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βολέω

boleo

to be stricken

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What it meant

βολέω · boleō — LSJ

to be stricken

= βάλλω, Theol.Ar. 37, Eust. 1405.4; in early writers Ep. pf. Pass. βεβόλημαι to be stricken with grief and the like, ἄχεϊ . . βεβολημένος ἦτορ Il. 9.9, cf. Od. 10.247; πένθεϊ . . βεβολήατο πάντες Il. 9.3; ἀμηχανίῃ βεβόλησαι A.R. 4.1318; ἀμφασίῃ βεβόλητο Q.S. 7.726.

II falling, dominated by

in literal sense, μήτηρ ἀμφʼ αὐτὸν βεβολημένη falling about his neck, A.R. 1.262; Βοώτης . . ἀντέλλει βεβολημένος Ἀρκτούροιο dominated by Arcturus, Arat. 609.

Where it came from

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