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Βαήλ
Bael, Ba'al
[no gloss]
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40
Βαθύστρωτος κοίτη
deep-spread couch
"The bride pursued it [a mouse] running down from the deep-spread couch." Meaning expensive.
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50
Βάκτρον
staff
[Meaning] rod/stick. "[Lysimachus] who has now exchanged his panoply for the staff of an old man." It is also called skepanion ["little rod"]. "Instead of a plectrum, I [Eumolpus] support my trembling hands with …
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51
Βάκχαι
Bacchants
[Bacchants] and Satyrs and Pans and Silenuses [sc. are all] attendants of Dionysus.
high
short
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Βακχέβακχον ᾆσαι
to sing a Bacchebacchus
Meaning to sing praise to Dionysos. For Bakkhan [is] Dionysos.
high
short
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Βακχευούσας σὺν τῷ μέλει τῷ βακχείῳ τε καὶ ἐνθέῳ
celebrating the mysteries of Dionysos with the bacchic and inspired song
[no gloss]
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54
Κατεβακχεύοντο
celebrating the mysteries of Bacchus
[Meaning he who] is acting frenzied. Also [sc. attested is the related verb] katebakxeu/onto ["they were going like Bacchants"], that is filled with some spirit of divine inspiration. "They were going like Bacchants to …
high
short
β
55
Βακχεία ποιμαντική
Bacchic herdsmanship
['Bacchic herdmanship']; and [sc. also attested is] *Bakxei=os.
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short
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56
Βάκχης τρόπον
in a Bacchant's manner, like a Bacchant
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those who are always surly and silent; inasmuch as the Bacchants keep silence.
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57
Βάκχος
Bakkhos, Bacchus
Thus he used to call not only Dionysos, but also all those who celebrate the orgies; indeed the initiates do not also carry the branches. It is also a kind of wreath. "They wreathed …
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short
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58
Βακχίδης
Bacchides, Bakkhides
[Meaning] the son of Dionysos.
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59
Βακχυλίδης
Bakkhulides, Bacchylides
Keian, [i.e.] from Keos the island, but of the city Ioulis (for it has 4 cities, Ioulis, Karthaia, Koressia, Poiessa), son of Medon, [who was] the son of Bacchylides the athlete; a relative of …
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short
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71
Βάλλ' ἐς κόρακας
go to the crows!
That is, go away to destruction and corruption. From a story found in the proverbs.
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short
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72
Βαλεντινιανός
Valentinianos, Valentinianus, Valentinian
Emperor of [the] Romans. But some [sc. spell it] Oualentinianos. See also under Sallustius.
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short
β
73
Βαλεριανός
Valerianos, Valerianus, Valerian
Emperor of [the] Romans.
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short
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84
Βαλίος
Balios, Piebald
[The name of a] horse.
high
short
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85
Βαλμός
balmos
[Meaning the] breast, chest.
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short
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86
Βάλλων
pelting, smiting
"[Pelting] Socrates and Zeno with jokes out of Dionysiac festivals, and judging their followers deserving to be driven out from the whole land and sea, as being banes of both cities and commonwealth; but …
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short
β
104
Βαρβαρίζει
behaves like a barbarian
Meaning [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 …
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short
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105
Βαρβάρους
barbarians
Meaning those men who are dumb or deaf and who do not know their speech. Aristophanes in Birds [writes]: "for I myself stayed with them for a long time and taught them speech, although …
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143
Βασιλεύω
I reign
When it means I have authority and I rule, it is construed with a genitive; but when it means I make [someone] king, with an accusative. "And this one alone of all he treated …
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short
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144
Βασιλεὺς μέγας
Great King
[Referring to] the [king] of the Persians. To the other kings they added also the names of those who were ruled: as "of the Lakedaimonians," "of the Macedonians." A king differs from a tyrant. …
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medium
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145
Βασιλέως ἐγκέφαλος
king's brain, king's morsel
See under Zeus's morsel. Interpretation of a dream: one addressing a lord remains unsuccessful.
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short
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146
Βασιλεία
kingship; kingdom
[Meaning] the rank [sc. of king]. Also the nation which is ruled by a king; such as of [that] Persians, Indians, Arabs.
high
short
β
147
Βασιλεία
kingship
[Kingship] is rule without accountability. "The good are not only free, but also kings. For kingship is rule without accountability, which none but the wise can maintain." Kingship. Neither nature nor justice gives kingdoms …
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medium
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148
Βασιλεία
kingship, sovereignty
Kingship [is] a possession of things held in common, but the people's things [are] not kingship's possession. Therefore the forcible and violent collection of taxes should be hated as tyrannical insolence, but the reasoned …
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short
β
149
Βασιλείδης
prince
[Meaning] the [son] of the king.
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short
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151
Βασίλειος
Basileios, Basilius, Basil
[Basil] of Ancyra, bishop of the same city, physician by trade. This man wrote Against Marcellus, and on virginity, and not a few other works. During the reign of Constantine he led the Macedonian …
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short
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152
Βασίλειος
Basileios, Basilius, Basil
Another [Basil], bishop of Eirenoupolis in Cilicia, in the time of the emperor Anastasius. He resembled his namesake Basil of Caesarea in his mind-set and his ascetic life-style. He wrote against Archelaus, an elder …
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153
Βασίλειος
Basileios, royal
The onomastics ending in -ios are written with iota, except 4: Areios, Herakleios, Basileios. Also [sc. attested is the] Basileios stoa ["Royal Stoa"]: there are two stoas next to each other, that of Zeus …
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