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β91Βαμβαίνειchatters[Meaning he/she] is unsure, trembles with the feet and speaks unintelligibly with the tongue.highshort
β92Βάναυσοςartisan, 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 …highshort
β93Βάναυσοςvulgar, 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 …highshort
β94ΒάνδονensignThus the Romans call the standard in war.highshort
β95Βάξιν[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 …highshort
β96ΒαπτάdyedBridegrooms 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 …highshort
β97ΒαπτίζωI dip; I baptize[Used] with an accusative.highshort
β98Βάπτουσιthey 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.highshort
β99ΒάραθρονpitA 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 …highmedium
β100Βάραθρονcleft, pitA deep place where, at Athens, criminals and men sentenced to death were thrown in; just as the Spartans [threw such people] into the Keadas.highshort
β101ΒάραθρονcleftIt 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".highshort
β102Βαρακηνίςwith prickles[Meaning] a thorn.highshort
β103ΒαράμηςBarames, Vahram, Bahram, Baram[no gloss]highshort
β104Βαρβαρίζειbehaves like a barbarianMeaning [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 …highshort
β105ΒαρβάρουςbarbariansMeaning 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 …highshort
β106Βαρδίσαγνοςbardisagnos[Meaning] he who violates women.highshort
β107Βάρβιτοςbarbitos, long-armed lyreA kind of musical instrument.highshort
β108Βάρδιστοιslowmost (ones)[Meaning] slowest [ones].highshort
β109ΒάρβιοςBarbios, 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, …highmedium
β110Βάρβιτονbarbitos, 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. …highshort
β111ΒαργαδώθBargadothA son of grief/pain.highshort
β112Βαρέωςheavily[Meaning ?full] of burdens.highshort
β113Βαρεῖα χείρweighty hand; weighty band[Meaning] a powerful [one]. "A sufficient number gathered, both a weighty band and unexpected."highshort
β114Βάρειςbarges[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."highshort
β115Βάρεις ἐλεφάντιναιivory 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.highshort
β116ΒαρθολομαῖοςBartholomaios, Bartholemaeus, BartholomewProper name.highshort
β117ΒαρκαίοιςBarkaian (ones), Barcaean (ones)[Meaning] Libyan [ones]. For Barke [is] a city of Libya, its present name Ptolemais.highshort
β118ΒάρνηBarne[Meaning a] leaping [or: quivering] son.highshort
β119Βαρόειςweighty[no gloss]highshort
β120ΒάροςweightIn reference to very large cities. "Having come over to the Carthaginians, Capua brought along, by its weight, the other cities too".highshort

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