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βοηθ-όος , Dor. βοα_- , ον, (βοή, θέω, cf. βοη-δρόμος)
A.hasting to the cry for help or the call to arms, Il.13.477; β. ἅρμα a chariot hasting to the battle, 17.481.
II. aiding, helping, Pi.N.7.33, B.Fr.34:—Subst., helper, prob. Id.12.103, Theoc.22.23, Call.Del.27:—in Prose βοηθός , όν, assisting, auxiliary, “νῆες” Th.1.45: c. dat., “ὁ τοῖς νόμοις β.” Lys.Fr.53.1; freq. as Subst., assistant, Hdt.5.77, 6.100, Antipho 1.2, Pl.R.566b, al.; “τῆς ἐπιτροπῆς” BGU1047iii 11 (ii A. D.); “τοῦ στρατηγοῦ” POxy.1469.10 (iii A. D.), etc.
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):
    • Antiphon, Against the Stepmother for Poisoning, 2
    • Bacchylides, Epinicians, 12.103
    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.77
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.100
    • Homer, Iliad, 13.477
    • Plato, Republic, 566b
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.45
    • Homer, Iliad, 17.481
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