for Pasiphae and …Matched in noteshighmedium
α2670ἈντικείμεναoppositesAlexander of Aphrodisias, Commentary on Aristotle's Topica 190.27-191.7. The headword itself is a present middle participle in the neuter plural. [1] Alexander has kalo\n "good": if the good is sweet, it follows that what …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3070Ἔρωςlove… vehement is unclear, then again we will bring the thing itself into argument." "They say that love is the attempt at doing good on account of an internally manifest beauty and not an [attempt] …Matched in translationhighmedium
α2719Ἀντιποιηθένταhaving been contentious… the second; cf. generally LSJ s.v. a)ntipoie/w, II.) The headword itself is in fact extracted from the Synesius quotation given; when giving it, the Suda wrongly converts the participle from singular to plural (and …Matched in noteshighmedium
α470ἈδιαβηνήAdiabene… [1] The two Zab rivers as well as the Tigris itself. [2] nu 415. [3] For the same name applied to a different place see alpha 2849.Matched in noteshighmedium