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ε3071Ἔρωςlove, erotic desire[Meaning] the first and supreme element of the enquiry that looks deeply into things that exist, together with love of labor and readiness of mind. Love is a very powerful hunter of all beautiful …Matched in headwordhighmedium
ε338ἙκαδημίαHekademia, Hekademy… the Akademia (Academy) was formerly called, from Hekademos, a certain hero.Matched in translationhighshort
ε3064Ἐρωήσαςforcing backMeaning [he] bringing down, busting. "Forcing back the destructive horn". Callimachus [sc. writes this]. Aalso, "[your dark blood] will flow about [my] spear". Homer [sc. writes this].Matched in headwordhighshort
η545ἩρώδηςHerodes… Hadrian the sophist succeeded him as head of his school. Herodes was a contemporary of the sophist Aristides. Very many other works by him are preserved, in which the greatness and elevation of his …Matched in translationhighmedium
η271παροιμίαthe ten-company of Lykos, the ten-company of LycusA proverb. Lykos at Athens [was] a hero, in the shape of a wild animal, [whose temple stood] by the jurycourt. 'Company of ten' [signifies] being bribed in tens, to which the proverb [refers]. …Matched in translationhighshort
κ197ΚαλαμίτηςKalamites, Calamites; reed-like… On the Crown [writes]: "in the shack next to the hero Kalamites." And the feminine form [is] Kalamitis. "[She] cherished the grasshopper for two years." Meaning loved [it].Matched in translationhighshort
γ455ΓρίοςGrios, ? Grinos… Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (545). The name of a hero, according to Herodian, On Prosody [Grammatici Graeci 3,1] 110.18 (accented *Gri=os there); possibly, then, an error for Grinos/Grinnos, mentioned in Herodotus 4.150.2-3 as …Matched in noteshighshort
ι411ἸόλαοςIolaos, IolausA proper name. A particular hero honored among Athenians. But [the name is] Ioleos in Attic.Matched in translationhighshort
ι202Ἱερῶςin a sacred mannerSame entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. The headword is an adverbial form from i(ero/s; cf. generally iota 198.Matched in noteshighshort
ε3014ἘριχθόνιοςErichthonios, ErichthoniusAn Athenian "hero" (demi-god) connected with the Acropolis and its cults; perhaps orginally the same as Erechtheus (cf. epsilon 2943). See generally OCD(4) s.v.Matched in noteshighshort
α1842ἈναγυράσιοςAnagyrasian… of the Anagyrasians. [The phrase] "Anagyrasian spirit" [arose] because a hero Anagyros took vengeance on the elderly settler who cut down the grove. Anagyrasians [were] a deme of Attica. One of them cut down …Matched in translationhighmedium
ι198ἹερῷsacredDative singular of i(ero/s, with same or similar glossing in other lexica; quoted from Homer, Iliad 17.464. cf. generally iota 197, iota 202.Matched in noteshighshort
α1950Ἀναλυθῆναιto have been released (from a spell)… have used some [kind of] purification by drugs. Menander in Hero [Author, Myth] [writes]: "you have used sweetest medicines, having been scarcely released."Matched in translationhighshort
χ303Χιλήfodder… own country, where there was fodder and water for horses." Herodotus [sc. says this]. "[...] to bring inside the walls as much grain and fodder as was in the region." [The word] xilo/s [is] …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε3060ἘρόγευονI was distributing alms, they were distributing alms… and cf. LSJ Supplement: 'r(ogeu/w, pay in kind, fr. Latin erogare'). It must be quoted from somewhere -- perhaps Constantine Porphyrogenitus, De cerimoniis aulae Byzantinae 807.17 (its only other attestation); if so it is …Matched in noteshighshort
ι16ἼακχοςIakkhos, Iacchus[Meaning] Dionysos at the breast. And a certain hero; and the song for him; and the day on which the feast for him [is held]. But some [say the word means] also a tumult. …Matched in translationhighshort
ε3068Ἐρώμενοςbeing loved[Meaning he] being desired.Matched in headwordhighshort
χ318ΧιωνίδηςChionides… years before the Persian Wars. His plays include the following: Hero [Author, Myth], Beggars, Persians or Assyrians.Matched in translationhighshort
ι190ἹεροσόλυμαHierosolyma, JerusalemSee also iota 194. The spelling in this entry, apparently influenced by Greek i(ero/s, occurs in later books of the Septuagint. Both spellings occur in the New Testament. The Hebrew is (יְרוּשָלַיִם [jəɣuʃɔlɑjɪm]).Matched in noteshighshort
η538ἬροσαI tilled[Meaning] I plowed.Matched in headwordhighshort
ε3058ἜρουλοιErouloi, HeruliName of a people.Matched in headwordhighshort
ε3059Ἐρώγασινthey are broken[Meaning] they were split.Matched in headwordhighshort
λ821ΛύκοςLykos, Lycus[Lykos] is a hero who has the shape of the beast [sc. of a wolf]. A stone monument to him stands near the jurycourts in Athens; to this, those bribing by tens used to …Matched in translationhighshort
λ820Λύκου δεκάςLykos' ten-company, Lycus' ten-companyA proverbial phrase. [Used] because Lykos the hero had a shrine near the jurycourts [sc. in Athens], where the blackmailers would lie in wait. Three obols a day was set apart for him.Matched in translationhighshort
ε683ἝκτωρHektor, HectorThe hero [of that name]. [So named] as being a kind of holder [e)xe/twr]. Also [sc. attested is] *(ektori/dhs ["Hectorid"], [meaning] the son of Hector. But in the vocative [it is] w)= *(/ektor ["o …Matched in translationhighshort
ι775ἸφίστιοςIphistios, Iphistius… Hesychius iota1129, Iphistios is the name of an Athenian local hero, the eponym of the tiny deme Iphistiadai. (There is no separate Suda entry for Iphistiadai, but see e.g. Diogenes Laertius 3.41: Plato's will …Matched in noteshighshort
μ469ΜελέαγροςMeleager, Meleagros… For the two best-known bearers of it see OCD4 s.v.(1) [hero of the Calydonian Boar hunt; cf. under omicron 849, and see also mu 468] and (2) [philosopher and poet, author of the Garland …Matched in noteshighshort
ι600ἾροςIros, Irus[Meaning] the beggar [of that name]; [spelled] with a long iota. But [there is also] i(ro/s [meaning] i(ero/s, with crasis. "This place is holy, as I conjecture, full of laurel, olive-tree, and vine -- …Matched in translationhighshort
ε3056Ἔρονlove[e)/ron means the same as] to\n e)/rwta.Matched in headwordhighshort
ε1495Ἐντυγχάνεινto encounter, to meet, to run into… a dative. [The two things] are the same. "To encounter heroes."Matched in translationhighshort