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α1Ἂ ἄah! ah!In Aristophanes an adverb accompanying surprise and command. "Ah! ah! Don't get that torch near me!" 'Ah! ah!' must be read separately, not elided; and they both have smooth breathing.. For if they were …highshort
α2Ἀαγέςunbroken, unbreakable[Meaning something] unshattered, strong.highshort
α5Ἄαπτοςirresistable, invulnerable[Meaning someone/something] unharmed. Herodianus says about a)/aptos that it comes from i)a/ptw ['I harm'], and after adding alpha-privative and dropping the 'i' [it becomes] a)/aptos, "whom no one can harm." Or perhaps the 'a' …highshort
α7ἈασάμηνI was addled[Meaning] I did wrong, I slipped up; I was damaged, in the sense of "I was overcome by folly."highshort
α8Ἀάσαιto harm, to infatuatehas four meanings: to glut, to go to sleep, to harm, to cause pain.highshort
α9Ἀάσχετοςirresistible[Something/someone] uncontrollable.highshort
α11Ἀβάκησανthey kept quiet[Meaning] they were unaware, they did not understand.highshort
α13Ἀβάλεwould that[Meaning] o that. "Would that [...]."highshort
α15ἈβάντειοςAbanteios, Abantius, AbantianThe [house] of Abas. Also [attested is] Abantiades.highshort
α18ἌβαριςAbaris, AvarsScythian, son of Seuthes. He wrote the so-called Scythinian Oracles and Marriage of the river Hebros and Purifications and a Theogony in prose and Arrival of Apollo among the Hyperboreans in meter. He came …highmedium
α24ἈβαχθανῆabakhthaniA Hebrew expression.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
α58Ἀβληχρήνfeeble[Meaning] weak. For what is strong [is] blhxro/n. Aelian [writes]: "so she brought her life to an end gently and with a calm and feeble death, such as even Homer seems to me to …highshort
α64Ἀβούλωςill-advisedly[Meaning] unthinkingly, ignorantly. A line [of verse]: "badly, ill-advisedly, unthinkingly, without reason."highshort
α71Ἀβέλτερος νοῦςfoolish mind"[A foolish mind,] empty, naive, young."highshort
α84ἈβρόμιοςBromios-less, Bromius-less[Meaning] without wine. "If I escape through the wave of destructive fire, I tell you I will drink for one hundred suns from dewy streams, Bromios-less and wine-less." In the Epigrams.highshort
α85ἌβρομοςnoisyA clamorous person.highshort
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
α88Ἁβρὸς λειμὼν καὶ νοτερὸς καὶ εὐθαλήςa meadow delicate and moist and flourishing"All decked out as luxuriously as possible and in a manner that was amazing in terms of wealth, for someone, that is, who marvels at wealth."highshort
α89Ἁβροσύνηsplendor[Meaning] brightness.highshort
α92Ἀβρότηdivine, holy[sc. a term applied to] night. Because it is deprived [a-] of people [brotoi].highshort
α96Ἁβροχίτωνdelicate-tunic'd[Meaning someone] wearing delicate things.highshort
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
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
α126Ἀγαθοὶ δ' ἀριδάκρυες ἄνδρεςtearful men are goodIn reference to those who are strongly inclined toward pity.highshort
α128Ἀγάλακτεςmilkmates[Meaning] those who are members of the same family, blood-kin, brothers. But others [sc. define the terms as] those sharing priesthoods and [sc. who are also] fellow-family-members. But some [sc. define it as] those …highshort
α130Ἀγάλλειglorifies, honours[Meaning he/she/it] makes, prepares, adorns.highshort
α133Ἀγάλματαdelights, ornaments, statues[Meaning] the likenesses of the gods, and anything that is decorative in some way. Homer [writes]: "but it is stored away as a delight for the king." And Hesiod calls a necklace an "ornament"; …highmedium
α137Ἀγάλλωνglorying, taking pride[Meaning one who is] engaging in self-glorification.highshort
α145Ἄγανονfirewood, broken; good, gentleWith proparoxytone accent [this means] wood that has been cut up. Or brushwood and [wood that is] ready to be cut up. But some [sc. define it as wood] which is not chopped. But …highmedium

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