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635
Καταλύειν τὸν δῆμον
to undermine the people
Meaning to harm [them].
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1165
Κεκίλιος
Caecilius
… numerous: Against the Phrygians, 2 books (it is alphabetically arranged);
Demonstration
that Every Word of Elegant Language has been Spoken (it is a selection of words, alphabetically arranged); Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero; How …
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2776
Κῦρος
Kuros, Kyros, Cyrus
… fifth century (HE i.19; the 'Claudian' mentioned there is not
demonstrably
kappa 1707). The phrase ai)/qe path\r me di/dace (Anth. Pal. 9.136.1) may be imitated by Cyrus’s fellow-townsman Nonnus (xvi.321, xx.372) but priority for …
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κ
2551
Κοιναὶ ἔννοιαι
common conceptions
… everything we know more powerfully than [what is perceived] by
demonstration,
these we know in accordance with a common conception. But the conclusions of these things that require a proof to be known are …
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6
Καβειρῶν
Kabeira, Kabeiroi
… is] Kabeiroi, name of a people. [The word] also means
demons.
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27
Κάϊν
Cain
… so trembling and groaning Cain like one possessed by a
demon
spent all of his life under censure, receiving this sign lest he be killed by anyone. And you will find seven punishments, if …
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765
Κατασκευάζειν
to argue, to maintain, to prove
In Aristotle [sc. this verb means]
demonstrating
[something] in its entirety, but not denying what is being postulated. For kataskeua/zein is applied especially to something being postulated positively. "Most/very lawless and most/very villainous when …
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κ
2040
Κονίσαλος
dust-cloud
[Meaning sc. raised-up] dust. Or [sc. signifying] Konisalos, a Priapic
demon;
[so-called] from the fact that he does not shrink even from copulating in dust. Also [sc. attested is the adjective] konisa/leos ["dusty"].
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2226
Κώθωνες
kothons
… to take measured-out water, they used to have kothons. They
demonstrate
the cheapness of naval and military provisions. Because soldiers used to carry cheap things.
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2286
Κωνσταντῖνος
Konstantinos, Constantine
… and being at leisure in licentiousness, in the invocation of
demons,
and in other wicked pursuits, became a remarkable and especially useful instrument of his father and teacher, the Devil. For he ran headlong …
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348
Κάπρος
boar
… hold of the boar". Especially when accompanied by suitable gestures,
demonstrative
pronouns in comedy and elsewhere -- grasp this, look at that, etc. -- obviously lend themselves to simple sexual double entendre. Lines 181-239 …
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κ
1437
Κευθῆνες
keuthenes
… > kuqh/n > puqmh/n. But that does not explain the
demonic
association, and may well be a coincidence. Karl Olzscha (cited in Mayani 1970:380) attempted to link the keuqh=nes (and Keuthonymos of kappa 1439) …
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κ
2435
Κριός
ram
… h)/laun' o)pi/sw suggests the former (though the result is not
demonstrably
metrical), yet the Et.Gud. reads h)/launen in place of the elided h)/laun'. [3] This sense of the headword, attested only here, is not …
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κ
2648
Κυκλοβόρος
Kykloboros, Cycloborus
… the problem may arise from a fragment of the atthidographer
Demon
(FGrH 327 F8), preserved in Hesychius omicron309 (also, more sketchily and without attribution, in omicroniota 121): the people of the Attic deme of …
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