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Θεοτόκε, βοήθεια. -> Mother of God, help!

Started by TheFated

ἡττῶ ὑπὲρ δικαίου -> be overcome for the sake of justice, be overcome for the sake of a just man (Sosiades, "Precepts of the Seven Sages")

Started by spyderrp7

ΕΥΛΑΜΩ ΛΑΡΞΙΜ ΑΘΑ

Started by Euterpe

Βάραγγος -> Varangian

Started by bungus

τὸ γὰρ μυστήριον ἤδη ἐνεργεῖται τῆς ἀνομίας· μόνον ὁ κατέχων ἄρτι ἕως ἐκ μέσου γένηται. (2Thess 2:7) -> For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work — just "at work" until the one who is now constraining it is taken out.

Started by Ginsei

ἐπινενοημένος -> contrived, fabricated, concocted, invented, thought up, devised

Started by spiros

Σάμερον ἅδιον ᾀσῶ -> Today I shall sing more sweetly/a sweeter song

Started by aphroditem

εἰ γάρ κεν καὶ σμικρὸν ἐπὶ σμικρῷ καταθεῖο καὶ θαμὰ τοῦτ᾽ ἔρδοις, τάχα κεν μέγα καὶ τὸ γένοιτο -> for if you add only a little to a little and do this often, soon that little will become great (Hesiod W&D, 361-362)

Started by ExoGonia

Πλάτων, Αλκιβιάδης, 110e-111a

Started by user3

Ἀρδέρικκα (Herodotus 1.185 and 6.119)

Started by Zazula

Πλέων επί οίνοπα πόντον επ' αλλοθρόους ανθρώπους (Odyssey 1.183) -> While sailing over the wine-dark sea to men of strange speech

Started by BethanieKay

Εὐνόης ? (Byzantine ring inscription) -> belonging to Eunoë?

Started by Omicron

ὁκόσα γὰρ ὑπὰρ ἐκτρέπονται ὁποίου ὦν κακοῦ, τάδε ἐνύπνιον ὁρέουσι ὥρμησε -> for whatever, when awake, they have an aversion to, as being an evil, rushes upon their visions in sleep (Aretaeus, "Causes & Symptoms of Chronic Disease" 1.5.6)

Started by luisffmendes

καταπύγων -> the middle finger, middle finger, given to unnatural lust, lecherous, lewd, arse bandit, ass bandit, assfucker, batty boy, batty man, bender, bitch, bottom, bugger, buggerer, bum chum, bumder, bummer, butt pirate, buttfucker, catamite, catcher, chi chi man, chutney ferret, fag, fagboy, faggot, fairy, fartknocker, finocchio, flamer, friend of Dorothy, fruit, fudge packer, fudge-packer, gay, gayboy, gaylord, gunsel, homo, homosexual, horse's hoof, jobbie jabber, jobby jabber, mary, nan, nance, nancy, nancyboy, nancy-boy, omi-palone, oscar, pansy, pathic, peter puffer

Started by spiros

Δός μοι πᾷ στῶ καὶ τὰν γᾶν κινήσω -> Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth (Archimedes)

Started by spiros2033

τέλος δεδωκώς Xθύλου, σoι χάριν φέρω -> having given the end of Cthulhu, I confer a favor on you

Started by Chris_Reynolds

Τει Άθενάαι τει νίκει ίέρεαν καταστεσαι... νεόν δέ οίκοδομεδαι καθότι ‘αω Καλλικράτες χσυγγράφσει καί βομόν λίθινον

Started by rastrajarda

καὶ ποταμοὺς τινας διαβάντες ἐν μεγίστῃ παρεγινόμεθα κώμῃ (Priscus, History) -> and having crossed some rivers we reached a very large village

Started by monteleone1

απήδαλος ναυς -> rudderless ship, ship without steering oars, ship steered by thought

Started by iogo

YKON (Bulgarian inscription, 9th cent.) -> οἶκον, οἴκων -> house, houses'

Started by ohsi