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ἀγάπη οὐ περπερεύεται
love is not boastful
Meaning does not thrust
itself
forward. See under perpereia.
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Ἄβαξι
[in/on/with] planks, abacuses
… is a table topped by a slab, or the slab
itself;
a "calculator" is a secondary meaning. [2] Symeon Metaphrastes (also known as the Logothete ('Lawmaker')) Patrologia Graeca 115.837c. On Thecla, see theta 102.
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Ἀβασάνιστος
untested
… alpha589, Photius alpha1845. [1] *ba/sanos can mean both the touchstone
itself
and the testing process. See beta 139, and cf. beta 137. [2] Aelian fr.9 Hercher (= 9 Domingo-Forasté). The version of the entry …
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Ἀβληχρήν
feeble
… error, however: blhxro/s is well attested as meaning "weak" by
itself:
see web address 1 for the LSJ entry. The lexica mistake the copulative alpha in the headword for an alpha privative. [2] Aelian …
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357
Ἄγριον ὑποβλέπει με
looks at me angrily
… the verb u(poble/pein is preferable to the middle. The quotation
itself,
also in Eudemus, is unidentifiable. [2] Quotation (with another idiom: the participle a)griai/nontes) unidentifiable. [3] Quotation unidentifiable. [4] Quotation unidentifiable. (At delta 1012, …
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Ἀγροῦ πυγή
rump of the country; fat of the land
… alpha272 Theodoridis; Appendix Proverbiorum 1.4; Macarius Chrysocephalus 1.3. The phrase
itself
is taken to come from Old Attic Comedy: Archippus fr. 7 Demianczuk, now 29 Kassel-Austin. As to its glossing, the Suda's liparw=n (translated …
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Ἀγροιλῆθεν
from-Agroile; Agryle
… the Suda, besides transmitting an odd version of the deme-name
itself,
changes the headword from the deme-name to the demotikon, on which see n.1 below). Agryle was one of the six instances of Athenian …
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Βαβύλας
Babylas
… babu(k)as was glossed as a cess-pit or clay-pit. The word
itself
was garbled in transmission in various directions, and in the glosses there was confusion between bo/qron ('pit') and the sound-alike ba/qron ('pedestal') and …
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Βαβύλας
Babylas
… RSV); again at epsilon 3440. [5] Hebrews 2:13, which is
itself
a fragmentary quotation of Isaiah 8:18.
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