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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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Βαλεντινιανός
Valentinianos, Valentinianus, Valentinian
Emperor of [the] Romans. But some [sc. spell it] Oualentinianos. See also under Sallustius.
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Βαλεριανός
Valerianos, Valerianus, Valerian
Emperor of [the] Romans.
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Βασιλεὺς μέγας
Great King
[Referring to] the [king] of the Persians. To the other kings they added also the names of those who were ruled: as "of the Lakedaimonians," "of the Macedonians." A king differs from a tyrant. …
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Βασιλεία
kingship
[Kingship] is rule without accountability. "The good are not only free, but also kings. For kingship is rule without accountability, which none but the wise can maintain." Kingship. Neither nature nor justice gives kingdoms …
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Βασίλειος
Basileios, Basilius, Basil
[Basil] of Ancyra, bishop of the same city, physician by trade. This man wrote Against Marcellus, and on virginity, and not a few other works. During the reign of Constantine he led the Macedonian …
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152
Βασίλειος
Basileios, Basilius, Basil
Another [Basil], bishop of Eirenoupolis in Cilicia, in the time of the emperor Anastasius. He resembled his namesake Basil of Caesarea in his mind-set and his ascetic life-style. He wrote against Archelaus, an elder …
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153
Βασίλειος
Basileios, royal
The onomastics ending in -ios are written with iota, except 4: Areios, Herakleios, Basileios. Also [sc. attested is the] Basileios stoa ["Royal Stoa"]: there are two stoas next to each other, that of Zeus …
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Βασιλειῶντα κτείνει
kills him [because he] wants to be king
[Meaning that he was] desiring to become king.
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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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240
Βενιαμίν
Benjamin
When Sampson was judging Israel, because of the illegal marriage of [sc. the tribe of] Benjamin, 87 thousand were destroyed. See under "Sampson."
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Βεσπασιανός
Vespasianos, Vespasianus, Vespasian
Emperor of the Romans. This man was so gentle and kindly that he did not punish offences even against himself and his imperial authority more severely than by exile. He quickly shook off hatreds …
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Βορᾶς
of food, of prey
[Meaning] of food or nourishment. But Borras [is] the wind, and it is declined Borra [in the genitive]; the nominative plural [is] Borrai. "Harsh north winds blowing." Also [sc. the declension occurs] Boreas, Boreou. …
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