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458
Δημοσιεύων
being a public [doctor]
[Used] with an accusative. [Meaning] I do my work as a gift. Aristophanes writes: "but, my poor fellow, I do not happen to be a public doctor". For the doctors appointed by popular vote …
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461
Δημοσίων πραγμάτων διοικητής
administrator of public affairs
[Administrator of public affairs], as if to say curator of choregy, of trierarchy and of suchlike. But in the private sphere, as if to say he provided his opinion if anybody was the object …
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500
Διαβάλλειν
to bring across, to cross, to mislead, to slander
[Meaning] to deceive and to lead astray. Thucydides [in Book] 1 and Crates [sc. use the word]. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "to cross the sea", [meaning] to pass over it. "Thereupon he …
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515
Διαγεγονότος
elapsed, gone through, surviving
[Meaning] past. "Them surviving after the first rebuilding of the city". But diaginw/skein is to examine the matter with a precise scientific method, after a preliminary investigation.
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517
Διαγγέλλω
I give notice by a messenger
[Used] with a dative. Also [sc. attested is the participle] diaggellome/nous ["them passing on the message"], [meaning them] having given the order. Xenophon [writes]: "when [the Greeks] became aware that they were wishing to …
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526
Διαγωνιάσαντες
dreading
[Meaning they] considering/reflecting. "But since they were dreading giving the impression, because of a prior defeat, of having been thrown into complete panic, they marched out in full force at daybreak". ['Dreading'] meaning being …
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842
Διαχώρους
intervals
[Meaning] the distances of [= between] battalions. "And thus [he] filled up the intervals by the close formation of the army".
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843
Διὰ χρόνου
after a time
Meaning after a long time. "[Trygaeus] "Does it seem to you that I would be hurt, master Hermes, if I banged Opôra after a time?" -- [Hermes] "No, not if you should drink a …
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844
Διάχυσις
relaxation
[Meaning] delight, enjoyment.
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845
Διαψαλάττεσθαι
to set apart
[Meaning] to separate in a search. For what [is] apsalakton [is] untouched. So Crates [sc. uses the word].
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846
Διάψαλμα
interlude
[Meaning a] change of melody.
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847
Διαψᾶν
to scratch through
[Meaning] to dig through, to scoop out. "[...] to order everybody to scratch through the sand and to make good-sized hollows".
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848
Διαψαίρουσι
they brush away
[Meaning] they blow away. For sailors call blowing 'brushing'.
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1547
Δρύοχοι
stocks
[Meaning] pegs, the ones which are placed in a ship while it is being built. But by a misuse of language [it also denotes] the proems. Aristophanes [writes]: Agathon is beginning "to put in …
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1571
Δύναμις
power
[Meaning] the military force. "When a power of extraordinary magnitude had been brought together". And elsewhere, "the biggest possible", according to Attic phraseology, meaning large in number. Power is the name for both strength …
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1579
Δύνωμαι
I were able, I would be able
It is formed out of du/nhmi, du/namai ["I am able"]: [it is] subjunctive, [as in] e)a\n du/nwmai ["if I were able"] . Every subjunctive which has an active voice[which is] perispomenon is properispomenon [sc. …
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1580
Δυοκαιδεκάτη
twelfth
[*duokaideka/th] and duokaide/katos [sc. are attested], but [sc. so too are] duwdeka/th and [for "twelve"] duw/deka.
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1582
Δυωδεκάτη
twelfth
[no gloss]
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1583
Δύο ἐτῶν
for two years
"Having remained [for two years] amongst the Greeks he had enjoyment of his unjust escape/exile."
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1586
Δυρράχιον
Dyrrachion, Dyrrachium
A city, the one (?)later called Epidamnos; but now again called Dyrrachion because, in accordance with its geographic position, with a crested promontory jutting out, the swell, striking and splitting up, creates a big …
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1587
Δυσάλγητος
hard-hearted
[Meaning] without fellow-feeling.
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1588
Δυσαλθές
hard to cure
[Meaning something] hard to heal.
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1589
Δυσάλωτον
hard to capture
[Meaning] hard to take hold of.
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1590
Δυσανάγωγος
hard to convince
[Meaning] hard to deal with, untrusting.
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1591
Δυσανασχετοῦσι
they are displeased
[Meaning] they will take [it] badly, they are rejecting [it]. "Being distressed at the misfortune, [Heracles] departed from Kalydon together with Deianeira."
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1592
Δυσανασχέτως
with displeasure
[Meaning] reluctantly, with disbelief. "He received the royal gifts with displeasure".
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1594
Δυσαῶν ἀνέμων
of tempestuous winds
[Meaning] of [ones] blowing vigorously. "With tempestuous winds coming upon those men, they sank".
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1595
Δυσάντητον
hard to withstand
[Meaning something] hard to manage, hard to respond to.
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1596
Δυσαρεστούμενος
displeased
[Meaning someone who is] not satisfied. "The Romans maintained that the senate was displeased at the destruction of the walls at Sparta". And elsewhere: "so it is difficult to admonish peevish men, if you …
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1599
Δυσαχθές
burdensome, grievous, hard to endure
[Meaning something] heavy, not to be borne.
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