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Γεώδης
earthy, earthly, earth-like
[Meaning] one [who has come] out of the
earth.
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226
Γηγενεῖς
earth-born (ones)
… "did you learn these clever things by going to the
earth-born
ones?" Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "by an
earth-born
gust", meaning one great enough that it makes
earthquakes;
for [it was] an …
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572
Χρυσόγεων
gold-earthed, golden-earthed
[Meaning] that which has golden
earth.
But xruso/geion [sc. is different].
tragedy
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Ἀμβολὰς γῆ
thrown-up earth, raised earth
[Meaning
earth]
which was raised up by a ditch. Xenophon [writes]: "Cyrus used to make towers on the thrown-up
earth,
so that there might be as many guardposts as possible." Look under "bitten" [dakno/menos], …
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328
Χθονίας βροντάς
earth-shaking thunderclaps
"Celebrate [his]
earth-shaking
thunderclaps". Meaning sing a hymn.
"Earth-shaking"
[meaning] frightening. For they trace the genealogy of all terrible things to the
earth.
But others [see this as thunderclaps] that bring about a loud …
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225
Γηγενέτης
earth-born
… same as] ghgenh/s. Also [sc. attested is the plural] ghgenei=s
["earth-born
ones"], properly [meaning] Adam and Eve who were born out of the
earth,
since they were not born out of intercourse; but by …
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257
Γῆς ἄγαλμα
earth's statue
They model Hestia as a woman, like the
earth,
holding up a kettledrum, since the
earth
encloses the winds below herself.
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79
Γαῖα χάνοι
might the earth gape open
[Meaning] might the
earth
swallow him.
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86
Γαιοῦχος
earth-supporter
[Meaning] he who supports the
earth.
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224
Γῆ
earth
Since the
earth
is a seat of every city because she supports the cities, her image is that of a tower-bearer.
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258
Γῆς βάρος
earth's weight
… to those contributing to nothing. And [there is] another proverb:
"earth's
guts", in reference to those worth nothing.
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259
Γῆς ὀμφαλός
earth's navel
… go as a worshipper to the inviolate navel of the
earth."
That is, no longer do I go to Apollo, nor to his undefiled and holy and unapproachable temple.
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1986
Ἀναξίμανδρος
Anaximandros, Anaximander
… discovered an equinox and solstices and hour-indicators, and that the
earth
is situated in the very middle [of the universe]. He also introduced a sundial and explained the basis of all geometry. He wrote …
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84
Χάος
Chaos
… 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, …
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63
Χαμάδις
groundwards
[Meaning] to the ground, into/towards [the]
earth.
Also [sc. attested is] xama=ze, [also meaning] to the ground.
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447
Ἄδεια
impunity
… asked one another: why should they stay there? Why on
earth
should they endure three walls built up to encroach on their breathing and with the war making war on itself with impunity?"
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517
Ἀδώνιδος κῆποι
Adonis' gardens
… 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 and have …
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537
Ἀδύνατα εἶναι
to be impossibles
… which is not capable of being true; such as, the
earth
flies. 'With the general finding it impossibles to take so great a risk of war.'
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716
Ἄθεον
godless, sacrilegious
… down and suppress what is divine in us into some
earthly
and sinful and gigantic or titanic prison."
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732
Ἀθηναίων δυσβουλία
Athenians' ill-counsel
… were the first to work the soil [chthon], namely the
earth,
or on account of their not being incomers.
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877
Ἀκιδνόν
feeble
… attested is the comparative] a)kidno/teros ["more/rather feeble"], likewise. Homer [writes]:
"earth
fosters nothing more feeble than man."
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1018
Ἀκροσφαλεῖς
precarious
… precarious Huns". For a Hun would not easily tread the
earth
without horses.
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Ἀληθινὸς ἔρως
true desire
… for philosophy was implanted in him, and having broken every
earthborn
bond and trampled all hopes for honours and material goods, he came before Proclus".
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1183
Ἀληλεσμένον
ground-up
… change of life, previously wild and thorny, before tending the
earth
and seeds came about. Hence from this care came the saying a)lhlesme/non bi/on.
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1568
Ἀμείδητος
gloomy
… if you are ruler of the gloomy dead beneath the
earth,
Persephone."
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1578
Ἀμησάμενος
having shovelled up
… up. "Having disturbed the mound and having shovelled up the
earth
he sought the corpse." And meaning having heaped up with his hands. "Much did your tutor mourn, having heaped up dark dust with …
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1648
Ἀμπελεών
vineyard
[Meaning] vine-growing
earth.
"And the small vineyard nearby."
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1649
Ἀμπελών
vineyard
[Meaning] vine-bearing
earth.
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1781
Ἀμφιφῶντες
double-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.
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1827
Ἀναγκαῖον
necessary
… whole [universe] and thus engendering all compounds: fire, water, air,
earth.
For these things are certain composites of atoms and which are unaffected and unchangeable on account of their firmness. Everything occurs by necessity, …
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