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Βαδιστέα
necessary to go
Meaning necessary to journey. "For me [it is] necessary to go where wisdom and the spirit lead me".
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Βαλαντιοτόμος
cut-purse, purse-cutter
[Meaning a] thief. Also [sc. attested are] balantiotomoi ["purse-cutters"]. "When they spent a lot of money they were considered seducers, catamites, burglers, purse-cutters, kidnappers and such-like sorts." Purse-cutters [are] those who steal purses [balantia].
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pelting, smiting
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"[Pelting] Socrates and Zeno with jokes out of Dionysiac festivals, and judging their followers deserving to be driven out from the whole land and sea, as being banes of both cities and commonwealth; but …
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104
Βαρβαρίζει
behaves like a barbarian
Meaning [he/she/it] thinks barbarian thoughts. Thus Plato [sc. uses the word]. "But barbarism is pronunciation with defects contrary to the custom of the Greeks of good repute; solecism is an expression constructed ungrammatically;" such …
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114
Βάρεις
barges
[Meaning] boats, walls, stoas, courtyards, towers, balls. "He was in charge of barges [or: bastions]". That is, of walls. "Even if your horrible barge is heavily laden, accept me, the dog Diogenes deceased."
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148
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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149
Βασιλείδης
prince
[Meaning] the [son] of the king.
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174
Βασταχθείη
might be lifted
[Meaning] might be carried off, might be stolen. After using his seal, Lakydes threw his ring through the hole, so that he might never be stripped of it and any of his belongings might …
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198
Βδέλλεται
milks
[Meaning] gets milk from. Plato says "milks" in the Theaetetus.
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204
Βδελυρός
disgusting
[Referring to someone who] does shameful things. Aelian [writes]: "and she is more disgusting than all other women, and she filled the most sacrosanct virgins' quarters with her own wicked deeds". Also [sc. attested …
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219
Βεβηκός
standing
[Meaning something] secure.
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314
Βλάξ
slack
[Meaning] soft, sluggish; relaxed; or stupid.
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316
Βλακεύεται
gets lazy, is lazy
[*blakeu/etai] and blakeu/ei: [meaning he/she/it] acts soft. Damascius [writes]: "and spurring on with his speech those who were lazy in action. For idleness he considered not of less account than any [other] evil, but …
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324
Βλαύτη
slipper
A type of footwear. Sophocles [writes]: "to hurry from [ = with] a loose rein." That is from [ = with] a slipper; in whatever condition each man is in. And elsewhere: "the staff …
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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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360
Βόθυνος
bothunos
A type of star. Look in the [entry for] komh/ths ["comet"].
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374
Βομβοῦσιν
they bumble
"Bees [bumble] whenever someone approaches who smells of myrrh." Republic [Book] 8. "And those bumbling around the table of Dionysus and those who had raved at the feast and hand of Alexander, both these …
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404
Βοτά
grazers
[Meaning] grazing-animals. Also [sc. attested is the feminine noun] bota/nh ["pasturage"], fodder. "Certain horse-feeders of the Cadmeians were contending with some of the Minyans over pasturage." "Going past the nearby hills they will find …
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481
Βῶλος
Bôlos, Bolus
Democritean, philosopher. [He wrote works called] Inquiry and Medical Art. [The latter] has natural medical remedies from some resources of nature.
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482
Βῶλος
Bôlos, Bolus
Of Mendes, a Pythagorean. [He wrote] Concerning the accounts which have come down to our attention from readings, Concerning marvels, Potent Remedies -- it is with regard to sympathies and antipathies of stones in …
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484
Βωμακεύματα
ribald jests
[no gloss]
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492
Βωμός
altar; podium
[Meaning a sc. sacred] precinct. Also a place which has a way up for speaking things to be heard; onto this Crates went up and said "Crates is destroying the things of Crates." And …
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526
Βραχυτελῆ
shortly-ending
[Meaning] abridged, small.
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549
Βροντή
thunder
Noise of clouds [resulting] from friction or bursting. There is also a particular [stage-]device, which used to be called a thunderbox [bronteion]. Beneath the stage building was a pitcher full of small pebbles from …
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557
Βροχή
rain
See under Anaxagoras for the rainstorm which occurred according to Anaxagoras' prediction.
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592
Βύουσι
they stuff
[Meaning] they block, they conceal. Whence also [comes the adjective] 'tip-stuffed', [meaning] having a tip that has been stuffed. The Pisidian [writes]: "Now I will talk to you, if indeed you do not want …
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