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Βαβάκινος
babakinos, bakinon
A kind of pot.
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Βάδην
step-by-step
[Referring to someone] proceeding at a walk. "Some he sent off ahead, but he himself, leading the army in a square formation, withdrew step-by-step." And elsewhere: "following step-by-step and in a leisurely fashion." Aristophanes …
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shovel
[no gloss]
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34
Βαθυκαμπῆ
deeply-curved
[Meaning one] greatly bending. "And a deeply-curved shoulder of swine."
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35
Βαθυλήϊον
deeply-cropping
[Referring to a] grain-bearing plain.
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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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66
Βάλανος
date; head of the penis
[Meaning] the genitals and a tool. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] ba/lanoi foini/kwn ["dates of date-palms"]. "They used to drink a wine from the palm date". And elsewhere: "the dates of the date …
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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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99
Βάραθρον
pit
A certain well-like and dark chasm in Attica, in which they used to throw evil-doers; in this chasm there were hooks, some on top and some below. There they threw the Phrygian [priest] of …
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134
Βαρυπρεπής
deeply-impressive, magnificent
[Meaning] expensive. "And for the middle part of the day deeply-impressive feasting had surrounded Leo(n) and he was inviting [others?] to it."
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137
Βασανίζειν
to test
It does not mean abusing or punishing or whipping in the Attic [authors], but interrogating without blows and investigating the truth through words; from the goldsmith's touchstone [ba/sanos], used metaphorically. And Polybius [writes]: "then, …
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145
Βασιλέως ἐγκέφαλος
king's brain, king's morsel
See under Zeus's morsel. Interpretation of a dream: one addressing a lord remains unsuccessful.
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157
Βασιλική
basilica
In the basilica behind the Milion -- where also the exammon was up until the time of the emperor Heraclius -- stood a gilt statue of a man on bended knee, Justin the tyrant. …
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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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191
Βατράχῳ ὕδωρ
water to a frog
Like fat to a ferret. In reference to those giving what the recipients relish. Also [sc. attested is] "you are pouring wine for frogs", in reference to those providing what the recipients have no …
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198
Βδέλλεται
milks
[Meaning] gets milk from. Plato says "milks" in the Theaetetus.
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202
Βδέλυγμα ἐρημώσεως
abomination of desolation
[It is said] that Antiochos [IV] Epiphanes, son of Seleukos [IV] Philopator, was a terrible and grasping man. On capturing the city by the spear he killed 150,000 [people] and then, making an insolent …
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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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207
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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212
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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220
Βέβιος Κρίσπος
Vibius Crispus
Regarding the dinner, look under "Vitellius."
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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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228
Βεκεσέληνε
bekeselene
[Meaning] either apoplectic [i.e. stroke-disabled] and moonstruck [i.e. epileptic]; or the 2 are combined into one, bekos and selene; both [words are] old. Or because the Lydians or Phrygians called bread bekos. But they …
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229
Βεκεσέληνε
bekeselene
[Meaning] old, that is, most/very foolish. It is formed from prose/lhne. For they called the Arcadians prose/lhnoi ["before the moon"] because they claimed to be the oldest [people] and to have arisen before the …
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233
Βελισάριος
Belisarius, Belisarios
The general, was beautiful and large of body and handsome above all. He showed himself so gentle and accessible to whomever he met that he tended to resemble a very poor and obscure man. …
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235
Βελονοπώλης
needle-seller
This man was a parasite, as Aristophanes says.
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264
Βῆρος
Verus
A Roman general. This man was not serious, but rather was dissolute from the disease of drunkenness to a very great extent, and because of it was eternally possessed by thoughtless impudence.
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271
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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274
Βίβλινος οἶνος
Bibline wine
So called from a place.
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