βάτραχος
Sunt verba voces quibus hunc lenire dolorem possis, magnam morbi deponere partem → Words will avail the wretched mind to ease and much abate the dismal black disease.
English (LSJ)
[βᾰ], ὁ,
A frog, Batr.6,18,59, al., Hdt.4.131, etc.: prov., ὕδωρ πίνειν βάτραχος a very frog to drink, Aristopho10.3; βατράχοις οἰνοχοεῖν, of those who give what is not wanted, Pherecr.70.5; μέλει μοι τῶν τοιούτων ἧττον τῶν ἐν τοῖς τέλμασι β. Jul.Mis.358a; χλωρὸς β., of the tree-frog, Thphr.Sign.15. II = ἁλιεύς, a kind of fish, fishing-frog or sea-angler, Lophius piscatorius, Arist.GA749a23, Ael. NA13.5. III frog of a horse's hoof, Gp.16.1.9, Hippiatr.8: hence Astron., of the star β Centauri, Ptol.Alm.8.1. IV ἐσχάρας εἶδος, Hsch. V swelling under the tongue, Aët.8.39.—Dial. forms are cited by Gramm., 1 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). 2 βράταχος Hsch. (as pr. n., GDI5727d29). 3 Cypr. βρούχετος Hsch. 4 Phoc. βριαγχόνη Id. 5 Pontic βάβακος Id. Cf. βύρθακος, βρύτιχος.
