The corpus record

βᾰλᾰν-εύω

balaneuo

heat the bath

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What it meant — LSJ

heat the bath, to be, bath-man, drench like a bath-man

heat the bath, Ar. Lys. 337; but β. ἑαυτῷ to be oneʼs own bath-man, Id. Pax 1103; drench like a bath-man, οἴνῳ κατὰ τοῦ κεράμον β. Pherecr. 130.6:—Pass., Timocl. 2 (dub.).

2 bawl, shout

bawl, shout, Hsch.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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