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β285Βίκοςjar… this comment is unclear. (For "transmission" cf. sigma 693.) [2] Xenophon, Anabasis 1.9.25. [3] Not otherwise attested as such; perhaps biki/on, vetch, is meant.Matched in noteshighshort
β316Βλακεύεταιgets lazy, is lazy… 21 Zintzen (237 Asmus, 16A Athanassiadi). [3] An approximation of Xenophon, Anabasis 2.3.11 (web address 1 below), on the disciplinary methods of Klearchos. Again, even looser, at epsilon 2687.Matched in noteshighshort
β440Βουλιμιᾶνto be starving… 439, beta 441, epsilon 35. [1] cf. kappa 371. [2] Xenophon, Anabasis 4.5.8 (web address 1 below), quoted here from beta 565. [3] Quotation unidentifiable. (Adler suggested Symeon Metaphrastes and, ultimately, Aelian; then in …

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Βίκος

jar

[Meaning] a container/vessel. Also [sc. attested is] biki/dion ["little jar"], the transmission with iota. Xenophon [writes]: "for Cyrus sent jars half full of wine". Also [sc. attested is] bi/kos, [meaning] a seed.

Βίκος· τὸ ἀγγεῖον. καὶ Βικίδιον διὰ τοῦ ι ἡ παράδοσις. Ξενοφῶν· Κῦρος γὰρ ἔπεμπε βίκους ἡμιδεεῖς οἴνου. καὶ Βίκος, τὸ σπέρμα.

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β565Βρωτόνedible; fodder… the headword (accusative case) occurs. [2] Or, "any fodder." [3] Xenophon, Anabasis 4.5.8 (web address 1); cf. beta 440.Matched in noteshighshort

β66Βάλανοςdate; head of the penis… fruit is a crimson [phoinix] to brown color when ripe. Xenophon, Anabasis 1.5.10 (web address 2 below). [3] Xenophon, Anabasis 2.3.15 (web address 3 below); cf. already alpha 2991 and alpha 3381.Matched in noteshighshort

β389Βοπόρουςox-piercing [spits]… of spits long enough to pierce an entire ox. cf. Xenophon, Anabasis 7.8.14, of a spit large and sharp enough to pierce a man's thigh.Matched in noteshighshort

β519ΒρασίδαςBrasidas… at Methone, Brasidas was chosen as eponymous ephor at Sparta (Xenophon, Hellenica 2.3.10; Diodorus Siculus 12.43.2). [3] A site on the west coast of Messenia, which an Athenian force occupied in 425. The Spartans …Matched in noteshighmedium