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β105Βαρβάρουςbarbarians… a long time and taught them speech, although they were barbarians before." The hoopoe says [this] about the birds.Matched in translationhighshort
β104Βαρβαρίζειbehaves like a barbarianMeaning [he/she/it] thinks barbarian thoughts. Thus Plato [sc. uses the word]. "But barbarism is pronunciation with defects contrary to the custom of the Greeks of good repute; solecism is an expression constructed ungrammatically;" such …Matched in translationhighshort
β109ΒάρβιοςBarbios, Barbius… Pomponius), tells basically the same story but calls the man Barbarius Philippus, and specifies that the man was on the verge of assuming the praetorship before his background was revealed. Both tales may be …Matched in noteshighmedium
β110Βάρβιτονbarbitos, long-armed lyre… of musical instrument. "O friend, you who loved the dear barbitos". This is said about Anakreon. [sc. The barbitos features in] a saying in reference to dissimilar things. Aristophanes [writes]: "What [does] the dress …Matched in translationhighshort
β107Βάρβιτοςbarbitos, long-armed lyreA kind of musical instrument.Matched in headwordhighshort
β2ΒαβακατρεῦbabakatreuIt is a barbarian word; the barbarian god is agreeing. For the meaningless words stand for assent.Matched in translationhighshort
β356Βοηδρομεῖνto run to help… the citizens running to help for this, a certain other barbarian appeared and wounded the other who was attacking, and nothing was decided."Matched in translationhighshort
β536ΒρῆννονBrennos, Brennus… Camillus returned after the capture of Rome and destroyed the barbarians who were following Brennos, he brought the case to court and proved that Februarius was responsible for all that had been done.Matched in translationhighshort
β44Βακάντιβοςloiterer… Epistle 66, characterized by the writer as a foreign ("slightly barbarous") word.Matched in noteshighshort
β396ΒορίανθοςBorianthos, Viriathus, Viriatus"Some barbarians killed Borianthus after he had become tyrant, thinking that by this the general of the Romans would be moved to benevolence. And indeed when some of the murderers of Borianthus approached they …Matched in translationhighshort
β263ΒηρίνηVerina… to the staircase, the other in the direction of saint Barbara. And the one near saint Agathonicus was made while Leo was still alive, but the other after his death, when she crowned Basiliscus …Matched in translationhighshort
β514ΒραγχίδαιBranchidai, Branchidae… Xerxes, betrayed the temple of the indigenous Apollo to the barbarians: the temple offerings, of which there were a great number, were plundered. The traitors, fearing vengeance from both the laws and the inhabitants …Matched in translationhighmedium
β279Βίαιοιviolent… who had been tyrants both among the Greeks and the barbarians" (trans. P. Krentz and E.L. Wheeler). [5] Cross-referenced at lambda 501; otherwise unknown, but for Illo(u)s see iota 324.Matched in noteshighshort
β246ΒεσπασιανόςVespasianos, Vespasianus, VespasianTitus Flavius Vespasianus, emperor 69-79: see generally Barbara Levick in OCD(4) s.v. Vespasian; De Imperatoribus Romanis entry by John Donahue at web address 1; Suetonius' biography at web address 2. The name is transliterated …Matched in noteshighmedium