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102
Βαρακηνίς
with prickles
[Meaning] a thorn.
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103
Βαράμης
Barames, Vahram, Bahram, Baram
[no gloss]
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106
Βαρδίσαγνος
bardisagnos
[Meaning] he who violates women.
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β
108
Βάρδιστοι
slowmost (ones)
[Meaning] slowest [ones].
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109
Βάρβιος
Barbios, Barbius
"Philippicus; this man held office in the time of the Three Tyrants. He was obsequious in his manner and a flatterer, and yet he was numbered among the coterie of Antonius. And this office, …
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111
Βαργαδώθ
Bargadoth
A son of grief/pain.
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short
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112
Βαρέως
heavily
[Meaning ?full] of burdens.
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113
Βαρεῖα χείρ
weighty hand; weighty band
[Meaning] a powerful [one]. "A sufficient number gathered, both a weighty band and unexpected."
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114
Βάρεις
barges
[Meaning] boats, walls, stoas, courtyards, towers, balls. "He was in charge of barges [or: bastions]". That is, of walls. "Even if your horrible barge is heavily laden, accept me, the dog Diogenes deceased."
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115
Βάρεις ἐλεφάντιναι
ivory bastions, ivory towers
[Meaning] the churches all over the world, one in faith, in which God is honored. Also [sc. attested is] ba/rewn, the genitive plural. But baris [is] a stoa and a city.
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116
Βαρθολομαῖος
Bartholomaios, Bartholemaeus, Bartholomew
Proper name.
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118
Βάρνη
Barne
[Meaning a] leaping [or: quivering] son.
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119
Βαρόεις
weighty
[no gloss]
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137
Βασανίζειν
to test
It does not mean abusing or punishing or whipping in the Attic [authors], but interrogating without blows and investigating the truth through words; from the goldsmith's touchstone [ba/sanos], used metaphorically. And Polybius [writes]: "then, …
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139
Βάσανος
touchstone, test
It is the stone which tests gold when it is rubbed against it. Thus Antiphon and Pindar and Sophokles. But Hyperides calls ba/sanoi the things said in interrogation by those who are being tested …
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140
Βασσαρικά
Bassarika, Bassarica
Soterichos wrote a [Bassarika] or Dionysiaka. He lived during the reign of Diocletian. Also [sc. attested is the genitive singular] "of Bassaric". In the Epigrams: "the twisted tambourine, goad of a Bassaric throng". That …
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141
Βασσαρίς
Bassarid
[Describing a] courtesan, prostitute. In the Epigrams: "Bassarid Eurynome, cliff-runner, who once gouged many breasts of long-horned bulls."
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157
Βασιλική
basilica
In the basilica behind the Milion -- where also the exammon was up until the time of the emperor Heraclius -- stood a gilt statue of a man on bended knee, Justin the tyrant. …
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261
Βὴξ ἀντὶ πορδῆς
a cough instead of a fart
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those who, in a predicament, pretend to do something; since when people fart they pretend to cough in an attempt to avoid detection. And [there is] a …
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507
Βώτορες
pasturers
[Meaning] shouters, herdsmen. Also 'bestowers'. In the Epigrams: "the one that was destroying the pasturage and the folds of cattle and the pasturer men, and who trembled not at the clamor of dogs ... …
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509
Βραβεύει
awards
[Used] with a dative. [Meaning he/she/it] votes for, assigns. "[...] with the divinity having well awarded them the things involved in their voyage."
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511
Βραβεῖς
umpires
[Meaning] the heralds in the games. Sophokles [writes]: "for as much as umpires heralded in the prizes which are customary for the two-lap races."
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513
Βράβηλα
sloes
What are called Damaskenes. Theocritus [writes]: "...shoots weighed down to the ground with sloes." Athenaeus in Book 2 of the Deipnosophists says that Seleucus uses the words 'plums' and 'sloes' and ba/drua. It has …
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515
Βράγχη
hoarseness
A disease that occurs in sows. Look also under 'diarrhea'.
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short
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516
Βραδύς
slow
[Meaning] one who is not sharp-witted. "Both forgetful and slow." [So says] Aristophanes in Clouds. For it is not employed in reference to the movement of the body in this case, but is intended …
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517
Βράκανα
greens
[Meaning] herbs that are wild and difficult to wash.
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518
Βράσσει
boils
[Meaning he/she/it] seethes, tosses up.
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520
Βρασμὸς γῆς
roiling of the earth
[sc. This is the term used] when it seethes with movement, but a 'disturbance' [is] when it is tossed upward.
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522
Ὅτι τὰ παρ' ἡμῖν βραχιόλια χλιδόνες καλοῦνται
[bracelets]
What are 'bracelets' to us are called 'bangles'.
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523
Βραχίων
arm
Figuratively [this represents] ability, since humans naturally do work with it. David: "that the arms of the sinful will be shattered."
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