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313
Βλάβη
harm
… other lexica. [2] Aristophanes, Frogs 1151, with comment from the
scholia
there. (The
scholiast
means the neuter form in the "fault" sense.)
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435
Βουλής
councillor
From the
scholia
to Thucydides 3.70.5, a parenthetical phrase attached to the name Peithias (of Corcyra): e)tu/gxane ga\r kai\ boulh=s w)/n. But the
scholiast
got the wrong end of the stick: boulh=s is simply …
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19
Βαδιστέα
necessary to go
… constructions). [1] The gloss may derive (as Adler suggests) from
scholia
to Aristophanes, Acharnians 394, where the present headword occurs (web address 1), but no surviving scholium uses that gloss. cf., however,
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Βαλανάγρα
bolt-hook
From the
scholia
to Aristophanes, Wasps 155, where the word "bolt" (balanos) appears. Similar material appears in other
scholia,
e.g. to Thucydides 2.4.3 and to Aristophanes, Birds 1159 (where bebala/nwtai occurs). The headword itself, …
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137
Βασανίζειν
to test
cf. generally beta 139. [1] From the
scholia
to Aristophanes, Frogs 616, quoted below. [2] Polybius fr. 26 Büttner-Wobst. Here the noun ba/sanos is being used, rather than the verb basani/zw of the headword. …
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189
Βατράχειον
frog-green
[1] From the
scholia
to Aristophanes, Knights 522, where the headword occurs; cf. mu 20. [2] From the
scholia
to Aristophanes, Knights 1406, where the word occurs. [3] This (proverbial?) phrase is not otherwise …
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287
Βινεῖν
to fuck
See also beta 288. [1] From the
scholia
to Aristophanes, Frogs 740, where the headword occurs. [2] Sense uncertain (the verb pip(p)izein normally means "to chirp like a young bird" or, according to some …
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317
Βλακεία
laziness, sloth
… cognates beta 314, beta 315, beta 316). [1] cf. the
scholia
to Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 325, where the headword appears (web address 1). See also kappa 905. [2] From the
scholia
to Aristophanes, Frogs …
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325
Βλαυτίοις
slippers
… 888-9 (web address 1 below), followed by comment from the
scholia
there; cf. chi 220. [3] Here the sense of lasana obviously shifts. [4] From the
scholia
to Aristophanes, Peace 893: "once, before the …
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340
Βληχρόν
faint
cf. alpha 58. [1] cf. the
scholia
to Homer, Iliad 8.178, where the phrase tei/xea ... a)blh/xr' (sic) occurs (web address 1 below). The Suda's neuter singular blhxro/n seems to be quoted from Nicander, …
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341
Βλιμάζειν
to handle, to squeeze; to attempt
cf. alpha 3319, delta 566, theta 390. [1] From the
scholia
to Aristophanes, Birds 530, where "handling" appears. [2] From Harpokration (and Photius) s.v. [3] Evidently quoted from somewhere but attested only in lexica. …
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492
Βωμός
altar; podium
… for the wording of the present passage cf. rather [Nonnus],
Scholia
mythologica 4.28 (PG 36, 1001b). [3] Aristophanes, Peace 942 (web address 1 below), followed by comment from the
scholia
there. Again at theta …
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555
Βροτός
mortal
cf. the
scholia
to Homer, Iliad 2.248 and 7.425, where these two differently-accented words respectively occur; also in other lexica and
scholia.
[1] cf. beta 552, beta 553, beta 554. [2] cf. beta 551.
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573
Βρύκουσα
gobbling
cf. beta 571, beta 572. [1] From the
scholia
to Aristophanes, Lysistrata 367: see note 3 below. [2] Aristophanes, Birds 26 (web address 1 below). The preceding sentence in the gloss is from the …
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593
Βυρσαίετος
hide-eagle
[1] From the
scholia
to Aristophanes, Knights 197, where the headword occurs; cf. mu 240. For Kleon see generally kappa 1731. [2] cf. sigma 724 & sigma 725. [3] From the
scholia
to Aristophanes, …
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2
Βαβακατρεῦ
babakatreu
… Aristophanes, Birds 1615 (web address 1), with comments from the
scholia
thereto. Other variants include babai/ satreu=, mabaisatreu=, nabaisatreu=. Following L. Bayard, RPh 44 (1920) 30, Dunbar (below) prints na *baisatreu, which Bayard interprets …
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16
Βάδην
step-by-step
… Quotation unidentifiable. [4] Aristophanes, Acharnians 535 (web address 1). The
scholia
there supply the gloss here.
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20
Βαδιστικοῦ
good at walking
… Frogs 128 (web address 2), with the gloss of the
scholia
there.
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23
Βάδος
walk
… Birds 42 (web address 2), followed by comment from the
scholia
there. [2] Homer, Iliad 6.202 (web address 3).
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35
Βαθυλήϊον
deeply-cropping
Likewise or similarly in other lexica, and cf. the
scholia
to Homer, Iliad 2.147, where the neuter headword appears (as two words): text at web address 1.
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47
Βάκις
Bakis, Bacis
… F77. This whole paragraph of the entry comes from the
scholia
to Aristophanes, Peace 1071; cf. kappa 40, and see generally R. Parker, Miasma (Oxford 1983) 20.
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49
Βακτηρία καὶ σύμβολον
staff and token
Similarly in other lexica. From the
scholia
to Demosthenes 18.210, which mentions these items (see web address 1). For comment see under sigma 1375.
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57
Βάκχος
Bakkhos, Bacchus
… [2] Nicander [nu 374] fr. 130 Schneider -- from the
scholia
on Aristophanes, Knights 408; cf. beta 52. [3] George of Pisidia, Heraclias 3 fr. 40 Tartaglia; on Persian vices, presumably as opposed to …
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64
Βαλανειομφάλους
acorn-bossed
… attested only in Polybius 30.29.4. [4] Artemidorus 1.64; cf. the
scholia
to Aristophanes, Clouds 838. [5] From alpha 4123.
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66
Βάλανος
date; head of the penis
[1] From the
scholia
to Aristophanes, Lysistrata 413 (web address 1 below), where the headword appears. See generally J. Henderson, The Maculate Muse (New Haven 1975) 41, 119, 141. [2] The date palm, phoenix …
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68
Βαλαντιοτόμος
cut-purse, purse-cutter
… Tyana 4.22; cf. epsilon 327, chi 489. [2] cf. the
scholia
to Aristophanes, Frogs 772, where this word appears.
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69
Βαλβίς Βαλβῖδος
starting-post; starting-post's
… in Antiphon the sophist (87 F69 D-K); cf. also the
scholia
to Aristophanes, Knights 1159 (web address 1).
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70
Βάλε βάλε τὸ τρίτον εἴη
cast, cast, for the third time may it be
… ba/le moi, not ba/le, ba/le. The comment is from the
scholia
thereto.
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75
Βάλλ' ἐς Μακαρίαν
be gone into blessedness
… under mu 51. Similar material, variously, in other lexica and
scholia.
[1] Two dialect variants, the first Attic, of the preposition 'into'.
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82
Βαλίαν
dappled
[1] cf. the
scholia
to Euripides, Hecuba 90, where the headword (feminine accusative singular) occurs. [2] Synesius, Hymns 3.77-8. [3] Greek Anthology 7.203.3-4 (Simias), an epitaph for a partridge decoy; cf. Gow and Page …
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