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definition39
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religion13
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history8
military affairs7

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poetry7
food6
imagery6
rhetoric6
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philosophy4
women4
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epic3
medicine3
mythology3
science and technology

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Β beta40

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high40

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Short36
Medium4

Translator

Jennifer Benedict11
William Hutton7
John Arnold5
Anne Mahoney4
Craig Gibson4
Catharine Roth3

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D. Graham J. Shipley2
David Whitehead2
Robert Dyer1
Sean M. Redmond1

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β4Βαβάκτηςreveller… 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 lexicography is in the Doric vocative form baba/kta in a fragment of …Matched in noteshighshort
β272Βιβάζειcauses to mount= Aelius Dionysius beta14 Erbse, Synagoge beta14, Photius beta138 Theodoridis, apart from some discrepancy in the reading of the first gloss (see note 1 below). The headword (which must be quoted from somewhere) is …Matched in noteshighshort
β383Βοῶμενlet us call out to, let us proclaim, let us declare… could be glossed with "swear." Same glossing in Hesychius and Photius, though the headword there is transmitted as bww=men (otherwise unattested), not the Suda's bow=men. [3] Present middle-passive participle of boa/w, masculine accusative singular …

β4

Βαβάκτης

reveller

A raging person.

Βαβάκτης· ὁ ὀργιστής.

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trade and manufacture3

trade and manufacture3

meter and music1

meter and music1

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β491Βωμόνbomos, bomonAlso in Photius. The headword, otherwise unattested, is ignored by LSJ. The gloss stapi/da (also in Photius s.v., but obelized there by Theodoridis), here translated "raisin[s]" is evidently equivalent to a)stafi/da, accusative of a)stafi/s …Matched in noteshighshort

β5Βαβαίbabai!= 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 …Matched in noteshighshort

β8ΒαβοῦςBabo's, Baubo'sHere in the genitive case; = Photius, Lexicon beta9. Perhaps drawn from a lost reference to an Orphic divinity Babo mentioned dismissively by Michael Psellos (2.163). Then again, the ultimate source may be Harpokration, …Matched in noteshighshort

β10ΒαβύλαςBabylas… 8, pp. 89-92 Bidez-Winkelmann), which is paraphrased somewhat differently by Photius. Babylas does not begin to make much of an impact on our surviving sources until a century or so after his death, when …Matched in noteshighmedium

β13Βαγεύειroams= Cyril, Synagoge beta2, Photius beta13 The headword (listed in the supplement to LSJ), presumably from the Latin vagârî ('to wander'), is the present indicative active third person singular form, evidently quoted from somewhere. …Matched in noteshighshort

β14Βάγιονbagion= 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 …Matched in noteshighshort

β16Βάδηνstep-by-step… all three of 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). …Matched in noteshighshort

β18Βάδιζεwalk!Likewise in ps.-Zonaras, and cf. Photius, Lexicon beta16; Adler also cites a comparable entry in the Ambrosian Lexicon (234). The unglossed primary headword is the present imperative (second person singular) of badi/zw, evidently quoted …Matched in noteshighshort

β22ΒάδιοςBadios[1] So too in Photius, and already Hesychius -- 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. …Matched in noteshighshort

β36Βαθυπέπλωνof long-robed [women]… or very similar 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, …Matched in noteshighshort

β44ΒακάντιβοςloitererTransliteration of Latin vacantivus; cf. beta 43. Same gloss in Photius (Lexicon beta28). The plural baka/ntiboi occurs in Synesius' Epistle 66, characterized by the writer as a foreign ("slightly barbarous") word.Matched in noteshighshort

β46Βάκηλοςbakêlos… general sense illustrated here. [1] Same or similar glossing in Photius and other lexica. [2] Likewise. [3] See e.g. Menander fr. 477 Kock, 368 K.-A.; cf. Zenobius 2.62 and other paroemiographers.Matched in noteshighshort

β92Βάναυσοςartisan, mechanic, banausos… index. [1] cf. beta 194. This etymology is found in Photius (Lexicon beta56) and elsewhere. [2] Polybius 1.40.9, on the battle of Panormus (250 BCE).Matched in noteshighshort

β104Βαρβαρίζειbehaves like a barbarian[1] Same gloss in Timaeus, Platonic Lexicon, and Photius, Lexicon beta63; cf. generally alpha 3728. On the concept of "barbarian" in Greek thought, see OCD(4) s.v. (p.223). [2] Plato, Alcibiades 1 120B, where the …Matched in noteshighshort

β113Βαρεῖα χείρweighty hand; weighty bandA problematic entry. Photius, Lexicon beta68, has the headword in (seemingly) the 'weighty hand' sense, adding that Hipponax fr. 138a uses this phrase for the right (sc. hand). Previously, Hesychius beta226 had glossed the …Matched in noteshighshort

β193Βαυκαλᾶνto sing a lullabySame 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 …Matched in noteshighshort

β204Βδελυρόςdisgusting[1] Likewise in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon (and again in Photius). Perhaps generated by the occurrence of the headword adjective in Plato, Republic 338D (where Thrasymachus applies it to Socrates), though not necessarily so; Timaeus' …Matched in noteshighshort

β234Βέλοςarrow, dart, missile… foreshortened to simply 'a wound' in other lexica: Synagoge beta42, Photius beta124; combined with other glosses in Hesychius beta497).Matched in noteshighshort

β244Βερέσχεθοιbereschethoi, boobies… sigma 630. The very similar bere/sxetoi is glossed thus in Photius and elsewhere; it also, as noted in LSJ s.v., appears in a papyrus glossary from Oxyrhynchus.Matched in noteshighshort

β315Βλάκαidiot, foolSame material in Photius and elsewhere. [1] Of the noun bla/c (beta 314), evidently extracted from somewhere. [2] cf. sigma 417. [3] Plato, Republic 432D (web address 1 below). [4] Aristotle fr. 525 Rose. …Matched in noteshighmedium

β316Βλακεύεταιgets lazy, is lazy… singular, present indicative) of the verb blakeu/w; same glossing in Photius and elsewhere. [2] Damascius, Life of Isidore fr. 21 Zintzen (237 Asmus, 16A Athanassiadi). [3] An approximation of Xenophon, Anabasis 2.3.11 (web address …Matched in noteshighshort

β330Βλέποντεςthose with sightExpanded from Photius s.v. [1] The headword is present participle of ble/pw, masculine nominative plural. (It is perhaps extracted from somewhere, but more probably generated by the quotation which follows.) For this sense of …Matched in noteshighshort

β341Βλιμάζεινto handle, to squeeze; to attempt… Aristophanes, Birds 530, where "handling" appears. [2] From Harpokration (and Photius) s.v. [3] Evidently quoted from somewhere but attested only in lexica. [4] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1164, where a variant of …Matched in noteshighmedium

β362ΒολεῶναςdunghillsThe headword is accusative plural, as in Photius, Lexicon beta195 (cf. Etymologicum Magnnum 204.25) which the Suda follows. Harpokration s.v. has the nominative plural and -- citing Nicander (FGrH 343 F3), Dinarchus (fr. III.3 …Matched in noteshighshort

β370Βομβάζεινto humiliate, jeer atSame or similar entry in Photius and elsewhere. The verb, though presumably related to other bomb- words (beta 371, beta 372, etc.), is otherwise unattested.Matched in noteshighshort

β375Βομβυλιόςbumblebee, buzzing-insect… "gurgling" cup. [2] Again beta 376. [3] From Harpokration (and Photius) s.v., where Isocrates 10.12 is cited.Matched in noteshighshort

β428Βουλεύσαςhaving made a decision… Secret History 26.40 (web address 1). See on this Theodoridis' Photius edition, vol.II p.XCII. Procopius describes the scheme by which Hephaistos, prefect in Alexandria in 545/546 CE and later governor, terminated--with the approval of …Matched in noteshighshort

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