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Βάτα Κάρας
Bata Karas, Batakaras
[Something said] in reference to the rich and powerful. It should be read as separate words.
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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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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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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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193
Βαυκαλᾶν
to sing a lullaby
[Meaning] to nurse little children with the accompaniment of singing.
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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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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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Βδέλλα
leech
Solomon says: "the leech had 3 daughters, beloved with affection; and these 3 were not satisfied, and the 4th was not capable of saying 'enough.'" Sin [is called] a leech. Her daughter[s] [are] fornication, …
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Βδελυγμία
nausea
Chrysostom used this word in his commentary on the Gospel according to John.
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Βδέννυσθαι
to vomit
It means to empty out the stomach, not to break wind. It is also used as a local expression right up until the present; for we say bde/ei ["he/she/it farts"].
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Βαίτη
skin-coat, skin-tent
[Meaning] leather/hide. "A baite, both in summer and in winter, [is] a good thing," [sc. a proverbial saying] in reference to something suitable for use.
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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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Βησᾶς ἕστηκεν οἷον ἀχανής
Besas stands as if gaping
This man stands gaping and rumbling and rather silly.
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Βιαρκέος
life-sustaining, providing sustenance for life
[Meaning] being sufficient for living. In the Epigrams: "three brothers, each from a different kind of netting that provides sustenance for life, these gifts".
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Βίος
life
Sometimes [it means] the substance of one's possessions, sometimes the act of living itself. And [there is] a proverb: "a ready-kneaded life," in reference to those who are living prosperously in an extravagant and …
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Διακριθέν
separated
[sc. Something] divided, strained. "And moreover, [the liquefied mustard] had been separated beforehand by the so-called collander."
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Διάνοια Εὔριπος
a thought [like the] Euripos
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to people people who change very easily and are unstable.
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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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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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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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Διαπίνομεν
we compete in drinking
"[We compete in drinking] always near the fire". See above under "we compete in starving".
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Διαπνεῖν
to blow out
[To blow out] and to blow forth [mean] to break wind. [It is] more polite than "to fart."
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Διὰ πολλοῦ χρόνου
through much time
"For the old man, as he drank through much time and listened to the pipe, very delighted by the thing, never stops dancing the night away to those old songs with which Thespis used …
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Διάρροια
diarrhea, diarrhoea
A condition that afflicts sows. There are three conditions: sore throat, fever, diarrhea. So sore throat is [a condition] of one part of the body, while fever [is] a burning heat accompanied by headache. …
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