βάτρᾰχος [βᾰ], ὁ,
frog, [[ Batrachomyomachia 6, 18, 59, +others, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.131, etc.: proverbial, ὕδωρ πίνειν βάτραχος] Refs 5th c.BC+] a very frog to drink, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristopho Comicus 10.3 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; βατράχοις οἰνοχοεῖν, of those who give what is not wanted, [[ 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 70.5; μέλει μοι τῶν τοιούτων ἧττον τῶν ἐν τοῖς τέλμασι β. 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Misopogon” 358a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; χλωρὸς β., of the tree-frog, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Signis Tempestatum” 15. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II ={ἁλιεύς}, a kind of fish, fishing-frog or sea-angler, Lophius piscatorius, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 749a23, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 13.5. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__III frog of a horse's hoof, [[ Gp. 16.1.9, “Hippiatrica” 8] Refs]: hence Astron., of the star β Centauri, [[ 1st c.BC: Ptolemaeus Epigrammaticus “Alm.” 8.1. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__IV ἐσχάρας εἶδος, [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus ] Refs 5th c.AD+]
__V swelling under the tongue, [[ 6th c.AD: Aëtius Medicus 8.39.] Refs 6th c.AD+] —Dial. forms are cited by Grammars,
__V.1 Ionic dialect βάθρακος, cited from [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus (probably 4.131) by Scholia 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.243, 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 1570.11, and found in “PLond.” 1.124.31 (4th-5th c.AD)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Ionic dialect also βότραχος [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 19, βρόταχος 6th c.BC: Xenophanes Poeta Philosophus 40 (as _proper name_, “GDI” 5577,5592). ] Refs 6th c.BC+]