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Βάσιμος
accessible
[Meaning] passable. Easy to approach. Also [sc. attested are] "accessible places", the ones that are possible to pass through.
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short
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166
Βάσις
stepping
[Meaning] walking. "Like some keen-scented stepping of a Spartan bitch."
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181
Βατήρ
threshold
[Meaning] the beginning of the dug-up landing area for those [sc. competing in the long jump] in the pentathlon. "You have struck the very threshold of the argument," one says. Meaning the most important …
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β
182
Βατίς
skate, ray
A type of fish. Also [sc. attested are] skatespotters, [meaning] epicures.
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189
Βατράχειον
frog-green
A type of color. From this also [comes] the frog-green coat. They used to color their faces with frog-green before masks were invented. Also [sc. attested is] 'frog-green [coat]', a type of brightly-colored clothing, …
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196
Βάψας τὴν κώπην
having dipped the oar
[Having dipped the oar] you set sail, having come to the nautodikai, who used to judge the [cases] of being foreign. Or from those who make drugs. For they say, "having dipped [it] I …
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197
Βδέλλα
leech
Solomon says: "the leech had 3 daughters, beloved with affection; and these 3 were not satisfied, and the 4th was not capable of saying 'enough.'" Sin [is called] a leech. Her daughter[s] [are] fornication, …
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short
β
203
Βδελυγμία
nausea
Chrysostom used this word in his commentary on the Gospel according to John.
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short
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214
Βεβαλανωμένον
constipated
Meaning being restrained by excrement. Aristophanes: "do not overlook me having burst apart, nor being constipated" .
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short
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222
Βεβριθυῖα
weighed-down
[Meaning one who/which] heavy, strong.
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223
Βέβρυχεν
has roared, has bellowed
[Meaning he/she/it] resounds.
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short
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225
Βέβυστο
has been stuffed full, is stuffed full
[Meaning he/she/it] has been filled up. "The whole (land?) is stuffed full of gall."
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227
Βεζέκ
Bezek
[Meaning] lightning. Ezekiel [writes]: "they were bending back and forth like a type of Bezek" . Which is [to say, a type] of lightning.
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short
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234
Βέλος
arrow, dart, missile
Also a wound, used with the same meaning as the thing doing the wounding in Homer..
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256
Βηλός
threshold
[Meaning] a door's step; or [the] sky.
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288
Βινεῖν
to fuck
[Meaning] to penetrate. Also "[it is necessary] for me to fuck divided in two". Also [sc. attested is] binh/somen ["we will fuck"]. Aristophanes [writes]: "then having fucked [her], he flew back down again". "So …
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293
Βίος
life
Sometimes [it means] the substance of one's possessions, sometimes the act of living itself. And [there is] a proverb: "a ready-kneaded life," in reference to those who are living prosperously in an extravagant and …
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583
Διακλιμακίσας
having used the klimax
[Meaning he] having wrestled with. For klimax and klimakismos ['executing the klimax'] [are] a certain type of wrestling-hold.
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586
Διακναιόμενος
being worn away
[Meaning someone or something] being filed smooth, or being pained. Aristophanes [writes]: "some strange desire presses upon me, which has worn away at me."
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587
Διακναισθήσεται
will be worn away
[Meaning he/she/it] will be destroyed. To wear away in its proper sense means to scrape cheese with a cheese-knife.
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591
Διακορεῦσαι
to deflower a girl
[Meaning] to deflower a maiden; as if to cut through [her].
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597
Διακουράζεσθαι
to stare
[Meaning] to look intently. [The word is formed] on account of the eyes being called ko/rai ["girls", "pupils"].
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598
Διακωδωνίζω
I ring abroad
[Meaning] I spread abroad. Also [sc. attested is] diakwdwnisqe/ntes ["they having been rung abroad"], [meaning they] having been spread abroad. For the most part it is applied to people/things being made fun of.
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599
Διακωδωνίσαντες
having proved by ringing
[Meaning they] having tested. "And having tested the youths, the teacher said, 'Tell me what you want;'" [he was] speaking to the sophist Hippodromos.
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600
Διακωδωνίσω
I will prove by ringing
Like I will test; Aristophanes [sc. uses this verb]. Because some of the birds are tested by the sound of a bell. And they used to test horses in this way with bells, [to …
high
medium
δ
609
Διακυβιστῶ
I throw head over heels
[Used] with an accusative.
high
short
δ
666
Διανενεύκαμεν
we have swum through
Meaning we passed through.
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672
Διανθίζω
I adorn with flowers
[Meaning] I gather the flowers. Also [sc. attested is the related perfect middle/passive participle] dihnqisme/nas.
high
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674
Διάνοια Εὔριπος
a thought [like the] Euripos
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to people people who change very easily and are unstable.
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δ
679
Διαξαίνειν
to shred
[Meaning] to destroy, to cut through. "But he was convicted, and the People were about to shred him. And they did not release him, but rather they allowed him to go away from land …
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