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Αἰγαίωρος
Aigaioros, Aegeorus
A proper name.
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Αἰγεῖδαι
Aigeids, Aegeids, Aigeidai, Aegeidae
Demosthenes in the Funeral Speech -- if it is really by him -- [mentions them]. There is a tribe Aigeis [sc. in Athens named] from Aigeus the son of Pandion, and its tribesmen [are] …
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Αἰγεῖον
Aigeion, Aegeum
[Meaning] the oracle of Aigeus. Dinarchus in the [speech] Against Polyeuktos [mentions it]. [The] Aigeion is a hero-shrine of Aigeus in Athens.
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Αἰγηΐς
Aigeis, Aegeis
The tribe of Aigeus.
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Αἰγιλία
Aigilia, Aegilia
A deme of [sc. the Athenian tribe] Antiochis, of which the demesman [is an] Aigialeus. [sc. Or?] Aigilieus.
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Αἰγίλιψ
Aigilips, Aegilips
Name of a city. It also means a lofty rock. Homer [writes]: "which pours water down an aigilips rock". So that even the goats [aiges] come to leave it because of the height. There …
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Αἴγινα
Aigina, Aegina
A city. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'Aiginaian ship'. Also [sc. attested is] 'Aiginetan', the man from Aigina [Myth, Place].
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Αἰδέσασθαι
to be ashamed, to be reconciled
Meaning to be persuaded to change. So Lysias and Demosthenes [sc.use the word]. But in the [speech] Against Aristokrates [Demosthenes uses it] to mean to atone and to persuade.
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Αἰθαλείδης
Aithalidian, Aethalidian
Aithaleidai is a deme of the Leontid tribe [sc. in Athens], and its tribesman [is an] Aithaleides.
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Αἰθιόπιον
Aithiopion, Aethiopium, Ethiopium
It is a place in Euboia.
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Αἰκίας
assault, battery
It is a kind of private lawsuit [sc. in classical Athens] which could be brought as the result of [suffering] blows. Its punishment was not defined in the laws; rather, the plaintiff specified in …
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Αἰλία
Ailia, Aelia
Name of a city. Jerusalem.
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Αἱμόνιος
Haimonios, Haemonius
A Roman; wounded during the war of the Persians against the Athenians he [nevertheless] ran to Athens, went in to [see] the prytaneis, and said to them 'Rejoice, we are rejoicing'; he then fell …
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215
Αἰνείας
Aineias, Aeneas
This man wrote about fire-signals, as Polybios says, and a handbook about stratagems.
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Αἶνος
Ainos, Aenus
It is a city of Thrace, which Greeks first inhabited with Alopekonnesians, who afterwards brought in additional settlers from Mytilene and Kyme. And out of this [comes] Ainites, the citizen [of Ainos].
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Αἰξωνεύεσθαι
to be an Aixonian, to play the Aixonian
The [verb that means] to make slanderous accusations. A metaphor from the deme of the Aixoneis; for they are ridiculed in comedy [as] slanderers.
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Αἰξωνηίς
Aixonian
It is a deme of the [sc. Athenian] tribe Kekropis. They used to be ridiculed in comedy as slanderers. Hence they used to call speaking ill [of someone] "playing the Aixonian".
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Αἰξωνίδα τρίγλην
Aixonian mullet
These seem to be very excellent and to differ from the others in this respect.
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Αἴσηπος
Aisepos, Aesepus
Name of a river.
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Αἰσχίνης
Aischines, Aeschines
Son of Charinos, a sausage-maker. [He was] a Socratic philosopher. Some, though, say that he was the son of Lysanias. [He was] an Athenian, of [the deme] Sphettos. His dialogues [are entitled] Miltiades, Kallias, …
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Αἰσχύνομαι ταῖς προτέραις ἁμαρτίαις
I am ashamed of my former faults
[no gloss]
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Αἰτναῖον πῦρ
Etnaean fire
[Meaning] the Sicilian fire, [coming] our of the mountain called Etna. Also [sc. attested is the participle] 'Etna-izing'.
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Αἴτνη
Aitne, Aetna, Etna
A mountain of Sicily.
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Αἰτναῖος κάνθαρος
Etnaean dung-beetle
[Meaning] the big [kind]. [So called] because the mountain too [is] big. They say that Aristaios was the only Giant to survive; the fire of heaven did not reach him, nor did Etna harm …
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Αἰτωλία
Aitolia, Aetolia
A region [of that name].
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Αἰτώλιος
Aitolian, Aetolian; owl
[no gloss]
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381
Αἰτωλός
Aitolian, Aetolian
[Meaning] someone from Aitolia/Aetolia.
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382
Αἱ Οἰδίποδος ἀραί
the curses of Oedipus
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those experiencing major misfortunes.
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Αἰφηρητιάδης
Aipheretiades
A patronymic.
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