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κ2377ΚρεσφόντηςKresphontes, Cresphontes… was a scoundrel. For he put a moist lump of earth into the water-pot, when lots were being cast for Messenia. See under 'runaway lot'[delta 1504].Matched in translationhighshort
ε4074Ἑψῶνboiling… e(yw=, [the future] e(yh/sw. "Just like those boiling the gold-bearing earth."Matched in translationhighshort
α2500ἈνθεστηριώνAnthesterion… is so called because most things bloom (anthein) from the earth at that time.Matched in translationhighshort
α4557Ἄφαρονunworked[Referring to] rich earth, that which has not yet been extensively plowed. [They say] a)faro/wsi instead of a)rotriw=sin ["they plow"].Matched in translationhighshort
ε3687Εὐρίζῳwell-rooted… "with a well-rooted [sc. source of] joy for all the earth." Meaning with a long-lasting [one], [one that] has been rooted well.Matched in translationhighshort
χ360Χνοωδέστεραfiner, more powdery[Meaning] thinner. "And the underlying earth [is] more powdery than any sand because of thin-ness."Matched in translationhighshort
γ229Γῆ ζώντωνland of the living… David [says]: "he will raise you up to inherit the earth."Matched in translationhighshort
α1648Ἀμπελεώνvineyard[Meaning] vine-growing earth. "And the small vineyard nearby."Matched in translationhighshort
ε3395Εὔγειοςfertile[Meaning] a place having good earth. And in the neuter to\ eu)/geion, [meaning] the [location] lying towards the west.Matched in translationhighshort
ε2777Ἐπιχθονίωνof land-bound[Meaning] of earth-bound.Matched in translationhighshort
χ84ΧάοςChaos… Chaos, Night, black Erebus, and broad Tartarus. There was neither earth, nor air, nor heaven. Black-winged Night begat the first wind-egg in the boundless bosom of Erebus. And after the cycles of the years, …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε102Ἔγκλισιςinclination… the pole which is always visible was directly above the earth, but later it acquired its inclination. That is, a deviation.Matched in translationhighshort
κ1704Κλασιβώλακαclod-breaking[Meaning] that which smooths the clods [of earth]. "Fallow-breaking clod-smoothing bronze of the plow."Matched in translationhighshort
α877Ἀκιδνόνfeeble… attested is the comparative] a)kidno/teros ["more/rather feeble"], likewise. Homer [writes]: "earth fosters nothing more feeble than man."Matched in translationhighshort
ε1180Ἔνδιοςdaytime… "So as long as it was still daytime, and the earth was warming up, the gleaming sky was brighter than crystal". That is, the radiant [sky].Matched in translationhighshort
η478Ἤρανοςkeeper… "be propitious to a daring [man], powerful keeper of the earth". To the emperor Justinian in the description of the [church of the] Holy Wisdom.Matched in translationhighshort
κ2035Κονιόπουςdust-foot, sandal… from the [verb] kai/nw ["I slay"), [meaning] I cut; cut-up earth. It is also written as konipoda, namely a narrow sandal, so narrow that the foot was covered with dust.Matched in translationhighshort
α3945Ἀρθροπέδανtie… a beam tie and a mallet that crushes clods of earth."Matched in translationhighshort
α1568Ἀμείδητοςgloomy… if you are ruler of the gloomy dead beneath the earth, Persephone."Matched in translationhighshort
χ63Χαμάδιςgroundwards[Meaning] to the ground, into/towards [the] earth. Also [sc. attested is] xama=ze, [also meaning] to the ground.Matched in translationhighshort
α203Ἄγεσταagesta… is] a military device erected from stones and logs and earth. But some call such a device agesta. See also under egesta.Matched in translationhighshort
δ912Διέκυψανthey bent over, they looked outBending over from the earth like grass, they flowered.Matched in translationhighshort
ν550Νωμῶνobserving… everything" -- Sophocles [writes] -- "[taught and] unspoken, celestial and earth-treading".Matched in translationhighshort
χ225Χεῖλοςlip[Meaning] the body-part [of that name]. "And the whole earth became one lip." He is speaking about sins.Matched in translationhighshort
δ792Διατορηθῆναιto be pierced through… underwater and below the palisade to be pierced through the earth underneath the enclosure itself." Thus "to be pierced through" means to be cut through, to be bored through.Matched in translationhighshort
δ1567Δυηπαθήςmisery-suffering… built a mound for you from a lump of thirsty earth."Matched in translationhighshort
κ887ΚαταιβάτηςDescending, Kataibates… his sending-down of thunderbolts. Or from his descending [sc. to earth] through love of women.Matched in translationhighshort
α1781Ἀμφιφῶντεςdouble-lights… made when the sun and moon appear early over the earth; alternatively [so called] because they used to carry it with little lit torches bound all around it, as Apollodorus says.Matched in translationhighshort
ε1643Ἐξεράσατε τοὺς λίθουςdisgorge the stones… expression is made from the [word] e)/ra, which is the earth.Matched in translationhighshort
κ1377Κεραυνόςthunderbolt[A thunderbolt is] "a violent kindling falling upon the earth with great force, from clouds being rubbed together or broken... But others [say that it is] a gathering of fiery air moving violently downwards." …Matched in translationhighshort