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91
Βαμβαίνει
chatters
[Meaning he/she] is unsure, trembles with the feet and speaks unintelligibly with the tongue.
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92
Βάναυσος
artisan, mechanic, banausos
[Meaning] any craftsman working by a fire. For a furnace is a baunos. Also, "[Caecilius] ordered the artisans from the agora to bring missiles and stack them up outside at the foot of the …
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93
Βάναυσος
vulgar, mechanical, banausic, plebeian
"As regards his administration, the things he took pride in were those in which a vulgar tax-collector would take pride. For he used to boast about the fact that there was a lot of …
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β
94
Βάνδον
ensign
Thus the Romans call the standard in war.
high
short
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95
Βάξιν
[ill] report
[Meaning] rumor. Sophocles [writes]: "for if you think that in these present misfortunes you have suffered something pertaining to hurt at my hand by words or by deeds, then I have no longing for …
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short
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96
Βαπτά
dyed
Bridegrooms used to wear dyed cloaks so there was displayed a token of the deflowering. Aristophanes in Wealth [writes]: "nor [will you be able] to deck out [your bride] with the riches of varicolored …
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short
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97
Βαπτίζω
I dip; I baptize
[Used] with an accusative.
high
short
β
98
Βάπτουσι
they dip
[Meaning] they wash. Aristophanes [writes]: "first of all they do not dip the wool in hot [water] in accordance with the ancient custom." Meaning they make no innovation.
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short
β
99
Βάραθρον
pit
A certain well-like and dark chasm in Attica, in which they used to throw evil-doers; in this chasm there were hooks, some on top and some below. There they threw the Phrygian [priest] of …
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medium
β
100
Βάραθρον
cleft, pit
A deep place where, at Athens, criminals and men sentenced to death were thrown in; just as the Spartans [threw such people] into the Keadas.
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short
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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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short
β
102
Βαρακηνίς
with prickles
[Meaning] a thorn.
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short
β
103
Βαράμης
Barames, Vahram, Bahram, Baram
[no gloss]
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short
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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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105
Βαρβάρους
barbarians
Meaning those men who are dumb or deaf and who do not know their speech. Aristophanes in Birds [writes]: "for I myself stayed with them for a long time and taught them speech, although …
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short
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106
Βαρδίσαγνος
bardisagnos
[Meaning] he who violates women.
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short
β
107
Βάρβιτος
barbitos, long-armed lyre
A kind of musical instrument.
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short
β
108
Βάρδιστοι
slowmost (ones)
[Meaning] slowest [ones].
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short
β
109
Βάρβιος
Barbios, Barbius
"Philippicus; this man held office in the time of the Three Tyrants. He was obsequious in his manner and a flatterer, and yet he was numbered among the coterie of Antonius. And this office, …
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medium
β
110
Βάρβιτον
barbitos, long-armed lyre
[Meaning a] psaltery, kithara. A kind of musical instrument. "O friend, you who loved the dear barbitos". This is said about Anakreon. [sc. The barbitos features in] a saying in reference to dissimilar things. …
high
short
β
111
Βαργαδώθ
Bargadoth
A son of grief/pain.
high
short
β
112
Βαρέως
heavily
[Meaning ?full] of burdens.
high
short
β
113
Βαρεῖα χείρ
weighty hand; weighty band
[Meaning] a powerful [one]. "A sufficient number gathered, both a weighty band and unexpected."
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short
β
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."
high
short
β
115
Βάρεις ἐλεφάντιναι
ivory bastions, ivory towers
[Meaning] the churches all over the world, one in faith, in which God is honored. Also [sc. attested is] ba/rewn, the genitive plural. But baris [is] a stoa and a city.
high
short
β
116
Βαρθολομαῖος
Bartholomaios, Bartholemaeus, Bartholomew
Proper name.
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short
β
117
Βαρκαίοις
Barkaian (ones), Barcaean (ones)
[Meaning] Libyan [ones]. For Barke [is] a city of Libya, its present name Ptolemais.
high
short
β
118
Βάρνη
Barne
[Meaning a] leaping [or: quivering] son.
high
short
β
119
Βαρόεις
weighty
[no gloss]
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short
β
120
Βάρος
weight
In reference to very large cities. "Having come over to the Carthaginians, Capua brought along, by its weight, the other cities too".
high
short
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