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Βαβύλας
Babylas
[Meaning] clay. [A] pedestal. [A] rostrum.
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11
Βαβυλωνία κάμινος
Babylonian oven
['Babylonian oven'] and 'Babylonian boys'.
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13
Βαγεύει
roams
[sc. Means he/she/it] wanders about.
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42
Βαθύτατα
very deep
[Meaning] thick. Aelian [writes]: "for when there is clear weather, even on a completely sunny day, unexpectedly and all of a sudden clouds rush in very deep indeed and a great rain dashes down."
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short
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61
Βαλανάγρα
bolt-hook
[Meaning] a key, [the word deriving] from hooking [a)greu/ein] the bolt [ba/lanos]. A bolt is the iron [part] for the bar, which [sc. nowadays] we call a ma/gganon ["door-pin"]. Also [sc. attested are] ba/lanoi …
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64
Βαλανειομφάλους
acorn-bossed
The comic writers call cups [this]. A bath-house [balaneion] was [so-]called because when eating acorns [balanoi] they used to burn the shells. They say that the people reduce the air in the bath, drawing …
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short
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83
Βαλιαρίδων
Balearic
"Accurate slingers of the [Balearic] Islands".
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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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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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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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medium
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173
Βαστάσας
having raised up
Meaning having approved as fit. Eupolis [writes]: "come on now, do you want to hear the composition of an ode or something in the ancient mode? You will say both. But I, after listening, …
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186
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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short
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194
Βαῦνος
furnace
[Meaning] oven. Out of which also [comes the word] banausoi ["mechanics"]. [sc. "Mechanics" are] those working with fire, craftsmen.
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196
Βάψας τὴν κώπην
having dipped the oar
[Having dipped the oar] you set sail, having come to the nautodikai, who used to judge the [cases] of being foreign. Or from those who make drugs. For they say, "having dipped [it] I …
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292
Βίος
life
When paroxytone it has 4 meanings. But bio/s [is] the string of a bow.
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short
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360
Βόθυνος
bothunos
A type of star. Look in the [entry for] komh/ths ["comet"].
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short
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368
Βόλος
condensation
[Meaning] dew.
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381
Βοὸς κέρας
ox's horn
Homer [writes]: "which is set on the horn of a field-dwelling ox". For they used to prepare a tube out of an ox's horn, which they put around the hook, so that the fish …
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382
Βοοσφόριον
ox-borne litter
[no gloss]
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short
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386
Βοώτης
Bootes, Plowman
A constellation near to the Bears. The same is also called Arktophylax ["bear-guard"]. See under arktos ["bear"].
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389
Βοπόρους
ox-piercing [spits]
In Herodotus [these are] large spits.
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short
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395
Βορραῖ
Borrai, north winds
See above under "Borras".
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453
Βούπαις
big boy, ox-boy, ox-child
[Meaning] a youth, adolescent, [or] cowherd. Also [sc. a term applicable to] bees, because they are born of oxen. "May the tomb always be surrounded by ox-children bees and dripping with Hymettian honey." "For …
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476
Βουφόρτων
of deep-laden (ones), of heavy-laden (ones)
[Meaning] of much-laden [ones]. "The commanders of the deep-laden twenty-oared [ships] dedicated [this] great rib to the spirits."
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short
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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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493
Βωμοί
pedestals, plinths, stands
Thus they call bases, beds.
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short
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515
Βράγχη
hoarseness
A disease that occurs in sows. Look also under 'diarrhea'.
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520
Βρασμὸς γῆς
roiling of the earth
[sc. This is the term used] when it seethes with movement, but a 'disturbance' [is] when it is tossed upward.
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short
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524
Βραχμάν
Brahman, Brachman
A king, who also gave his name to the country. He wrote the Laws of the Brahmans and a Constitution of the same people in his own language. "The Brahmans are a very pious …
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