βόειος
βίος ἀνεόρταστος μακρὴ ὁδὸς ἀπανδόκευτος → a life without feasting is a long journey without an inn | a life without festivals is a long journey without inns | a life without festivals is a long road without inns | a life without festivity is a long road without an inn | a life without festivity is like a long road without an inn | a life without holidays is like a long road without taverns | a life without parties is a long journey without inns | a life without public holidays is a long road without hotels
English (LSJ)
α, ον, Ep. and Ion. βόεος, η, ον (
A βόϝεον Glotta4.201 (Apulian vase) is dub.): (βοῦς):—of an ox or oxen, esp. of ox-hide, δέρμα βόειον Od.14.24; βοέοισιν ἱμᾶσιν Il.23.324; βοείας ἀσπίδας 5.452; βόεα κρέα Hdt.2.37,168; τὰ β. κρέα Pl.R.338c; γάλα β. E.Cyc.218, Arist.HA521b33, Dsc.4.83, Porph.Abst.4.17; ποδὶ βοείῳ τὸν θεὸν ἐλθεῖν, of Dionysus, Plu.2.364f: metaph., β. ῥήματα bull-words, Ar.Ra.924. II βοείη or βοέη (sc. δορή), ἡ, ox-hide, ἀδέψητον βοέην Od.20.2, 142; βοὸς μεγάλοιο βοείην Il.17.389; ox-hide shield, βοέῃς εἰλυμένω ὤμους αὔῃσι στερεῇσι ib.492; βοῶν τ' εὖ ποιητάων (contr. for βοέων) 16.636. 2 = βοεύς, λύσαντε βοείας h.Ap.487, cf. 503 (s. v. l.).
German (Pape)
[Seite 451] ion. u. poet. auch βόεος, vom Ochsen, Iliad. 23, 777 ὄνθου βοέου, Odyss. 14, 24 δέρμα βόειον; aus der Ochsenhaut gemacht, von Rindsleder, rindstedern, Iliad. 22, 397 βοέους ἱμάντας, 23, 324 βοέοισιν ἱμᾶσιν, 4, 122 νεῦρα βόεια, 5, 452. 12, 425 βοείας ἀσπίδας, Odyss. 24, 228 βοείας κνημῖδας; – αὐχένες βόεοι Pind. P. 4, 234; κρέας, Rindfleisch, Her. 2, 168; γάλα, Kuhmilch, Eur. Cycl. 217; βόεια ῥήματα Ar. Ran. 922, gleichsam »ochsige«, Schol. μεγάλα καὶ ὑπερήφανα.
