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Ἀβελτεροκόκκυξ
silly cuckoo
The vacuous and silly man.
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Ἀβέλτερος
thoughtless
[Meaning] mindless, stupid. For the intelligent man [is] be/lteros ["thoughtful, superior"]. "No, by Zeus, not the greedy and thoughtless fellow, but the mindless and conceitedly slow-witted." Menander in Perinthia [writes]: "any servant who takes …
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Ἀβελτερώτατοι
most thoughtless, very thoughtless
Aristophanes [writes]: "before this most/very thoughtless men used to sit gaping -- Dolts, Half-wits".
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Ἀβέρβηλος
unsteady
[Meaning someone or something] unstable. There is also a word a)bu/rbhlon, [meaning something] shameless, hateful.
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Ἀβεσαλώμ
Abesalom, Absalom
Proper name. [The man] who rose up against his own father David and was destroyed by him in the war.
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Ἀβειρών
Abeiron
Proper name.
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Ἀβηρωθαῖος
Aberothaios, Aberothaeus
Proper name.
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Ἀβής
stupid
[Meaning someone or something] unintelligent.
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Ἀβιά
Abia, Abijah
Proper name.
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Ἀβιαδηνός
Abiadenian
From the city Abiadene.
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Ἀβιάθαρ
Abiathar
Proper name.
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Ἀβίας
Abijah, Abias
Son of Rehoboam the son of Solomon. He fought against Jeroboam, Solomon's slave, and in one day killed 1500 powerful men.
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Ἀβίγας
Abigas
A river.
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Ἀβιέζερ
Abiezer
Proper name.
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Ἀβιμέλεχ
Abimelech
Proper name. The son of Gideon. He smote his brothers, seventy sons of Gideon's wives, upon a single stone, and none of them was left except Jotham the youngest son, who ran away. As …
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Ἄβιννα
Abinna, Abila
Name of a city.
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Ἄβιος
full-lived
Antiphon has a)/bion for one who has acquired a good living. Similarly Homer has a)/culon for "full of timber."
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Ἀβιούδ
Abioud, Abihud
Proper name.
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Ἀβίωτον
unlivable
[Meaning something] bad [and] annoying, painful. "He found it an unlivable situation if he could not control the city". Also [sc. attested is the masculine] a)bi/wtos, he who is not alive.
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Ἀβίωτος
unlivable
*polubi/wtos ['full of life'], makrobi/wtos ['long-lived'], biwtiko/s ['alive'] [have omega]; except for bi/otos ['life'], bioth/ ['life'], and the verb bioteu/w ['I live'].
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Ἀβισάκ
Abisak, Abishag
Proper name.
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Ἀβίσαρος
Abisaros, Abisareis
Name of a place.
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Ἄβιτος
Abitos, Abitus
Proper name. "Abitos built himself an ascetic's cell."
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Ἀβλεμέως
fecklessly, heedlessly
[Meaning] thoughtlessly.
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Ἀβλεπτήματι
by an oversight
[Meaning] by a mistake. "He bore the oversights of ordinary folk patiently, but those of more intellectual people grieved him." Also [sc. attested is the participle] a)bleptou=ntes. "Those committing oversights and ashamed to face …
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Ἄβληρος
Ableros, Ablerus
Proper name.
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Ἀβλῆτα
unshot, unthrown
[Referring to] projectiles, ones that have not been dispatched with a view to wounding. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'unshot arrow': the one badly shot or the one not yet shot. Declines a)blh\s, …
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Ἀβληχρήν
feeble
[Meaning] weak. For what is strong [is] blhxro/n. Aelian [writes]: "so she brought her life to an end gently and with a calm and feeble death, such as even Homer seems to me to …
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Ἀβολήτωρ
meeter
Or a)/bolos ["un-shedder"], a donkey that has not yet shed its teeth, from which the animal's age is known. Similarly, a young animal that does not yet have its indicators. An 'indicator' is what …
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Ἀβουλεί
inconsiderately, unintentionally
[Meaning] without consideration, mindlessly, ignorantly. "Though he certainly had not guessed the king's opinion, he accomplished it quite unintentionally."
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