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Βασκανία
prejudice, slander
and [sc. also attested is the related adjective ba/skanos, meaning] prejudiced/slanderous. They apply the [word] slanderous simply to verbal abuse. "You do not lie, despite being very slanderous."
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173
Βαστάσας
having raised up
Meaning having approved as fit. Eupolis [writes]: "come on now, do you want to hear the composition of an ode or something in the ancient mode? You will say both. But I, after listening, …
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181
Βατήρ
threshold
[Meaning] the beginning of the dug-up landing area for those [sc. competing in the long jump] in the pentathlon. "You have struck the very threshold of the argument," one says. Meaning the most important …
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182
Βατίς
skate, ray
A type of fish. Also [sc. attested are] skatespotters, [meaning] epicures.
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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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188
Βάτων
Baton, Bato
A comic poet; his plays [are] Fellow-Cheater, Murderer, Benefactors.
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189
Βατράχειον
frog-green
A type of color. From this also [comes] the frog-green coat. They used to color their faces with frog-green before masks were invented. Also [sc. attested is] 'frog-green [coat]', a type of brightly-colored clothing, …
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192
Βαΰζων
yelping
[Meaning one who/which is] barking. Aristophanes [writes]: "for I too used to be such a one yelping". [h)=n is used] instead of h)/mhn.
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194
Βαῦνος
furnace
[Meaning] oven. Out of which also [comes the word] banausoi ["mechanics"]. [sc. "Mechanics" are] those working with fire, craftsmen.
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196
Βάψας τὴν κώπην
having dipped the oar
[Having dipped the oar] you set sail, having come to the nautodikai, who used to judge the [cases] of being foreign. Or from those who make drugs. For they say, "having dipped [it] I …
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206
Βδελύττεσθαι
to feel loathing at
[Used] with an accusative. [Meaning] to feel disgust at, to suffer nausea, to recoil from. Apollodorus of Cyrene [sc. uses it to mean] to hate. From this also [comes the noun] bdelugmi/a ["nausea"], [resulting] …
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208
Βδύλλετε
you are in deadly fear of
[Meaning] you disparage, you are seized with fear, and you tremble. Aristophanes [writes]: "why are you in deadly fear of us? Surely we do not seem to be many? But this is not even …
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209
Βδύλλει
is in deadly fear of
[Meaning he/she/it] has been struck with fear, feels a loathing at, hates. "[...] and the poor man is totally in deadly fear [of him]."
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214
Βεβαλανωμένον
constipated
Meaning being restrained by excrement. Aristophanes: "do not overlook me having burst apart, nor being constipated" .
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224
Βεβυσμένα
stuffed-full (ones)
[Meaning] secret [ones], or (?)destined [ones]. Also [sc. attested is the corresponding singular] bebusme/non, [meaning] filled-up. [Or] covered-up. Aristophanes [writes]: "give me a little pot stuffed-full with a sponge". [He says this] either because …
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235
Βελονοπώλης
needle-seller
This man was a parasite, as Aristophanes says.
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287
Βινεῖν
to fuck
[Meaning] to have sexual intercourse with; or to suck. In the Epigrams: "sweet it is to fuck. Who denies it? But whenever you ask for money, it becomes more bitter than hellebore" .
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288
Βινεῖν
to fuck
[Meaning] to penetrate. Also "[it is necessary] for me to fuck divided in two". Also [sc. attested is] binh/somen ["we will fuck"]. Aristophanes [writes]: "then having fucked [her], he flew back down again". "So …
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583
Διακλιμακίσας
having used the klimax
[Meaning he] having wrestled with. For klimax and klimakismos ['executing the klimax'] [are] a certain type of wrestling-hold.
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586
Διακναιόμενος
being worn away
[Meaning someone or something] being filed smooth, or being pained. Aristophanes [writes]: "some strange desire presses upon me, which has worn away at me."
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587
Διακναισθήσεται
will be worn away
[Meaning he/she/it] will be destroyed. To wear away in its proper sense means to scrape cheese with a cheese-knife.
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589
Διακόνιον
diakonion, flat-cake
Some [say that it is] the bottom part of a flat-cake, but Menecles in the Chest of Rare Words has said the following about it: "whenever Athenians perform the so-called eiresione to Apollo, playing …
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591
Διακορεῦσαι
to deflower a girl
[Meaning] to deflower a maiden; as if to cut through [her].
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600
Διακωδωνίσω
I will prove by ringing
Like I will test; Aristophanes [sc. uses this verb]. Because some of the birds are tested by the sound of a bell. And they used to test horses in this way with bells, [to …
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664
Διαμυλλαίνῃ
you grimace
[Meaning] you behave disgracefully. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "but this man was grimacing, as if clever." Aristophanes says [this].
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680
Διαξῆναι
to card
[Meaning] to break apart. Aristophanes [writes]: "to card at the tips." For flocks of wool have their ends and tips compressed; and whenever they pluck them, the flock is broken apart. And so in …
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684
Διαπατταλευθήσῃ χαμαί
you will be pegged out on the ground
[The expression derives] from those who are stretching out hides. It means to track down and to seek for carefully.
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685
Διαπατταλευθήσῃ
you will be pegged out
Meaning you will be stretched out on the ground. For stretching out the hides on the ground, so that they might not shrink and contract from the heat of the sun, they stretch them …
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700
Διαπίνομεν
we compete in drinking
"[We compete in drinking] always near the fire". See above under "we compete in starving".
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