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Boeotia
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Lewis Short
(adj.adj.adj.) : Boeōtĭa, ae, f., = Βοιωτἰα.
* Boeotia, a district of Greece proper, whose capital was Thebes, the birthplace of Bacchus and Hercules, Plin. 4, 7, 12, § 25; Cic. N. D. 3, 19, 49; Ov. M. 2, 239; Mel. 2, 3, 4; acc. to fable, so called either after Apollo's cow (Βοῦς), Ov. M. 3, 13, or from Boeotus, the son of Neptune, Hyg. Fab. 186.—Its inhabitants were noted for their stupidity, Cic. Fat. 4; Nep. Alcib. 11, 3; id. Epam. 5, 2; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 244; Liv. 42, 43 sqq.; Tert. Anim. c. 20; cf. the Comm. upon Aelian. Var. H. 13, 25; Schol. Apoll. Rhod. Argon. 3, 1241.
* Derivv.
* The wife of Hyas, and mother of the Pleiades, Hyg. Astr. 2, 21.
* The Boeotian woman, the name of a lost comedy of Plautus, Gell. 3, 3, 3.
* Boeōtĭcus, a, um, adj., = Βοιωτικός, Boeotian: frumentum,Plin. 18, 7, 12, § 66: cucumis,id. 19, 5, 23, § 68: napus,id. 19, 5, 25, § 76.
* Boeōtis, ĭdis, f., = Βοιωτίς = Boeotia, Mel. 2, 3, 4.
* Boeotia, a district of Greece proper, whose capital was Thebes, the birthplace of Bacchus and Hercules, Plin. 4, 7, 12, § 25; Cic. N. D. 3, 19, 49; Ov. M. 2, 239; Mel. 2, 3, 4; acc. to fable, so called either after Apollo's cow (Βοῦς), Ov. M. 3, 13, or from Boeotus, the son of Neptune, Hyg. Fab. 186.—Its inhabitants were noted for their stupidity, Cic. Fat. 4; Nep. Alcib. 11, 3; id. Epam. 5, 2; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 244; Liv. 42, 43 sqq.; Tert. Anim. c. 20; cf. the Comm. upon Aelian. Var. H. 13, 25; Schol. Apoll. Rhod. Argon. 3, 1241.
* Derivv.
* The wife of Hyas, and mother of the Pleiades, Hyg. Astr. 2, 21.
* The Boeotian woman, the name of a lost comedy of Plautus, Gell. 3, 3, 3.
* Boeōtĭcus, a, um, adj., = Βοιωτικός, Boeotian: frumentum,Plin. 18, 7, 12, § 66: cucumis,id. 19, 5, 23, § 68: napus,id. 19, 5, 25, § 76.
* Boeōtis, ĭdis, f., = Βοιωτίς = Boeotia, Mel. 2, 3, 4.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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