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βάτρα^χος [βα^], ὁ,
A.frog, Batr.6,18,59, al., Hdt.4.131, etc.: prov., ὕδωρ πίνειν βάτραχος a very frog to drink, Aristopho10.3; βατράχοις οἰνοχοεῖν, of those who give what is not wanted, Pherecr.70.5; “μέλει μοι τῶν τοιούτων ἧττον τῶν ἐν τοῖς τέλμασι β.” Jul.Mis.358a; χλωρὸς β., of the tree-frog, Thphr.Sign.15.
II. = ἁλιεύς, a kind of fish, fishing-frog or sea-angler, Lophius piscatorius, Arist.GA749a23, Ael. NA13.5.
III. frog of a horse's hoof, Gp.16.1.9, Hippiatr.8: hence Astron., of the star β Centauri, Ptol.Alm.8.1.
IV. ἐσχάρας εἶδος, Hsch.
V. swelling under the tongue, Aët.8.39.—Dial. forms are cited by Gramm.,
1. Ion. βάθρακος, cited from Hdt. (prob.4.131) by Sch.Il.4.243, Eust.1570.11, and found in PLond.1.124.31 (iv/v A. D.); Ion. also “βότραχος” Hp. ap. Gal.19, “βρόταχος” Xenoph.40 (as pr. n., GDI5577,5592).
2. “βράταχος” Hsch. (as pr. n., GDI5727d29).
3. Cypr. “βρούχετος” Hsch.
4. Phoc. βριαγχόνη Id.
5. Pontic βάβακος Id. Cf. βύρθακος, βρύτιχος.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (4):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.131
    • Homer, Iliad, 4.243
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 13.5
    • Julian the Emperor, Misopogon, 358a
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