ἀγεννής. [90] 20, [170] 9, etc. Ignoble, mean: in reference to style. Lat. ignobilis, degener.
ἀγοραῖος. [262] 20. Vulgar, colloquial, mechanical. Lat. circumforaneus, circulatorius. Cp. Lucian de conscrib. hist. § 44 μήτε ἀπορρήτοις καὶ ἔξω πάτου ὀνόμασι μήτε τοῖς ἀγοραίοις τούτοις καὶ καπηλικοῖς.
ἀγχίστροφος. [212] 20. Quick-changing, flexible. Lat. mutabilis. Instances of its rhetorical use are cited in Long. p. 194. The word has more warrant as a term of rhetoric than ἀντίρροπος, which is given by F.
ἀγωγή. [68] 1, training. [194] 9, sequence, movement. [244] 24, cast, or tendency. Cp. some uses of Lat. ductus. Other examples in D.H. p. 184: to which may be added de Isocr. c. 12 and de Thucyd. c. 27; Macran’s Harmonics of Aristoxenus pp. 121, 143; Strabo xiv. 1. 41 παραφθείρας τὴν τῶν προτέρων μελοποιῶν ἀγωγήν, and (later) ἀπεμιμήσατο τὴν ἀγωγὴν τῶν παρὰ τοῖς κιναίδοις διαλέκτων καὶ τῆς ἠθοποιΐας.—In [124] 10 the adjective ἀγωγός is used (as in Eurip. Hec. 536, Troad. 1131) with the genitive in the sense provocative of, conducive to: cp. de Demosth. c. 55 ἃ δὴ τῶν τοιούτων ἔσται παθῶν ἀγωγά. [In Troad. 1131 Dindorf, ed. v., gives ἀρωγός without comment, against the MSS.]
ἀγών. [252] 2, [262] 23. Contest, pleading, trial. Lat. certamen, actio. Cp. Long. p. 194, D.H. p. 184, Demetr. p. 263.
ἀδολέσχης. [272] 19, 22. Garrulous. Lat. loquax. Cp. Demetr. p. 263.
ἀηδής. [100] 7, [124] 19, etc. Unpleasant, disagreeable. Lat. iniucundus, molestus. Similarly ἀηδία, [132] 21, [134] 14.
ἀθρόος. [222] 2. Compressed, concentrated. Lat. consertus, stipatus. In the passage specified it would seem that Dionysius compares the issue of the breath to the exit of people through a narrow door, whereby they are crowded together. The sound of p, which is under discussion, approaches whistling; and that is the maximum of breath-compression.
αἵρεσις. [70] 15, [198] 3, 8, [246] 17. School, following. Lat. secta.