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β168Βασκαίνειis malevolent, is slanderous… with a dative. Meaning complains and blames and maligns. So Demosthenes in the [speech] For Ktesiphon [sc. uses the word]. And later he says "no measure of mine has been malevolent and harsh and …Matched in translationhighshort
β178ΒάταλοςBatalos, BatalusSo Demosthenes was called while he was young, for being effeminate; but when older [he was called] Argas, from a snake of that name.Matched in translationhighshort
β101Βάραθρονcleft… 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".

β168

Βασκαίνει

is malevolent, is slanderous

[Used] with a dative. Meaning complains and blames and maligns. So Demosthenes in the [speech] For Ktesiphon [sc. uses the word]. And later he says "no measure of mine has been malevolent and harsh and unkindly-meant".…

Βασκαίνει· δοτικῇ. ἀντὶ τοῦ αἰτιᾶται καὶ μέμφεται καὶ συκοφαντεῖ. οὕτως Δημοσθένης ἐν τῷ ὑπὲρ Κτησιφῶντος. καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἑξῆς, βάσκανον δὲ καὶ πικρὸν καὶ κακόηθες οὐδέν ἐστι…

comedy

comedy

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β280Βιαίωνviolent behavior… he pays] to the man who has secured the conviction. Demosthenes [in the speech] Against Meidias [mentions it]. There are also speeches [from suits] for violent behavior circulating amongst those of Lysias. And it …Matched in translationhighmedium

β429Βουλεύσεωςconspiracy… that it is] in the Areopagos. Concerning the other charge Demosthenes has something to say in the first [speech] Against Aristogeiton. Hyperides, however, applies the word "conspiracy" in a special way to traps and …Matched in translationhighmedium

β384Βοώνηςox-buyer… probably a board of ten per year, are attested in Demosthenes 21.171 (n. 1 below) and in epigraphical evidence from the same period (C4 BCE). [1] Similarly in other lexica. The only known holder …Matched in noteshighshort

β49Βακτηρία καὶ σύμβολονstaff and tokenSimilarly in other lexica. From the scholia to Demosthenes 18.210, which mentions these items (see web address 1). For comment see under sigma 1375.Matched in noteshighshort

β153ΒασίλειοςBasileios, royal… draws on Harpokration s.v. (itself generated by ancient comment on Demosthenes 25.23). [3] In the Agora at Athens. [4] See epsilon 804. [5] Named after one of the ancestral Athenian magistracies, the "king" archon. …Matched in noteshighshort

β165Βάσιμοςaccessible… as xw/ra. [2] A phrase attested in a figurative/rhetorical sense (Demosthenes 25.76) as well as a literal one: see LSJ s.v.Matched in noteshighshort

β177ΒάταλοςBatalosLikewise or similarly in other lexica, and a Demosthenic scholion: see under beta 178.Matched in noteshighshort

β357ΒοηδρομίαBoedromiaFrom Harpokration s.v., commenting on the headword's appearance in Demosthenes 3.31 (and citing Philochorus FGrH 328 F13). [1] cf. already beta 356. [2] His name has fallen out of the text here: Ion. Xouthos …Matched in noteshighshort

β478ΒούχεταBoucheta, Bucheta… at Etymologicum Magnum 210.34), commenting on this toponym's appearance in Demosthenes 7.32 (web address 1); cf. theta 114. [1] Another attested version of the name (which would be neuter singular) is Bouchetion. [2] So …Matched in noteshighshort

β578ΒρυτίδαιBrutidai, Brutidae, BrutidsAbridged from Harpokration s.v., commenting on this word's appearance in [Demosthenes] 59.59-61 (web address 1). Attested only there and in the lexica deriving therefrom; the import of the name defies interpretation (Robert Parker, Athenian …Matched in noteshighshort