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Βαθυκαμπῆ
deeply-curved
[Meaning one] greatly bending. "And a deeply-curved shoulder of swine."
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Βαθυπέπλων
of long-robed [women]
[Meaning] of large [ones], so it logically follows.
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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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48
Βακτηρεύειν
to support with a staff
[Meaning] to prop oneself up.
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Βάκτρον
staff
[Meaning] rod/stick. "[Lysimachus] who has now exchanged his panoply for the staff of an old man." It is also called skepanion ["little rod"]. "Instead of a plectrum, I [Eumolpus] support my trembling hands with …
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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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78
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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85
Βαλμός
balmos
[Meaning the] breast, chest.
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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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105
Βαρβάρους
barbarians
Meaning those men who are dumb or deaf and who do not know their speech. Aristophanes in Birds [writes]: "for I myself stayed with them for a long time and taught them speech, although …
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131
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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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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185
Βάττος
Battos, Battus
A person's name. [It means] stuttering and lisping. There was a Cretan city named Oaxos, in which Etearchos [was] king, who for his motherless daughter, whose name was Phronime [...]. Providing badly for her …
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187
Βάττου σίλφιον
Battos' silphium, Battus' silphium
Aristophanes in Wealth [writes]: "you would not even give me Battos' silphium". [This refers to] the [plant] in Libya, which cures many ailments; it is sweet-smelling and very expensive. For Battos founded Cyrene.
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190
Βάτραχος ἐκ Σερίφου
a frog out of Seriphos
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those without a voice. Inasmuch as when the frogs in Seriphos were carried to Skyros they did not make a sound.
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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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203
Βδελυγμία
nausea
Chrysostom used this word in his commentary on the Gospel according to John.
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Βδελύττεσθαι
to feel loathing at
[Used] with an accusative. [Meaning] to feel disgust at, to suffer nausea, to recoil from. Apollodorus of Cyrene [sc. uses it to mean] to hate. From this also [comes the noun] bdelugmi/a ["nausea"], [resulting] …
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207
Βδέννυσθαι
to vomit
It means to empty out the stomach, not to break wind. It is also used as a local expression right up until the present; for we say bde/ei ["he/she/it farts"].
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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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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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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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Βὴξ ἀντὶ πορδῆς
a cough instead of a fart
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those who, in a predicament, pretend to do something; since when people fart they pretend to cough in an attempt to avoid detection. And [there is] a …
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268
Βία
force
[Meaning] impetus, strength. "And he by the force of his body pushes the gates inwards."
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278
Βιαιότερον
more forceful
[Meaning] more overwhelming. "The disease was more forceful than the knowledge of the doctors" .
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309
Βιτέλλιος
Vitellius, Bitellios
Emperor of the Romans, who succeeded Galba, he admitted every shame both among other things in his way of life and not least of all in being immoderate and insatiable in respect of his …
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310
Βίτιννα
Bitinna
"Bitinna [gives] these sandals, comforts of her feet, charming work of ingenious leather-cutters."
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327
Βλαισός
bandy-legged; curving
[Meaning] paralytic. "Bandy-legged" [blaisos] and "crooked" [rhaibos] are different: one [means] the feet are twisted from the knees, the other means the shins themselves [are twisted]. "Often the blooming curving Acharnian ivy crowned his …
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328
Βλεπεδαίμων
ghostlooking
[Meaning] one whose visage is contorted and [who seems] like one stricken by a demon.
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338
Βλήχων
pennyroyal
[The same as] glh/xwn. Thus it is called by the Attic [writers]. It is a type of plant. And thus Aristophanes calls [sc. trimmed female] pubic hair.
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