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βύσμα

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Μούνη γὰρ ἄγειν οὐκέτι σωκῶ λύπης ἀντίρροπον ἄχθος → I have no longer strength to bear alone the burden of grief that weighs me down

Sophocles, Electra, 119-120
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Transliteration A: býsma Transliteration B: bysma Transliteration C: vysma Beta Code: bu/sma

English (LSJ)

ατος, τό, (βύω)

   A plug, bung, Hp.Mul.2.114 (pl.), Ar.Fr. 299; Στίλπωνος βύσματα Stilpo's stoppers, i. e. arguments with which he stopped his opponents' mouths, Diph.23.

German (Pape)

[Seite 468] τό, das Hineingestopfte, Pfropf, Spund, Hippocr.; Ar. fr. bei Schol. Ar. Ran. 246 u. a. com. Hesych.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

βύσμα: τό, (βύω) στούπωμα, βούλλωμα, Ἱππ. 640. 12, Ἀριστοφ. Ἀποσπ. 285· Στίλπωνος βύσματα, στουπώματα, βουλλώματα τοῦ Στίλπ., δηλ. ἐπιχειρήματα, δι’ὧν ἐφίμου τῶν ἀντιπάλων του τὰ στόματα, Δίφιλ. Γαμ. 2.