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β363Βοήνbattle-cry[Meaning] battle [itself], and a great shout.Matched in translationhighshort
β276Βίβλοι θεοῦbooks of God[Meaning] knowledge itself and the memory which does not fail. David [says]: "and in your book all will be recorded."Matched in translationhighshort
β350ΒοανεργέςBoanerges… John, the sons of Zebedee, in Mark 3.17. The gospel itself adds the gloss.Matched in noteshighshort
β437Βούλησιςwish, rational desire… practical faculties of the soul. [...] And wish belongs by itself to the rational soul itself, while choice belongs to the part [of the soul] which is involved with lack of reason. For when …Matched in translationhighmedium
β546Βρόγχοςthroat… of the present entry's glosses -- rarer than the headword itself -- appears as headword (glossed by the second gloss). For 'throat' cf. also under pi 2412.Matched in noteshighshort
β118ΒάρνηBarne… Ambrosian Lexicon. Its gloss, nevertheless, is not only obscure in itself (though cf. beta 111) but, surely, misplaced here. Cadesh Barnea (present-day Ein el Qudeirat, in NE Egypt) is mentioned in several books of …Matched in noteshighshort
β36Βαθυπέπλωνof long-robed [women]… helpfully explain that it refers to women. The headword adjective itself is characteristic of late epic (Nonnus, Quintus); see also epsilon 3574.Matched in noteshighshort
β293Βίοςlife… the substance of one's possessions, sometimes the act of living itself. And [there is] a proverb: "a ready-kneaded life," in reference to those who are living prosperously in an extravagant and sweet life. And …Matched in translationhighshort
β440Βουλιμιᾶνto be starving… Xenophon says "to be starving" when the stomach is eating itself with hunger. "Going to the yoke beasts, if he ever saw some food he gave it to those who were starving." "And when …Matched in translationhighmedium
β227ΒεζέκBezekMore briefly -- i.e. without the quotation itself -- already in Hesychius (beta455). [1] Ezekiel 1:14 LXX (not in all manuscripts). Theodoret's commentary on the passage attributes this exegesis of the word to Symmachus. …Matched in noteshighshort
β466ΒουτάδηςBoutadai-man… in Harpok.), normally served as the name of the deme itself. Boutadai lay inside the city walls of Athens, probably in the vicinity of the Sacred Way. Its name suggests a connection with the …Matched in noteshighshort
β266Βησᾶς ἕστηκεν οἷον ἀχανήςBesas stands as if gaping… (4.90). Common to the non-Suda versions is that the proverb itself is confined to the first two words, i.e. "as if gaping" is part of the gloss. Besa(s) occurs in Eusebius and elsewhere as …Matched in noteshighshort
β204Βδελυρόςdisgusting… Socrates), though not necessarily so; Timaeus' Lexicon does not confine itself to Plato. [2] Aelian fr. 160 Domingo-Forasté (163 Hercher). [3] Likewise, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon.Matched in noteshighshort
β572Βρύκουσαgnashing… For this glossing cf. generally Hesychius s.v. bru/kein. The headword itself is the present participle, feminine nominative singular, of bru/kw; see again beta 573. [2] Greek Anthology 7.433.3-4 (Tymneus), with the compound participle e)pibru/kous'; …Matched in noteshighshort
β178ΒάταλοςBatalos, Batalus… 'Bat(t)alos' means 'stammerer', the present passage (and indeed Aeschines 2.99 itself) seems to demand obscene connotations as well or instead; cf. beta 177. Harpokration, under this entry, cites the comic poet Eupolis for 'batalos' …Matched in noteshighshort
β61Βαλανάγραbolt-hook… and to Aristophanes, Birds 1159 (where bebala/nwtai occurs). The headword itself, balanagra, first appears in Herodotus (3.155).Matched in noteshighshort
β514ΒραγχίδαιBranchidai, Branchidae… they had not only escaped the Milesians, but also justice itself. But the watchfulness of the god was not asleep. For Alexander, when he obtained mastery of the Persian empire upon conquering Darius, heard …Matched in translationhighmedium
β229Βεκεσέληνεbekeselene… moon. So bekese/lhne [is] like prose/lhne. But also bekese/lhne by itself is derived from a story like this. When Psammetikhos became king of the Egyptians, he wanted to know which of all men were …Matched in translationhighmedium
β153ΒασίλειοςBasileios, royal… change of subject the entry now draws on Harpokration s.v. (itself generated by ancient comment on Demosthenes 25.23). [3] In the Agora at Athens. [4] See epsilon 804. [5] Named after one of the …Matched in noteshighshort
β163ΒασιλίσκοςBasiliskos, Basiliscus… it (104) in the note to fr. 76, which is itself among fragments which she attributes dubiously to Priscus. Only the last part of the fragment, beginning with h(|re/qh, Carolla deems (ibid.) to be …Matched in noteshighshort
β587ΒύβλονByblian… in "all"? [3] cf. Zenobius 2.73 (omitting 'big'). The proverb itself is an iambic trimeter.Matched in noteshighmedium
β9ΒαβύλαςBabylas… babu(k)as was glossed as a cess-pit or clay-pit. The word itself was garbled in transmission in various directions, and in the glosses there was confusion between bo/qron ('pit') and the sound-alike ba/qron ('pedestal') and …Matched in noteshighshort
β10ΒαβύλαςBabylas… RSV); again at epsilon 3440. [5] Hebrews 2:13, which is itself a fragmentary quotation of Isaiah 8:18.Matched in noteshighmedium

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