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45 entries for
Cypriot ox
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462
Βοῦς Κύπριος
Cypriot ox
… to the coarse and unperceptive man. For they say that
Cypriot
oxen
eat dung.
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453
Βούπαις
big boy, ox-boy, ox-child
… a term applicable to] bees, because they are born of
oxen.
"May the tomb always be surrounded by
ox-children
bees and dripping with Hymettian honey." "For horses [are] the origin of wasps, but bulls …
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380
Βοοθύτης
ox-slayer, ox-sacrificer
[Meaning] one who puts
oxen
to the axe.
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384
Βοώνης
ox-buyer
… be chosen from the city [sc. of Athens], to buy
oxen
for it for the sacrifices. To become
ox-buyer
was [a matter of] celebrity, since they say that generals were very likely to be …
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444
Βουλυτός
ox-loosening [time]
[Meaning] the late evening, when the
oxen
are let go from their tasks. Arrian [writes]: "and the battle became more vigorous right up until
ox-loosening
time." And elsewhere Aelian [writes]: "and he did what …
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472
Βουτύπος
ox-butcher
[Meaning an]
ox-slayer/ox-sacrificer,
one who puts
oxen
to the axe.
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471
Βουτόροις
ox-piercing (ones)
[Meaning] those which strike
oxen.
"The Maurousians have spears the same as
ox-piercing
spits."
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418
Βουθυτεῖ
is ox-sacrificing [to]
… with a dative. Aristophanes in Wealth [writes]: "the master is
ox-sacrificing
inside." Bouthusia
["ox-sacrifice"]
is said incorrectly, to signify grandness of scale and the fullness of the sacrifice, which they call a "hecatomb" and …
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415
Βουδόρῳ νόμῳ
by an ox-flaying custom
… who deserve to be flayed in the same way as
oxen.
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463
Βοῦς ὁ Μολοττῶν
Molossian ox
… Molossians used to make their compacts by cutting up the
oxen
into small pieces.
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δ
1438
Δωδεκάβοιον
twelve-ox
[Meaning something that is] worth 12
oxen.
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422
Βουκόρυζαν
ox-drivelling, ox-stupidity
[Meaning] great stupidity. Also [sc. attested is] koruza=n ["to have a runny nose; to drivel"], [sc. used of] him who is exceedingly drivelling. Menander [sc. uses these words].
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β
416
Βουζύγης
ox-yoker
[sc. An epithet of] Herakles.
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δ
1186
Δι' ὀξείας δραμεῖν
to run through sharps
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those taking risks. For 'sharp' is what they call the spear-point.
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ε
1803
Ἐξ ὄξους δίκη
a lawsuit (prepared) from vinegar
"You won't get off with impunity, by Apollo, for doing this." -- "What pleasure it would give you to eat [something prepared] from vinegar: a lawsuit."
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457
Βοῦς ἕβδομος
seventh ox
… not have anything living to sacrifice used to mould [an
ox]
out of dough. When the 6 living [beasts] were being sacrificed -- sheep, pig, ram,
ox,
bird, goose -- a seventh, the one …
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ε
2254
Ἐπίβοιον
after-an-ox
Whenever someone sacrificed an
ox
to Athena, he would also sacrifice to Pandora a sheep with an
ox;
and the offering used to be called an after-the-ox.
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α
1447
Ἀλφεσίβοια
oxen-producing
[Meaning] she who finds
oxen.
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β
494
Βῶν
ox
… to a] shield. Instead of [sc. non-Doric] bou=n, and meaning
ox-hide.
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β
381
Βοὸς κέρας
ox's horn
… [writes]: "which is set on the horn of a field-dwelling
ox".
For they used to prepare a tube out of an
ox's
horn, which they put around the hook, so that the fish did …
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458
Βοῦς ἕβδομος
seventh ox
… the first phase moon. They used to call this an
ox
and set it up as the seventh, because this seventh used to be one of the sacrifices at the six moons, as Euthycles …
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β
474
Βουφόνια
Bouphonia, Ox-slaying
… [the] Athenians. For in the Diipolieia they say that an
ox
ate a round cake that was prepared for the sacrifice, but a certain Thaulôn, as it stands, slew the
ox
with an axe, …
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475
Βουφόνια
Bouphonia; Ox-slaying
… is held after the mysteries; also when they sacrificed the
ox
as a reminder of the first
ox
slain on the acropolis, after the barley-meal in the offering of the Diipoleia had been touched.
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477
Βουχανδής
ox-holding
[Meaning one] having room for an
ox.
In the Epigrams: "the cauldron [is]
ox-holding;
the one who gives [it is] Erappidaulos Keubotos."
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387
Βοώτης
ox-buyer
The greatest offices amongst [the] Athenians used to be elected from these.
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460
Βοῦς ἐπὶ γλώττης
an ox on the tongue
… the strength of the animal, or because there was an
ox
stamped on the Athenian coin which those who spoke freely had to pay.
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353
Βόεια
ox-like (ones)
[Meaning] great [ones]. "He would speak a dozen
ox-like
words"; Aristophanes [writes this] in Frogs.
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461
Βοῦς ἐπὶ σωρῷ
an ox on a grain-heap
… a halter. Also [sc. attested is] bou=s ei)s a)mhto/n ["an
ox
into harvest"], in reference to those who are toiling with assistance.
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473
Βουφάγος
ox-devouring
… the rain from his hair, but on his track an
ox-devouring
lion came into the hollow path."
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β
500
Βῶς
ox
[Meaning an]
ox-hide,
shield.
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