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Εἰκάκεισαν
they had compared
Pluperfect [formed] out of the [verb] ei)ka/zw.
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ει
62
Εἴκασεν
compared
[Meaning he/she/it] likened.
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63
Εἰκασία
likeness, comparison, conjecture
[Meaning] conjecturing/guesswork.
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ει
64
Εἰκάσμεθα
we have been made like
In Aristophanes, meaning we have been mocked. "For we have been made like this, as Aeschylus says, ..."
high
short
ει
65
Εἰκασμένος
having been likened
[Meaning being] similar.
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ει
66
Εἰκαία
random
[Meaning] slight, by chance. Callimachus [writes]: "slight, from which the grinding-woman rubbed off not a little." That is, of which the miller-woman did not separate or even clean off the husks, i.e. bran. Meaning …
high
short
ει
67
Εἰ καὶ λύκου ἐμνήσθης
if you even mentioned a wolf
This is said in reference to things one might mention which then suddenly appeared.
high
short
ει
68
Εἰ καὶ νῦν ἐγὼ
even if now I myself
"[Even if now I myself] -- because I wish my father, having been freed from these early-rising-blackmailing-litigating-hardgoing ways, to live a gentleman's life like Morychos -- stand accused of doing these things because I …
high
short
ει
69
Εἰκαιοβουλία
random counsel
[Meaning] empty counsel.
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ει
70
Εἰκαιομυθεῖ
speaks at random
[Meaning he/she/it] talks nonsense. Also [sc. attested is the related the noun] ei)kaiomuqi/a ["random speech"]: nonsense.
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short
ει
71
Εἰκαῖον
random, aimless
[Meaning] vain, useless. "The care of the spirit [dai/mwn] in each of us [is] to keep it pure from passion and frivolity and dissatisfaction with what comes [to us] from god and men." And …
high
short
ει
72
Εἰκαιορημονῶ
I talk at random
[Meaning] I speak frivolously.
high
short
ει
73
Εἰκαιορημοσύνη
random speech
[Meaning] empty discourse.
high
short
ει
74
Εἰκαῖος
aimless, rash
[Meaning] vain/frivolous. Also [sc. attested is the related abstract noun] ei)ko/ths ["aimlessness"].
high
short
ει
75
Εἴκελος
like
[Meaning] similar. It is written in two ways.
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ει
76
Εἰκῇ
at random, randomly
[Meaning] purposelessly/vainly. Meaning falsely. "This is one of the things which are believed at random."
high
short
ει
77
Εἰκῇ
at random
[Meaning] in vain/to no purpose. [There is] a proverb: 'don't at random to Abydos'. It leaves out 'sail' or 'journey'. It is said in reference to those taking risks.
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ει
78
Εἰκῆ ῥαψῳδεῖ
sings at random
Meaning he/she/it talks nonsense. "He pretends madness, and says one thing after another randomly and by chance, and no second [word] agreeing with the preceding."
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short
ει
79
Εἰκῇ τῷ Ἡρακλεῖ
at random for Heracles
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those who accomplish deeds in a difficult manner.
high
short
ει
80
Εἰκοβολεῖν
to talk at random, to shoot missiles at random
[Meaning] to conjecture. Or to shoot at random and in vain. "They were preparing light for themselves so as not to fall or to shoot aimlessly". Polybius says [this].
high
short
ει
81
Εἴκομεν
we yield
[Meaning] we give way. Also [sc. attested is the participle] ei)/kontes ["they yielding"] [used] likewise.
high
short
ει
82
Εἰκονίζειν
to represent
[Used] with an accusative; and xarakthri/zein ["to characterize"] is the same. For properly speaking both are taken from the appearance.
high
short
ει
83
Εἰκός
probable
[Meaning something] fitting, or consequent, reasonable. It is also applied to possibility [sc. of something]. "Of those who had overpowered Caesar, he did not pursue any; as it seems to me and as probability …
high
medium
ει
84
Εἴκοσιν
twenty
The number. Also [sc. attested is] 'twenty-oared boat' and 'twenty-fold' 'and twenty-numbered'.
high
short
ει
85
Εἰκότα
probabilities, probable [things]
[Meaning] things guessed. "[Hannibal] reckoning from probabilities what would happen." "For a rumor spread, arising from probable reasonings, that the whole army had perished."
high
short
ει
86
Εἰκότα
probabilities, probable [things]
"They used to form opinions about this in advance on the basis of probabilities."
high
short
ει
87
Εἰκοτολογῆσαι
to infer from probabilities
[Meaning] to speak from guesswork.
high
short
ει
88
Εἰκότος
being like
A participle.
high
short
ει
89
Εἰκότων
probable [things]
[Meaning] similar [ones]. "But he, if anything happened, made false claims to each person who approached, inventing them on the basis of probabilities." That is, [he] told lies. And [there is] a proverb: "at …
high
short
ει
90
Εἰκότως
probably, reasonably
[Meaning] justly, fittingly.
high
short
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