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- β520Βρασμὸς γῆςroiling of the earth… cf. also the gloss-less alpha 2104. For other kinds of earthquake, see epsilon 2391 and iota 212 (also gamma 468); for a related verb, beta 518.
- ε1620Ἐξελοφίζετοused to be quarried out"The earth used to be quarried out of the earth-hills of Dikaiarcheia."
- α4433Αὖλαξfurrow[Meaning] the lengthy cutting in the earth [made] by a plow.
- ε3212Ἑστίαhearth, Hestia… altar, pot-stand, fireplace. "They portray Hestia -- that is, the earth -- as a woman holding a drum; since the earth gathers the winds under herself."
- κ2640Κυκησιτέφρουof ash-mixing… all who are masters of ash-mixing, sham-soda dust and Kimolian earth." ["Ash-mixing" means] that which mixes the ash, combining it with soda. And "Kimolian" [refers to] a white earth. [Aristophanes] is saying that [Kleigenes] …
- ε2777Ἐπιχθονίωνof land-bound[Meaning] of earth-bound.
- α203Ἄγεσταagesta… is] a military device erected from stones and logs and earth. But some call such a device agesta. See also under egesta.
- δ792Διατορηθῆναιto be pierced through… underwater and below the palisade to be pierced through the earth underneath the enclosure itself." Thus "to be pierced through" means to be cut through, to be bored through.
- ε3147Ἐσκευώρησενcontrived[Meaning he/she/it] plotted. Out of which also [sc. comes the cognate noun] skeuwri/a [contrivance], [meaning] a plot.
- α124ἈγάθωνAgathon… Agathon?" -- "He's gone and left me." -- "Where on earth is the wretch?" -- "At a banquet of the blessed." This Agathon was good by nature, "missed by his friends" and brilliant at …
- ει337Εἰ τὸ μέσον κτήσαιο Κορίνθου καὶ Σικυῶνοςif you were to acquire the middle ground between Corinth and Sikyon… even the city is founded between the sky and the earth; Cloudcuckooland, that is.
- α425ἈδάμAdam… wisdom and discrimination. Instead all humans scattered across the entire earth continue following his pronouncements unaltered. And the first-born one's surpassing judgment in all things did not stop there, but also extended to the …
- ε3901Ἐφημερίαephemerality… Odyssey 18.136-7, which might be translated as "The mind of earth-bound mortals is such as the day the father of gods and men brings to them." [2] This part of the entry = Hesychius …
- α4452Αὔξηincrease… the whole by means of the natural power in the earth. Thus 'to be increased' is employed in the case of things that have souls and have parts.
- δ1183Διονυσίων σκώμματαinsults of the Dionysia… as the poet says -- a 'useless weight on the earth'". "But he has been tossed to the crows and is gone unseen, unheard of, shown to be twistier than a hinge in matters …
- ε2709Ἐπιτολμῆσαιto make a daring attack on[Used] with a dative. [Meaning] to plot against. "And he persuades them to make a daring attack on Lykides and Sosibios, and, such as he is, and they being merchants, flatters them and easily …
- κ2547Κοιμίσαιto put to bed… uses this term] in reference to death: "[I call upon] earthly Hermes the guide to put me to bed gently." Also Homer: "he was put to bed in a brazen sleep."
- β550Βρονταὶ καθ' ὕπνους ἀγγέλων εἰσὶν λόγοι Βροντάςthunderclaps during sleep are messengers' wordsThunderclaps: look under 'earthly thunderclaps'. Look under 'noise'.
- δ1352ΔομετιανόςDomitian, Domitianus, Dometianos… He also exiled Nerva on the charge that he was plotting to obtain the principate, and he arrested Apollonius of Tyana as a friend of Nerva and had him shorn and brought into court …