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β273Βιβλιαφόροςbook-carrier[Meaning a] letter-carrier. "And he sends a book-carrier, advising [someone] not to be upset." Also, every writing is called a bibliaphoros.Matched in translationhighshort
δ680Διαξῆναιto card[Meaning] to break apart. Aristophanes [writes]: "to card at the tips." For flocks of wool have their ends and tips compressed; and whenever they pluck them, the flock is broken apart. And so in …Matched in translationhighshort
β175Βάτα ΚάραςBata Karas, Batakaras[Something said] in reference to the rich and powerful. It should be read as separate words.Matched in headword

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[Meaning a] letter-carrier. "And he sends a book-carrier, advising [someone] not to be upset." Also, every writing is called a bibliaphoros.

Βιβλιαφόρος· γραμματοφόρος. ὁ δὲ πέμπει βιβλιαφόρον μὴ θορυβεῖσθαι παρακελευόμενος. καὶ πᾶσα γραφὴ βιβλιαφόρος λέγεται.

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δ589Διακόνιονdiakonion, flat-cake… eiresione to Apollo, playing a lyre and a cymbal and [carrying?] a branch and some other (?) round cakes they call these diakonion." [The word] is said in reference to something/someone strong. Likewise, Amerias …Matched in translationhighmedium

δ733Δίαρμαpassage by sea… by sea, the city was very favorably situated for the Carthaginians". And elsewhere: "for from the palisade to [the] sea [sc. the distance was] was 120 stades, but the passage by sea [was] a …Matched in translationhighmedium

β174Βασταχθείηmight be lifted[Meaning] might be carried off, might be stolen. After using his seal, Lakydes threw his ring through the hole, so that he might never be stripped of it and any of his belongings might …Matched in translationhighshort

β163ΒασιλίσκοςBasiliskos, Basiliscus… is also Priscus fr. 43 Blockley and Priscus fr. 76 Carolla. See also beta 164 (and epsilon 2494). Blockley indicates (350-351) that this fragment is not conclusively Priscan; cf. Blockley (ix). Carolla includes it …Matched in noteshighshort

δ684Διαπατταλευθήσῃ χαμαίyou will be pegged out on the ground… hides. It means to track down and to seek for carefully.Matched in translationhighshort

δ713Διαπορθμεύεταιis ferried across[Meaning he/she/it] is carried across, taken across.Matched in translationhighshort

δ714Διαπορθμεύσωνabout to ferry across[Meaning he] about to take across, about to carry across.Matched in translationhighshort

ε2967Ἐρημοσκόπουςnegligent-watchers[Meaning] them guarding carelessly. "They killed the negligent-watchers".Matched in translationhighshort

ε2978Ἐριβρεμέταςloud-thundering… land, an untrodden solitude. And now, Hephaestus, yours is the charge to observe the mandates laid upon you by the Father--to clamp this miscreant upon the high craggy rocks in shackles of binding adamant …Matched in translationhighmedium

β173Βαστάσαςhaving raised up… [4] Polybius 36.6.7 (preserved only here), on the surrender of Carthage. [5] Again at delta 750.Matched in noteshighmedium

β213ΒαιτικήBaitike, Baetica… a range of sophisticated and urbanized peoples formerly controlled by Carthage" (OCD(4) p.221, under Baetica).Matched in noteshighshort

δ598ΔιακωδωνίζωI ring abroad… to Etymologicum Magnum 267.27; Lysias fr. 313 Sauppe, now 485 Carey OCT.Matched in noteshighshort

ε2987Ἐριθείαfactious intriguing; working for hire… context mean canvassing for public office (LSJ); the latter is characteristic of the use of the word in the New Testament. [2] cf. epsilon 2984 (and mu 1119). This is LSJ's sense I.Matched in noteshighshort