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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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Βαγαῖος
Bagaios, Bagaeus
Proper name. "When they cast lots, the lot fell to Bagaios out of all."
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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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Βαήλ
Bael, Ba'al
[no gloss]
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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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31
Βαθυγνώμων
of profound wisdom
A man [of profound wisdom] [and] of hidden thoughts. Rufinus and Glicho, guardians of the [children of the] emperor Theodosius.
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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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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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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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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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67
Βαλάντιον
purse
[Meaning a] pouch. Eunapius [writes]: "[...] whether he would be avaricious and a slave of their purses. And when they learned these things clearly in this regard they brought the war to a close."
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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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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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93
Βάναυσος
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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Βάνδον
ensign
Thus the Romans call the standard in war.
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103
Βαράμης
Barames, Vahram, Bahram, Baram
[no gloss]
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109
Βάρβιος
Barbios, Barbius
"Philippicus; this man held office in the time of the Three Tyrants. He was obsequious in his manner and a flatterer, and yet he was numbered among the coterie of Antonius. And this office, …
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120
Βάρος
weight
In reference to very large cities. "Having come over to the Carthaginians, Capua brought along, by its weight, the other cities too".
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121
Βάρος
weight, influence, gravitas, dignity
Concerning Polemon [it has been written]: "he had gravitas of a kind found in some Dorian household management". "Both foreseeing and fearing the influence and the quarrelsomeness of mankind." Meaning the bulk, the strength. …
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123
Βάρρων
Barron, Varro
Historian. [He wrote] an epitome of events in the time of Alexander the Macedonian.
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Βαρσύμης Πέτρος
Barsumes Petros
See under de/cios.
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128
Βαρυδαίμων
ill-fated
[Meaning] unfortunate. "But he, being a Cretan and naturally quick-witted, was weighing up every fact and sounding out every intention." ["Was weighing up"] meaning was examining.
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Βαρυνόμενος
weighed-down
[Meaning] wearying. Polybius [writes]: "but he got up and proceeded, weighed-down partly by sickness, partly by age. For he was 70 years old."
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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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135
Βαρυσυμφορώτατος
most deeply unfortunate
[Meaning] unlucky. "Believing himself to have become the most deeply unfortunate of all mankind."
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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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139
Βάσανος
touchstone, test
It is the stone which tests gold when it is rubbed against it. Thus Antiphon and Pindar and Sophokles. But Hyperides calls ba/sanoi the things said in interrogation by those who are being tested …
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142
Βάσσαρος
fox, bassaros
Meaning a] fox in Herodotus.
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154
Βασίλειοι
royal
Six thousand [royal] boys; by order of Alexander the Macedonian they were doing military drill in Egypt.
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