βοῦς

βοῦς, [dialect] Dor. [full] βῶς Theoc.9.7, GDI5005.5 ([place name] Gortyn), ὁ and ἡ: gen. βοός (written βοιός GDIiv p.883 No.62 ([place name] Erythrae)), poet. also

A

βοῦ A. Fr.421

, S.Fr.280: acc.

βοῦν IG12.45A11

, etc.,

βῶν Il.7.238

and [dialect] Dor., IG4.914.18, al. (Epid.), SIG56.16 ([place name] Argos), Theoc.27.64, [dialect] Ion. and poet. also

βόα Pherecyd.162

J., AP9.255 (Phil.): dual

βόε Hes.Op. 436

: pl., nom. βόες, rarely [var] contr.

βοῦς Ar.Fr.760

, Plu.Aem.33, etc.: gen.βοῶν, [var] contr.

βῶν Hes.Th.983

; Bocot.

βουῶν IG7.3171.45

: dat. βουσί, [dialect] Ep.

βόεσσι, βοσί AP7.622

(Antiphil.); [dialect] Boeot.

βούεσσι IG7.3171.38

: acc.

βόας Il.5.556

, al.,

βοῦς 1.154

, al., S.Aj.175 (lyr.), and [dialect] Att., Antiph. 172.5, etc. (but later

βόας Ev.Jo.2.14

, POxy.729.16 (ii A. D.), etc.):—bullock, bull, ox, or cow, in pl. cattle, commonly fem.: to mark the male Hom. adds a word,

β. ἄρσην Il.20.495

; or

ταῦρος β. 17.389

; as a measure of value,

βοὸς ἄξιον 23.885

, cf. 7.474 and v. ἀλφεσίβοιος, ἑκατόμβοιος.

b βοῦς ἄγριος buffalo, Arist.HA499a4.

c βοῦς ἐν Συρίᾳ zebu, ib.606a15; β. ἐν Παιονίᾳ, perh. urus, Id.Mir.842b33.

d βοὸς ὄμμα, = βούφθαλμος, AP4.1.52 (Mel.).

2 metaph. of any dam or mother,

μία β. Κρηθεῖ τε μάτηρ καὶ Σαλμωνεῖ Pi.P.4.142

;

ἄπεχε τῆς β. τὸν ταῦρον A.Ag.1125

.

II = βοείη or βοέη (always fem.), ox-hide shield,

νωμῆσαι βῶν Il.7.238

;

τυκτῇσι βόεσσιν 12.105

; βόας αὔας ib.137;

γέρρα λευκῶν β. X.An.5.4.12

.

III a fish, perh. Notidanus griseus, Arist.HA540b17, Fr. 280.

2 a fish of the Nile, Str.17.2.4.

IV ἔβδομος β. crescent loaf, Clidem.16.

V seam, Poll.7.65.

VI the constellation Taurus, Max.162.

VII = μάστιξ, Hsch.

VIII prov.,

β. ἐπὶ γλώσσης ἐπιβαίνων Thgn.815

;

βοῦς ἐπὶ γλώσσῃ βέβηκε A.Ag.36

; of people who keep silence from some weighty reason,

τὸν βοῦν ἐπιτίθημι τῇ γλώττῃ Jul.Or.7.218a

; βοῦς ἐμβαίνει μέγας Strattis 67 (wrongly expld. by Zen.2.70, etc., of bribery with coins bearing type of ox); β. ἐν πόλει 'bull in a china-shop', Diogcnian.3.67; β. ἐν αὐλίῳ, of a useless person, Cratin.32; β. λύρας 'pearls before swine', Macho ap.Ath.8.349c. (βοῦς (from βωύς, Skt. gaús) acc. βῶν (Skt. gā´m) are old forms: stem βωϝ-βοϝ-, cf. Lat. (Umbr.) bos, etc.)