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β453Βούπαιςbig boy, ox-boy, ox-child… a term applicable to] bees, because they are born of oxen. "May the tomb always be surrounded by ox-children bees and dripping with Hymettian honey." "For horses [are] the origin of wasps, but bulls …Matched in translationhighshort
β418Βουθυτεῖis ox-sacrificing [to]… with a dative. Aristophanes in Wealth [writes]: "the master is ox-sacrificing inside." Bouthusia ["ox-sacrifice"] is said incorrectly, to signify grandness of scale and the fullness of the sacrifice, which they call a "hecatomb" and …Matched in translationhighshort
β422Βουκόρυζανox-drivelling, ox-stupidity… case; the secondary one is a present infinitive. [1] For "ox-" as an intensifier of this kind cf. (e.g.) beta 414, beta 454. [2] Menander fr. 1003 Kock, 834 K.-Th., 530 K.-A.

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Βούπαις

big boy, ox-boy, ox-child

[Meaning] a youth, adolescent, [or] cowherd. Also [sc. a term applicable to] bees, because they are born of oxen. "May the tomb always be surrounded by ox-children bees and dripping with Hymettian honey." "For horses…

Βούπαις· ὁ νέος, ἐφῆλιξ, βουκόλος. καὶ αἱ μέλισσαι, ὅτι βοηγενεῖς εἰσιν. αἰεί τοι βούπαισι περιστάσοιτο μελίσσαις τύμβος, Ὑμηττείῳ λειβόμενος μέλιτι. ἵπποι γὰρ σφηκῶν γένεσις,…

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ε1803Ἐξ ὄξους δίκηa lawsuit (prepared) from vinegar"You won't get off with impunity, by Apollo, for doing this." -- "What pleasure it would give you to eat [something prepared] from vinegar: a lawsuit."Matched in headwordhighshort

β458Βοῦς ἕβδομοςseventh ox… the first phase moon. They used to call this an ox and set it up as the seventh, because this seventh used to be one of the sacrifices at the six moons, as Euthycles …Matched in translationhighmedium

β474ΒουφόνιαBouphonia, Ox-slaying… [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 the ox with an axe, …Matched in translationhighshort

β475ΒουφόνιαBouphonia; Ox-slaying… 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 in the offering of the Diipoleia had been touched.Matched in translationhighshort

β460Βοῦς ἐπὶ γλώττηςan ox on the tongue… the strength of the animal, or because there was an ox stamped on the Athenian coin which those who spoke freely had to pay.Matched in translationhighshort

β353Βόειαox-like (ones)[Meaning] great [ones]. "He would speak a dozen ox-like words"; Aristophanes [writes this] in Frogs.Matched in translationhighshort

β459Βοῦς ἐν αὐλίῳ κάθῃyou are an ox sitting in a courtyardA proverb in reference to useless people.Matched in headwordhighshort

δ1045ΔιιπόλειαDiipoleia, Ox-slaughterThe Diipoleia is a certain festival at Athens. "Diipoleia-like and full of cicadas". [The] Diipoleia [is also] called the Diasia. The festival was so called because there was a sacifice to Zeus Polieus.Matched in headwordhighshort

ε3347Ἔοικα βοῦς ἐπὶ σφαγὴν μολεῖνI seem to be going as an ox to slaughter[no gloss]Matched in headwordhighshort

ει147Εἰ μὴ δύναιο βοῦν ἔλαυνε ὄνονif you can't [drive] an ox drive a donkeyA proverb in reference to those advising [people] to act in accordance with the resources they have.Matched in headwordhighshort

α3977Ἁρμονίανharmony… Aristotle's de Anima 148.4-18, 25-31. [6] opsobapha (omicron 1085), also oxubapha, were chimes constructed from saucers made of different materials which were hit with a small wooden hammer; cf. delta 1155, and see generally …Matched in noteshighmedium

α2082Ἀνάστατοιanastatoi… sprouting." Besides six mooncakes they used to dress a "seventh ox", which had horns replicating the early moon. Accordingly they would sacrifice this ox in addition to four round-cakes and call it "fifth ox". …Matched in translationhighmedium

ε2807Ἐποποῖepopoi (in hoopoe-ese)… all the examples are of mimic words and shouts with oxytone accents on the last syllable. Has a copyist erroneously restored the Canonical accentuation on words that Suda correctly listed as exceptions to the …Matched in noteshighlong

β439Βουλιμιᾷis starving… he/she/it] is famished, is excessively hungry. From the adverb bou ["ox-wise"], which is indicative of intensity; as also in boupeina ["ox hunger"], [meaning] great hunger; and bougaïos ["big bully"] and bouglôssoi ["big tongues"]. Some …Matched in translationhighshort

α1652Ἀμπέχῃwearing… wearing white?" Since, he is saying, he has lost his oxen and is [sc. nevertheless] dressed in white.Matched in translationhighshort

β470Βούτομονsedge, butomusA plant resembling a reed, which oxen [boes] eat.Matched in translationhighshort

δ500Διαβάλλεινto bring across, to cross, to mislead, to slander… across". Also, "to Alexander who was trying to cross the Oxos river". Meaning to pass over [it]. And [sc. another meaning of this verb is] I slander; [used] with an accusative. "He slanders the …Matched in translationhighmedium

α3520Ἀποσιμῶσαιto moon [someone]; to make ships swerve… see chiefly A.W. Gomme, A Historical Commentary on Thucydides iii (Oxford 1956) 465; S. Hornblower, A Commentary on Thucydides ii (Oxford 1996) 183.Matched in noteshighshort

ε470Ἐκκλησία κυρίαprincipal assembly… with P.J. Rhodes, A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia (Oxford, 1981) ad loc. Also M.H. Hansen, The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes (Oxford 1991) 125-160. [2] Sc. of each month. The …Matched in noteshighshort

ε1670Ἑξέτειsix-year… is attested as barytone (accented on the next-to-last syllable) or oxytone (accented on the last syllable). Grammarians discuss this variation in compounds of e)/tos "year." Some say that it is a difference of dialect, …Matched in noteshighshort

α145Ἄγανονfirewood, broken; good, gentle… it as wood] which is not chopped. But with the oxytone it means fine. Or good or kindly, though some [say] immortal. Whence also [comes the term] a)ganofrosu/nh ["kindly-mindedness"]. Also [sc. attested is the …Matched in translationhighmedium

α412Ἀγχόνηnoose, strangling… rope, [when it is] paroxytone; but "strangling", the deed, [is] oxytone. The activity. Also [sc. attested is the related aorist participle] a)gxonh/sas ["he having strangled"]: he having choked. But [sc. also attested is] a)pagxoni/sas.Matched in translationhighshort

α1446Ἀλφάνειbrings in, yields, fetches [a price][Meaning he/she/it] earns. Menander in Children of the Same Father [writes]: "she whom, [it is] clear, no bridegroom is fetching." Aristophanes in Thesmophoriazusae [writes]: "alas I was wretched that day, when the herald told …Matched in translationhighshort

α3019ἈπεμορξάμηνI brushed away (tears)… from his hair, but on his track had come an ox-eating lion into the hollow path." Also a)pemo/rcato [in the sense of he/she/it] cast off, smeared off.Matched in translationhighshort

α3171Ἀπηνθράκιζενbegan to charbroil… done well. Aristophanes [writes]: "[she] began to charbroil a whole ox."Matched in translationhighshort

β362Βολεῶναςdunghills… what the Attic [writers] call [places] where the dung of oxen and asses and sheep is thrown.Matched in translationhighshort

β397Βορόνgluttonous; appetite-inducing[Meaning] voracious. [Pronounced] oxytone. Aristophanes [writes]: "an abominable thing, both foul-smelling and gluttonous." Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "water [is] appetite-inducing and insomnia [is] appetite-inducing"; look in the [entry] "water [is]appetite-inducing".Matched in translationhighshort

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