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Headword:
*bota/
Adler number: beta,404
Translated headword: grazers
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] grazing-animals.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the feminine noun] bota/nh ["pasturage"], fodder.
"Certain horse-feeders of the Cadmeians were contending with some of the Minyans over pasturage."[2]
"Going past the nearby hills they will find the plain full of manifold grazers."[3]
Greek Original:*bota/: boskh/mata. kai\ *bota/nh, o( xo/rtos. *kadmei/wn tine\s i(ppoboskoi\ peri\ bota/nhs pro/s tinas tw=n *minu/wn h)/rizon. tou\s plhsi/on u(perba/llontes lo/fous mesto\n eu(rh/sousi to\ pedi/on pantoi/wn botw=n.
Notes:
cf. generally
beta 405,
beta 406,
beta 407.
[1] From the
scholia to
Plato,
Menexenus 237D, where the headword (a neuter plural) occurs.
[2] The quotation (here only) is unidentifiable, but the subject is evidently the prehistory of Boiotia ("Cadmeians" = Thebans, and the Minyans too are associated with Boiotia).
[3]
Dionysius of Halicarnassus,
Roman Antiquities 9.20.3.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 11 December 2001@19:41:31.
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