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β69Βαλβίς Βαλβῖδοςstarting-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", …highmedium
β92Βάναυσοςartisan, mechanic, banausos[Meaning] any craftsman working by a fire. For a furnace is a baunos. Also, "[Caecilius] ordered the artisans from the agora to bring missiles and stack them up outside at the foot of the …highshort

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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]…

Βαλβίς· Βαλβῖδος. βάσις ταπεινὴ, ἡ ἀφετηρία, καὶ ὁ καμπτός. ὥσπερ ἐκ βαλβῖδός τινος οἱ τὰ τέθριππα ἀφιέντες, ἀναπετα- σθείσης τῆς πύλης. καὶ Βαλβῖσιν, ἀντὶ τοῦ ταῖς ἀρχαῖς.…

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vulgar, mechanical, banausic, plebeian

"As regards his administration, the things he took pride in were those in which a vulgar tax-collector would take pride. For he used to boast about the fact that there was a lot of …

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β100Βάραθρονcleft, pitA deep place where, at Athens, criminals and men sentenced to death were thrown in; just as the Spartans [threw such people] into the Keadas.highshort

β101ΒάραθρονcleftIt is a pit, into which they used to throw down those condemned to death. But in [the] Philippics Demosthenes used the term not technically but figuratively, as if to say "in a hellhole".highshort

β107Βάρβιτοςbarbitos, long-armed lyreA kind of musical instrument.highshort

β110Βάρβιτονbarbitos, 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. …highshort

β117ΒαρκαίοιςBarkaian (ones), Barcaean (ones)[Meaning] Libyan [ones]. For Barke [is] a city of Libya, its present name Ptolemais.highshort

β120ΒάροςweightIn reference to very large cities. "Having come over to the Carthaginians, Capua brought along, by its weight, the other cities too".highshort

β122ΒάροςBaros, BarusA proper name. He was a priest. And look for the story about him under "I am Embaros".highshort

β142Βάσσαροςfox, bassarosMeaning a] fox in Herodotus.highshort

β158Βασιλικὴ διαδρομήroyal parade, royal progress[Meaning] the parade that takes place with the current "king" present. This man is one of the nine archons at Athens; [it is his parade] which is called royal.highshort

β160Βασιλίνδαprincess[Meaning] queen.highshort

β161Βασιλίνδαking of the castleA kind of game.highshort

β168Βασκαίνειis malevolent, is slanderous[Used] with a dative. Meaning complains and blames and maligns. So Demosthenes in the [speech] For Ktesiphon [sc. uses the word]. And later he says "no measure of mine has been malevolent and harsh …highshort

β216Βεβαιώσεωςwarranty[Bebaiosis] is the name of a lawsuit [in Athens], in which litigants were those who had bought something.highshort

β257Βῆμαplatform, podium, rostrum[Meaning] the stone [sc. platform] of the lawcourt. Aristophanes [writes]: "'what use will you find for the platform?' -- 'I will put my bowls and jugs [on it]'".highshort

β260ΒήνηBeneName of a city of Crete.highshort

β267ΒησσηΐςBessa-men, Besa-menBessa is a deme of [sc. the Athenian tribe] Antiochis.highshort

β280Βιαίωνviolent behaviorIt is the name of a [sc. Athenian] lawsuit brought against those doing anything by violence; he who has been convicted of it pays to the public treasury [a sum] equal to [what he …highmedium

β362ΒολεῶναςdunghillsThis is what the Attic [writers] call [places] where the dung of oxen and asses and sheep is thrown.highshort

β364ΒόθυνοςBothynos, Bothynus, TrenchA certain spot on the Sacred Way [sc. in Athens is] specially so called; Isaeus and Callisthenes make mention of it.highshort

β384Βοώνηςox-buyerThis man used to be chosen from the city [sc. of Athens], to buy oxen for it for the sacrifices. To become ox-buyer was [a matter of] celebrity, since they say that generals were …highshort

β387Βοώτηςox-buyerThe greatest offices amongst [the] Athenians used to be elected from these.highshort

β429ΒουλεύσεωςconspiracyIt is the name of a charge [sc. in Athenian law], attached to two sets of circumstances. One is when someone plots to bring about the death of somebody, irrespective of whether the target …highmedium

β431Βουλείαcouncil-shipThe act of someone in the [sc. Athenian] council doing business appropriate to councillors. So Dinarchus and Aristophanes [sc. use the word]. Both the orators and Aristophanes customarily call serving on the council [boulh/] …highshort

β466ΒουτάδηςBoutadai-manBoutia is a deme of the [Athenian tribe] Oineis; the demesmen from it [are] Boutadai.highshort

β467ΒούτηςBoutes, ButesThis man held the priesthood, and those [sc. descended] from him were [sc. initially] called Boutadai. But [sc. now] the descendants of Boutes are called Eteoboutadai ["Real-Boutadai"]; for e)teo/n indicates "true".highshort

β478ΒούχεταBoucheta, BuchetaIt is a city of Epeiros; the word is neuter and plural. Philochoros says that it got its name because Themis went there, mounted on an ox [e)pi\ boo\s o)xoume/nhn], during the flood of …highshort

β479Βουχίλουof fodder-richName of a place; the nominative [is] Bouchilon. "Pans, rulers of fodder-rich" - that is, bountiful - "Arcadia".highshort

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