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ὥστε πλείους ἢ χιλίας ἱεροδούλους ἐκέκτητο ἑταίρας –> it owned more than a thousand temple-slaves, courtesans

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ἱερεὺς τις ἄτας -> minister of woe, priest of ruin

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αὐλεῖται πᾶν μέλαθρον -> the whole house is filled with music

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Καλαβίδια -> festival of Diana?

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καλλαβίς -> callabis dance, callabis

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ἔσσεται ἦμαρ -> the day shall come, the day will come, there will be a time of, there will be a time when

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ἔσσεται ἦμαρ ὅτ' ἄν ποτ' ὀλώλῃ Ἴλιος ἱρὴ -> the day shall come when sacred Ilios shall be laid low

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σησαμίδας χέζειν -> shit sesamides

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ὁ λόγος πέπαισται -> has been made up as a jest, is jocularly told

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ἀνδρὸς σπλάγχνον ἐκμαθεῖν -> learn a man's heart, learn a man's inward nature

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ἐλευθέρα Κόρκυρα· χέζ' ὅπου θέλεις -> Corfu is free; shit where you want

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καλλαβίδας βαίνειν -> step like a callabis-dancer

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Λειβήθριαι πύλαι -> Leibethran gates, gates of Leibethra

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τῶν Λειβηθρίων ἀμουσότερος -> more uncultured than Leibethrans, more uncultured than the people of Leibethra, lowest degree of mental cultivation

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Λειβηθρίδες νύμφαι -> Libethrid nymphs, Libethrides nymphs, nymphae Libethrides

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ᾁδειν ἀμουσότερα Λειβηθρίων -> sing worse than Leibethrans, sing worse than the people of Leibethra

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Λειβηθρίων ἀνοητότεροι -> more foolish than Leibethrans, more foolish than the people of Leibethra

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αὐτοτραγικὸς πίθηκος -> a very ape of tragedy, tragic-ape, monkey of melodrama, drama-queen of an ape

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ἐλέφαντα ἐκ μυίας ποιεῖν -> make an elephant out of a mouse, make a molehill into a mountain, make a mountain out of a molehill, make mountains out of molehills, blow out of proportion, blow the coals, bug up one's ass, clutch one's pearls, clutch the pearls, make a big deal out of something, make a big thing of something, make a federal case, make a federal case out of something, make a meal of something, make a meal out of something, make a song and dance about something, pile on the agony, pile on the gloom, strain at a gnat

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κορυδός ἐν ἀμούσοις φθέγγεται -> a lark sings amid the songless | in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king | in the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king | in the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

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