A.bless me! E.Cyc.156, Ar.Av.272, etc.; doubled, hurrah! Achae.28, cf. Chrysipp.Stoic.3.178; οὐχὶ τῶν μετρίων, ἀλλὰ τῶν βαβαὶ βαβαί, to denote persons extravagant in their expressions, Alex.206: c. gen., βαβαὶ τοῦ λόγου bless me what an argument! Pl.Phlb.23b, cf. Jul.Caes.309b, etc. (On the accent, cf. Hdn.Gr.1.502; βαβαῖ cod. B in Pl. l.c.)
βαβαί , exclam. of surprise or amazement,
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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