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Ἐκβακχευθείς
frenzied
[Meaning he who was] driven mad. "Frenzied, Valens announced a massed expedition against the enemy."
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ε
375
Ἐκβεβόλβισται
has been uprooted
[Meaning he/she/it] has been dug out of the ground.
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376
Ἐκβιαστής
exactor
"For they are both exactors of justice, they urge us to the goal of justice." He is speaking about Gregory and Basil.
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ε
377
Ἐκβαίνω
I exceed, I go beyond, I overstep
[Used] with an accusative. Also [sc. attested is] "you would exceed", [meaning] you would go out.
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378
Ἐκβιβάσας
bringing out
[Meaning one who is] leading out. "Bringing out the nightingale which sings as sweetly as the muse, leave [her] here for us, so that we may play with her". ['So that we may play'] …
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ε
379
Ἐκβρασθῇ
would be washed ashore
[Meaning he/she/it] would be taken out, would be thrown out. It is also said of those who are being thrown out by the sea. Also said is "[he/she/it] was ‘spat out’ by the sea".
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145
Χασσάμενος
having given ground
[Meaning he] having withdrawn. Homer [says]: "and having given ground [Thoas] was shaken". While withdrawing they used to shake the spears which were stuck in the shield, in order that they would be scattered.
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171
Χαιριδεῖς
Chairideis
[Meaning those] educated from [= by] Chairis. Or practising [sc. with him]. Chairis [was] an uncultured Theban piper. So Attic [writers] say Chairideis from Chairis and peristerideis from peristera\ ['dove']. This man used to …
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χ
195
Χέλυς
chelus
A kithara. Also [sc. attested is] the tortoise, the shell-backed [creature].
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234
Χειμὼν
winter
[*xeimw/n, genitive] xeimw=nos. Winter is the air above the earth that is frozen because of the departure of the sun. Homer [says]: "they fled winter". [He is speaking] about the cranes. He is referring …
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336
Χλαῖναι
chlainai, cloaks
[Meaning] wraps. Homer differentiates the peplos -- which is female dress, a garment fastened on the shoulder -- from cloaks. The same thing he also calls e(ano/n.
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398
Χορείαν
choral dance
The ancients [sc. called thus] the dance accompanied with singing. Homer knew two dances, the one of the tumblers and the other with a playing-ball. Aristonicus of Carystus, King Alexander's fellow ball-player, used to …
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490
Χρῆμα οἰκτροί
pitiable business, pitiable matter
[Meaning they who are] abased, worthy of sympathy. "The elders of the Libyans -- a pitiable business -- came in accordance with the virgin’s fame and begged to receive some release from the plague".
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491
Χρήμη
need
[Meaning a] lack/want, and scarcity. Herodotus [when commenting] on the life of Homer [says]: "those [sc. arguments] which had been opposed to his need". "He nevertheless became [involved] in great expenses". That is in …
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