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β105Βαρβάρουςbarbarians… a long time and taught them speech, although they were barbarians before." The hoopoe says [this] about the birds.Matched in translationhighshort
β110Βάρβιτονbarbitos, long-armed lyre… 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. Aristophanes [writes]: "What [does] the dress …Matched in translationhighshort
α876Ἀκίδαςbarbs[Meaning] the points of missiles. Also [sc. attested is] a)kidwto/n ["pointed"], that which has points.Matched in headwordhighshort
μ20ΜάγνηςMagnes… "sending out". "Plucking" would be a reference to [the play] Barbatistai [Barbiton-players]. It is a play of Magnes. The barbitos is a sort of musical instrument. "Fluttering wings" [is said] because he composed a …Matched in translationhighmedium
χ187Χελιδόνων μουσεῖαswallows' museums… proverbial phrase] in reference to those who do foreign and barbarian things. For the [term] 'swallow' [is] applied to barbarians; for it implies 'Thracian swallow'. And in what follows: "where the swallow squawks around …Matched in translationhighshort
κ1549Κηρύλοςkerulos, kerylos… [verb] kei/rein ["to cut the hair"], for Sporgilos was a barber. Plato mentions him in Sophists: "Sporgilos' barbershop, most hateful shack."Matched in translationhighshort
ε1020Ἐμπίςgnat… George of Pisidia, Bellum Avaricum line 64; Per l'incursione dei barbari 64 Tartaglia; on barbarian attacks on Constantinople: Avars in 612/614 and 623 and Persians in 609 and 615; cf. Tartaglia (161, note 13). …Matched in noteshighshort
β2ΒαβακατρεῦbabakatreuIt is a barbarian word; the barbarian god is agreeing. For the meaningless words stand for assent.Matched in translationhighshort
ε2381Ἐπίκλαυτονtearful[Meaning] distressful, mournful. Aristophanes in Frogs [writes]: "sitting on a barbarian leaf [it] babbles a tearful nightingale-melody."Matched in translationhighshort
ε2825Ἔποψhoopoe… a long time and taught them speech, although they were barbarians before." The hoopoe says [this] about the birds.Matched in translationhighshort
ι327ἸλλυριοίIllyrians[They are] Thracian barbarians, but some say that they are from Persia. And Aristophanes says: "screeching Illyrians." Meaning that they make a certain kind of vocal sound. They are "screeching" because of the unintelligibility …Matched in translationhighshort
α103Ἀβυρτάκηsour-sauce, aburtake, abyrtake, abyrtaceA sharp-flavored barbarian dish, prepared from leeks and cress[-seeds] and pomegranate kernels and other such things, quite clearly pungent. Theopompus in Theseus [writes]: "he will reach the land of the Medes, where aburtake is …Matched in translationhighshort
η447Ἤραloved… [sc. writes this]. And elsewhere: "[he] loved to see a barbarian corpse even if it had been slain by another."Matched in translationhighshort
α3049Ἀπεροῦνταseeking to avert… the emperor were sent, to avert the attack of the barbarians." Also [sc. attested is] a)perou=sin ["they will bid farewell to/give up"], [meaning] they are renouncing, and they will desist from the war. "Never …Matched in translationhighshort
μ883Μηδικὴ πόαMedian grass, Persian grass, lucerne… give to the allies, if they were to fight the barbarians. On the Median [= Persian] Empire see under "Assyrians."Matched in translationhighshort
α4343Ἀτέραμνονtough… rejected the gift." "There was no one so tough and barbarian at heart who did not obey and hearken unto the words streaming from that holy mouth."Matched in translationhighshort
α2154ἈνδραποδίζωI enslave, I reduce to slavery[Used] with an accusative. "The barbarians annulled the agreements and openly enslaved the alliance". Also [sc. attested is the related noun] a)ndrapodismo/s ["enslavery"], [meaning] captivity. Also [sc. attested is] a)ndrapodisth/s ["slave-dealer"]. The Thessalians are …Matched in translationhighshort
α3729Ἀράβιος ἄγγελοςArabian messenger… because it was vulgar. But many of the slaves were barbarians and Arabians, about whom a proverb is said: "he plays the pipe for a drachma, but he stops for four." Also "Arabian piper", …Matched in translationhighmedium
αι299Αἴρειν ἔξω πόδα πηλοῦto lift one's foot out of the mud… anyone still gives me something to drink [...] but the barbarian woman has gone and taken the wine away from us along with the table."Matched in translationhighmedium
δ1053Διιτρέφης ἀνεπτέρωκενDiitrephes has set (him) flying… editions] (what fathers complain about when they meet at the barbers'; web address 1), with comment from the scholia there. See also delta 1054, pi 3259, pi 3260. For Dieitrephes (sic) see Dunbar's note …Matched in noteshighshort
χ474Χρῆμαthing; matter… to a great herd of cows." The phrase [is] about barbarian troop-marshalling. Herodotus [writes]: "the matter of the storm was unbearable." Aristophanes [writes]: "how long the matter of nights is!" [This means] the length, …Matched in translationhighmedium
α383Ἀγυιαίhighways… door gleams, smoky with fire and drops of myrrh and barbarian perfumes." Also [sc. attested is] Aguieus, the pointed pillar by courtyard doors, sacred to Apollo, or the god himself. Pherecrates in Krapataloi [writes]: …Matched in translationhighmedium
ε3444Εὔερονfleecy, cushy… ('wooly'), which strict Atticists like Phrynichus (116) condemn as a barbarism. [2] Plato Comicus fr. 169 Kock, now 184 K.-A. (For Hyperbolus see under upsilon 245.) [3] The transmitted accusative here clearly should be …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1205ΔιοσημείαZeus-omen, Zeus-sign… he is clearly against giving a salary to soldiers whose "barbarian" manners appear immediately, since they try to steal the garlic Dicaeopolis has brought for himself. For other allusions to the violent, often bloody …Matched in noteshighmedium