LOGOI

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βόειος

boeios

of an ox, oxen, of ox-hide

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βόει-ος · boei-os — LSJ

of an ox, oxen, of ox-hide, bull

of an ox or oxen, esp. of ox-hide, δέρμα βόειον Od. 14.24; βοέοισιν ἱμᾶσιν Il. 23.324; βοείας ἀσπίδας 5.452; βόεα κρέα Hdt. 2.37, 168; τὰ β. κρέα Pl. R. 338c; γάλα β. E. Cyc. 218, Arist. HA 521b33, Dsc. 4.83, Porph. Abst. 4.17; ποδὶ βοείῳ τὸν θεὸν ἐλθεῖν, of Dionysus, Plu. Isid. 2.364f: metaph., β. ῥήματα bull-words, Ar. Ra. 924.

II ox-hide, ox-hide shield

βοείη or βοέη (sc. δορή), ἡ, ox-hide, ἀδέψητον βοέην Od. 20.2, 142; βοὸς μεγάλοιο βοείην Il. 17.389; ox-hide shield, βοέῃς εἰλυμένω ὤμους αὔῃσι στερεῇσι ib. 492; βοῶν τʼ εὖ ποιητάων (contr. for βοέων) 16.636.

2

= βοεύς, λύσαντε βοείας h.Ap. 487, cf. 503 (s. v. l.).

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