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655
Διαμείνῃς
you were to persist, you would persist
Aorist subjunctive.
Matched in headword
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1277
Διοικίζω
I cause [persons] to live apart
The [verb that means] I separate [them]. Also [sc. attested is the middle/passive] dioiki/zesqai ["to be made to live apart"], [meaning] to be separated. But dioikw= ["I manage"] [is] the [verb that means] I …
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929
Διεξιφίσω
you fought to the death
… meaning that the number of the Greek forces of the
Persian
had been increased; and they were responsible for the freedom of the Greeks -- they alone from all of the Greeks destroying the …
tragedy
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8
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8
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7
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7
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6
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5
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5
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5
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5
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4
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4
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4
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3
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3
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3
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δ
181
Δεκατεύειν
to pay a tithe
… these the Greeks swore that, if they should conquer [the
Persians],
they would campaign [against the collaborators] and impose a tithe to the Pythian on all." "When I was invited to the tenth-day ceremony …
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δ
930
Διεξοδικούς
detailed, discursive, elaborate
… in accordance with circumstances and fortunes and times and the
persons
and the places and such things as are appropriate to the particular circumstances: for political debates, panegyrics, and judicial trials concern such things. …
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medium
δ
1573
Δύναμις
capability, capacity, ability, potentiality, power
Suppose someone should represent the ability of one of the
persons
to be avoided, as if in defining a thief or a sophist or a slanderer he would say that the slanderer is someone …
Matched in translation
high
long
δ
89
Δᾶτις
Datis
A
Persian,
who made it his business to speak Greek [sc. but did so badly]. They say he used xai/romai, instead of saying xai/rw. And that [sort of thing] is "Datism". Datis: "this man …
Matched in translation
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medium
δ
417
Δημάρατος
Demaratos, Demaratus
… child is not mine". And having been driven out into
Persia
he returned and, when Darius died, cooperated in the monachy with Xerxes and
persuaded
him to march against Greece.
Matched in translation
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medium
δ
627
Διαλεκτική
dialectic
… by the politicians, about appropriate sketching [of] characters from adopted
perspectives,
and about a style of speaking. Dialectic is a skill of words, through which we refute and construct arguments by questioning and answering …
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medium
δ
74
Δαρεῖος
Dareios, Darius
… Macedonians having embarked on war against Dareios King of the
Persians
overcame him by force of arms. And [Dareios] proposed that he come to a reconciliation and give his daughter Rhoxane to him in …
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δ
442
Δημοκήδης
Demokedes, Democedes
… two gold talents; and he was summoned by Dareios the
Persian
and stayed with him for a considerable time. He wrote a medical book. When Dareios the king was out hunting he twisted his …
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long
δ
559
Διαθέσεις
dispositions
… as heat and cold and sickness and health. For a
person
is disposed according to it in some way, but quickly changes from hot to cold and from being healthy to being ill, unless …
Matched in translation
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medium
δ
1019
Διήρκεσε
endured, sufficed
[Meaning he/she/it]
persisted,
remained. "The injunctions, which he had enjoined upon the kings, and the orders [sc. given] to the Celts sufficed to such a degree towards putting right the wrongs that they gave …
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short
δ
1109
Δικροῖς
bifurcated, forked, two-pronged
… in their public speeches, with loud vociferation, the orators were
persuading
[the people] not to make peace.
Matched in translation
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short
δ
6
Δᾳδουχεῖ
bears a torch, is a torch-bearer
… Likewise or similarly in other lexica. The headword -- third
person
singular, present indicative active, of this verb -- must be quoted from somewhere. (Extant possibilities are all late.) [2] On the daduch in …
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medium
δ
1170
Διονύσιος ὁ Ἀρεωπαγίτης
Dionysios the Areiopagite, Dionysius the Areopagite
… a woman called Damaris and others. Further evidence about his
person
is wanting. Down the ages a great number of theological writings were attributed to a "Dionysius of Athens", generally identified with the Areopagite. …
Matched in notes
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long
δ
1250
Διώρθου
was putting to rights
… of history). [2] Untrue: this is the imperfect, the third
person
singular, of diorqo/w (cf. delta 1196). A drastic intervention to delete this secondary gloss (in the margin of ms.I) u(persunteliko\s or any attempt …
Matched in notes
high
short
δ
447
Δημόκριτος
Democritus, Demokritos
… he was] also [a pupil of] Magi and of Chaldaeans,
Persians;
for he went to [visit]
Persians
and Indians and Egyptians and was educated in the wisdom of each. Then he returned and joined …
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δ
1424
Δοῦλοι
slaves
… type of] slavery, the one [consisting of] subjection [to another
person],
and a third one [consisting of] both possession [by another] and subjection [to another
person].
Its opposite is despotism [or mastery], and this …
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medium
δ
1156
Διοκλητιανός
Diocletian
… his reign and that of his in-law Maximian a horrific
persecution
against the Christians occurred. For they gave the order by territory and city that the churches of Christ be destroyed and their sacred …
Matched in translation
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medium
δ
458
Δημοσιεύων
being a public [doctor]
… manuscripts on which the Suda is based) is e)speisa/mhn, first
person
singular of the middle voice, instead of e)spei/samen, first
person
plural of the active. This is significant because, in addition to the change …
Matched in notes
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short
δ
1402
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 …
Matched in notes
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short
δ
68
Δάρας
Daras
… assembles an army to meet a surprise invasion by the
Persian
king Kavad (cf. kappa 1 and PLRE II s.v. Cavades(1)) into Kommagene (cf. kappa 1982) in 531 CE. The earlier Battle of Dara …
Matched in notes
high
short
δ
137
Δέδασται
has been distributed, have been distributed
… the scholia to Homer, Iliad 1.125, where this form (third
person
singular) occurs; cf. tau 1039. [2] cf. the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 1.23, where this form (an archaic third
person
plural) occurs.
Matched in notes
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short
δ
148
Δέδιθι
fear you
… or similarly in other lexica. The headword is the second
person
singular imperative of de/dia (probably quoted from Aristophanes, Wasps 373) and the gloss is the second
person
singular aorist imperative of fobou=mai. cf. …
Matched in notes
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short
δ
165
Δέδυκα
I have gotten into
… Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. The headword is perfect, first
person
singular, of du/w; very rare. Perhaps quoted from Menander (fr. 702 Koerte, now 476 Kassel-Austin), but only if Cobet's emendation (from the transmitted …
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δ
258
Δερκυλλίδας
Derkyllidas, Dercyllidas, Derkylidas, Dercylidas
… or governor, but was disgraced in some argument with the
Persian
satrap Pharnabazos in 407/6 (Xen. Hell. 3.1.9). From 399 to 397 he commanded the Spartan army (composed of freed helots, allied Peloponnesians, and …
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δ
894
Διέγνωκα
I have determined
… entry in other lexica. The headword (perfect indicative active, first
person
singular, of the verb diagignw/skw) must be quoted from somewhere. The gloss is perfect indicative active, first
person
singular, of the verb kri/nw. …
Matched in notes
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short
δ
947
Διερικνοῦντο
they were thoroughly twisting themselves
Same or similar entry in other lexica. The headword is the third-person plural, imperfect indicative, of the verb diarrikno/omai. LSJ (citing Cratinus fr. 219 Kock, now 234 K.-A.) translate as "draw up and twist …
Matched in notes
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short
δ
1108
Δίκροτα
dikrota, two-banked
… so that etc." [3] The Suda has kateskeua/santo, i.e. third
person
plural aorist, instead of Dio's third
person
singular pluperfect kateskeu/asto; and the subsequent h)/skhto has been modified into a plural, h)/skhnto. One might …
Matched in notes
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