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Βαβυλωνία κάμινος
Babylonian oven
['Babylonian oven'] and 'Babylonian boys'.
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Βαγαῖος
Bagaios, Bagaeus
Proper name. "When they cast lots, the lot fell to Bagaios out of all."
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Βαγεύει
roams
[sc. Means he/she/it] wanders about.
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Βάγιον
bagion
[Meaning something] great.
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Βαγώας
Bagoas
Proper name; [the man] who was a eunuch.
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Βάδην
step-by-step
[Referring to someone] proceeding at a walk. "Some he sent off ahead, but he himself, leading the army in a square formation, withdrew step-by-step." And elsewhere: "following step-by-step and in a leisurely fashion." Aristophanes …
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Βαδδίν
baddin, linen garment
[Meaning a] sacred robe. Daniel [says]: "I lifted up my eyes and looked, and there was a man clothed in a linen garment."
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18
Βάδιζε
walk!
Also [sc. attested is] badi/zou [used] in place of ba/dize. Cratinus [sc. uses it].
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Βαδιστέα
necessary to go
Meaning necessary to journey. "For me [it is] necessary to go where wisdom and the spirit lead me".
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Βαδιστικοῦ
good at walking
[Meaning] swift-footed. Aristophanes [writes]: "as I am hardly good at walking".
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Βάδιλλος
shovel
[no gloss]
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22
Βάδιος
Badios
[Meaning] son. It also signifies a horse's color.
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Βάδος
walk
[Meaning] walking. Aristophanes in Birds [writes]: "this is why we are walking this walk". [sc. Grammatically] formed as a joke. For just as [the noun] tread [comes] from [the verb] to tread -- Homer …
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Βαθάλη
Bathale
Proper name.
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