1. βουκόλος · boukolos — Beekes
The corpus record
βουκόλος
boukolos
cowherd
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Where it lives
- Ichneutae 1 · 5.82/10k
- Iphigenia in Aulis 3 · 3.36/10k
- Ion 1 · 2.49/10k
- Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
- Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
- Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
- Odyssey 11 · 1.27/10k
- Histories 12 · 0.65/10k
- Theaetetus 1 · 0.44/10k
- Timaeus 1 · 0.42/10k
- Memorabilia 1 · 0.28/10k
- Iliad 3 · 0.27/10k
Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. βουκόλος · boukolos — Chantraine
3. Βουκόλος · Boukolos — Chantraine
4. Βουκόλος · Boukolos — Chantraine
5. βουκόλος · boukolos — Chantraine
6. βουκόλος · boukolos — Frisk
7. βουκόλ-ος · boukol-os — LSJ
tending kine, βουκόλοι ἄνδρες, ἀγροιῶται, Il. 13.571, Od. 11.292, al.; β. δοῦλος Pl. Ion 540c; ποιμὴν αἰπόλος . . καὶ β. Cratin. 281: also abs., Hdt. 1.110, PGoodsp.Cair. 30 ixI (ii A. D.), etc.; βέλει βουκόλου πτερόεντος, i.e. the gadfly, A. Supp. 557 (lyr.); β. ἵππων Ael. NA 12.44.
worshipper of Dionysos in bull-form, in pl., title of play by Cratinus, cf. E. Fr. 203, IG 12(9).262 (Eretria, i B. C.), IGRom. 4.386 (Pergam.), Luc. Salt. 79, Hsch. s.v. πυρπερέγχει.
β. τοῦ Ὀσορᾶπι devotee of Sarapis, UPZ 57.7. (βοῦς, qṷel-, cf. Lat. colo: in these words βωκολ- is found as v.l. for βουκολ- in some codd. of Theoc.)
In the wild
- βουκόλος · boukolos Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 673–679
- βουκόλος · boukolos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5928)
- βουκόλοι · boukoloi Euripides, Bacchae 714–716
- βουκόλος · boukolos Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 1 (DIORISIS sentence 71)
- βουκόλον · boukolon Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis *)ifige/neia (DIORISIS sentence 788)
- βουκόλος · boukolos Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis (DIORISIS sentence 297)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. βουκόλος (scan pp. 277-278; entry #1238).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. βουκόλος (scan p. 297; entry #2036).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. βουκόλος (scan pp. 289-290; entry #1137).
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