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Εἰκαιορημονῶ
I talk at random
[Meaning] I speak frivolously.
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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].
Matched in headword
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κ
621
Καταληρῶ
I overcome by talking
[Used] with a genitive.
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χ
324
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Χθεσιφωνῶν
yesterday-talking
[Meaning] bad-mouthing.
Matched in headword
high
short
δ
94
Δαυίδ
David
… delta 95, delta 96. [1] Judaism, as in the Jerusalem
Talmud
(c.400 CE) (Ginzberg, 5.414), and Christianity (EncycJudaica, 5.1332) have extra-biblical traditions that identify David as a prophet. The Jerusalem
Talmud
(Sotah 9.24b), for …
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α
425
Ἀδάμ
Adam
… Hatcher of Heresy invented and carved out. Hence the wretched
tales
of the Egyptians about Osiris and Typhon and Isis, and the chicanery of the Persian Magi, and the gymnosophistry and impertinent fantasies of …
Matched in translation
high
long
γ
450
Γρηγόριος
Gregorios, Gregorius, Gregory
… from the fact that it had been unworthy to his
talents:
he was knocked off the (episcopal) seat of the imperial city and preference was given to persons more common than this man who …
Matched in translation
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long
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 …
Matched in translation
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medium
γ
367
Γολιάθης
Goliathes, Goliath
… a truly enormous Palestinian man, four cubits and a span
[tall],
wearing armor proportional to the size of his body. In the Hebrew langage the same man [is called] Goliath.
Matched in translation
high
short
δ
442
Δημοκήδης
Demokedes, Democedes
… physician to Polykrates, the tyrant of Samos, for two gold
talents;
and he was summoned by Dareios the Persian and stayed with him for a considerable time. He wrote a medical book. When Dareios …
Matched in translation
high
long
ε
55
Ἔγγειον
earthly, landed, terrestrial
… of] e)/ggeion: "he allotted the territory, giving to each a
talent
as his share, supposing that the city's affairs would stand firm, if the men were attached to their landed properties." Some [say that …
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high
medium
ε
2807
Ἐποποῖ
epopoi (in hoopoe-ese)
… question Iris the Rainbow on her arrival on stage, he
talks
like the birds. The text of the entry follows the Canon for the accentuation of monosyllabic adverbs poi= poi=, but the repeated sound …
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high
long
δ
524
Διαγόρας ὁ Μήλιος
Diagoras the Melian
… a bronze monument: anyone who killed him would receive a
talent,
and anyone who brought him [alive] would receive two. This proclamation was made because of his impiety, when he described the mysteries to …
Matched in translation
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medium
α
478
Ἀδιαφορία
indifference
… those which have value: such things among mental qualities are
talent,
skill, progress, and the like; such things among bodily qualities are life, health, strength, good condition, soundness, beauty; those among external things are …
Matched in translation
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long
α
1685
Ἀμύσσειν
to mangle
… scrape, to tear at. "Now mangling his cheeks with his
talons,
now pecking his eyes with his beak." "When he came out of his own division, a raven sat on the man's right arm, …
Matched in translation
high
medium
αι
269
Αἰπεινή
lofty
[Meaning]
tall.
"Strife roused the lofty fir tree to speak unseemly words." Also [sc. attested is the dative plural] ai)peinai=s, [meaning]
tall,
long. In Fables: "a bird quarreled with lofty fir trees, for she …
Matched in translation
high
short
δ
243
Δέον
necessary
… his accounts he said simply that he had spent 50
talents
'on the necessary'. Learning [this] afterwards, the Lacedaemonians confiscated Kleandrides[' property] and fined [sc. King] Pleistoanax 5
talents,
suspecting that they had taken …
Matched in translation
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medium
κ
365
Καρδία
heart
… voided. For the most part we are not able to
talk
without breathing, because the breath in the chest is expended. So we need first to breathe something else in for production of the …
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medium
χ
445
Χωρὶς τὰ Μυσῶν καὶ Φρυγῶν ὁρίσματα
separate are the boundaries of Mysians and Phrygians
… a lot and speaking appropriately are separate matters. [Oedipus:] You
talk
as if you are speaking briefly but appropriately." That is, it is one thing to
talk
nonsense and another to say things that …
Matched in translation
high
medium
β
592
Βύουσι
they stuff
… that has been stuffed. The Pisidian [writes]: "Now I will
talk
to you, if indeed you do not want to plug [sc. your ears]...".
Matched in translation
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short
γ
4
Γάγγης
Ganges
… the Ethiopians, whom Alexander [the Great] killed, "[...] 10 cubits
tall,
with a youthful beauty that no other man has yet matched, son of the river Ganges. His father would flood India, so he …
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medium
ει
319
Ἐς τὸ δέον
for the necessary
… not pillage the territory [of Attica], charged the expense, fifteen
talents,
to the Athenians, writing it off with something like "for the necessary". Aristophanes in Clouds [says]: "just like Perikles I spent it 'for …
Matched in translation
high
medium
ε
3510
Εὔθυμος
Euthymos, Euthumos, Euthymus
… imposed upon Theagenes a fine sacred to Zeus of one
talent
and a
talent
for Euthymos personally, saying that Theagenes seemed to them to have entered the boxing contest as an insult to Euthymos. …
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medium
ε
1297
Ἕνη
old
… [the participle] e)/xwn [in the idiom] lhrei=s e)/xwn ['keep on
talking
nonsense', where
'talking
nonsense' alone would suffice]. See generally LSJ s.v. e)/xw, B.III.2.
Matched in notes
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short
α
12
Ἀββακούμ
Habakkuk, Abbakoum, Avvakoum
… and koum means awakening. So also in the Holy Gospel:
"Talitha,
koum," that is, "young girl, get up." From which [it is] clear that Abbakoum must be written with double b.
Matched in translation
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short
α
104
Ἄβυσσον
abyss
… silver is with the goddess on the Acropolis." For 1,000
talents
were stored on the Acropolis. "Abyss" is what the Holy Scripture calls the watery substance. So since the land is surrounded on all …
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medium
α
158
Ἀγάπιος
Agapios, Agapius
… a very distinguished school. Relying on the magnitude of his
talent
and the favor of fortune, he became celebrated for his skill and amassed large amounts of money.
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α
255
Ἀγκυλοχείλης καὶ Ἀγκυλόχειλος
crooked-beaked
Bent-beaked, an epithet of the eagle, which has curved
talons.
But in reference to Cleon [it means] having crooked hands for theft and seizure.
Matched in translation
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short
α
358
Ἀγριοποιόν
wild-maker, wild-making
And a wild-making fellow. [sc. Meaning him who is] introducing savage heroes. Aristophanes [says] about Aeschylus: "I know him and understand him well; I've watched him for a long time; a wild-making fellow, stubborn …
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short
α
454
ᾌδειν κελεύονθ' ὡσπερεὶ τέττιγα ἑστιῶντα
asking [me] to sing as if entertaining cicadas
For it is a
talkative
creature. But [sc. differently-accented] a)dei=n [means] to please.
Matched in translation
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