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Ἀγκύλη
thong, hook
A kind of javelin. Also [sc. attested is the related participle] h)gkulwme/nos ["armed with a javelin"], [meaning] wielding a javelin. But [sc. the headword] also signifies some furnishing of the tent of Moses.
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Ἀγκύλια
linklets
[Meaning] the loops of chains.
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Ἀγκυλομήτης καὶ Ἀγκυλομήτεω καὶ Ἀγκυλομῆται
crooked of counsel
[a)gkulomh/ths] and a)gkulomh/tew. Also [sc. attested is] a)gkulomh=tai: men of devious devices.
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Ἀγκύλον
crooked
[Meaning something] curved, bent over.
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Ἀγκυλοχείλης καὶ Ἀγκυλόχειλος
crooked-beaked
Bent-beaked, an epithet of the eagle, which has curved talons. But in reference to Cleon [it means] having crooked hands for theft and seizure.
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Ἄγκυρα πλοίου
anchor of a ship
See under embryoikos.
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Ἄγκυρα
Ankyra, Ancyra, Ankara
A city. See under Galatai.
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Ἄγκυραν
anchor
[Note] that Anacharsis the Scythian philosopher invented the anchor and the potter's wheel. He lived in the time of Croesus.
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Ἀγκυρανῶν πόλις
Ankyrans' city, Ancyrans' city
[Note] that the present Ankyrans were called of old Hellenogalatians.
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Ἀγκυρηβόλιον
anchor-weight
[Meaning] the iron [sc. weight] of the boat.
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Ἀγκύρισμα
anchor-hold
[Meaning] a kind of wrestling-move. Also [sc. attested is the related participle] a)gkuri/sas, meaning [someone] wrestling down or taking down by the knee. An 'anchor-hold' is also a hunter's container of figs. Aristophanes [writes]: …
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Ἀγλαΐα
splendor
[Meaning] brightness. Also [sc. attested is the dative plural] a)glai/ais, [meaning by/with] brightnesses.
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Ἀγλαϊεῖσθαι
to adorn one's self
[Meaning] to make one's self beautiful. [Used] with a dative. The present [tense (active) is] a)glai/+zw. [Also used] with a dative.
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Ἀγλαόκοιτος
splendid-bedded
[Meaning] highly honored.
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Ἀγλαομητία
splendid wisdom
Great counsel.
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Ἀγλαότιμον
splendid-honored
[Meaning] brilliant, valued.
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Ἀγλαοφῶν
Aglaophon
A proper name.
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Ἄγλαυρος
Aglauros, Aglaurus
The daughter of Kekrops. It is also a cult-name of Athena.
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Ἀγλευκές
sour
[Meaning] what is bitter. Xenophon used [the word] in the Oeconomicus. But the word seems to be foreign, Sicilian; at any rate it is much used later in Rhinthon. Also [sc. attested is the …
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Ἄγλιθες
garlic-crowns
[Meaning] the heads of garlic plants. Aristophanes [writes]: "like field-mice, you dig garlic-crowns with a peg".
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Ἀγλωττία
tonguelessness
[Meaning] quiet, silence. Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] tongueless, [meaning] voiceless, speechless. "Now having fallen to the earth, tongueless and voiceless, I lie, refusing emulous ambition."
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Ἄγμασι
shards
[Meaning in/with] fragments, changes. "They had secretly thrown shards of amphorae into the marshy parts of the places."
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Ἀγναπτότατος βάτος αὖος
stiffest dried skate
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to one who is harsh and obstinate by temperament.
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Ἁγνεία
purity
[Meaning] pureness. An intensity of temperance.
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Ἁγνίας
Hagnias
A proper name.
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Ἁγνίζω
I purify
[Used] with an accusative.
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Ἀγνοεῖ δ' ἀράχνη παῖδας ὡς παιδεύεται
a spider knows not how she educates her children.
[A spider knows not how she educates her children.] For having nurtured them she has died at the hands of her dearest ones. [Sc. A proverbial saying] in reference to those who look after …
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Ἀγνόημα
ignorance
"They were ignorant to an extent of ignorance such as no-one would have been ignorant who had grasped a little dialectic and was able to understand something about it."
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Ἄγνος
chaste-tree, withy
A plant, which they also call lugos. But it is also a kind of bird.
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Ἄγνον
chaste-tree, withy
They are not speaking of the lugos. And Chionides uses it in the masculine in Heroes: "and verily, by Zeus, I don't seem anymore to be different from an agnos growing in a mountain …
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