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Ἀκύλας
Akulas; Aculas; Aquila
Grammarian, musician.
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1127
Ἀλέξανδρος Αἰτωλός
Alexandros Aitolos, Alexandrus Aetolus, Alexander the Aetolian
From the city of Pleuron; son of Satyrus and Stratocleia. Grammarian. He also wrote tragedies, and was consequently selected as one of the seven tragedians who were nicknamed the 'Pleiad'.
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1128
Ἀλέξανδρος Αἰγαῖος
Alexandros Aigaios, Alexandrus Aegaeus, Alexander of Aegae
Peripatetic philosopher; teacher of the emperor Nero, along with the philosopher Chaeremon. He had a son called Caelinus. This man used to call Nero 'clay mixed with blood'. In my view, bad pupils have …
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comedy
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1129
Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μιλήσιος
Alexandros of Miletos, Alexander of Miletus
He was nicknamed Polyhistor ["Very Learned"] and [sc. also] Cornelius, because he was taken prisoner and sold to Cornelius Lentulus, for whom he became pedagogue; he was then freed. He was in Rome at …
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1628
Ἀμορραῖος
Amor(r)aian, Amor(r)ean
"Sihon king of the Amorites". But *)amwrai=os and *)amw/rion with a long 'o' [sc. are also found].
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1629
Ἀμμορῖτις
Ammoritis
Feminine; name of a city.
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1630
Ἄμμορος
fate-less
[Meaning] one who is ill-fated.
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1631
Ἄμοτον
incessant
[Meaning] incessantly, insatiably.
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1632
Ἀμοῦς
Amous, Amoun
An Egyptian. As a young man he was averse to marriage; but when some of his relatives encouraged him not to condemn marriage, but to take a wife, he complied and entered into a …
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1633
Ἄμουσα
unaesthetic [things], unpleasing [things]
[Meaning] unpleasant [ones], charmless [ones], boorish [ones]. Aristophanes in Thesmophoriazusae [writes]: "and besides, it's unaesthetic [amouson] to see a poet who looks like a hairy yokel. Think of the famous Ibycus and Anacreon of …
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1634
Ἀμοχθεί
toil-free
[Meaning] without effort.
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1635
Ἀμώμενοι
reaping
[Meaning they who are] harvesting. Also [sc. attested is] a)mw=sin ["they reap"] similarly. Aristophanes [writes]: "reaping these ears of other people's corn, he's put them in the stocks and is drying them out and …
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1636
Ἄμωμον
spice-plant, cardamom
Arrian [writes]: "he sends to the king a horse with golden reins, and ornaments and scimitars and a spice-plant [amomon]".
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1637
Ἄμωμος
blameless
[Meaning] one who is pure. Also guiltless. David [says]: "to shoot arrows from ambush at the blameless [man]".
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1638
Ἄμμων
Ammon
Name of a Greek god. Aristophanes in Birds [writes]: "we are your Ammon, Delphi, Dodona, Phoebus Apollo; for you come to the birds first before starting your work."
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1639
Ἀμμωνιανός
Ammonianos, Ammonianus
Grammarian, honoured by his association with Syrianus and also by their innate similarity in character and physique -- in Homer's words, 'in appearance and stature and nature most similar'; for each of them was …
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1640
Ἀμμώνιος
Ammonios, Ammonius
Philosopher; of Alexandria; nicknamed Saccas. He was of Christian parents, but became a [pagan] Greek, as Porphyry says.
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1641
Ἀμμώνιος
Ammonius, Ammonios
Son of Ammonius; of Alexandria; an acquaintance of Alexander. He succeeded Aristarchus as head of school, before Augustus was monarch.
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1642
Ἀμωντιανός
Amontianos, Amontianus
A Roman, [who] became a senator.
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1643
Ἀμωρίης
Amories
A bastard son of Pisaios.
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1644
Ἀμώριον
Amorion, Amorium
A city, and [a citizen of it is an] 'Amorean'; but [note also] Amorrean ['Amorite'].
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1817
Ἀναγαλλίς
Anagallis
[Anagallis], the female grammarian from Corcyra, who attributes the invention of ball-games to Nausicaa, the daughter of Alcinous.
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1981
Ἀναξαγόρας
Anaxagoras
A sophist, son of Hegesibulus, of Clazomenae. He was nicknamed 'Mind', since he said that matter and mind are the guardian of all things. This is the man who said that the sun is …
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1989
Ἀναξιμένης
Anaximenes
Son of Aristocles, of Lampsacus, rhetor; pupil of Diogenes the Cynic and the grammarian Zoilus of Amphipolis, who abused Homer; teacher of Alexander of Macedon, and accompanied him on his campaigns. When king Alexander …
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2148
Ἀνδοκίδης
Andocides, Andokides
Of Athens; rhetor; one of the ten principal ones. Son of Leogoras, and a descendant of Odysseus' son Telemachus and Nausicaa, according to Hellanicus.
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2185
Ἀνδρόμαχος
Andromachus, Andromakhos, Andromachos
Of Neapolis in Syria. Sophist. Son of Zonas or Sabinus; he taught in Nicomedia under the emperor Diocletian.
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2186
Ἀνδρομέοιο
human, man's
[Meaning] of human flesh.
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2187
Ἀνδρόπαις
man-boy
A boy on the point of becoming a man.
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2188
Ἀνδροπλήθεια
men-multitude
A multitude of men.
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2189
Ἀνδροσάθων
man-pricked, man-root
[Meaning] possessing large genitals.
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