βάτραχος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[βᾰ], ὁ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[frog]], Batr.6,18,59, al., Hdt.4.131, etc.: [[proverb|prov.]], [[ὕδωρ πίνειν βάτραχος]] = a [[very]] [[frog]] to [[drink]], Aristopho10.3; [[βατράχοις οἰνοχοεῖν]], [[pour]] [[wine]] to frogs, of those who [[give]] what is not [[want]]ed, Pherecr.70.5; μέλει μοι τῶν τοιούτων ἧττον τῶν ἐν τοῖς τέλμασι β. Jul.Mis.358a; [[χλωρὸς βάτραχος]], of the [[tree]]-[[frog]], Thphr.Sign.15.<br><span class="bld">II</span> = [[ἁλιεύς]], a kind of [[fish]], [[fishing]]-[[frog]] or [[sea-angler]], [[Lophius piscatorius]], Arist.GA749a23, Ael. NA13.5.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[frog]] of a [[horse]]'s [[hoof]], Gp.16.1.9, Hippiatr.8: hence Astron., of the star [[β Centauri]], Ptol.Alm.8.1.<br><span class="bld">IV</span> [[ἐσχάρα]]ς [[εἶδος]], Hsch.<br><span class="bld">V</span> [[swelling]] under the [[tongue]], Aët.8.39.—Dial. forms are cited by Gramm.,<br><span class="bld">1</span> Ion. [[βάθρακος]], cited from Hdt. (prob.4.131) by Sch.Il.4.243, Eust.1570.11, and found in PLond.1.124.31 (iv/v A. D.); Ion. also βότραχος Hp. ap. Gal.19, [[βρόταχος]] Xenoph.40 (as pr. n., GDI5577,5592).<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[βράταχος]] Hsch. (as pr. n., GDI5727d29).<br><span class="bld">3</span> Cypr. [[βρούχετος]] Hsch.<br><span class="bld">4</span> Phoc. [[βριαγχόνη]] Id.<br><span class="bld">5</span> Pontic [[βάβακος]] Id. Cf. [[βύρθακος]], [[βρύτιχος]].