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Βαβοῦς
Babo's, Baubo's
A proper name.
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Βάθος
depth
The depth of a phalanx is everything behind the front line. And the line from company-commander [lochagos] to rear-guard-leader [ouragos] is described in terms of depth. Concerning such things look in the end of …
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Βαθύγλωσσοι
men of profound speech
[Meaning] eloquent [ones], articulate [ones].
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Βακτηρία καὶ σύμβολον
staff and token
Those assigned to jury-service [sc. in classical Athens] used to take from the public attendants a token and a staff, and this is how they acted as jurors. The court had the same colour …
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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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86
Βάλλων
pelting, smiting
"[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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101
Βάραθρον
cleft
It is a pit, into which they used to throw down those condemned to death. But in [the] Philippics Demosthenes used the term not technically but figuratively, as if to say "in a hellhole".
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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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137
Βασανίζειν
to test
It does not mean abusing or punishing or whipping in the Attic [authors], but interrogating without blows and investigating the truth through words; from the goldsmith's touchstone [ba/sanos], used metaphorically. And Polybius [writes]: "then, …
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139
Βάσανος
touchstone, test
It is the stone which tests gold when it is rubbed against it. Thus Antiphon and Pindar and Sophokles. But Hyperides calls ba/sanoi the things said in interrogation by those who are being tested …
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150
Βασίλειος
Basil, Basilius, Basileios
Bishop of Cappadocian Caesarea (which in the past used to be called Mazaca); a close friend of Gregory the bishop of Nadianda [= Nazianzus]. He came from illustirous parents, Basil and Emmelia, whose family …
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153
Βασίλειος
Basileios, royal
The onomastics ending in -ios are written with iota, except 4: Areios, Herakleios, Basileios. Also [sc. attested is the] Basileios stoa ["Royal Stoa"]: there are two stoas next to each other, that of Zeus …
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157
Βασιλική
basilica
In the basilica behind the Milion -- where also the exammon was up until the time of the emperor Heraclius -- stood a gilt statue of a man on bended knee, Justin the tyrant. …
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158
Βασιλικὴ διαδρομή
royal parade, royal progress
[Meaning] the parade that takes place with the current "king" present. This man is one of the nine archons at Athens; [it is his parade] which is called royal.
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159
Βασιλικός
Basilicus, Basilikos
Sophist. [He wrote] On the Figures of Diction; On Rhetorical Preparation (or On Practice); On Paraphrase; and certain other works.
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165
Βάσιμος
accessible
[Meaning] passable. Easy to approach. Also [sc. attested are] "accessible places", the ones that are possible to pass through.
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168
Βασκαίνει
is malevolent, is slanderous
[Used] with a dative. Meaning complains and blames and maligns. So Demosthenes in the [speech] For Ktesiphon [sc. uses the word]. And later he says "no measure of mine has been malevolent and harsh …
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169
Βασκαίνω σοι
I bear a grudge against you
[sc. The verb is used] always [so, i.e. with a dative]. But Libanius [uses it] with an accusative: "they bear a grudge against their relative."
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171
Βάσσος Κορίνθιος
Bassos the Corinthian
Apollonios had a dispute with this man. "For this man was thought and believed to be a parricide, but he pretended to a wisdom of his own, and no bridle could be set upon …
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177
Βάταλος
Batalos
[Meaning] disgusting, shameful.
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178
Βάταλος
Batalos, Batalus
So Demosthenes was called while he was young, for being effeminate; but when older [he was called] Argas, from a snake of that name.
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181
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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183
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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246
Βεσπασιανός
Vespasianos, Vespasianus, Vespasian
Emperor of the Romans. This man was so gentle and kindly that he did not punish offences even against himself and his imperial authority more severely than by exile. He quickly shook off hatreds …
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257
Βῆμα
platform, podium, rostrum
[Meaning] the stone [sc. platform] of the lawcourt. Aristophanes [writes]: "'what use will you find for the platform?' -- 'I will put my bowls and jugs [on it]'".
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259
Βημάρχιος
Bemarchius, Bemarchios
Of Caesarea in Cappadocia. Sophist. This man wrote The acts of the emperor Constantine in ten books, and various declamations and discourses.
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267
Βησσηΐς
Bessa-men, Besa-men
Bessa is a deme of [sc. the Athenian tribe] Antiochis.
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280
Βιαίων
violent behavior
It is the name of a [sc. Athenian] lawsuit brought against those doing anything by violence; he who has been convicted of it pays to the public treasury [a sum] equal to [what he …
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286
Βίκτορα
Victor
[no gloss]
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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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