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- 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.
- α725Ἀθήλυντονunwomanish[Meaning someone or something] inflexible, hard.
- α826Ἄκαιναakaina[Meaning a] ten-foot measure. It is a rod, by which they goad their cattle, with the Pelasgians having invented this.
- α1943Ἀνάλογονproportion, proportionateThe definition of proportion is this: it has a size proportionate to the reciprocal things which display the same a)nqufai/resis -- Aristotle's word for a corresponding diminution. Those things which have proportion to one …
- α1986ἈναξίμανδροςAnaximandros, AnaximanderSon of Praxiades, Milesian, philosopher, a relative and student and successor of Thales. He first discovered an equinox and solstices and hour-indicators, and that the earth is situated in the very middle [of the …
- α2000Ἀναπεμπάζεινto ponder, to calculate, to count over[Meaning] to go over in the mind, to recollect. It is created from those counting continually and repeatedly with the five fingers of their hand, as if counting by fives [kata\ penta/da]. Also [sc. …
- α2828ἈξιώματαaxiomsThus Aristotle calls both the propositions requiring demonstration and the indemonstrable ones, as [is] his custom.
- α2929Ἀπαρτίανchattels, household utensils, moveables[Meaning] removal/baggage, fulfilment of a completion. Also [sc. attested is the adverb] a)partizo/ntws ["precisely,"], [meaning] the [condition of] neither surpassing nor lacking. "For a term is a word which, when analyzed, is uttered precisely." …
- α3880ἈριθμῶI count[Used] with an accusative. Also [sc. attested is the participle] a)riqmou=nta ["him counting"], [meaning him] assigning. "And counting some men to the bodyguards/spear-carriers". The Pythagoreans gave a name to every number. The number adds …
- α3971Ἁρματωλίαchariot-driving[Meaning] the driving of chariots. "And they have been nibbling at the [sc. calendric] cycle by chariot-driving." Meaning sparing the chariots themselves. But harmatrochia ["chariot-wheel track"] [is] the furrow of the chariot. There is …
- α3990Ἀρουραία μάντιςfield mantis[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those who are sluggish and ineffectual. There is a clumsy locust, green, called a mantis, whose movements some heed and [thereby] prophesy. The aroura contains 50 feet.
- α4036Ἄρτιαeven, exact[Meaning things that are] fitted, complete, sound. These things are also said to be "joined" [a)/rmena]. Also [sc. attested is the related verb] a)rtia/zein, [meaning] to play at odds or evens [a)/rtia]. "We play …
- δ72ΔαρεικούςDaricsIt was a gold currency, which Darius first devised. When Xerxes sent an envoy to him and offered him three thousand Darics, [Aristides] said that he had no use for Persian wealth, living the …
- δ180Δεκαταῖοςfor ten days; ten days old[Meaning] tenth.
- δ188Δεκάχοιαtenfold[Meaning] ten times.
- δ507ΔιαβήτηςcompassThe compass [is] an instrument, useful for many crafts, [which is shaped] rather like the letter l[ambda]. By inserting one half of this instrument and moving the other half around, they make circles. The …
- δ653ΔιάμετροςdiameterA kind of geometrical [term]. Eunapius [writes]: "the diametrically opposed shafts making a kind of cross at the tongue with the conjunction of the counter-posed arrowheads." But Dinarchus calls the residue from something that …
- δ1062ΔικαίαρχοςDikaiarkhos, DicaearchusSon of Pheidias, Sicilian, from the city of Messene. Pupil of Aristotle. Philosopher and rhetorician and geometrician. [He wrote] Measurements of the Mountains in the Peloponnese; Life of Hellas in 3 books. This man …
- δ1195ΔιόπτραdioptraA mechanical implement, with which the geometers used to assess with precision the measure of battlements from a distance. The Pisidian [writes]: "you see these things from far away with your dioptra".
- δ1219ΔιόφαντοςDiophantos, DiophantusA proper name.
- δ1326Δοκίδεςbeams, meteorsNames of stars.
- δ1355ΔομνῖνοςDomninos, DomninusA philosopher, Syrian by descent, from both Laodicea and Larissa, a city of Syria; a pupil of Syrianus and the schoolmate of Proclus, according to Damascius. He was a capable man in mathematics, but …
- δ1443Δωδεκατημόριονtwelfth-part[Meaning] the twelfth portion.
- δ1580Δυοκαιδεκάτηtwelfth[*duokaideka/th] and duokaide/katos [sc. are attested], but [sc. so too are] duwdeka/th and [for "twelve"] duw/deka.
- δ1582Δυωδεκάτηtwelfth[no gloss]
- χ304ΧίλιαthousandA number.
- χ418ΧοσρόηςChosroes, Khosrau, KhosrawThe Persians' king. "They praise him and they wonder at his merit -- not [only] the Persians, but even some of the Romans -- since (they say) he was a lover of literature and …
- χ539ΧρῶμαcolorWhenever the crystalline of the eye is colored as a result of a certain affection, it seems to us that the air and the other visible things have been colored with the same color. …
- χ590Χοίνικεςchoinix, choenixThe noun means not only the measure [sc. of that name], but also fetters. Choinikes are fetters of a certain kind; a choinix [is] anything rounded. Hence also the measure is named a choinix. …
- χ591Χοίνικεςchoinix, choenix[Meaning the units] by which Egyptians measure [time-]periods. "The category of supremely contemplative souls [is] rarer than that of the choinix, by which Egyptians measure [time-]periods; the likes of Amous and Antonios".