βουκόλος

boukolos

tending kine

Appears 10 times across Plato's dialogues.

Frequency by work

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Ion 2
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540c4
540c6
Republic 2
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Book I 1
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343b1
Book II 1
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370d9
Statesman 2
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268a6
275b5
Laws 1
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Book V 1
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735b1
Minos 1
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318a5
Theaetetus 1
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174d5
Timaeus 1
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22d8

Dictionary (LSJ)

βουκόλος, ὁ, A. tending kine, βουκόλοι ἄνδρες, ἀγροιῶται, Il. 13.571, Od. 11.292, al.; β. δοῦλος Pl. Ion 540c; ποιμὴν αἰπόλος . . καὶ β. Cratin. 281: also abs., Hdt. 1.110, PGoodsp.Cair. 30 ixI (ii A. D.), etc.; βέλει βουκόλου πτερόεντος, i.e. the gadfly, A. Supp. 557 (lyr.); β. ἵππων Ael. NA 12.44. II. worshipper of Dionysos in bull-form, in pl., title of play by Cratinus, cf. E. Fr. 203, IG 12(9).262 (Eretria, i B. C.), IGRom. 4.386 (Pergam.), Luc. Salt. 79, Hsch. s.v. πυρπερέγχει. 2. β. τοῦ Ὀσορᾶπι devotee of Sarapis, UPZ 57.7. (βοῦς, qṷel-, cf. Lat. colo: in these words βωκολ- is found as v.l. for βουκολ- in some codd. of Theoc.)

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