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107 entries for
Cypriot ox
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β
462
Βοῦς Κύπριος
Cypriot ox
… to the coarse and unperceptive man. For they say that
Cypriot
oxen
eat dung.
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β
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 …
Matched in translation
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β
380
Βοοθύτης
ox-slayer, ox-sacrificer
[Meaning] one who puts
oxen
to the axe.
Matched in translation
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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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β
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 …
Matched in translation
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short
β
472
Βουτύπος
ox-butcher
[Meaning an]
ox-slayer/ox-sacrificer,
one who puts
oxen
to the axe.
Matched in translation
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short
β
471
Βουτόροις
ox-piercing (ones)
[Meaning] those which strike
oxen.
"The Maurousians have spears the same as
ox-piercing
spits."
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short
β
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 …
Matched in translation
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short
β
415
Βουδόρῳ νόμῳ
by an ox-flaying custom
… who deserve to be flayed in the same way as
oxen.
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short
β
463
Βοῦς ὁ Μολοττῶν
Molossian ox
… Molossians used to make their compacts by cutting up the
oxen
into small pieces.
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short
δ
1438
Δωδεκάβοιον
twelve-ox
[Meaning something that is] worth 12
oxen.
Matched in translation
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short
β
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.
Matched in translation
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short
α
1447
Ἀλφεσίβοια
oxen-producing
[Meaning] she who finds
oxen.
Matched in translation
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short
β
494
Βῶν
ox
… to a] shield. Instead of [sc. non-Doric] bou=n, and meaning
ox-hide.
Matched in translation
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short
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 …
Matched in translation
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short
β
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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medium
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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short
β
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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short
β
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."
Matched in translation
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β
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.
Matched in translation
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β
353
Βόεια
ox-like (ones)
[Meaning] great [ones]. "He would speak a dozen
ox-like
words"; Aristophanes [writes this] in Frogs.
Matched in translation
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short
β
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.
Matched in translation
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short
β
473
Βουφάγος
ox-devouring
… the rain from his hair, but on his track an
ox-devouring
lion came into the hollow path."
Matched in translation
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short
β
500
Βῶς
ox
[Meaning an]
ox-hide,
shield.
Matched in translation
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short
ε
2242
Ἐπίβοον
after-an-ox
[Meaning] the sacrifice after [that of] an
ox.
Matched in translation
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short
κ
2738
Κύπρις
Kypris, Kupris, Cypris
… as Kytherian. ['Kytherian' comes] from her hiding [keu/qein] love-affairs [e)/rwtas].
Cypriot
cattle are dumb[er] than others: for it is said they eat shit. Also look at the proverb in the [entry] 'an
ox
on …
Matched in translation
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short
α
731
Ἀθήναιος
Athenaios, Athenaeus
… animal food, when he won an Olympic victory made an
ox
out of incense, myrrh and expensive perfumes and divided it among those who came to the festival. And Ion of Chios, when he …
Matched in translation
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medium
α
2082
Ἀνάστατοι
anastatoi
… sprouting." Besides six mooncakes they used to dress a "seventh
ox",
which had horns replicating the early moon. Accordingly they would sacrifice this
ox
in addition to four round-cakes and call it "fifth
ox".
…
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medium
ε
25
Ἑβδομαῖος
seventh-day
… seventh. Besides six mooncakes they used to dress a "seventh
ox",
which had horns replicating the early moon. So [there arises the phrase] "seventh
ox",
applied to those who are unfeeling. The wise proverb …
Matched in translation
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