βάλανος
Τὸ κέρδος ἡγοῦ κέρδος, ἂν δίκαιον ᾖ → Lucrum esse lucrum crede, si iustum est lucrum → Gewinn sei dir Gewinn, wenn er auf Recht beruht
English (LSJ)
[βᾰ], ἡ,
A acorn, Od.10.242, 13.409, Arist.HA603b31, Thphr.HP3.8.3: any similar fruit, date, Hdt.1.193, X.An.2.3.15, Arr.Ind.11.8; Διὸς β. v. Διοσβάλανος; β. μυρεψική bān, Balanites aegyptiaca, Dsc.4.157, cf. Thphr.HP4.2.1. 2 tree which bears βάλανοι, ib.6, Plb.34.8.1, LXX Ge.35.8. II from similarity of shape, 1 a sea shell-fish, barnacle, Arist.HA535a24,547b22, Xenocr. ap. Orib.2.58.50. 2 glans penis,Arist.HA493a27,Ar.Lys. 413, Gal.10.381. 3 air-vessel of a seaweed, bladder-wrack, Fucus vesiculosus, Thphr.HP4.6.9. 4 iron peg, bolt-pin, Ar.V.200, Th.2.4, Aen.Tact.18.1,al. 5 fastening for necklaces, Ar.Lys.410. 6 Medic., suppository, Hp.Epid.1.26.ά, Aret.CA 1.1. b pledget, pessary, Hp.Mul.1.84. 7 ballot-ball, Arist.Ath.63.2. (Lat. glans, Slav. želąδῐ, Lith. γὶλε.)
