noun

Boebē

gen. Boebēs · gender feminine

A village in the Thessalian province Pelasgiotis; on the shore of Lake Bœbeïs

A village in the Thessalian province Pelasgiotis, on the shore of Lake Bœbeïs, Ov. M. 7, 231.—

Derivv.

Lake Bœbeïs; Karla •

Lacus Boebēis (Βοιβηῒς λίμνη, Hom. Il. 2, 711), Lake Bœbeïs, now Karla, Plin. 4, 8, 15, § 30; because in the neighborhood of Ossa: Ossaea, Luc. 7, 176; and because Minerva was said to have once bathed her feet in it (cf. Hesiod. Fragm. 50, Göttl. in Strab. 9, p. 640): sanctae Boebeidos undae, Prop. 2, 2, 11: pinguis, Val. Fl. 1, 449.—

Bœbeian; Thessalian •

Boebēius, a, um, adj., Bœbeian, = Thessalian: proles, i.e. the Thessalian nymphs, Val. Fl. 3, 543.—

Lake Bœbeïs

Boebe palus = Boebeïs, Lake Bœbeïs, Liv. 31, 41, 4.

Perseus ID: n5509 Key: Boebe