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α498Ἀδόκητονunexpected; (?)inglorious[Meaning someone or something] denied/disclaimed. "[He] fearful lest they might attack them unguarded; which is of course what happened, not unexpected[ly], once their band of robbers advanced". Also [sc. attested is the masculine nominative …highshort
α499ἈδοκίμαστοςunscrutinizedBeing enrolled among adults is called being scrutinized; and he who is not yet enrolled is unscrutinized. Lysias [sc. uses the word] in this way.highshort
α500Ἀδόκιμοςunsatisfactory, reprobate, disreputable[Meaning someone or something] unscrutinized.high

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Ἀδόκητον

unexpected; (?)inglorious

[Meaning someone or something] denied/disclaimed. "[He] fearful lest they might attack them unguarded; which is of course what happened, not unexpected[ly], once their band of robbers advanced". Also [sc. attested is…

Ἀδόκητον· διεψευσμένον. δεδιὼς μὴ ἀφυλάκτοις αὐτοῖς ἐπιπέσοιεν· ὃ δὴ οὐκ ἀδόκητον ἐγεγόνει, ἐπεὶ καὶ λῃστήριον αὐτῶν προέβαινε. καὶ Ἀδόκητος, ἀπροσδόκητος.

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α501Ἀδολεσχίαidle talk[Meaning] tactlessness, nonsense, incessant [chatter]. Attic [writers] lengthen the alpha. But a)dolesxi/a ["meditation"] in the Scripture [is] continuous attention. And [it is construed] with the genitive. [Note also the future tense] a)dolesxh/sw, meaning I …highshort

α504Ἀδοξεῖταιis disgraceful[Meaning] is not honoured, it is not acceptable. "To conquer among the Romans without orders; for it is disgraceful."highshort

α505Ἀδοξόταταutter improbabilities, very improbable [things][Meaning] paradoxical things, impossible things in Aristotle: "paradoxa are the opposite of endoxa, which are not altogether impossible things."highshort

α508Ἀδορείunskinnedly[Meaning] skinlessly.highshort

α509Ἄδοροςskin[Meaning a] leather bag. Also [sc. attested is] a)/doron, [meaning something] unskinned. Also [sc. attested is the dative plural] a)do/rois, [meaning] to/for unskinned.highshort

α513ἈδωναῖοςAdonaios[Meaning] below the grave [Hades].highshort

α514Ἀδώνειοι καρποίAdonis' crops; crops of AdonisRaised gardens are called [this].highshort

α515ἈδωνίαAdonia, Adonis-mourningWith a short vowel [sc. in the penultimate syllable]. "We hold the Adonia and we weep for Adonis." Pherecrates [sc. writes this]. They also call the image of Adonis, in this way, an Adonion. …highshort

α516Ἄδωνις ἈδώνιδοςAdonis, [genitive] AdonidosA proper name. "And there was holy grief, such as that for Adonis on Libanos and [sc. in] Byblos."highshort

α517Ἀδώνιδος κῆποιAdonis' gardens[Made] out of lettuce and fennel, which they used to sow in earthenware pots. They apply the proverb to the superficial and shallow. Adonis' gardens: in reference to things that are untimely and transitory …highshort

α518Ἄδων τὴν σπιθαμὴν τοῦ βίου πρὸς ἄνηθονsinging of the span of life to a dill-plantIn reference to parsimonious and mean-spirited men.highshort

α519Ἄδωραgiftless [gifts], no-gift [gifts][Meaning] bad-gift [ones], those being given for evil. Sophocles [writes]: "gifts of enemies are no-gifts and not beneficial." The sense [is] he does not want to have even the largest [gifts] from enemies, but …highshort

α521ἈδραμύτειονAdramyteionThus [writes] Eupolis. But also [sc. attested is] Adramytenos; and Thucydides [writes] Atramytteion.highshort

α522Ἀδρανίαpowerless[Meaning something] weak. Also [sc. attested is the related noun] a)drani/a ["powerlessness"], [meaning] incapacity, weakness. In the Epigrams: "he dedicated [his fishing gear to Hermes], fearing the powerlessness of old age." And elsewhere: "since …highshort

α523Ἀδράστεια ΝέμεσιςAdrasteian Nemesis, Nemesis of Adrastos[sc. So called because] from her, someone could not run away [a)podra/seien]. "Adrasteian Nemesis follows him, avenging haughty and unrestrained words." So Adrasteian Nemesis [is named] from Adrastos. [sc. It is a proverbial phrase] …highshort

α524ἈδράστειαAdrasteiaSome say she is the same thing as Nemesis, and that she took the name from a particular king, Adrastos. Alternatively from the ancient Adrastos who suffered divine wrath [nemesis] for his boasts against …highmedium

α527ἈδριανόςHadrianos, Hadrianus, HadrianEmperor of the Romans. He was of senatorial descent, his father having been the general Afer -- for thus he was [sur]named; he was by nature fluent in each language; and he left behind …highlong

α534Ἅδρησιςmaturity[Meaning] ripeness, inaction.highshort

α535Ἁδρύνοιτοmight mature[Meaning he/she/it] might grow up.highshort

α536Ἁδύsweet[Doric form for] h(du/. Theocritus [writes]: "sweet is the whisper and that pinetree, goatherd."highshort

α537Ἀδύνατα εἶναιto be impossiblesInstead of impossible. For often Thucydides has used plurals instead of singulars, especially for this expression. Impossible is that which is not capable of being true; such as, the earth flies. 'With the general …highshort

α538Ἀδύνατα θηρᾷςyou are hunting impossible things[sc. A proverbial saying] in reference to those who undertake things too great for them.highshort

α539Ἀδυναστίimpotently[Meaning] powerlessly.highshort

α540Ἀδύνατοιincapables, handicappeds[Meaning] those incapacitated in the body. After being approved by the [sc. Athenian] council, these men received, some say two obols a day, some say an obol. But Philochorus says nine drachmas a month.highshort

α541Ἀδυσώπητονinexorable[Meaning] not respecting persons.highshort

α542Ἄδυτονadyton, innermost sanctuaryA cave, or the hidden part of the shrine.highshort

α543Ἀεκήλιαunseemly[Meaning] not quiet, nor peaceful, but turbulent [ones]. One must understand this with synaloephe as a denial of [sc. being] at rest: referring to those things at which one cannot keep quiet, but, on …highshort

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