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Βάτα Κάρας
Bata Karas, Batakaras
[Something said] in reference to the rich and powerful. It should be read as separate words.
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Βατήρ
threshold
[Meaning] the beginning of the dug-up landing area for those [sc. competing in the long jump] in the pentathlon. "You have struck the very threshold of the argument," one says. Meaning the most important …
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Βάττου σίλφιον
Battos' silphium, Battus' silphium
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those receiving rare honors. For the Cyrenaeans gave a special silphium to one of the Battoi, and on one side of the coin they stamped [a picture …
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Βατράχειον
frog-green
A type of color. From this also [comes] the frog-green coat. They used to color their faces with frog-green before masks were invented. Also [sc. attested is] 'frog-green [coat]', a type of brightly-colored clothing, …
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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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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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Βησᾶς ἕστηκεν οἷον ἀχανής
Besas stands as if gaping
This man stands gaping and rumbling and rather silly.
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Βίος
life
Sometimes [it means] the substance of one's possessions, sometimes the act of living itself. And [there is] a proverb: "a ready-kneaded life," in reference to those who are living prosperously in an extravagant and …
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Διάνοια Εὔριπος
a thought [like the] Euripos
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to people people who change very easily and are unstable.
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