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Βίτιννα
Bitinna
[1] This feminine name occurs earliest in
Herodas,
Mimiambs 5 (where B. has been to bed with her slave Gastron). Its formation is discussed by ps.-Herodian and Theognostus. [2] Greek Anthology 6.206.1-2 (Antipater of …
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Βουλήσεται κἂν ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ τυχεῖν ὢν μᾶλλον ἢ κρῖναι κακῶς
he will wish even to be in Egypt rather than to make a bad judgment
… thinks that it does not rain on that spot, as
Herodotus
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Βυσσόν
depth; ocean's depth
… somewhere; extant possibilities begin with Homer (Iliad 24.80) and include
Herodotus:
see note below. [2] (For the difference of accentuation here see already under beta 597.) Perhaps metonymy for "a dyed robe"; see Aeschylus, …
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Βάσσαρος
fox, bassaros
… elucidates an unusual word for fox with the common one.
(Herodotus
4.192.2 actually uses the diminutive bassa/ria, "little foxes".)
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228
Βεκεσέληνε
bekeselene
… kappa: see web address 1). The story is told by
Herodotus
2.2: see beta 229.
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Βιοῦται
has means to live
[1]
Herodotus
2.177.2 (on the law of Amasis that every Egyptian, every year, should declare the source of his livelihood): web address 1 below.
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389
Βοπόρους
ox-piercing [spits]
From a gloss on
Herodotus
2.135.4, where the headword adjective, accusative plural, occurs (in the form boupo/rous) in a description of spits long enough to pierce an entire ox. cf. Xenophon, Anabasis 7.8.14, of …
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185
Βάττος
Battos, Battus
From
Herodotus
4.154-155; see further in the notes below. cf. alpha 1584, alpha 1832, alpha 4639, theta 116, pi 1118. [1] According to
Herodotus
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Βαγαῖος
Bagaios, Bagaeus
The story of Bagaios and Oroetes appears in
Herodotus
3.120-128 (web address 1). Oroetes, the Persian satrap of Sardis, Phrygia, and Ionia (see omicron 645) crucified Polycrates, the client tyrant of Samos, because Polycrates …
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Βάκις
Bakis, Bacis
… (under "Bacis"); it notes that his oracles were mentioned from
Herodotus
onwards and that "[t]o cope with the mass of oracles from manifestly different dates, later authors assumed several Bacides". [1] Likewise, according to …
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Βασιλίνδα
king of the castle
… to be Cyrus the Great, King of Persia -- in
Herodotus
1.114-115 (web address 1:
Herodotus
simply calls it "king"). See also chi 619.
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442
Βοῦλις
Boulis
See
Herodotus
7.133-7 (web address 1) and, in the Suda, under xi 54 (where there is a note on the proper form of name "Sperchis"). Both here and again at sigma 924 they are …
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Βαλανάγρα
bolt-hook
… (where bebala/nwtai occurs). The headword itself, balanagra, first appears in
Herodotus
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Βαρυσυμφορώτατος
most deeply unfortunate
[1] A version, it would seem, of
Herodotus'
description of Adrastus (1.45.3: web address 1 below), "imperfectly remembered"; see Chiasson (below), p. 15, n. 32. For other instances of the superlative of this adjective …
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229
Βεκεσέληνε
bekeselene
… alphaiota 68 and pi 2634. The story is told by
Herodotus
2.2 (see web address 1).
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253
Βηθσαϊδᾶ
Bethsaida
A town in Galilee: Mark 6.45, Luke 9.10, John 1.44, etc. Adler reports an identical entry in the Ambrosian Lexicon; and cf. ps.-Herodian 5 (a list of place-names near Jerusalem). cf. chi 436.
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254
Βηθσφαγή
Bethsphage
Apparently a variant of Bethphage, a village near Jerusalem (Matthew 21.1, Mark 11.1, Luke 19.29). The same spelling occurs in the Ambrosian Lexicon (according to Adler) and ps.-Herodian 5.
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379
Βονιφάτιος
Boniphatios, Bonifatius, Boniface
Transliteration of a Latin name: a Roman general (d. 432 CE) active in N Africa. See generally PLRE 2.237-40, under Boniface(3); OCD(4) p.239. Or perhaps a saint of this name: Boniface of Tarsus is …
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416
Βουζύγης
ox-yoker
… of the Athenian Bouzygai clan. See generally E. Kearns, The
Heroes
of Attica (London 1989) 152, digesting earlier work; R. Parker, Athenian Religion (Oxford 1996) 286-7.
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497
Βῶξ
grunting-fish, box
A contracted form of bo/ac, a fish that makes such a noise; see LSJ s.v. The box is mentioned by Athenaeus (in Deipnosophists 7.286F-287B [7.27 Kaibel], citing Aristotle), as well as grammarians and lexicography. …
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519
Βρασίδας
Brasidas
… Athenians with an amphibious landing, but were repulsed despite Brasidas'
heroics
(Thuc. 4.11f). [4] Hagnon was the original Athenian founder of the strategic colony at Amphipolis in 437 (Thuc. 4.102). Brasidas captured the town …
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Βρύσις
bubbling-up
The headword is unglossed (and not included in the quotation given); Adler reports a similar lemma in the Ambrosian Lexicon (862). Ps.-Herodian discusses its derivation from the verb bru/w. [1] From the dream-interpretations, in …
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