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- β21Βάδιλλοςshovel… it as 'shovel', which is its best-attested meaning (in e.g. Varro and the elder Pliny); but see also Lewis & Short s.v. batillum or vatillum (sic: normally neuter) for Horace, Satires 1.5.36, where it …
- η541ἩροφίλαHerophila, Herophile… Sibyl see again under chi 484, and cf. Hesychius eta829. Varro listed a total of ten Sibyls, and the story reported by the Suda about the Sibylline books is also related by some sources …
- κ2602Κύβοςcube (six-sided gambling die or a square face or pip (spot) on such a die)… the risk-taking of others (M. Minucius in Polybius 3.102-5; Terentius Varro before Cannae in Plutarch, Fabius 14.1). On risk-taking see the cross-references at note [5].