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Δαξισμός
irritation
The headword noun, nominative case, purports to be generated by its genitive in the quotation given -- but see next note [1] A faulty approximation of a dream-scenario in Artemidorus 5.69: read nominative i(pta/menos …
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Δάσασθαι
to divide out, distribute
[1] The headword is aorist infinitive of date/omai. Same or similar glossing in other lexica, and cf. also the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 3.66 (where dassa/menoi occurs). [2] Herodotus 7.121.2, with the aorist participle …
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Διδαξάμενος
having [someone] taught
Same entry in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon, compiled at some time between the first and the fourth centuries CE. Similar one, later, in Photius, Lexicon delta520, though the glossing there is corrupted into tele/sas ti …
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Διώνυμον
well-known
The headword is either masculine accusative singular or neuter nominative/accusative singular of the adjective diw/numos, for which see also delta 1244. There, as also here, the adjective is used in the second of the …
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1640
Δυσθετήσας
dissatisfied
The headword (presumably extracted from the first quotation given) is the aorist active participle, masculine nominative singular, of dusqete/w. In fact this verb occurs almost exclusively in participle forms in all periods (mainly in …
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1375
Δοξούμενοι
(they) credited with being, (they) having the character
In ms M only, Adler reports. The unglossed headword is apparently the present participle, masculine nominative plural, of the verb doco/omai (found only in the passive in classical writers: see LSJ s.v. at web …
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Δαυίδ
David
Source (after the opening gloss): George the Monk, Chronicon 1.176.10-13, 178.4-11, 179.5-25. Some repetition at omicron 974, and cf. sigma 1035. For David see also delta 95, delta 96. [1] Judaism, as in the …
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1093
Δίκης
of justice
The headword is the genitive singular of the noun di/kh (delta 1089, delta 1090, etc.), evidently quoted from somewhere, although not from either of the quotations given; perhaps from commentary to Aristophanes, Clouds 764 …
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Δαϊκταμένοις
to the war-dead, for the war-dead
Likewise in ps.-Zonaras. LSJ registers the word dai+kta/menos, -h, -on -- originally two words: dai+/ + kta/menos -- in Homer, Iliad 21.146 & 301. In both contexts it is genitive plural (part of the …
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1126
Διμοιρίτης
double-pay soldier, half-file commander
[1] See LSJ entry at web address 1. The explanation "half-file commander" offered by the military glossary of ms. Coislin. 347 (whose entries have been picked up from Aelian the Tactician, C2 AD) has …
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1607
Δυσδιόρθωτος
hard to be set right
Similarly, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (1142). The same entry is to be found in Hesychius delta2550, but with different glossing: dusxerw=s diwrqou/menos, mh\ diwrqou/menos. While the headword has its origin during …
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Δαιδάλου ποιήματα
Daidalos' creations, Daedalus' creations
The phrase "Daidalou poiemata" occurs in Plato,
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Δεξάμενος
receiving
Similar entry in Photius. The headword is aorist participle, masculine nominative singular, of de/xomai. cf. Hesychius s.v. de/casqai, glossed with labei=n. [1] Adler's note is 'cf. 3.54.2 et 9.5.1', which have plural deca/menoi and …
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Δέομος
constraint
Same entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. The form de/omos is otherwise unattested, but Hesychius has entries for de/hmos (delta422) and, apparently, deo/menos (delta651) with the same glossing. (LSJ prints the latter.)
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Δέρας
skin
Incompetently adapted from John of Antioch fr.15.3 FHG (5.548), now 26.3 Roberto; the original has 'Jason and his associates' (justifying the plural participle parageno/menoi which is retained here) and has them taking Medea and …
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444
Δημοκοπεῖν
to court the mob
[1] Polybius 25.3.1, omitting the adverb "immediately." See again kappa 566 and pi 1370, which include it; also epsilon 840. (For this verb in Polybius in another sense -- to play the noble Greek …
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Δημοῦσθαι
to talk popularly
Same entry in other lexica, including Photius, who cites Plato for this sense of the verb (= Theaetetus 161E, which has the participle dhmou/menon; cf. the scholia there). [1] See delta 444. [2] This …
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Διεσπλεκωμένῃ
her who has been fucked
The headword is the perfect middle participle, in the feminine dative singular, of the verb diaspleko/w; cf. also spleko/w in Aristophanes, Lysistrata 152 (pi 1722). It can also be written pl- or spekl-; cf. …
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1108
Δίκροτα
dikrota, two-banked
The headword is neuter plural of the adjective di/krotos, the primary meaning of which is "double-beating". It is employed with reference to the human pulse in all of Galen's treatises on this matter, and …
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Διοπομπεῖσθαι
to escort [evil] away
The headword is the present infinitive of the compound verb diopompe/omai. Lexicographers are the only extant source for forms of the un-compounded diopompe/omai, since the verb normally appears as a)podiopompe/omai (alpha 3297; LSJ entry …
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1228
Διώκειν
to prosecute
For this sense of the verb diw/kw see also delta 1229 (LSJ entry at web address 1). The present entry is prompted by Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 452 (web address 2). Chremes is reporting to Blepyrus …
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1230
Διῳκίσατο
dispersed, scattered
For this verb see also delta 1231; LSJ entry at web address 1. [1] See e.g. Isocrates 5.45 d. ta\s po/leis, "breaking cities up into villages"; Demosthenes 19.81 diwkisme/noi kata\ kw/mas, "dispersed into villages"; …
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1340
Δολιχόσκιον
long-shadowing
The headword, neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective, occurs 26 times in Homer, as a formulaic epithet for a spear: 'casting a long shadow'. (For the 'long' part of the compound cf. delta 1336, …
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Δορυφορεῖ
attends (as a bodyguard)
The headword is present indicative active, third person singular, of the verb dorufore/w, literally 'carry a spear' or 'be a spear-carrier'. (For the noun cognate with this verb see delta 1403.) It must be …
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Δυσανασχετοῦσι
they are displeased
The headword and the glosses are third person plurals; first gloss in future indicative; headword and second gloss in present indicative. The headword must be quoted from somewhere: there are several possibilities, chiefly in …
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1603
Δυσγάργαλις
skittish, ticklish
The headword is a rare adjective, which in a concrete sense is used of horses. See e.g. Xenophon, On Horsemanship 3.10, and Aelius Dionysius *peri\ o)no/mata omicron27, quoting Aristophanes fr. 43 Kock = 44 …
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