βόειος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=α, ον, Ep. and Ion. βόεος, η, ον (<span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> βόϝεον <span class="title">Glotta</span>4.201 (Apulian vase) is dub.): (βοῦς):—[[of an ox]] or [[oxen]], esp. <b class="b2">of ox-hide</b>, δέρμα βόειον <span class="bibl">Od.14.24</span>; βοέοισιν ἱμᾶσιν <span class="bibl">Il.23.324</span>; βοείας ἀσπίδας <span class="bibl">5.452</span>; βόεα κρέα <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.37</span>,<span class="bibl">168</span>; τὰ β. κρέα <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>338c</span>; γάλα β. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Cyc.</span>218</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>521b33</span>, Dsc.4.83, <span class="bibl">Porph.<span class="title">Abst.</span>4.17</span>; <b class="b3">ποδὶ βοείῳ τὸν θεὸν ἐλθεῖν</b>, of Dionysus, Plu.2.364f: metaph., <b class="b3">β. ῥήματα</b> [[bull]]-words, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span>924</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> βοείη or βοέη (sc. [[δορή]]), ἡ, [[ox-hide]], ἀδέψητον βοέην <span class="bibl">Od.20.2</span>, <span class="bibl">142</span>; βοὸς μεγάλοιο βοείην <span class="bibl">Il.17.389</span>; [[ox-hide shield]], <b class="b3">βοέῃς εἰλυμένω ὤμους αὔῃσι στερεῇσι</b> ib.<span class="bibl">492</span>; <b class="b3">βοῶν τ' εὖ ποιητάων</b> (contr. for [[βοέων]]) <span class="bibl">16.636</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> = [[βοεύς]], λύσαντε βοείας <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Ap.</span>487</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">503</span> (s. v. l.).</span>