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δ
164
Δέδοιμι
I might build
[Meaning] I might house-build. "I wish I might build a house!"
high
short
δ
641
Διαμαρτία
failure
[Meaning] failure to hit the mark/achieve a goal. Also [sc. attested is the related verb] diama/rtoi ["he/she/it might fail"], meaning might fail to hit the mark/achieve a goal. An indication of future.
high
short
δ
642
Διαμαρτάνω
I fail completely, I miss the mark
[Used] with a genitive. "And they seem, at least to me, to miss their goal."
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high
short
δ
645
Διαμάρτῃ
that he would fail; that he would miss the opportunity
[... that he would fail/miss the opportunity], that man. Subjunctive.
high
short
δ
691
Διαπεσούσης
after it had collapsed, if it had collapsed
[Meaning] after/if it had failed. "So it seemed to him safe to make them privy to the action, both if the plan had collapsed and if it had come to fruition." Also [sc. attested …
high
short
δ
692
Διαπέσοιμι
may I collapse, may I fail
i.e. may I fail to achieve my hope. Aristophanes [writes]: "unless I exterminate you, if there is any one of my lies left in me, may I collapse over the place!"
high
short
δ
849
Διαψεύδονται
they are cheated, they are deceived, they are disappointed
[Used] with a genitive. [Meaning] they are deprived, they fail to achieve. "Therefore, on the one hand, they are cheated in [sc. achieving any credit for] noble conduct; on the other hand, they almost …
high
short
δ
935
Διέπεσεν
collapsed, fell through
[He/she/it] failed. “And the hope in Bithias collapsed in this fashion.”
high
short
δ
1029
Διθυραμβοδιδάσκαλοι
dithyramb-directors
[Dithyramb-directors] talk much about things in the sky and about the clouds, and they used to make up compound words and said endiaeriaierinechetous; such a man was Ion of Chios, the poet. He wrote …
high
medium
δ
1030
Διθύραμβος
dithyramb
[Meaning] a hymn to Dionysus. "Apollonius practised a form of discourse not dithyrambic and swollen with poetic expressions."
high
short
δ
1031
Διθυράμβων νοῦν ἔχεις ἐλάττονα
you have less sense than dithyrambs.
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to silly/unintelligible people.
high
short
δ
1077
Δικαιούμενος
being judged, being sentenced
[Meaning someone] being punished. [Someone] encountering justice.
high
short
δ
1488
Δρᾷ
acts
[Meaning he/she/it] does. Or will furnish.
high
short
δ
1489
Δρᾶ
get done!
Meaning "do!" In the imperative. Aristophanes in Birds [writes]: "you now get the other things done yourself!"
high
short
δ
1490
Δράγματα
handfuls of uncut corn, trusses
[Meaning] first-fruits. "Heronax consecrated [sc. to the Satyrs and Bacchus] as the first handfuls of his planting these triple casks from triple vineyards."
high
short
δ
1492
Δράκαυλος
drakaulos; living with a snake
Sophocles in Tympanistae [sc. uses the word]. [sc. It is appropriate] since Athena seems to place the snake among them, [i.e.] the daughters of Cecrops. Because they dwell in the same courtyard, as you …
high
short
δ
1498
Δρᾶμα
act, drama
[Meaning a] thing done, deed. As also to act [means] to do. Drama means also the things done in imitation by theatre-people [= actors] as in playing a speaking part [? = declaiming]. But …
high
short
δ
1499
Δραματουργήσας
having staged a drama, having fabricated
[Meaning he] having put together.
high
short
δ
1500
Δράμῃς
you would run
Aorist subjunctive.
high
short
δ
1501
Δράος
Drava
The [Drava] and Sava rivers, surrounding the second Paeonia, flow into the river Istros [= lower Danube].
high
short
δ
1502
Δραπετεύσας
having run away
[Meaning he] having fled.
high
short
δ
1503
Δραπέτης
runaway (slave)
[Meaning] he who runs away [a)podrw=n] from slavery. He who (?)is gambling [peteu/wn] to act decisively [dra=n, i.e. who is fleeing. [In] drapetes the dra- [is] long.
high
short
δ
1504
Δραπέτης κλῆρος
runaway lot
[Meaning] the one that happened with wicked trickery. This has been told in the history of Cresphontes and the sons of Aristodemus: that Cresphontes wickedly threw a moist lump of earth into the water-pot …
high
medium
δ
1505
Δραπετίνδα
runaway game
A type of children's game.
high
short
δ
1506
Δράπων
Drapon, Drapo
A proper name.
high
short
δ
1507
Δράσας
having acted (decisively)
[Meaning he] having done. Also [sc. attested is the aorist infinitive] dra=sai ["to have acted/to act (once)"].
high
short
δ
1508
Δρασείεις
you wish to do
[Meaning] you have it in mind to do. "O Zeus, what do you wish to do, longingly, to the people?" Aristophanes [says this]. Also [sc. attested is the participle] drasei/ontes, [meaning they] desiring to …
high
short
δ
1509
Δρασμός
running-away
[Meaning] flight.
high
short
δ
1510
Δράσομαι
I will accomplish for myself(?), I will sacrifice for myself(?), I will run away
[Used] with an accusative.
high
short
δ
1511
Δρᾶσον
do! , get it done!
Aristophanes in Birds [writes]: "but do you know what [to] do?" In Attic [dialect]. "Hit the rock with your leg!"
high
short
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