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γ
244
Γήπεδον
earth-plot
… piece of land. Just like house-plot [oi)ko/pedon], the one uniting
earth
and dwellings.
Matched in translation
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short
ε
1396
Ἐννοσίγαιος
Earth-shaker
[Meaning] he who moves the
earth,
creating
earthquakes.
Matched in translation
high
short
χ
617
Χυτρεοῦν
earthenware
… cooking-pot. Aristophanes [writes]: "o unhappy me, for taking you --
earthenware
-- to be a god".
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ε
1398
Ἐνοσίχθων
Earth-shaker
[Meaning he who is] shaking the ground.
Matched in headword
high
short
ε
1948
Ἐπαμησάμενος
having heaped on (earth)
[Meaning he] having stirred [it] up. Herodotus [sc. uses the word].
Matched in headword
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short
γ
468
Γρυπάνιον
wrinkling
… 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."
Matched in translation
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short
κ
1790
Κληροῦχοι
cleruchs, 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 …
Matched in translation
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medium
ι
212
Ἰζηματίας
subsidence-causing
A kind of
earthquake.
Matched in translation
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short
α
4226
Ἄστικτον χωρίον
unmarked land, unmarked plot
[Meaning] that not mortgaged to a lender. For whenever it is mortgaged, the lender shows this very fact in writing set upon the land. The same happens with a house too.
Matched in headword
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short
κ
578
Κατακληρουχῶ
I divide into plots
[Used] with an accusative.
Matched in headword
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short
ε
2276
Ἐπιγύοις
cables, 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 …
Matched in translation
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short
κ
1744
Κλειγένης
Kleigenes, 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] …
Matched in translation
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short
η
512
Ἠρία
barrows, mounds
… built up at the top. The name comes from e)/ra
["earth"].
Matched in translation
high
short
ε
2659
Ἐπὶ τὰ Μανδροβόλου
on Mandrobolos' property
… History of Samos 800-188 BC (Oxford 1987) appendix 2; 'Samian
Earth'
seems to have been a kind of fuller's
earth.
[2] A ram, because, according to a scholiast on Nicander's Alexipharmaka, this was the …
Matched in notes
high
short
α
4536
Αὐτόχθονες
from 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. …
Matched in translation
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short
β
429
Βουλεύσεως
conspiracy
… 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 …
Matched in translation
high
medium
γ
473
Γύγου δακτύλιος
Gyges' ring
… villainous men. For Gyges was a cowherd who after an
earthquake
found a corpse which was wearing a ring, and stripped it off. The nature of the ring was such that, by twists of …
Matched in translation
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short
δ
1054
Διιτρέφης πυτιναῖα ἔχων πτερά
Diitrephes with wicker-flask wings
… if [Aristophanes] said: with nothing other than wine-jar feet and
earthenware
knobs. This man [Dieitrephes] was nouveau riche and grasping and wicked. Plato in Festivals [writes]: "and a foreigner, the madman, the Cretan, the …
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medium
δ
1118
Δίκτυς
Dictys, Diktys
During 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 …
Matched in translation
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short
ε
1800
Ἐξόν
being 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 …
Matched in translation
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short
ε
3336
Ἐτρύχωσεν
emaciated
[Meaning he/she/it] wore [someone/something] out. "The
earth,
gripped with torments, was wearing them out most painfully".
Matched in translation
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short
ε
4013
Ἐχῖνοι
vases, echinoi
Some [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 …
Matched in translation
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short
ει
152
Εἰμί
I 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 …
Matched in translation
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short
κ
887
Καταιβάτης
Descending, Kataibates
… his sending-down of thunderbolts. Or from his descending [sc. to
earth]
through love of women.
Matched in translation
high
short
κ
1098
Καττουδαίους
Undergrounders
See in the [entry] "dwellers under
earth".
Matched in translation
high
short
κ
2360
Κρεάγρα
meat-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 …
Matched in translation
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short
κ
2377
Κρεσφόντης
Kresphontes, 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 translation
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short
χ
64
Χαμαί
on 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 …
Matched in translation
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short
χ
77
Χαμόθεν
from the ground
[Meaning] from the
earth.
Matched in translation
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short
δ
1124
Διμήτωρ
twice-born
… thus being considered as having been born once from the
earth
and again from the vine"), and generally LSJ s.v.
Matched in notes
high
short
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