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β429Βουλεύσεωςconspiracy… attached to two sets of circumstances. One is when someone plots to bring about the death of somebody, irrespective of whether the target of the plot dies or not ; the other is when …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ578ΚατακληρουχῶI divide into plots[Used] with an accusative.Matched in headwordhighshort
ε1817Ἐξούλης δίκηejectment, exoule… [sc. in classical Athens] and thus permitted to recover a plot of land or a house but are then prevented from entering into possession -- and having not entered into possession are evicted -- …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε2299Ἐπιδικάζεταιclaims at law, sues for… the Reply to Diogenes on behalf of Archestratus about a plot of land. cf. generally alpha 1764, epsilon 2298.Matched in noteshighshort
γ236Γῆ κληρουχικήallotted land, cleruchic land… phrase translated here "by lot" can equally mean "in a plot"; the kleros is both process and outcome.Matched in noteshighshort
κ418Καρποῦ δίκηproduce lawsuit… accordance with the laws: if your dispute is about a plot of land, a [dike] karpou; if it is about a house, a [dike] enoikiou; just as this suit of his now, against you, …Matched in translationhighmedium
α3597Ἀποτιμηταὶapotimetai, guarantors… husband[-to-be] a security for the dowry - a house or plot of land of equal value. [In such circumstances] the giver of the guarantee was said "to guarantee" it, in the active sense, while …Matched in translationhighmedium
κ1703Κλαρόταιserfs… examples of "serfs" (klaro/tai or klarw=tai: literally men working a plot of land, Doric kla=ros, Attic-Ionic klh=ros), but the initial gloss goes astray. The defining characteristic of groups like these, which differentiated them from …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2384Ἐπίκληροςepikleros, heiress… in classical Athenian law; literally she who comes with the plot, she who is attached to the estate. Surprisingly, Harpokration devoted no entry to the term. Instead, the present Suda entry (also in other …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε4013Ἐχῖνοιvases, echinoiSome [are] bronze, others [made] out of earthenware; into them the [sc. Athenian] arbitrators placed the documents of the witness-statements that people had testified, and then sealed them up, handing them on to the …Matched in translationhighshort
δ1118ΔίκτυςDictys, DiktysDuring the reign of Claudius, after an earthquake had flattened Crete and many graves had been opened, in one of these there was found the historical treatise of Dictys, covering the Trojan War; Claudius …Matched in translationhighshort
γ473Γύγου δακτύλιοςGyges' ring… villainous men. For Gyges was a cowherd who after an earthquake found a corpse which was wearing a ring, and stripped it off. The nature of the ring was such that, by twists of …Matched in translationhighshort
δ1054Διιτρέφης πυτιναῖα ἔχων πτεράDiitrephes with wicker-flask wings… if [Aristophanes] said: with nothing other than wine-jar feet and earthenware knobs. This man [Dieitrephes] was nouveau riche and grasping and wicked. Plato in Festivals [writes]: "and a foreigner, the madman, the Cretan, the …Matched in translationhighmedium
λ814ΛύκοςLykos, Lycus… under the Successors [sc. of Alexander the Great] and was plotted against by Demetrios of Phaleron. This man wrote a history of Libya, and about Sicily.Matched in translationhighshort
κ240ΚαλλισθένηςKallisthenes, Callisthenes… he was killed, at the same time as Nearchos, for plotting against Alexander. [He was] naturally impulsive, and [was said] to be motivated by great passion. And a story is told that Kallisthenes ruined …Matched in translationhighmedium