Βόμβυξ
silkworm, wasp, silk garment, deep-toned pipe, cap of a pipe, lowest note on a pipe
Translated by Jennifer Benedict18 Apr 2002Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning a?] herdsman.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Βόμβυξ· βοοβοσκός.
Betacode
*bo/mbuc: boobosko/s.
Notes
- Same or similar entry in other lexica. Yet perhaps, as in the Suda's ms. M (so Adler reports), these two words -- the second of them unattested outside lexicography -- are not headword and gloss but two unglossed headwords.
For the various meanings of the present headword see LSJ s.v.