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Ἕλκει μοιχὸς εἰς μοιχόν
a seducer drags into a seducer
A proverb.
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1015
Ἔμπηρα
deformed
[Meaning those who are] disfigured. "The women bore deformed and monstrous [children]. Then the [men] put aside their forgetfulness of the things which they had ventured and went to Delphi."
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1016
Ἔμπης
nevertheless
Ionic. But e)/mpas and e)/mpa [are] Attic. Sophocles [writes]: "the wretched man [I pity] nevertheless, despite his being hostile [toward me]."
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1017
Ἐμπίπλασθαι
to be stuffed
[Meaning] to be glutted, the [act of] throwing one's health away.
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1018
Ἐμπίπραται
is kindled
[Meaning he/she/it] is set on fire.
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1020
Ἐμπίς
gnat
[Meaning a creature] something like a mosquito. A tiny animal which is born around water, like a mosquito. It is bigger in size and has a white ring around its middle. Aristophanes [writes]: "you …
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1021
Ἐμπλασσόμενοι
striking out at
[Meaning they] attacking, clashing with. Aelian [writes]: "striking out at their friends and servants they were killing them as [if they were] enemies."
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1022
Ἐμπλασσόμενοι
hitting
[Meaning they] colliding with, coming near. "The Carthaginians were dying, hitting each other and falling to the wild beasts."
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1023
Ἐμπλατειάσασα
hand-slapping(?)
[Meaning she who is] pampered.
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ε
1024
Ἔμπλεως
stuffed
[Meaning] full, filled.
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ε
1348
Ἔννιος
Ennius, Ennios
A Roman poet, whom Aelian says is worthy to be commended. For he sang of Scipio and he wanted to elevate the man to greatness and said that only Homer could sing praises worthy …
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1421
Ἐν παντὶ μύθῳ καὶ τὸ Δαιδάλου μύσος
in every myth (there is) also the defilement of Daedalus
They say that Pasiphae was in love with a bull and begged Daedalus to make a wooden cow and rig it up and put her in it; and mounting her like a cow the …
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1834
Ἐξώλης
annihilated
In the nominative case; also [sc. attested are] prow/lhs and panw/lhs, [meaning someone who is] destroyed, depraved. Also [sc. attested is] e)cw/leia, [meaning] complete destruction. "Cursing annihilation upon his father." And elsewhere: "so that …
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3037
Ἑρμῆν
Hermes
This is what they call a son of Zeus and Maia, i.e. of mind and sense. For reason is engendered from mind and sense. On account of this they also make him winged, because …
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3070
Ἔρως
love
"That no love [is] seemly [asteios]: this proposition is asserted universally. But it is refuted [by saying] that not every love is base. For we divide love [into different kinds]: as the intense longing …
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3265
Ἑταίρα
courtesan, companion, hetaira
[Meaning] girlfriend, prostitute. "Scipio drove out from the encampment courtesans and sacrificers and seers, whom the soldiers, having become frightened on account of the bad turn of events, were resorting to."
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3266
Ἑταῖραι Κορίνθιαι
Corinthian courtesans
Lais, Cyrene, Leaina, Sinope, Pyrrhine, Scione, Thracian Rhodopis, the fellow-slave of Aesop the story-teller, who after being freed stayed in Egypt [sc. were all courtesans]. Aristophanes says in Wealth: "and they say that the …
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