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βέβηλ-ος , ον, Dor. βέβα_λος IG3.3845, Ps.-Lysisap.Iamb.VP17.75: (βαίνω, βηλός):—
A.allowable to be trodden, prob. of ground (opp. ἱερός, D.H.7.8); “καὶ πῶς β. ἄλσος ἂν ῥύοιτό με” ; A.Supp.509; ἢ πρὸς βεβήλοις ἢ πρὸς ἄλσεσιν θεῶν either on profane ground or . . , S.OC10; “ἔς τε τἄβατα καὶ πρὸς βέβηλα” Id.Fr.88: hence generally, permitted, καὶ βέβηλα καὶ κεκρυμμένα λόγια public, current, E.Heracl.404; “ἐν βεβήλῳ” Th.4.97; βέβηλα permitted meats, Ath.2.65f.
II. of persons, unhallowed, = ἀμύητος, S.Fr.154, Orph.Fr.245; impure, E.Fr.648; “β. τε καὶ ἄγροικος” Pl.Smp.218b; “β. καὶ ἀνόσια ἐνθυμήματα” Ph.2.165: c. gen., uninitiated, “τελετῆς” AP9.298 (Antiphil.); “ἀποδεικτικῆς μεθόδου” Gal.UP12.6. Adv. “-λως” Ph.1.523.
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 (8):
    • Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 509
    • Euripides, Heraclidae, 404
    • Plato, Symposium, 218b
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 10
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.97
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 88
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 154
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 7.8
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