βουφόνια

English (LSJ)

(sc. ἱερά), τά, Buphonia, "ox-slayings", at Athens, ceremony at the Dipolia, at which an ox was slain, Ar.Nu. 985, Androt.13, Paus.1.28.11, Ael.VH8.3.

German (Pape)

[Seite 460] τά, sc. ἱερά, ein Fest mit Stieropfern in Athen, Ar. Nubb. 972.

French (Bailly abrégé)

ων (τά) :
les Bouphonies, fête athénienne où l'on immolait un bœuf.
Étymologie: βουφόνος.

Russian (Dvoretsky)

βουφόνια: τά праздник заклания быка (в Афинах) Arph.

Wikipedia EN

In ancient Greece, the Buphonia (Greek: Βουφόνια "ox-slayings") denoted a sacrificial ceremony performed at Athens as part of the Dipolieia, a religious festival held on the 14th of the midsummer month Skirophorion— in June or July— at the Acropolis. In the Buphonia a working ox was sacrificed to Zeus Polieus, Zeus protector of the city, in accordance with a very ancient custom. A group of oxen was driven forward to the altar at the highest point of the Acropolis. On the altar a sacrifice of grain had been spread by members of the family of the Kentriadae, on whom this duty devolved hereditarily. When one of the oxen began to eat, thus selecting itself for sacrifice, one of the family of the Thaulonidae advanced with an axe, slayed the ox, then immediately threw aside the axe and fled the scene of his guilt-laden crime.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

βουφόνια: (ἐνν. ἱερά), τά, ἑορτὴ ἐν Ἀθήναις γινομένη μὲ θυσίας βοῶν, Ἀριστοφ. Νεφ. 985, πρβλ. Ἀνδοτ. παρὰ Σχολ.

Greek Monotonic

βουφόνια: (ενν. ἱερά), τά, γιορτή στην αρχαία Αθήνα με θυσίες βοδιών, σε Αριστοφ.

Middle Liddell

[from βουφόνος
sc. βουφόνια ἱερά a festival with sacrifices of oxen, Ar.