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Βαάλ
Baal, Ba'al
[no gloss]
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Βαβακατρεῦ
babakatreu
It is a barbarian word; the barbarian god is agreeing. For the meaningless words stand for assent.
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4
Βαβάκτης
reveller
A raging person.
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Βαβοῦς
Babo's, Baubo's
A proper name.
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9
Βαβύλας
Babylas
[Meaning] clay. [A] pedestal. [A] rostrum.
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10
Βαβύλας
Babylas
Bishop of Antioch. When Numerianus -- or some say Decius -- was prompted by some demon to go into a crowded church, Babylas stood in front of the door and kept him from coming …
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medium
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11
Βαβυλωνία κάμινος
Babylonian oven
['Babylonian oven'] and 'Babylonian boys'.
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short
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12
Βαγαῖος
Bagaios, Bagaeus
Proper name. "When they cast lots, the lot fell to Bagaios out of all."
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14
Βάγιον
bagion
[Meaning something] great.
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16
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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24
Βαήλ
Bael, Ba'al
[no gloss]
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25
Βαθάλη
Bathale
Proper name.
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short
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30
Βάθρα
foundations, pedestals, steps, benches
"Just yesterday and the day before they had fled from the tavern, and cleaning its benches and sweeping the floor, but now they had put on purple-bordered mantles and pinned them on with gold …
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medium
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33
Βαθυδίνης
deep-eddying
[Meaning one] having currents in the deep.
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short
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35
Βαθυλήϊον
deeply-cropping
[Referring to a] grain-bearing plain.
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37
Βαθύπλουτος
of deep wealth
[Meaning] she who has great wealth. "[They say that] Artemis Laphria is fortunate and of deep wealth."
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38
Βαθυρρείτης
deep-flowing
[Meaning] that which has deep streams.
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short
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41
Βαθύσχοινον
deep-grown with rushes
[Meaning one] bearing tall rushes.
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45
Βακκαῖοι
Bakkaioi, Bacchaioi, Vaccaei
[?Accented] just like Essaioi ["Essenes"]. It is a Spanish people.
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short
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47
Βάκις
Bakis, Bacis
An epithet of Peisistratos. [Bakis] was a chresmologue. But Philetas of Ephesos says that there were three Bakises: the one from Eleon in Boiotia, the Athenian, and the Arkadian from the city of Kaphye …
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59
Βακχυλίδης
Bakkhulides, Bacchylides
Keian, [i.e.] from Keos the island, but of the city Ioulis (for it has 4 cities, Ioulis, Karthaia, Koressia, Poiessa), son of Medon, [who was] the son of Bacchylides the athlete; a relative of …
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short
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60
Βάκχυρις
Bakchuris, Bocchuris, Bokchyris
[sc. A proverbial epithet] in reference to the most just men. For such a one was he, the king of Egypt.
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short
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62
Βαλανεώτης
Balaneate
[no gloss]
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83
Βαλιαρίδων
Balearic
"Accurate slingers of the [Balearic] Islands".
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short
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89
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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short
β
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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medium
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100
Βάραθρον
cleft, pit
A deep place where, at Athens, criminals and men sentenced to death were thrown in; just as the Spartans [threw such people] into the Keadas.
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short
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101
Βάραθρον
cleft
It 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".
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103
Βαράμης
Barames, Vahram, Bahram, Baram
[no gloss]
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short
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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 …
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