The corpus record

βου-πόρος

bouporos

ox-piercing

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Where it lives

Anabasis 1 · 0.18/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

βου-πόρος · bou-poros — LSJ

ox-piercing, large enough for a whole ox, fit to pierce an oxʼs

ox-piercing, β. ὀβελός a spit large enough for a whole ox, Hdt. 2.135, cf. E. Cyc. 302; ἀμφώβολοι σφαγῆς . . βουπόροι spits fit to pierce an oxʼs throat, Id. Andr. 1134; β. ὀβελίσκος X. An. 7.8.14.

In the wild

βουπόρους · bouporous Herodotus, Histories 2.135.4 (DIORISIS sentence 2514)
βουπόρῳ · bouporōi Xenophon, Anabasis 7.8.14 (DIORISIS sentence 3785)

Where it came from

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