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Βατίς
skate, ray
A type of fish. Also [sc. attested are] skatespotters, [meaning] epicures.
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Βαττολογία
battology, empty repetition
[Meaning] garrulouness. [The term come] from a certain Battos, who composed long hymns consisting of many lines that repeated what was just said.
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Βάτων
Baton, Bato
A comic poet; his plays [are] Fellow-Cheater, Murderer, Benefactors.
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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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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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212
Βαίτη
skin-coat, skin-tent
[Meaning] leather/hide. "A baite, both in summer and in winter, [is] a good thing," [sc. a proverbial saying] in reference to something suitable for use.
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218
Βέβηλος τόπος
profane place
[Meaning] one accessible to everyone and unpurified. Also [sc. attested is] "profane man," he who is uninitiated and defiled. Euripides [writes]: "[it is] not right for the profane to touch the temple". Also: "I …
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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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256
Βηλός
threshold
[Meaning] a door's step; or [the] sky.
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271
Βιαρκέος
life-sustaining, providing sustenance for life
[Meaning] being sufficient for living. In the Epigrams: "three brothers, each from a different kind of netting that provides sustenance for life, these gifts".
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Βινεῖν
to fuck
[Meaning] to have sexual intercourse with; or to suck. In the Epigrams: "sweet it is to fuck. Who denies it? But whenever you ask for money, it becomes more bitter than hellebore" .
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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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Βίολα
biola
[Meaning] sandals, shoes.
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Διακραδαίνων
shaking violently, shattering
[Meaning he who is] shaking.
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608
Διάκτωρ
minister
[Meaning an] attendant, messenger, [one] reporting back.
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660
Διαμπερέως
thoroughly
[no gloss]
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705
Διαπλώσας
having sailed through
[The same as] diapleu/sas, [meaning] having gone through. "O [friend], you who sailed through all of life with song and with love."
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Διὰ πολλοῦ χρόνου
through much time
"For the old man, as he drank through much time and listened to the pipe, very delighted by the thing, never stops dancing the night away to those old songs with which Thespis used …
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