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- γ244Γήπεδονearth-plot… piece of land. Just like house-plot [oi)ko/pedon], the one uniting earth and dwellings.
- ε1396ἘννοσίγαιοςEarth-shaker[Meaning] he who moves the earth, creating earthquakes.
- κ1790Κληροῦχοιcleruchs, plot-holders… send out to the cities which they had taken, distributing plots of land to each of them. So Isocrates in [the] Panegyrikos [sc. uses the term]. Demosthenes in the [speech] On the Symmories would …
- γ468Γρυπάνιονwrinkling… second [book] of Truth says: "for he was burning the earth and is making a mass of wrinkling." And Melanthius says "there was an earthquake, and the earth wrinkled."
- κ1098ΚαττουδαίουςUndergroundersSee in the [entry] "dwellers under earth".
- χ617Χυτρεοῦνearthenware… cooking-pot. Aristophanes [writes]: "o unhappy me, for taking you -- earthenware -- to be a god".
- ε2276Ἐπιγύοιςcables, hawsers[Meaning with] the ones [projecting] from the earth. "They fastened most of it, also, into a junction with the cables [projecting] out of the earth." And elsewhere: "they secured the flank [facing] away from …
- κ1744ΚλειγένηςKleigenes, Cligenes… all who are masters of ash-mixing, sham-soda dust and Kimolian earth." "Ash-mixing" [is] ash mixed with soda. "Kimolian" [is a kind of] white earth. So he is saying that [Kleigenes] is most rascally [skilled] …
- η512Ἠρίαbarrows, mounds… built up at the top. The name comes from e)/ra ["earth"].
- χ77Χαμόθενfrom the ground[Meaning] from the earth.
- 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].
- ν550Νωμῶνobserving… everything" -- Sophocles [writes] -- "[taught and] unspoken, celestial and earth-treading".
- κ887ΚαταιβάτηςDescending, Kataibates… his sending-down of thunderbolts. Or from his descending [sc. to earth] through love of women.
- χ64Χαμαίon the ground[Meaning] on the earth. And [there is] a proverb: 'to draw water on the ground', the equivalent of achieving nothing. Another instance is 'to wash a brick'. Used in reference to things that are …
- κ2360Κρεάγραmeat-hook"Why on earth would we buy meat-hooks for our buckets, it being possible to let down an old woman like this and draw up the buckets from the wells?" In reference to lascivious and …
- ε1800Ἐξόνbeing allowed, being possible"Why on earth do we buy meat-hooks for our buckets, it being possible to let down an old woman like this and draw up the buckets from the wells?" In reference to lascivious and …
- ε3336Ἐτρύχωσενemaciated[Meaning he/she/it] wore [someone/something] out. "The earth, gripped with torments, was wearing them out most painfully".
- α4536Αὐτόχθονεςfrom their own soil, autochthonous… were the first to work the soil, that is the earth, when it was [still] fallow; or because of their not being immigrants. Arcadians and Aeginetans and Thebans, too, used to be called autochthones. …
- α4509Αὐτομαχεῖνto fight one's own battle… au)tomaxh=sai: when someone lays claim to a house or a plot of land, and the seller is of sufficient means to appear [sc. to be able] to pay the penalty and to settle the …
- κ1723ΚλεομένηςKleomenes, CleomenesThis man devised a plot against Ptolemy Philopator; though he came to a bad end, he had been a man both adroit in his dealings and adept in his management of affairs -- in …
- χ342Χλίδοςslime, sludgeDemosthenes in the [speech] Against Kallikles on Damage to a Plot [writes]: "and then throwing out the slime into the road, the result of which was that he made the road itself higher and …
- λ808ΛύκιςLykis… of being a frigid poet. Aristophanes [writes] : "why on earth should I have carried these bags, if I shall be doing none of the things Phrynichus created, and Lykis and Ameipsias". So these …
- ει152ΕἰμίI am… "for I am going to the limits of the fruitful earth to see [Ocean et al.]" Ajax says: "but I am going to the bathing-places and the coastal meadows, so that when I have …
- ι212Ἰζηματίαςsubsidence-causingA kind of earthquake.
- β429Βουλεύσεωςconspiracy… attached to two sets of circumstances. One is when someone plots to bring about the death of somebody, irrespective of whether the target of the plot dies or not ; the other is when …
- ε1817Ἐξούλης δίκηejectment, exoule… [sc. in classical Athens] and thus permitted to recover a plot of land or a house but are then prevented from entering into possession -- and having not entered into possession are evicted -- …
- κ418Καρποῦ δίκηproduce lawsuit… accordance with the laws: if your dispute is about a plot of land, a [dike] karpou; if it is about a house, a [dike] enoikiou; just as this suit of his now, against you, …
- α3597Ἀποτιμηταὶapotimetai, guarantors… husband[-to-be] a security for the dowry - a house or plot of land of equal value. [In such circumstances] the giver of the guarantee was said "to guarantee" it, in the active sense, while …
- ε4013Ἐχῖνοιvases, echinoiSome [are] bronze, others [made] out of earthenware; into them the [sc. Athenian] arbitrators placed the documents of the witness-statements that people had testified, and then sealed them up, handing them on to the …
- δ1118ΔίκτυςDictys, DiktysDuring the reign of Claudius, after an earthquake had flattened Crete and many graves had been opened, in one of these there was found the historical treatise of Dictys, covering the Trojan War; Claudius …