βᾰθύς, βαθεῖα
Ionic dialect βαθέᾰ, βαθύ; feminine βαθύς [[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Delum” 37, 3rd c.BC: Eratosthenes Epicus 8 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; genitive βαθέος, βαθείας Ionic dialect βαθέης: dative βαθέϊ, βαθείῃ Ionic dialect βαθέῃ: comparative βαθύτερος, poetry βαθίων [ῑ Attic dialect, ῐ [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 5.43], _Doric dialect_ βάσσων (which see): _superlative_ βαθύτατος, poetry βάθιστος] Refs 3rd c.BC+]:—deep or high, accusative to one's position, [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; βαθέης ἐξάλλεται αὐλῆς a court within a high fence, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.142, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.239 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἠϊόνος προπάροιθε βαθείης the deep, i.e. wide, shore, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.92; τάφρος 7.341, +others; κρατήρ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 563 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κύλικες [[[prev. author] “Aj.” 1200 (Lyric poetry)] Refs]; βαθὺ πτῶμα a fall from a high rock, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 796 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; πλευρὰ βαθυτάτη (vulgar form βαρυτάτη), of an athlete, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1193 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a line of battle, βαθύτεραι φάλαγγες [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 11.6, compare “HG” 2.4.34 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; β. τομή, πληγή, a deep cut, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.131a, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Nigr.” 35. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__2 deep or thick in substance, of a mist, ἠέρα βαθεῖαν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.7, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.144 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of sand, ἀμάθοιο βαθείης [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.587; ἐπὶ θῖνα βαθύν 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.32 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of ploughed land, νειοῖο βαθείης [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.353 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; β. γῆ, opposed to to stony ground, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 637, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 1.18.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of luxuriant growth, deep, thick, of woods, etc., βαθείης τάρφεσιν ὕλης [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.555; βαθείης ἐκ ξυλόχοιο 11.415; βαθὺ λήϊον 2.147, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 107; τοῦ ληΐου τὸ.. βαθύτατον 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.92. ; λειμών 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 652; σῖτος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.2.17; χλόα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1139 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; χαίτη, τρίχες, πώγων, [[ 7th-6th c.BC(?): Semonides Iambographus 7.66, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 4.8, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Pisc.” 41. ] Refs 7th c.BC+]