βόειος

boeios

of an ox

Appears 6 times across Plato's dialogues.

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Laws 5
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Book VI 1
Chapter ?

781d2
Book VII 2
Chapter ?

791e4
791e6
Book VIII 1
Chapter ?

839b6
Book IX 1
Chapter ?

876b4
Republic 1
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Book I 1
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338c8

Dictionary (LSJ)

βόειος, α, ον, Ep. and Ion. βόεος, η, ον (βόϝεον Glotta 4.201 (Apulian vase) is dub.): (βοῦς):—A. of an ox or oxen, esp. of ox-hide, δέρμα βόειον Od. 14.24; βοέοισιν ἱμᾶσιν Il. 23.324; βοείας ἀσπίδας 5.452; βόεα κρέα Hdt. 2.37,168; τὰ β. κρέα Pl. R. 338c; γάλα β. E. Cyc. 218, Arist. HA 521b33, Dsc. 4.83, Porph. Abst. 4.17; ποδὶ βοείῳ τὸν θεὸν ἐλθεῖν, of Dionysus, Plu. 2.364f: metaph., β. ῥήματα bull-words, Ar. Ra. 924. II. βοείη or βοέη (sc. δορή), ἡ, ox-hide, ἀδέψητον βοέην Od. 20.2, 142; βοὸς μεγάλοιο βοείην Il. 17.389; ox-hide shield, βοέῃς εἰλυμένω ὤμους αὔῃσι στερεῇσι ib.492; βοῶν τʼ εὖ ποιητάων (contr. for βοέων) 16.636. 2. = βοεύς, λύσαντε βοείας h.Ap. 487, cf. 503 (s. v. l.).

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