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Βάδιζε
walk!
Also [sc. attested is] badi/zou [used] in place of ba/dize.
Cratinus
[sc. uses it].
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250
Βή
baa
… imitates the bleating of sheep; Attic-speakers do not say bai/.
Cratinus
in Dionysalexandros: "of course the last one goes along saying 'beh beh' like a sheep."
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502
Βῶσον
shout (for)
[Meaning] help.
Cratinus
[sc. uses this imperative].
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4
Βαβάκτης
reveller
… in the Doric vocative form baba/kta in a fragment of
Cratinus
(321 Kock, 22 Meineke, 359 Kassel/Austin), where it is an epithet of Pan. At Hesychius beta10 a possibly related word is identified as …
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64
Βαλανειομφάλους
acorn-bossed
[1]
Cratinus
fr. 50 Kock, now 54 K.-A.; cf. generally Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 11.501D-F (11.104 Kaibel). [2] Burn the shells to heat the baths? cf. kappa 1308. [3] Outside lexicography this noun is attested only …
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417
Βοῦθος περιφοιτᾷ
Bouthos is wandering around
[1]
Cratinus
fr. 245 Kock, now 262 K.-A.; Zenobius 2.66 and other paroemiographers. Other lexica assert that this Bouthos was an athlete. [2] cf. upsilon 100.
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459
Βοῦς ἐν αὐλίῳ κάθῃ
you are an ox sitting in a courtyard
In
Cratinus
fr. 32 Kock, now 34 K.-A. Same or similar entry in Hesychius and some of the paroemiographers. (The modern equivalent might be: a square peg in a round hole.) cf. beta 458 …
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