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Βαβοῦς
Babo's, Baubo's
A proper name.
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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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Βαβυλωνία κάμινος
Babylonian oven
['Babylonian oven'] and 'Babylonian boys'.
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trade and manufacture
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Βαγεύει
roams
[sc. Means he/she/it] wanders about.
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49
Βακτηρία καὶ σύμβολον
staff and token
Those assigned to jury-service [sc. in classical Athens] used to take from the public attendants a token and a staff, and this is how they acted as jurors. The court had the same colour …
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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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81
Βακτηρία καὶ σχῆμα καὶ τριβώνιον ἢ τριώβολον
staffs and manner and little cloak, or three-obol fee
This [sc. phrase is use] in reference to those mocking the jurors at Athens.
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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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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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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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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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144
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, sovereignty
Kingship [is] a possession of things held in common, but the people's things [are] not kingship's possession. Therefore the forcible and violent collection of taxes should be hated as tyrannical insolence, but the reasoned …
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168
Βασκαίνει
is malevolent, is slanderous
[Used] with a dative. Meaning complains and blames and maligns. So Demosthenes in the [speech] For Ktesiphon [sc. uses the word]. And later he says "no measure of mine has been malevolent and harsh …
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Βάσσος Κορίνθιος
Bassos the Corinthian
Apollonios had a dispute with this man. "For this man was thought and believed to be a parricide, but he pretended to a wisdom of his own, and no bridle could be set upon …
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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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201
Βδέλυγμα ἐρημώσεως
abomination of desolation
[Meaning a] sign of desolation. There were certain statues forbidden by the law that were brought into [the Temple]. Pilate did this by bringing a statue of the emperor into the Temple at night.
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Βεβαιώσεως
warranty
[Bebaiosis] is the name of a lawsuit [in Athens], in which litigants were those who had bought something.
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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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257
Βῆμα
platform, podium, rostrum
[Meaning] the stone [sc. platform] of the lawcourt. Aristophanes [writes]: "'what use will you find for the platform?' -- 'I will put my bowls and jugs [on it]'".
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258
Βῆμα
platform, podium, rostrum
[Meaning a] lawcourt table. "He ordained that the lawcourt podium be granted not far from the gates."
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270
Βίαντος Πριηνέως δίκη
Bias of Priene's justice
This man [was] one of the Seven Sages. He is said to have been very clever at speaking in lawsuits; however, he used the power of his words for good. Hipponax [writes]: "to litigate …
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279
Βίαιοι
violent
[Violent] were these men: Phalaris, Echetos, Dionysius, and the tyrant of the Cassandreians, [the last of these] exceeding all bounds in lawlessness; also Liggis, illegitimate brother of Illos -- he too [was] violent.
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280
Βιαίων
violent behavior
It is the name of a [sc. Athenian] lawsuit brought against those doing anything by violence; he who has been convicted of it pays to the public treasury [a sum] equal to [what he …
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284
Βικάριος
vicarius, vicar
Among Romans [this means a] successor.
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299
Βιοῦται
has means to live
Meaning [he/she/it] is living or will live. Thus Herodotus [sc. uses this word].
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315
Βλάκα
idiot, fool
Accusative case. [Meaning] a simpleton and a mindless person. It is said because of a certain fish, similar to the (?)sheatfish, so useless that not even a dog could make use of it. [In …
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367
Βολίτου δίκην
case of a cow-pat
[sc. A proverbial phrase directed] toward those undertaking lawsuits over trivia. For the law of Solon punishes even those filching a cow-pat.
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423
Βούλγαροι
Bulgars
The Bulgars were pleased [to be drawn] into the clothing of the Avars and they adopted it and wear it right up to the present day. In the reign of Justinian Rhinotmetos Terbelis [Tervel], …
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