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η11Ἡ ἀπὸ Σκυθῶν ῥῆσιςthe statement from Scythians… who sharply tell someone to go hang; inasmuch as the Scythians responded to Dareios the Persian, after he had made an announcement about yielding, telling him to go hang.Matched in translationhighshort
α3238Ἁπλῷ λόγῳin a simple statement… true simply. For the Ethiopian is not white, because [this statement is] without qualification. But when "in some respect" has been added, it becomes true, for he is white in respect to the teeth. …Matched in translationhighmedium
β334ΒλήδαςBlêdas, BledasThe name of a Scythian.Matched in translationhighshort
δ854Δίγλωσσοςbilingual… one who has knowledge of two languages. "Anacharsis was a Scythian, but his mother was Greek. For this reason he was bilingual; [it was he] who made laws for the Scythians."Matched in translationhighshort
α878Ἀκκιζόμενοςacting coyly, being prudish, toying… naturally on to jealousy". And [there is] a proverb: a Scythian toying with the donkey. In reference to those ostensibly nauseated but in fact avid. For someone who had seen a dead donkey said …Matched in translationhighmedium
ι668Ἰσότης φιλότηςequality amityThis [is] a gnomic [statement] showing that equality encompasses amity.Matched in translationhighshort
κ2022Κομψευόμενοιboasting about, being clever about… detected in the attempt [at] boasting about the name." The statement [is] about historiographers.Matched in translationhighshort
μ375Μεγαλωστίgreatly, vastly… citing himself among the prime [examples] as confirmation of his statement."Matched in translationhighshort
α2130ἈνάχαρσιςAnacharsisThe son of Gnouros and of a Greek mother, a Scythian, a philosopher, brother of Kadui[d]as the king of Scythia. He wrote Customs of the Scythians in verses, Concerning the simplicity of those things …Matched in translationhighmedium
ι625Ἶσαι ψῆφοιequal votes… would perish, even if the votes are equal". An exaggerated statement. For whenever the votes [sc. of an Athenian jury] were equal, the defendant was acquitted.Matched in translationhighshort
α258Ἄγκυρανanchor[Note] that Anacharsis the Scythian philosopher invented the anchor and the potter's wheel. He lived in the time of Croesus.Matched in translationhighshort
α2907Ἅπαξ ἐλάλησεν ὁ θεόςonce did God speakMeaning [he spoke] categorically or completely. The [statement that] God spoke once [applies] not to a number, but to what will absolutely exist. And [there is] a proverb: "once red, and not a tenth …Matched in translationhighshort
α1951Ἀνάλυσιςanalysis[Meaning] explanation. For a definition is an analytical statement expressing the definiendum precisely and summarily. Analysis [is] the recurrence of types from form to form. For [the verb] a)nalu/ein is said of the application …Matched in translationhighshort
λ463Ληξιαρχικὸν γραμματεῖονlexiarchic register, deme register… [is] the complaint in accordance with which we make a statement and are allocated a lawsuit.Matched in translationhighshort
α3025Ἀπενιαυτίσαιto go away for a year… Apollonius of Tyana went away for a year to the Scythian people, because he had experienced a disappointment in love." And elsewhere about Heracles: "[that] having gone away for a year, as was customary, …Matched in translationhighshort
κ1354ΚεραμεικόςKerameikos, Ceramicus, Potters' Quarter… which contain inscriptions [specifying] where each man died. Anacharsis the Scythian, a philosopher, invented the anchor and the potter's wheel.Matched in translationhighshort
α114ἈγαθοεργίαbeneficenceDamascius [writes]: "to sum everything up in one statement, what Pythagoras said about man being very similar to the divine is something that he [Isidore] clearly demonstrated in his deeds: his beneficent zeal and …Matched in translationhighmedium
α324Ἀγωγόνescorting… [writes]: "he turned to the channels of the Tigris." The statement [is] about Chosroes. Also [sc. attested is] a)gwgou/s ["escorts"], [meaning] guides.Matched in translationhighshort
ε2978Ἐριβρεμέταςloud-thundering… the Prometheus: "To earth's remotest limit we come, to the Scythian land, an untrodden solitude. And now, Hephaestus, yours is the charge to observe the mandates laid upon you by the Father--to clamp this …Matched in translationhighmedium
α2862Ἄπαγέ με εἰς τὰς λατομίαςtake me away into the quarries… poems, but he, not wishing to praise them, made the statement above.Matched in translationhighmedium
α1409Ἁλσὶ διασμηχθεὶς ὄναιτ' ἂν οὑτοσίthis man might be helped if he were rubbed with salt… in salt. It is as if he were making a statement about a wineskin, which become better when rubbed with salt. At the same time we treat madmen with salt and olive oil and …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε3038Ἑρμῆς ὁ ΤρισμέγιστοςHermes the Trismegistos… Pharaoh. He was called Trismegistos ['thrice-great'], because he made a statement about the triad, saying [that] a single deity exists in triadic form thus: "there existed an intellectual light prior to the intellectual light, …Matched in translationhighmedium
α979Ἀκριβήςaccurate, precise… what is necessary. And suppose we wish to establish [the statement] that every assumption of a serious person [is] accurate. For "accurate" seems to be [the assumption] which occurs through necessary [causes], ones in …Matched in translationhighmedium
α18ἌβαριςAbaris, AvarsScythian, son of Seuthes. He wrote the so-called Scythinian Oracles and Marriage of the river Hebros and Purifications and a Theogony in prose and Arrival of Apollo among the Hyperboreans in meter. He came …Matched in translationhighmedium
μ147ΜάνηςManes, Mani… contract against God. This man, called both Manes and the Scythian, was Brahman by race. He had as his teacher a "Buddha", the one previously called Terebinthos, who had been educated in the things …Matched in translationhighlong
α425ἈδάμAdam… their name." And what is more perfectly clear than this statement and this testimony? What more sublime than this wisdom and this discrimination? He gave names to nature itself, as though prescribing the essence …Matched in translationhighlong
ι229Ἰησοῦς ὁ Χριστὸς καὶ θεὸς ἡμῶνJesus the Christ and our God… and learn their names from them, and to receive a statement from them, whether the man who was elected to the priesthood was their son. And all agreed to this. He who had nominated …Matched in translationhighlong
κ25ΚαδουΐαςKadouias, KadouidasA king of Scythians.Matched in translationhighshort
λ323Λευκὴ ἡμέραwhite day, brilliant day… the things for a quiver". For Phylarchus says that the Scythians, when they were about to lie down to sleep, brought their quiver, and if they happened to have passed that day unharmed, they …Matched in translationhighmedium
αι110Αἰθαλοκομπίαιςwith sooty boastings[Meaning] with smoke and false statements.Matched in translationhighshort