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432
Δήμιον
communal, public
[Meaning] belonging to the people.
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δ
433
Δημιόπρατα
publicly-sold (goods)
[Meaning those] which the [sc. Athenian] people sell. Those being publicly sold as the outcome of confiscation, and [sc. some] of the goods being confiscated through Kleon. Aristophanes [writes]: "the scoundrel has been licking …
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434
Δήμιος
public-man
[Meaning] the one punishing lawbreakers.
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δ
435
Δημιουργεῖ
crafts, creates, works at
[Used] with an accusative. [Meaning he/she/it] makes things which do not exist. Also [sc. attested is the related abstract noun] demiourgia ["workmanship"].
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δ
436
Δημιουργός
artisan, craftsman
[Meaning a] skilled worker, making what does not exist [sc. before]. [Someone] working on communal projects. "Death [is a] cruel worker". "And ordering [them] no longer to receive the magistrates [epidemiourgoi] sent out by …
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437
Δημιουργοί
artisans, craftsmen, public workers
[Meaning] the potters, the tool-makers. They also used to call demiourgoi those we today call bridesmaids, that is the woman standing by the bride. Hence there is [a play called] Demiourgos [attributed] to Menander. …
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δ
438
Δημοβόρος
people-devouring
[Meaning] one who is eating what belongs to the people.
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δ
439
Δημογέροντες
elders of the people
[Meaning] those most honoured by the people.
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440
Δημοδόκος
Demodokos, Demodocus
A singer-poet. See under aoidos.
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441
Δημόθοινα
public feast
[Meaning] good feasting of the people, or a sacrifice.
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δ
442
Δημοκήδης
Demokedes, Democedes
[Son] of Kalliphon (a priest of Asklepios born in Knidos); a Krotoniate, a doctor. He practised medicine in Aigina [Myth, Place], where he married, and he also acted as physician to Polykrates, the tyrant …
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443
Δημοκλείδας
Demokles-types, sons of Demokles
[Meaning] foreigners, and seducers. Demokles [was] such a man.
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444
Δημοκοπεῖν
to court the mob
['To court the mob'] and 'to court the Greeks'. Polybius [writes]: "after renewing his friendship with the Romans, Perseus began to court the Greeks". It is also called both courting the mob and thirsting …
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δ
445
Δημόκομπος
people-flatterer
[Meaning] he who is talkative/wordy.
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446
Δημοκρατία
democracy
Polybius says: "when a democracy has done away with those who have conspired [against it], it no longer guards its freedom with mercenaries".
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447
Δημόκριτος
Democritus, Demokritos
The son of Hegesistratus, though some [say] of Athenocritus or Damasippus, born at the same time as Socrates the philosopher, in the 77th Olympiad, though others say during the 80th Olympiad. An Abderite from …
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448
Δημόκριτος
Democritus, Demokritos
Democritus of Abdera did not visit Athens, but considered that great city beneath his notice; nor did he care to win fame from a place but rather preferred himself to make a place famous. …
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ε
770
Ἑλλεβοριᾶν
to need hellebore
[Meaning] to be in need of hellebore as a remedy [sc. for madness]. Thus Callias [sc. uses the word]. Also [sc. attested is] e(llebori/zw ["I dose with hellebore"]; [used] with an accusative.
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ε
771
Ἑλλέβορον
hellebore
A kind of plant remedy, that which amongst doctors is called karpin.
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52
Χαλκολίβανον
Lebanese bronze, incense-bronze
A kind of electrum, more costly than gold. Electrum is a kind of gold combined with glass and stone. The holy table of the Great Church was also made of such a combination.
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