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β210Βαιαίlittle (ones), scanty (ones)… one disregards Baiai/Baeae the Italian toponym). [2] i.e. "alone". [3] Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 750-751; spoken by Oedipus to Jocasta, concerning Laius. [4] Sophocles fr.39. [5] Sophocles, Ajax 292-94 (spoken by Tecmessa to the chorus, …Matched in noteshighshort
β30Βάθραfoundations, pedestals, steps, benches… of this entry and kappa 269. [2] Quotation unidentifiable. [3] Sophocles, Ajax 135 (web address 1 below), with scholion.Matched in noteshighmedium
β95Βάξιν[ill] report… Corrected in the editio princeps from the transmitted 'Aristophanes'. [2] Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 515-9 (web address 1 below), with scholion; cf. mu 73.

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Βαιαί

little (ones), scanty (ones)

[Meaning] small [ones]. Also [sc. attested is the masculine singular] baio/s ["scanty"], in the special sense of "one". Sophocles [writes]: "was he traveling 'scanty' or with many men as attendants?". Also in Captive…

Βαιαί· μικραί. καὶ Βαιός, ἰδίως ἀντὶ τοῦ εἷς. Σοφοκλῆς· πότερον ἐχώρει βαιὸς ἢ πολλοὺς ἔχων λοχίτας ἄνδρας; καὶ ἐν Αἰχμαλωτίσιν· ἔσπεισα βαιᾶς κύλικος ὥστε δεύτερα. καὶ αὖθις· ὁ…

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β324Βλαύτηslipper[1] cf. beta 325. [2] Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 900 (web address 1 below), with scholion; cf. sigma 927. [3] Greek Anthology 6.293.1-2 (Leonidas of Tarentum), using a neuter variant (cf. beta 325) of …Matched in noteshighshort

β330Βλέποντεςthose with sight… the verb, in tragedy, see generally LSJ s.v., III.2. [2] Sophocles, Ajax 961-963 (web address 1 below), with comment from the scholia there.Matched in noteshighshort

β399Βοσκήσομενwe will feed… from its only other extant occurrence: Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 599. [2] Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 1424-1428 (web address 1 below), where the text has the active infinitive deiknu/nai instead of the Suda's dei/knutai.Matched in noteshighshort

β43Βακάντηςloiterer… idle." The gloss literally means "complainer"; for this entry, however, Sophocles' Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods suggests that schetliastês has the sense of scholastês; cf. beta 44.Matched in noteshighshort

β117ΒαρκαίοιςBarkaian (ones), Barcaean (ones)From the scholia to Sophocles, Electra 727, where the dative plural headword occurs: "crashed into Barkaian chariots"; cf. omicron 1064. For Barke/Ptolemais see Strabo 17.3.20-21 (C837) and Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. On its chariots …Matched in noteshighshort

β121Βάροςweight, influence, gravitas, dignity… Siculus 33.28a (28b in Loeb edition); cf. iota 111. [5] Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1142-44 (Theseus speaking).Matched in noteshighmedium

β160Βασιλίνδαprincess… with beta 161 (q.v.). In fact this entry derives from Sophocles, Antigone 941 (web address 1), where the scholia gloss thus a noun in the accusative singular: perhaps basili/da or (Winckelmann) basileida=n.Matched in noteshighshort

β166Βάσιςstepping[1] Sophocles, Ajax 8 (Athena reassures Odysseus that he will track down Ajax), with the gloss from the preceding line. Also at lambda 47 and epsilon 3689.Matched in noteshighshort

β296Βιοστερῆlife-bereft… this adjective. [1] Creon [Author, Myth]'s description of Oedipus in Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 746-7 (web address 1 below).Matched in noteshighshort

β327Βλαισόςbandy-legged; curving… alpha 4677, theta 556. On this epigram, an epitaph for Sophocles, see Gow and Page (vol. I, 178), (vol. II, 513-514), and another excerpt at kappa 1272. [4] Attested only here.Matched in noteshighshort

β402ΒόσποροιBosporoi… p.244-5, under Bosporus(1) and Bosporus(2). [1] From the scholia to Sophocles, Ajax 884, where the phrase "Bosporian rivers" occurs. (This "Phileas" is perhaps the "Philon" of Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Bosporos.)Matched in noteshighshort

β443Βουλομένῳwishing… [1] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 102 Habrich. [2] Not Aristophanes but Sophocles: Philoctetes 94-95 (web address 1 below).Matched in noteshighshort

β449Βουνόμονcattle-pasturing (shore)… extracted from the quotation given. cf. generally beta 448. [1] Sophocles, Electra 181 (web address 1 below).Matched in noteshighshort

β453Βούπαιςbig boy, ox-boy, ox-child… and elsewhere. [3] Greek Anthology 7.36.3-4 (Erucius), an epitaph for Sophocles; cf. Gow and Page vol. I (252-253); vol. II (286); and further excerpts from this epigram at alpha 145, alpha 1421, and sigma …Matched in noteshighshort