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βῠθ-ιος

buthios

in the deep, sunken

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What it meant

βῠθ-ιος · byth-ios — LSJ

in the deep, sunken, of the deep

in the deep, sunken, Luc. DMar. 3.1; κρηπῖδας β. πηξαμένη AP 9.791 (Apollonid.); ἐκ β. ἰλύος from the mud of the deep, Hymn.Is. 71.

II in, of the sea, water animals, Poseidon, fishery

in or of the sea, τὰ β. (sc. ζῷα) water animals, AP 6.182 (Alex.Magn.); β. Κρονίδης Poseidon, Luc. Epigr. 34 [? AG 6.164]; τέχνη fishery, Opp. H. 3.15.

III deep, in the deep, abysmal

metaph., deep, βύθιόν τι καὶ δεινὸν φθέγγεσθαι Plu. Crass. 23; β. διάνοια Ph. 1.194 (but ἕως ἂν λογισμὸς β. οἴχηται vanishes in the deep, ib. 639, cf. Nonn. D. 2.55); abysmal, Dam. Pr. 106.

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