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Βαβύλας
Babylas
… written here was babu/as, the reading of the headword in
Hesychius
beta16 (babu/as: bo/rboros, phlo/s (babyas: mire, clay). A similar entry, post-Suda, in Etymologicum Magnum 186.1 probably identifies this as a dialect word: baki/as …
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Βαβάκτης
reveller
… and Pan ( LSJ entry at web address 1). Compare
Hesychius
beta6, 9, 10 epsilon1287 (cf. Latte 1.501-2); Lexica Segueriana 223.31 Bekker; Photius, Lexicon beta5, 6, 8; Etymologicum Magnum 183.45. Its only appearance outside …
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Βάγιον
bagion
= Cyril, Photius beta14,
Hesychius
beta25, [Zonaras] 375.9. The headword is unattested elsewhere. It is glossed as neuter nominative/accusative singular (rather than masculine accusative). The word may derive from a root that shows up …
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Βινεῖν
to fuck
… a)ne/lqh|). Trapp further notes the related meanings "draw up" in
Hesychius
alpha5202 and "drink" in
Hesychius
pi2338, Malalas 159.86, Theophanes I 180.15. This sense clearly overlaps with Classical pipi/skw. Cf. pipili/zw "suckle" in
Hesychius
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Βαβάκινος
babakinos, bakinon
… in the Ambrosian Lexicon (19). A very similar one in
Hesychius
(beta4) presents this word as baba/kinon, i.e. either a neuter variant to the (presumably) masculine/feminine nominative singular of the Suda's headword, or the …
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Βαθάλη
Bathale
… in the Ambrosian Lexicon (191). But she omits to mention
Hesychius
s.v., more helpful because his two-part gloss is krh/nh ("a spring") and *)ameri/as. If the latter is to be construed as "of Ameria" …
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Βαρακηνίς
with prickles
… debased form of the dative plural barakinh=|sin which appears in
Hesychius
beta207, and is glossed there a)ka/nqais, sko/loyi, "with thorns, with spines." (Same glosses in ps.-Zonaras, to the headword baraki/nais.) Latte on
Hesychius
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Βαβαί
babai!
= Synagoge beta1; Photius, Lexicon beta3,
Hesychius
beta102. Adler also cites Lexicon Ambrosianum 239 as a comparandum. For this exclamation of astonishment or anger (the sort of word that grammarians refer to with the …
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Βαβρίας ἢ Βάβριος
Babrias or Babrius; Babrias or Babrios
… chi 402) to the epitome of the biographical lexicon by
Hesychius
of Miletus. [1] Babrius' meter seems to have been influenced by Latin choliambs.
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Βάδην
step-by-step
… the quotations given. [1] = Synagoge beta3, Photius beta15; cf.
Hesychius
beta31. [2] Quotation unidentifiable; again (slightly differently) at pi 1775. [3] Quotation unidentifiable. [4] Aristophanes, Acharnians 535 (web address 1). The scholia there …
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Βαδδίν
baddin, linen garment
… below) and in commentary and lexicography relating to it. Cf.
Hesychius
beta32, whence the LSJ entry (web address 1): 'a choice linen garment'. The Hebrew word (both plural and singular) occurs elsewhere in the …
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Βάδιος
Badios
[1] So too in Photius, and already
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-- but in the latter there appears to be a lacuna before "son". If so, this headword might be a proper name, otherwise unattested. [2] cf. …
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Βαθυπέπλων
of long-robed [women]
… glossing (of this genitive plural headword) in Photius and elsewhere.
Hesychius
and others more helpfully explain that it refers to women. The headword adjective itself is characteristic of late epic (Nonnus, Quintus); see also …
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Βάκτρον
staff
Likewise in ps.-Zonaras. [1] Similarly in
Hesychius.
[2] Greek Anthology 6.81.5-6 (Paul the Silentiary) a retired soldier dedicates his armor to Ares. Find further excerpts from this epigram at alpha 1136, epsilon 178, and …
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Βακχέβακχον ᾆσαι
to sing a Bacchebacchus
… reports that some mss have *ba/kxhs or *ba/kxos. Note also
Hesychius
beta116 on the infinitive bakxa=n, glossed as "to have been crowned with ivy".
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Βακχευούσας σὺν τῷ μέλει τῷ βακχείῳ τε καὶ ἐνθέῳ
celebrating the mysteries of Dionysos with the bacchic and inspired song
… indicates that the Bacchants are women (contrast beta 54, and
Hesychius
s.v. bakxeu/ontes); cf. beta 51, beta 56.
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Βαλμός
balmos
Same entry in
Hesychius
and other lexica. The headword noun is otherwise attested only in a poem (no.61, line 23) about anatomical names by Michael Psellus, C11.
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Βαμβαίνει
chatters
… 9 Gow, quoted by Stobaeus), though for the glossing cf.
Hesychius
s.v. bambai/nwn (from Homer, Iliad 10.375; cf. the scholia there).
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Βαρδίσαγνος
bardisagnos
… otherwise unattested, is apparently a dialect word from NW Greece:
Hesychius
beta224 has a verb bardh=n, glosses it "violating women," and adds "Ambraciots (sc. use the word)".
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Βάρβιτος
barbitos, long-armed lyre
More fully in
Hesychius
s.v. See generally M.L. West, Ancient Greek Music (Oxford 1992) 57-59, and further under beta 110. See also mu 20. LSJ entry at web address 1.
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Βαρεῖα χείρ
weighty hand; weighty band
… 138a uses this phrase for the right (sc. hand). Previously,
Hesychius
beta226 had glossed the headword phrase as 'the murderous (sc. hand)'. Here in the Suda the gloss would fit a 'hand' sense, but …
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Βαρθολομαῖος
Bartholomaios, Bartholemaeus, Bartholomew
… to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. (More informative one in
Hesychius
beta250.)
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Βασμοί
steps, gradations
… some other lexica (deriving from Phrynichus: Praeparatio sophistica fr. 176).
Hesychius
beta303 has nominative singulars. A variant of dialect or pronunciation rather than a substantively different word: see LSJ s.v. baqmo/s.
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Βάτα Κάρας
Bata Karas, Batakaras
Likewise in Apostolius 4.75.
Hesychius
(beta312) and Appendix Proverbiorum 1.49 provide more detail: this proverbial expression was reportedly inscribed on a votive offering in the temple of Hera on Samos. All four sources allude …
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Βατταρισμοί
stutterings
Likewise in other lexica, with nominative plurals.
Hesychius
has dative plurals, which is likely to represent the orginal source. cf. generally beta 183 and (esp.) beta 185.
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Βαΰζων
yelping
… headword participle is extracted from the quotation given. [1] cf.
Hesychius
beta357 (with infinitives rather than these participles). [2] Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 173 (web address 1), with a scholion. An older first person singular imperfect …
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Βαυκαλᾶν
to sing a lullaby
Same entry in ps.-Zonaras;
Hesychius
and Photius have this definition plus "to lull to sleep", katakoimi/zein; the latter is also in Moeris. Not much attested outside lexicography; LSJ s.v. has some instances, and registers …
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Βέβηλος τόπος
profane place
… fr. 648. [2] Orphica fr. 334 Kern. [3] Likewise in
Hesychius.
Quoted from Psalm 9.26 LXX.
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Βεζέκ
Bezek
… briefly -- i.e. without the quotation itself -- already in
Hesychius
(beta455). [1] Ezekiel 1:14 LXX (not in all manuscripts). Theodoret's commentary on the passage attributes this exegesis of the word to Symmachus. It …
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Βέλος
arrow, dart, missile
… lexica: Synagoge beta42, Photius beta124; combined with other glosses in
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beta497).
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