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Δάλδις
Daldis
A city of Lydia.
high
short
δ
31
Δαλίον
dalion
The comic poets [render it] thus, with a lambda. "Come now, I will [take and] dip this torch." For by dipping, it seems, they used to purify the fire. But others write da|di/on. [sc. …
high
short
δ
33
Δαμάγητος
Damagetos, Damagetus
A proper name. The Herakleote.
high
poetry
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δ
38
Δαμασκηνός
Damascene
[Meaning someone] from a place [sc. called Damascus].
high
short
δ
50
Δαμόξενος
Damoxenos, Damoxenus
An Athenian, a comic poet. One of his plays is Foster-Brothers, as Athenaeus says in [book] 3 of Deipnosophists; and [another is] Being One's Own Mourner, as the same [writer says] later, in his …
high
short
δ
54
Δάμων
Damon, Damo
A proper name.
high
short
δ
63
Δάοχος
Daochos, Daochus
This man is one of those who betrayed [control of] the affairs of [the] Thessalians to Philip.
high
short
δ
68
Δάρας
Daras
Procopius [writes]: "the Romans' cavalry were leaders of the cavalry which had previously withstood the battle at Daras".
high
short
δ
80
Δασμολογία
dasmos-collection, tribute-collection
[Meaning] phoros-collection. Also [sc. attested are] dasmos-collectors, [meaning] phoros-collectors.
high
short
δ
81
Δασμολογῶ
I collect dasmos, I collect tribute
[Used] with an accusative. [Meaning] I amass [it]. "Plato made exempt from tribute [fo/ros] those who came to study with him, but you collect tribute [dasmo/s] and take it from those willing to give …
high
short
δ
88
Δατεῖσθαι
to distribute
['To distribute'] and 'distributors'. To distribute [datei=sqai] [means] dividing, whereas 'distributors' [dathtai/] [are] the dividers. The [phrase] "into a choice of dividers" is a kind of lawsuit. For whenever people were sharing [something] with …
high
medium
δ
91
Δατός
Datos, Datus, Daton, Datum
Name of a city. Also [sc. attested is the proverbial phrase] "Datos of good things", where [there were] even gold mines.
high
short
δ
92
Δάτος
Datos, Datus, Daton, Datum
A city of Thrace, exceptionally well-favored. From it comes the proverb: "Datos of good things". This city and the adjacent territory have names in both feminine and masculine.
high
short
δ
110
Δαιδάλου ποιήματα
Daidalos' creations, Daedalus' creations
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those pursuing skills with exactitude. [It arose] because the old craftsmen used to make the eyes closed, but Daidalos opened them, and spread the feet. And Homer …
high
short
δ
133
Δέ
but
Meaning 'for'. "But he receives fees." Aristophanes in Birds is speaking about Apollo.
high
short
δ
134
Δεβελτός
Debeltos, Debeltus
A Thracian city.
high
short
δ
158
Δεδοξοποιημένον
with a reputation for judgment
[Meaning someone] adorned with judgment. Polybius [writes]: "for whereas other creatures are the slaves of their bodily desires, [...] the human race, despite the expectations placed on it, goes astray no less through thoughtlessness …
high
short
δ
170
Δεήσεις
needs
Meaning lacks. Antiphon in the first [book] of Truth [sc. uses the word].
high
short
δ
171
Δέκα
ten
['Ten'] and 'tenth-man'. "[sc. The] ten were in office, the ones set up after the Thirty"; however, each of these officials was called a tenth-man, as Lysias shows.
high
short
δ
172
Δεκαδαρχίαι
tenfold-regimes
Historians consistently give the name "tenfold-regimes" to the [regimes] set up in the cities by Spartans. And Philip, however, set up a tenfold-regime amongst [the] Thessalians, as Demosthenes [shows] in the sixth of [the] …
high
short
δ
173
Δεκάζεσθαι
to bribe by tens
[A term] coined from the practice of corrupting with bribes in groups of ten [kata\ deka/da]. For when certain people wanted to acquire an official position or to influence anything else, they gave things …
high
medium
δ
174
Δεκάζεσθαι
to be bribed in tens
[Meaning] to take bribes. Also [sc. attested in the active voice] 'to bribe in tens' [deka/zein]: to corrupt with money or gifts. Aelian [writes]: "he corrupted many of the nomads, having bribed them in …
high
medium
δ
175
Δεκαμναιαῖον
ten-mina, ten-mna
[Meaning] of ten m[i]nai. "Scopas, general of the Aitolians, unsuccessful in his military campaign, wrote laws. And the king gave him a ten-m[i]na daily allowance for food, with those appointed under someone's command getting …
high
short
δ
182
Δεκατεύειν
to tithe
Meaning to exact a tithe and to plunder. Property taken from enemies used to be tithed to the gods; hence, technically speaking, tithing is consecration, but as a metaphor a "tithe" [can be] anything …
high
short
δ
183
Δεκατευτάς
tithe-men
[Meaning] tax-men, [the ones] exacting and collecting the tithe. So Antiphon [sc. uses the word]. Also [sc. attested is] dekatelogoi, [meaning] the same [men]. They say dekatelogos in the feminine also.
high
short
δ
184
Δεκατευτήριον
tithe-station, customs-house
[Meaning] the ferry-crossing at Abydos. "...that he will immediately ravage Abydos and the customs-house there".
high
short
δ
185
Δεκατηλόγους
tithe-collectors
[Meaning] those exacting the tithe. The same thing, then, as the tithe-men.
high
short
δ
186
Δεκάτην ἑστιάσαι
to feast the tenth
When children had been born to the citizens of Athens, it was customary on the 10th night after the birth to call together the paternal and maternal relatives and the closest friends, and when …
high
medium
δ
187
Δεκασμός
being bribed by tens
[Meaning sc. the act of] taking bribes.
high
short
δ
190
Δεκέλεια
Dekeleia, Decelea
A place [of that name].
high
short
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