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α12ἈββακούμHabakkuk, Abbakoum, Avvakoum[A name meaning] father of awakening. For the [word] abba means father, and koum means awakening. So also in the Holy Gospel: "Talitha, koum," that is, "young girl, get up." From which [it is] …highshort
α16Ἄβαξι[in/on/with] planks, abacusesWhat we call a)ba/kia. The Lawmaker [says] in the Martyrdom of Saint Thecla: "Tryphaina was overcome by suffering, and was seen lying like the dead on the slabs." So he says.highshort
α19ἈβαρνίςAbarnisName of a city.highshort
α45ἈβιμέλεχAbimelechProper name. The son of Gideon. He smote his brothers, seventy sons of Gideon's wives, upon a single stone, and none of them was left except Jotham the youngest son, who ran away. As …highlong
α68ἌβραfavoriteNot simply a maidservant nor even the pretty maidservant is called [favorite], but a daughter of one of the house slaves and an honored one, whether born in the house or not. Menander in …highmedium
α69ἈβραάμAbrahamThe first among patriarchs; [it was he] in whom the Hebrew people took pride at first, before they rebelled against God, became estranged from Him, and shed upon themselves the blood of His Only-Begotten …highlong
α87Ἁβρόςdelicate[Meaning] bright, delicate, tender. In the Epigrams: "a cicada sat above a cithara delicately murmuring." "All the same that fellow is dainty and delicate and weakened by the softness of his body and depraved …highmedium
α112ἈγαθίαςAgathiasA lawyer, of Myrina; the one who wrote the History as a continuation of Procopius of Caesarea, [comprising] the affairs involving Belisarius and the events in Italy and Libya; that is the affairs involving …highmedium
α117ἈγαθοκλῆςAgathokles, AgathoclesThis man became tyrant [of Syracuse] and, as Timaeus says, in his early youth was a common prostitute, ready [to give himself] to the most debauched, a jackdaw, a buzzard, presenting his backside to …highmedium
α124ἈγάθωνAgathonA proper name. He was a tragic poet; but he was slandered for effeminacy. Aristophanes [writes]: "Where is Agathon?" -- "He's gone and left me." -- "Where on earth is the wretch?" -- "At …highmedium
α164Ἄγγαροςangaros, courierThis is what the Persians used to call the royal messengers. "He sent one of his most trusty men as messenger [a)/ggaros] to the Babylonian" - because of the nobleman Parsondes.highshort
α204Ἄγεταιis marrying[He] is courting, is taking in marriage. Aelian [writes]: "Iobas the Maurousian is marrying his sister".highshort
α287Ἀγνῶταςunknown[Meaning them] not being recognized. "He brought a man unknown to me, who also happened to be unknown to him." "They had just left farming and entered into the danger of war, which was …highshort
α295ἈγονίαsterilityChildlessness, barrenness. Aelian [writes]: "the young generation was being destroyed, and there was also sterility both of the women and of the four-footed flock."highshort
α301Ἀγορὰ Κερκώπωνmarket of KerkopesThey were in Ephesus. Herakles bound them on the orders of Omphale, but he shrank from killing them since their mother begged him. The proverb is spoken in reference to ill-behaved and knavish people.highshort
α332ἈγώνιοςcompetitorSomeone in a competition. Also [sc. attested is] the feminine a)gwni/a, [meaning] fear. But a)goni/a with a short 'o' [means] barrenness.highshort
α335ἈγωνίςAgonisA name of a courtesan.highshort
α359ἌγριοςAgrios, AgriusProper name. Also [sc. attested is the adjective] agrios, [meaning] unsociable, not tame. It is also used for an excess of evil. Aelian [writes]: "he sent away the most savage of the bodyguards, took …highshort
α360Ἀγρίουςwild menAeschines in the speech Against Timarchos calls men who are very agitated by the love of boys "wild men". And Menander says a gambler is "wild" if he is too eager for gambling. The …highshort
α376Ἄγροικος ἐξ ἄστεοςa rustic out of townHe did not make this juxtaposition idly. For he is not ashamed to call himself rustic: he insults himself as foolish and rustic in various ways; rather, first of all he is unaware that …highmedium
α385ἈγύρριοςAgyrrhios, AgyrrhiusA proper name. [The man] who was slandered for weakness, that he actually breaks wind. Aristophanes in Plutus [says this]. And he was also ridiculed for over-boldness. Also [sc. attested is] Agyrrhios, an Athenian …highshort
α388Ἀγύρτηςmendicant[Meaning a] beggar, mountebank. One who asks for more, greedy. Or a vulgar person. And it is also a throw with dice and a Gallus and a seer, as Apion [says]. In the Epigrams: …highshort
α416Ἄγχουσαalkanet, bugloss, rougeA type of plant, which has a red root used by women to redden their faces. "Alkanet will harm [you] as will that white lead of yours".highshort
α419Ἄγχωνsqueezing[Meaning one who is] strangling, pressing. "He, squeezing her right hand and bringing it around her, took away the sword."highshort
α425ἈδάμAdamThe first human, he who was shaped by the hand of God and formed in the image and likeness of the Creator and Founder; he was also deemed worthy of a dwelling in Paradise. …highlong
α428ἈδάμαστοςunmasteredMaiden, unyoked. Sophocles [writes]: "but now Zeus' fierce-eyed maiden goddess [...] has ruined [me], planting in me a berserk illness."highshort
α441Ἀδελφειόςbrother[Meaning the same as] a)delfo/s; but a)delfidou=s [is] first cousin. And [sc. the accusative is] to\n a)delfidou=n. Also [sc. attested is the cognate verb] a)delfi/zein, meaning "to call [someone] brother". Isocrates and Hecataeus the …highshort
α443Ἀδένηa such-and-such woman[Meaning] a prattling woman, a such-and-such woman.highshort
α463Ἄδηνenough, to excess[Meaning] plenty or to surfeit, sufficiently, abundantly. Or furiously, in excess. In Charmides [sc. Plato writes]: "since we have enough of those things." And Herodotus [writes]: "when they had had enough killing, they drove …highmedium
α467ᾍδηςHades"Immovable Hades, why did you snatch my lovely companion? Did Cypris indeed madden your mind?"highshort

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