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Βαρυσυμφορώτατος
most deeply unfortunate
[Meaning] unlucky. "Believing himself to have become the
most
deeply unfortunate of all mankind."
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Βωμολοχεύσαιτο
(if one) were to play the wit at the altar
… at least some of the fourth (here associated with Phrynis).
Most
take it for modulation between the new scales made possible by the new models of cithara (see West 194-96, Campbell 40 note 1, …
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Βασίλειος
Basil, Basilius, Basileios
… they had much experience and of them Basil had the
most.
And each one of them was in his own way a
most
respectable writer. Basil was by far at his best in the …
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Βορβοροτάραξι
o muck-raker
Aristophanes [sc. uses this word]. Meaning o
most
disruptive one: disrupting and confusing our city like muck; filling the city with confusion and muck. And [there is] a proverb: "by staining clear water with …
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Βάκχυρις
Bakchuris, Bocchuris, Bokchyris
[sc. A proverbial epithet] in reference to the
most
just men. For such a one was he, the king of Egypt.
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Βαλανειομφάλους
acorn-bossed
… Also [sc. attested is] balaneitês ["bath-man"], [meaning] he who by
most
people is called attendant. "The bath-house is a road to softness." In the beginning, when there were no bath-houses, the ancients would wash …
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Βατήρ
threshold
… the very threshold of the argument," one says. Meaning the
most
important and chiefmost [point].
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204
Βδελυρός
disgusting
… more disgusting than all other women, and she filled the
most
sacrosanct virgins' quarters with her own wicked deeds". Also [sc. attested is the related abstract noun] bdeluri/a ["disgusting behavior"], [meaning] licentiousness.
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Βεκεσέληνε
bekeselene
[Meaning] old, that is,
most/very
foolish. It is formed from prose/lhne. For they called the Arcadians prose/lhnoi ["before the moon"] because they claimed to be the oldest [people] and to have arisen before the …
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Βελισάριος
Belisarius, Belisarios
… time and the rural population, because he had become the
most
generous of all men to the soldiers. For when they were unlucky in battle, he comforted their wounds with great sums of money …
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246
Βεσπασιανός
Vespasianos, Vespasianus, Vespasian
… had the common touch and avoided the palace for the
most
part. This man was worthy to be compared with the best kings/emperors of any time. He also made his private life renowned with …
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423
Βούλγαροι
Bulgars
… of mutual accusations increased and destroyed the bravest and the
most
prudent; and then the wrong-doers and the thieves became associates of the judges; and then [there was] the drunkenness -- for everyone became …
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Βουολοῦσκοι
Volsci
… against the Romans, and suffered many casualties and lost the
most
famous cities of their nation, when Marcius [Coriolanus], a young man illustrious among the Romans, charged into the midst of his enemies, but …
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591
Βυκάνη
bugle
A musical instrument. "And
Moses
devised a bugle out of silver. There were 2, and they used one for orders and assemblies, the other for convening officials."
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Βαβάκτης
reveller
… (two occurrences in an astrological work in a codex in
Moscow:
Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum Graecorum 12.178.17, 189.27), and in this case it seems likely to be a corruption of o)rxhsth/s ('dancer') which appears in …
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Βάρδιστοι
slowmost (ones)
… dialectal form of the word used to gloss it, found
mostly
in poetry. The entry is out of alphabetical order.
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174
Βασταχθείη
might be lifted
… 224/3; see lambda 72. [3] cf. Diogenes Laertius 4.59: "A
most
amusing story is told of his housekeeping. Whenever he brought anything out of the store-room, he would seal the door up again and …
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279
Βίαιοι
violent
… is Apollodorus. According to Polyaenus, Stratagems 6.7, Apollodorus "became the
most
murderous and cruel tyrant of all who had been tyrants both among the Greeks and the barbarians" (trans. P. Krentz and E.L. Wheeler). …
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311
Βιττίον
Bittion
… select the names at random and that the dedication is
most
likely genuine (ibid.).
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338
Βλήχων
pennyroyal
… plant of the mint family (Mentha pulegium), is native to
most
parts of Europe and has slightly hairy oval-shaped leaves and whorled clusters of deep purple or lilac blue colored flowers. It was esteemed …
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355
Βοαδρόμος
one running to help
The headword is a Doric dialect version of bohdro/mos (cf. beta 356, beta 357), as in the quotation given, but here alphabetized as if it were spelled with the eta. (Manuscript M, Adler reports, …
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Βόμβησεν
buzzed
… used of the sea and thunder, as well as bees,
mosquitoes,
and birds (beta 374). See LSJ s.v.
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437
Βούλησις
wish, rational desire
… wish. See the Bibliography below for a selection of the
most
significant discussions of this issue.
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531
Βρέμει
roars
Same or similar entry in other lexica, and cf. a scholion on Homer, Iliad 4.425 (where the headword occurs). This verb is related to bro/mos (beta 548).
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581
Βοίδιον
calf
… T.) Not an internal cross-reference to other Suda entries, which
mostly
begin 'Look under...'; rather, a memo for further research. See generally Strabo 9.5.2,15,18,22.
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582
Βοιωτία
Boiotia, Boeotia
The geographical headword has no gloss. For Boiotia cf. beta 583. [1] On the elusive musical term no/mos - melody, tune, composition, style - see generally West 215-17 and passim; and nu 478.
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