Skip to content
Σ
ReadSuda
Browse
Topics
Random
About
Aa
Settings
Searching…
⌕
Search
Α
Letters
⤨
Random
Aa
Settings
Keyboard shortcuts
j
Next entry
k
Previous entry
g
Toggle Greek
/
Search
?
Show shortcuts
Close
Search
Search the Suda
⌕
Search
All
Headwords
Translation
Greek
Notes
Filters (1)
Keyword
definition
42
dialects, grammar, and etymology
30
biography
16
ethics
15
geography
13
medicine
13
religion
13
epic
9
imagery
8
science and technology
8
daily life
7
economics
7
25 more
history
7
philosophy
7
comedy
6
historiography
6
law
6
trade and manufacture
6
tragedy
6
art history
5
constitution
5
gender and sexuality
5
poetry
5
rhetoric
5
women
Letter
Α
alpha
30
Δ
delta
17
Ι
iota
6
Ε
epsilon
2
Χ
chi
1
Η
eta
1
Vetting status
high
57
Length
Short
52
Medium
3
Long
2
Translator
✓
Carl Widstrand
57
57 entries
Relevance
Adler order
Longest first
Translator: Carl Widstrand
×
Clear all
δ
432
Δήμιον
communal, public
[Meaning] belonging to the people.
high
short
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 …
high
short
δ
434
Δήμιος
public-man
[Meaning] the one punishing lawbreakers.
high
short
5
5
botany
4
botany
4
food
4
food
4
mythology
4
mythology
4
politics
3
politics
3
proverbs
3
proverbs
3
children
2
children
2
Christianity
2
Christianity
2
chronology
2
chronology
2
military affairs
2
military affairs
2
zoology
2
zoology
2
agriculture
1
agriculture
1
meter and music
1
meter and music
1
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"].
high
short
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 …
high
short
δ
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. …
high
medium
δ
438
Δημοβόρος
people-devouring
[Meaning] one who is eating what belongs to the people.
high
short
δ
439
Δημογέροντες
elders of the people
[Meaning] those most honoured by the people.
high
short
δ
440
Δημοδόκος
Demodokos, Demodocus
A singer-poet. See under aoidos.
high
short
δ
441
Δημόθοινα
public feast
[Meaning] good feasting of the people, or a sacrifice.
high
short
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 …
high
long
δ
443
Δημοκλείδας
Demokles-types, sons of Demokles
[Meaning] foreigners, and seducers. Demokles [was] such a man.
high
short
δ
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 …
high
short
δ
445
Δημόκομπος
people-flatterer
[Meaning] he who is talkative/wordy.
high
short
δ
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".
high
short
δ
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 …
high
medium
δ
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. …
high
medium
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.
high
short
ε
771
Ἑλλέβορον
hellebore
A kind of plant remedy, that which amongst doctors is called karpin.
high
short
η
200
Ἤλεκτρον
electrum
[Meaning] gold of a different type, mixed with glass and stone. The [sc. altar] table of the Hagia Sophia is of this material.
high
short
ι
564
Ἱπποκράτης
Hippocrates, Hippokrates
Of Cos, physician, son of Heraclides. For let him be placed before his grandfather, the father of Heraclides, even if they share the same name, because of his having been the star and the …
high
long
ι
565
Ἱπποκράτης
Hippocrates, Hippokrates
Son of Gnosidicus, from Kos, father of Heraclides, the father of Hippocrates, also himself a physician, and a member of the Asclepian family; [he wrote] medical works.
high
short
ι
566
Ἱπποκράτης
Hippocrates, Hippokrates
Son of Thessalus, from Cos, physician; grandson of Hippocrates the second, the son of Heraclides. He also wrote medical works.
high
short
ι
567
Ἱπποκράτης
Hippocrates, Hippokrates
[Hippocrates] the fourth, son of Draco, physician, also from Cos, of the same family; he treated Roxane, and died at the hands of Cassander, the son of Antipater. He also wrote medical works.
high
short
ι
568
Ἱπποκράται
Hippocrateses, Hippokrateses
Two [Hippocrateses], 5 and 6, physicians, sons of Thymbraeus, also from Cos, and of the same family. Both wrote [contributions] to the same science.
high
short
ι
569
Ἱπποκράτης ζʹ
Hippokrates 7, Hippocrates 7
Likewise from Kos, [likewise] a physician, son of Praxianax, and from the very same family. He also wrote in the same [Hippocratic] manner.
high
short
χ
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.
high
short
← Previous
Page 2 of 2