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Βαβύλας
Babylas
… in their lower courses, it may be worth noting that
Plutarch,
Lycurgus 6.2 (cf. Pelopidas 13.3), records Babyka as the name of a stream near central Sparta (cf. Hesychius beta18, where Babyka is glossed …
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Βωμολοχεύσαιτο
(if one) were to play the wit at the altar
… certain Iortius in Aelian (fr. 111c Domingo-Forasté, 108 Hercher, citing
Plutarch
as his source: cf. epsilon 157, iota 423, mu 321). Iortius (RE 9.1929-30) was a parasite (hanger-on) of Maecenas, the prefect of Rome …
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Βάγιον
bagion
… the family of Pharnaces, Persian satrap of the Hellespont --
Plutarch,
Alcibiades 39 -- though some mss read Magaios rather than Bagaios). According to Hesychius beta22, *bagai=os was also the Phrygian name for Zeus, …
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Βαθμίδος
base, pedestal, step, threshold
… 1); the line was striking enough to be quoted by
Plutarch
(Moralia 776C).
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Βακκαῖοι
Bakkaioi, Bacchaioi, Vaccaei
… Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 13.5.9; 15.10.4-5; 18.1.5. [2] Mentioned in (e.g.)
Plutarch,
Life of Sertorius 21.
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Βασίλειοι
royal
… to the 30,000 such boys mentioned in Arrian, Diodorus Siculus,
Plutarch,
and other sources on Alexander the Great. The present version is wrong in its location as well as the figure: having been organized …
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Βάτραχος ἐκ Σερίφου
a frog out of Seriphos
… and other paroemiographers. Seriphos was a proverbially insignificant (cf. e.g.
Plutarch,
Themistocles 18 [web address 1]) little island in the south Aegean Sea. Skyros is a larger one -- though still, too, proverbially insignificant: …
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Βελεστίχη
Belestiche
… Ptolemy II Philadelphus of Egypt (reigned 282-246 BCE); mentioned in
Plutarch,
Moralia 753E, who says there were shrines dedicated to her in Alexandria. cf. under sigma 871.
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Βολίτου δίκην
case of a cow-pat
… the severity of Solon's, rather than Draco's, laws; contrast e.g.
Plutarch,
Solon 17.
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Βουολοῦσκοι
Volsci
… which seems to have conflated the two attested spellings *ou)olou=skoi
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Dionysius of Halicarnassus) and *bolou=skoi (Appian). On this alleged episode (of 493 BCE) see OCD(4) p.897, s.v. Marcius Coriolanus. The source of the …
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Βρασίδας
Brasidas
… Nikias in 421 (Thucydides 5.19.2). Brasidas' mother was named Argileonis
(Plutarch,
Moralia 240C). [2] Contrary to the impression given here, Methone never revolted against Sparta. It was a perioikic town on the Messenian coast, …
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Βροῦτος
Brutus
… Brutum) and the epitome of Polybius must come ultimately from
Plutarch's
Brutus 2 and 4. [2] A cross-reference to delta 421 (but the Brutus there is a much earlier one).
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