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Βιῶναι
to be alive
[Meaning] to live.
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Βιώνης
life-buyer, living-buyer
[Meaning] he whose purchases are for public use.
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Βιῶνται
they would press hard
[Meaning] they will enter in with force. "Since their enemies' plot was evident to the Carthaginians -- that they would press hard through the collapsed part of the wall -- they made ready for …
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Ἄβιος
full-lived
Antiphon has a)/bion for one who has acquired a good living. Similarly Homer has a)/culon for "full of timber."
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Βαμβαίνει
chatters
… this onomatopoeic verb. It is presumably extracted from somewhere (perhaps
Bion
of Smyrna fr. 9 Gow, quoted by Stobaeus), though for the glossing cf. Hesychius s.v. bambai/nwn (from Homer, Iliad 10.375; cf. the scholia …
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Διοπτεύσων
intending to spy upon
= Synagoge delta312, Photius delta647; cf. Hesychius delta1902. From commentary to Homer, Iliad 10.451 (cf. scholia to that passage), where Diomedes [Author, Myth] addresses Dolon with the words "(we will release you... yet you …
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