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Βακάντιβος
loiterer
[Meaning an] idler, one who does not mind his own business.
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Βακκαῖοι
Bakkaioi, Bacchaioi, Vaccaei
[?Accented] just like Essaioi ["Essenes"]. It is a Spanish people.
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Βακτηρεύειν
to support with a staff
[Meaning] to prop oneself up.
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Βακχέβακχον ᾆσαι
to sing a Bacchebacchus
Meaning to sing praise to Dionysos. For Bakkhan [is] Dionysos.
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Βακχευούσας σὺν τῷ μέλει τῷ βακχείῳ τε καὶ ἐνθέῳ
celebrating the mysteries of Dionysos with the bacchic and inspired song
[no gloss]
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54
Κατεβακχεύοντο
celebrating the mysteries of Bacchus
[Meaning he who] is acting frenzied. Also [sc. attested is the related verb] katebakxeu/onto ["they were going like Bacchants"], that is filled with some spirit of divine inspiration. "They were going like Bacchants to …
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55
Βακχεία ποιμαντική
Bacchic herdsmanship
['Bacchic herdmanship']; and [sc. also attested is] *Bakxei=os.
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short
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61
Βαλανάγρα
bolt-hook
[Meaning] a key, [the word deriving] from hooking [a)greu/ein] the bolt [ba/lanos]. A bolt is the iron [part] for the bar, which [sc. nowadays] we call a ma/gganon ["door-pin"]. Also [sc. attested are] ba/lanoi …
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64
Βαλανειομφάλους
acorn-bossed
The comic writers call cups [this]. A bath-house [balaneion] was [so-]called because when eating acorns [balanoi] they used to burn the shells. They say that the people reduce the air in the bath, drawing …
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69
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] starting-posts", …
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medium
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72
Βαλεντινιανός
Valentinianos, Valentinianus, Valentinian
Emperor of [the] Romans. But some [sc. spell it] Oualentinianos. See also under Sallustius.
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short
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75
Βάλλ' ἐς Μακαρίαν
be gone into blessedness
i.e. into Hades. For Macaria [was the daughter] of Heracles; when Eurystheus brought an army against Athens she donated herself as a sacrifice for the salvation of the rest. This same thing they also …
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76
Βάλλεται
is hit
[Meaning he/she/it] is struck, is afire. "The ship is hit with a thunderbolt, and there was fear that the vessel would be engulfed in flames and sink."
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78
Βάλλειν μήλοις
to hit with apples
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those who happen upon those they love. Also [sc. attested is] ba/llw ["I hit"]: [used] with an accusative. "Those far away [he was] hitting with arrows out …
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short
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84
Βαλίος
Balios, Piebald
[The name of a] horse.
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short
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86
Βάλλων
pelting, smiting
"[Pelting] Socrates and Zeno with jokes out of Dionysiac festivals, and judging their followers deserving to be driven out from the whole land and sea, as being banes of both cities and commonwealth; but …
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Βάμμα Κυζικηνόν
Cyzicene dye
Attic [writers] call impure indecorum [this]. And [there is] another proverb: "Sardinian dye [bamma Sardianikon], meaning may I not make you red; like, so that I do not turn you crimson. For Sardo [= …
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Βάμβαξ ἢ πάμβαξ
cotton
[bambax,] or pambax and pambakis: that which is called bambakion by many. In the Epigrams: "and his clothes-chest of cotton things".
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short
β
91
Βαμβαίνει
chatters
[Meaning he/she] is unsure, trembles with the feet and speaks unintelligibly with the tongue.
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short
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92
Βάναυσος
artisan, 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 …
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94
Βάνδον
ensign
Thus the Romans call the standard in war.
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short
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95
Βάξιν
[ill] report
[Meaning] rumor. Sophocles [writes]: "for if you think that in these present misfortunes you have suffered something pertaining to hurt at my hand by words or by deeds, then I have no longing for …
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96
Βαπτά
dyed
Bridegrooms used to wear dyed cloaks so there was displayed a token of the deflowering. Aristophanes in Wealth [writes]: "nor [will you be able] to deck out [your bride] with the riches of varicolored …
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short
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97
Βαπτίζω
I dip; I baptize
[Used] with an accusative.
high
short
β
98
Βάπτουσι
they dip
[Meaning] they wash. Aristophanes [writes]: "first of all they do not dip the wool in hot [water] in accordance with the ancient custom." Meaning they make no innovation.
high
short
β
102
Βαρακηνίς
with prickles
[Meaning] a thorn.
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short
β
104
Βαρβαρίζει
behaves like a barbarian
Meaning [he/she/it] thinks barbarian thoughts. Thus Plato [sc. uses the word]. "But barbarism is pronunciation with defects contrary to the custom of the Greeks of good repute; solecism is an expression constructed ungrammatically;" such …
high
short
β
105
Βαρβάρους
barbarians
Meaning those men who are dumb or deaf and who do not know their speech. Aristophanes in Birds [writes]: "for I myself stayed with them for a long time and taught them speech, although …
high
short
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106
Βαρδίσαγνος
bardisagnos
[Meaning] he who violates women.
high
short
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108
Βάρδιστοι
slowmost (ones)
[Meaning] slowest [ones].
high
short
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