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Βάρρων
Barron, Varro
Historian. [He wrote] an epitome of events in the time of Alexander the Macedonian.
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Ἐγκατέσκηψαν
they fell upon
… those in the city of Alexandria, fell also upon Rome."
Varro
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Βάδιλλος
shovel
… 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 …
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Βή
baa
… now 45 K.-A.; cf. Aristophanes fr.642 Kock, now 648 K.-A;
Varro,
De re rustica 2.1.
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Διμοιρίτης
double-pay soldier, half-file commander
… or duplicarius (inscriptions bear both forms, sometimes also dupliciarius); see
Varro,
Latin Language 5.90; Vegetius 2.7. A scholion to Menander’s fragmentary drama Kolax gives a similar explanation: dimoiri/ths o( diplou=n lamba/nwn tw=n stratiwtw=n misqw/n, …
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541
Ἡροφίλα
Herophila, 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 …
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