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- α2134Ἀνὰ χθόναthroughout earth[Meaning] on the land.
- α1532Ἀμβολὰς γῆthrown-up earth, raised earth[Meaning earth] which was raised up by a ditch. Xenophon [writes]: "Cyrus used to make towers on the thrown-up earth, so that there might be as many guardposts as possible." Look under "bitten" [dakno/menos], …
- α1135Ἀλεξιάρη γῆdeath-averting earth[Meaning] that which aids men.
- α4099Ἀρχὴν μὲν μὴ φῦναι ἐπιχθονίοισιν ἄριστονFirst, not to be born is best for earth-bound men, and not to look upon the rays of the sharp sun; but, once born, [best] to drive as quickly as possible through Hades' gates[Applied] to those who have lived miserably.
- α4226Ἄστικτον χωρίονunmarked land, unmarked plot[Meaning] that not mortgaged to a lender. For whenever it is mortgaged, the lender shows this very fact in writing set upon the land. The same happens with a house too.
- α4433Αὖλαξfurrow[Meaning] the lengthy cutting in the earth [made] by a plow.
- α1649Ἀμπελώνvineyard[Meaning] vine-bearing earth.
- α2104Ἀνατιναγμόςshaking-upA term associated with violent earth-movements: cf. beta 520, epsilon 656, tau 638.
- α1986ἈναξίμανδροςAnaximandros, Anaximander… discovered an equinox and solstices and hour-indicators, and that the earth is situated in the very middle [of the universe]. He also introduced a sundial and explained the basis of all geometry. He wrote …
- α2500ἈνθεστηριώνAnthesterion… is so called because most things bloom (anthein) from the earth at that time.
- α4557Ἄφαρονunworked[Referring to] rich earth, that which has not yet been extensively plowed. [They say] a)faro/wsi instead of a)rotriw=sin ["they plow"].
- α1648Ἀμπελεώνvineyard[Meaning] vine-growing earth. "And the small vineyard nearby."
- α877Ἀκιδνόνfeeble… attested is the comparative] a)kidno/teros ["more/rather feeble"], likewise. Homer [writes]: "earth fosters nothing more feeble than man."
- α3945Ἀρθροπέδανtie… a beam tie and a mallet that crushes clods of earth."
- α1568Ἀμείδητοςgloomy… if you are ruler of the gloomy dead beneath the earth, Persephone."
- α203Ἄγεσταagesta… is] a military device erected from stones and logs and earth. But some call such a device agesta. See also under egesta.
- α1781Ἀμφιφῶντεςdouble-lights… made when the sun and moon appear early over the earth; alternatively [so called] because they used to carry it with little lit torches bound all around it, as Apollodorus says.
- α2234Ἀνεκάςupwards… Crates in Heroes [writes]: "[bring up] your neck from the earth, looking up at them."
- α1956Ἄναμμαfireball, ignited mass… fresh waters, becoming compounded with air and being near the earth."
- α2996Ἀπεκορύφουanswered briefly… briefly answered them thus: 'If the Athenians give King Darius earth and water, he will make an alliance with them. If they do not give it, he will order them to return'".
- α271Ἀγλωττίαtonguelessness… adjective] tongueless, [meaning] voiceless, speechless. "Now having fallen to the earth, tongueless and voiceless, I lie, refusing emulous ambition."
- α447Ἄδειαimpunity… asked one another: why should they stay there? Why on earth should they endure three walls built up to encroach on their breathing and with the war making war on itself with impunity?"
- α3775Ἀργιλλώδηςclayey, clay-like[Meaning] dirty. Or "clay-like earth" [a)rgilw/dhs gh=], [meaning] white and pure. "Beside the long road this clay vessel holds Democritus' dead cricket which sings with his wings."
- α1018Ἀκροσφαλεῖςprecarious… precarious Huns". For a Hun would not easily tread the earth without horses.
- α2757Ἀντῳδήantode, response… I fall down voiceless and tongueless and lie on the earth, having renounced my zealous mimicry".
- α4536Αὐτόχθονεςfrom their own soil, autochthonous… were the first to work the soil, that is the earth, when it was [still] fallow; or because of their not being immigrants. Arcadians and Aeginetans and Thebans, too, used to be called autochthones. …
- α297Ἀγόνων χοῶν[than] unfruitful drink-offerings… was angered and that she attacked with sterility of the earth as punishment."
- α4368ἌτλαςAtlasHe of whom myth tells that he holds up earth and heaven. "And iron shoulders of Atlas." And a proverb [sc. is attested]: "Atlas the heaven." It omits "you lifted up." In reference to …
- α537Ἀδύνατα εἶναιto be impossibles… which is not capable of being true; such as, the earth flies. 'With the general finding it impossibles to take so great a risk of war.'
- α2146Ἄνδηραborders [for plants or flowers]… "[...] so that he could remove the irregularity of the plot by the construction of the borders and the water-conduits".