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Βαβακατρεῦ
babakatreu
It is a barbarian word; the barbarian god is agreeing. For the meaningless words stand for assent.
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Βαβάκτης
reveller
A raging person.
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Βαβαί
babai!
An expression of surprise.
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hey Myxos!
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those who are boasting and bragging. For Myxos was a priest of Artemis, witty, and a braggart.
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short
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16
Βάδην
step-by-step
[Referring to someone] proceeding at a walk. "Some he sent off ahead, but he himself, leading the army in a square formation, withdrew step-by-step." And elsewhere: "following step-by-step and in a leisurely fashion." Aristophanes …
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18
Βάδιζε
walk!
Also [sc. attested is] badi/zou [used] in place of ba/dize. Cratinus [sc. uses it].
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short
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19
Βαδιστέα
necessary to go
Meaning necessary to journey. "For me [it is] necessary to go where wisdom and the spirit lead me".
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20
Βαδιστικοῦ
good at walking
[Meaning] swift-footed. Aristophanes [writes]: "as I am hardly good at walking".
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23
Βάδος
walk
[Meaning] walking. Aristophanes in Birds [writes]: "this is why we are walking this walk". [sc. Grammatically] formed as a joke. For just as [the noun] tread [comes] from [the verb] to tread -- Homer …
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39
Βαθύς
deep
Meaning crafty. Thus Menander [sc. uses the word].
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46
Βάκηλος
bakêlos
[Meaning one who is] big, but ignorant and womanish. A bakêlos [is] a eunuch, a castrated man. And [there is] a proverb: "you are a bakêlos", [brought] against those who are frivolous and unmanly. …
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short
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52
Βακχέβακχον ᾆσαι
to sing a Bacchebacchus
Meaning to sing praise to Dionysos. For Bakkhan [is] Dionysos.
high
short
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57
Βάκχος
Bakkhos, Bacchus
Thus he used to call not only Dionysos, but also all those who celebrate the orgies; indeed the initiates do not also carry the branches. It is also a kind of wreath. "They wreathed …
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61
Βαλανάγρα
bolt-hook
[Meaning] a key, [the word deriving] from hooking [a)greu/ein] the bolt [ba/lanos]. A bolt is the iron [part] for the bar, which [sc. nowadays] we call a ma/gganon ["door-pin"]. Also [sc. attested are] ba/lanoi …
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64
Βαλανειομφάλους
acorn-bossed
The comic writers call cups [this]. A bath-house [balaneion] was [so-]called because when eating acorns [balanoi] they used to burn the shells. They say that the people reduce the air in the bath, drawing …
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66
Βάλανος
date; head of the penis
[Meaning] the genitals and a tool. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] ba/lanoi foini/kwn ["dates of date-palms"]. "They used to drink a wine from the palm date". And elsewhere: "the dates of the date …
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68
Βαλαντιοτόμος
cut-purse, purse-cutter
[Meaning a] thief. Also [sc. attested are] balantiotomoi ["purse-cutters"]. "When they spent a lot of money they were considered seducers, catamites, burglers, purse-cutters, kidnappers and such-like sorts." Purse-cutters [are] those who steal purses [balantia].
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69
Βαλβίς Βαλβῖδος
starting-post; starting-post's
[Meaning a] low column, the starting-point, and the turn. "Just like those driving four-horse chariots despatched from some starting-post, once the gate had been opened." Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "at [the] starting-posts", …
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71
Βάλλ' ἐς κόρακας
go to the crows!
That is, go away to destruction and corruption. From a story found in the proverbs.
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86
Βάλλων
pelting, smiting
"[Pelting] Socrates and Zeno with jokes out of Dionysiac festivals, and judging their followers deserving to be driven out from the whole land and sea, as being banes of both cities and commonwealth; but …
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short
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89
Βάμμα Κυζικηνόν
Cyzicene dye
Attic [writers] call impure indecorum [this]. And [there is] another proverb: "Sardinian dye [bamma Sardianikon], meaning may I not make you red; like, so that I do not turn you crimson. For Sardo [= …
high
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96
Βαπτά
dyed
Bridegrooms used to wear dyed cloaks so there was displayed a token of the deflowering. Aristophanes in Wealth [writes]: "nor [will you be able] to deck out [your bride] with the riches of varicolored …
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98
Βάπτουσι
they dip
[Meaning] they wash. Aristophanes [writes]: "first of all they do not dip the wool in hot [water] in accordance with the ancient custom." Meaning they make no innovation.
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99
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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medium
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105
Βαρβάρους
barbarians
Meaning those men who are dumb or deaf and who do not know their speech. Aristophanes in Birds [writes]: "for I myself stayed with them for a long time and taught them speech, although …
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110
Βάρβιτον
barbitos, long-armed lyre
[Meaning a] psaltery, kithara. A kind of musical instrument. "O friend, you who loved the dear barbitos". This is said about Anakreon. [sc. The barbitos features in] a saying in reference to dissimilar things. …
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113
Βαρεῖα χείρ
weighty hand; weighty band
[Meaning] a powerful [one]. "A sufficient number gathered, both a weighty band and unexpected."
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127
Βαρύβρομος
deep-roaring
[Meaning] deep-sounding. "And [the] deep-roaring sea." [Called so] because of the noise of the waves.
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128
Βαρυδαίμων
ill-fated
[Meaning] unfortunate. "But he, being a Cretan and naturally quick-witted, was weighing up every fact and sounding out every intention." ["Was weighing up"] meaning was examining.
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short
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129
Βαρυηχέος
deep-voiced
[Meaning one] sounding loudly. For deep rivers, as they flow, produce a great sound. Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "from deep-voiced Ocean."
high
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