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Βάκχυρις
Bakchuris, Bocchuris, Bokchyris
[sc. A proverbial epithet] in reference to the most just men. For such a one was he, the king of Egypt.
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Βάλλ' ἐς Μακαρίαν
be gone into blessedness
i.e. into Hades. For Macaria [was the daughter] of Heracles; when Eurystheus brought an army against Athens she donated herself as a sacrifice for the salvation of the rest. This same thing they also …
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Βάραθρον
pit
A certain well-like and dark chasm in Attica, in which they used to throw evil-doers; in this chasm there were hooks, some on top and some below. There they threw the Phrygian [priest] of …
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Βαττολογία
battology, empty repetition
[Meaning] garrulouness. [The term come] from a certain Battos, who composed long hymns consisting of many lines that repeated what was just said.
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186
Βάττου σίλφιον
Battos' silphium, Battus' silphium
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those receiving rare honors. For the Cyrenaeans gave a special silphium to one of the Battoi, and on one side of the coin they stamped [a picture …
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187
Βάττου σίλφιον
Battos' silphium, Battus' silphium
Aristophanes in Wealth [writes]: "you would not even give me Battos' silphium". [This refers to] the [plant] in Libya, which cures many ailments; it is sweet-smelling and very expensive. For Battos founded Cyrene.
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229
Βεκεσέληνε
bekeselene
[Meaning] old, that is, most/very foolish. It is formed from prose/lhne. For they called the Arcadians prose/lhnoi ["before the moon"] because they claimed to be the oldest [people] and to have arisen before the …
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237
Βενεβεντός
Beneventos, Beneventum, Benevento
Name of a city in Calabria, which Diomedes [Author, Myth] founded. In his voyage home, when he landed at his own country, he was not received, but was banished and departed for Calabria. There …
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265
Βηρούνιον
Berounion, Virunum
Name of a city. For the Noricians are a people, where a divinely-sent monster of a boar was ravaging the land, and everyone who tried to attack it achieved nothing, until a certain man, …
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357
Βοηδρομία
Boedromia
[The verb] bohdromei=n ["to run to help"] was the name for helping, that is running into battle. But the Boedromia is a certain festival of this name at Athens, to mark the day when …
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367
Βολίτου δίκην
case of a cow-pat
[sc. A proverbial phrase directed] toward those undertaking lawsuits over trivia. For the law of Solon punishes even those filching a cow-pat.
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460
Βοῦς ἐπὶ γλώττης
an ox on the tongue
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those who are not able to speak freely: either because of the strength of the animal, or because there was an ox stamped on the Athenian coin …
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467
Βούτης
Boutes, Butes
This man held the priesthood, and those [sc. descended] from him were [sc. initially] called Boutadai. But [sc. now] the descendants of Boutes are called Eteoboutadai ["Real-Boutadai"]; for e)teo/n indicates "true".
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474
Βουφόνια
Bouphonia, Ox-slaying
A very ancient festival among [the] Athenians. For in the Diipolieia they say that an ox ate a round cake that was prepared for the sacrifice, but a certain Thaulôn, as it stands, slew …
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475
Βουφόνια
Bouphonia; Ox-slaying
An ancient festival [sc. in Athens], which they say is held after the mysteries; also when they sacrificed the ox as a reminder of the first ox slain on the acropolis, after the barley-meal …
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478
Βούχετα
Boucheta, Bucheta
It is a city of Epeiros; the word is neuter and plural. Philochoros says that it got its name because Themis went there, mounted on an ox [e)pi\ boo\s o)xoume/nhn], during the flood of …
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514
Βραγχίδαι
Branchidai, Branchidae
Those living in Milesian Didyma, who, in seeking favor with Xerxes, betrayed the temple of the indigenous Apollo to the barbarians: the temple offerings, of which there were a great number, were plundered. The …
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537
Βριάρεω
of Briareos
[no gloss]
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550
Βρονταὶ καθ' ὕπνους ἀγγέλων εἰσὶν λόγοι Βροντάς
thunderclaps during sleep are messengers' words
Thunderclaps: look under 'earthly thunderclaps'. Look under 'noise'.
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556
Βρουμάλια
Brumalia
This was devised by Romus, since he and his brother Remus, having been born as a result of fornication, were exposed and reared by a woman. It was [considered] disgraceful among the Romans to …
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