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21 entries for
Boiotian sow, Boeotian sow
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583
Βοιωτία ὗς
Boiotian sow, Boeotian sow
Macarius 2.79 and other paroemiographers; Tosi (cited under alpha 378) no.1866. Though a phrase more likely to be favoured by non-Boiotians (and especially Athenians, their neighbours), it is actually first attested in Pindar, Olympian …
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404
Χορίλη
sow
[A reference to] Hekabe/Hecuba.
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593
Χοιρίλη
sow
[A reference to] Hekabe/Hecuba.
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2940
Ἀπατούρια
Apatouria, Apaturia
… the reason: the Athenians had a war on against the
Boiotians
over Kelainai, which was a place in their borderlands. Xanthios, a
Boiotian,
challenged the Athenian king, Thymoites [to a fight]. When he did …
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517
Ἀδώνιδος κῆποι
Adonis' gardens
[Made] out of lettuce and fennel, which they used to
sow
in earthenware pots. They apply the proverb to the superficial and shallow. Adonis' gardens: in reference to things that are untimely and transitory …
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1736
Ἀμφικτυόνες
Amphiktyons, Amphictyons
… who convened the peoples. They were twelve: Ionians, Dorians, Perrhaiboi,
Boiotians,
Magnesians, Achaians, Phthiotians, Molians, Dolopes, Aenianians, Delphians, Phocians. But some say it is thus called from being neighbors to and convening in Delphi. …
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2371
Ἀνεῖλεν
prophesied, took up, took away, killed
… you will destroy the women's children either when Demeter is
sowing
or when she is reaping." Themistocles the son of Neocles, who was disinherited on account of his liberality, interpreted these things, saying the …
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3996
Ἄρωμα
perfume, arable land
… So a)rw/mata is what Attic writers call not incenses, but
sown
[fields].
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515
Βράγχη
hoarseness
A disease that occurs in
sows.
Look also under 'diarrhea'.
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582
Βοιωτία
Boiotia, Boeotia
Also [sc. attested is]
"Boiotian
nome", in reference to ones which have tranquil beginnings but end vigorously.
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741
Διάρροια
diarrhea, diarrhoea
A condition that afflicts
sows.
There are three conditions: sore throat, fever, diarrhea. So sore throat is [a condition] of one part of the body, while fever [is] a burning heat accompanied by headache. …
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565
Ἀέροψ
aerops, bee-eater
A
Boeotian
name for the bird merops (bee-eater, Merops apiaster): see the two LSJ entries at web address 1 and web address 2. Mentioned in a scholion on Aristophanes, Birds 1354. Hesychius glosses Aeropes …
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1652
Ἀμπέχῃ
wearing
… just quoted. Having had his pair of oxen stolen by
Boiotians,
Derketes ought to be wearing the black of mourning, not the white of festivals.
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2689
Ἀντιόπη
Antiope
… of the citizens" model he comes from one of the
Boeotian
towns involved in this myth. [2] See alpha 1751 (end). [3] The Suda text actually reads "a Lykian man", but the version translated …
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3889
Ἀρίσβη
Arisbe
… lexicographer, or his source, is confusing one of these with
Boiotian
Thisbe [Myth, Place] (theta 388).
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4671
Ἀχάνη
achane
… from the Constitution of the Orchomenians; it was evidently a
Boiotian
measure too.
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165
Αἴ κε πάθοι τά κ' ἔρεξε δίκη δ' ἰθεῖα γένοιτο
if he should endure the sufferings which he has inflicted, the punishment would be just
… kaka/ tis spei/rai, kaka\ ke/rdea k' a)mh/seien ("if anyone should
sow
evils, he should reap evil gains") -- and attributes them to Hesiod: fr. 286 Merkelbach/West. On the emperor Aurelian, see generally alpha 4458. …
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250
Αἰολομίτρης
agile with a waistband [or: having a multicoloured or twisted or flashing waistband]; having a multicoloured diadem
… Homer, Iliad 5.707, it refers to the waistband of the
Boeotian
Oresbius (mentioned only at the time of his death). Its first element should refer to the movement of the wearer, as Leaf points …
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338
Βλήχων
pennyroyal
… 'pennyroyal is used jokingly by Lysistrata to refer to the
Boeotian
girl's neatly depilated campus muliebris, with a clever reference to the smooth, fertile plains of that region'.
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1184
Διονυσόδωρος
Dionysodoros, Dionysodorus
… 229, an aulos-player in Diogenes Laertius 4.22. (Another possibility: the
Boeotian
historian of the ?C4 BCE, FGrH 68.)
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176
Χαιρώνεια
Chaironeia, Chaeronea, Khaironeia
… also chi 177). See generally M.H. Hansen, "An inventory of
Boiotian
poleis in the archaic and classical periods", in M.H. Hansen (ed.), Introduction to an Inventory of Poleis (Acts of the Copenhagen Polis Centre …
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