βέβηλ-ος, ον,
Doric dialect βέβᾱλος [[ “IG” 3.3845, Ps.- Lysis Philosophus cited in 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de vita Pythagorica” 17.75 ] Refs 4th c.AD+]: (βαίνω, βηλός):— allowable to be trodden, probably of ground (opposed to ἱερός, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 7.8); καὶ πῶς β. ἄλσος ἂν ῥύοιτό μ; 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 509 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἢ πρὸς βεβήλοις ἢ πρὸς ἄλσεσιν θεῶν either on profane ground or.., [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 10; ἔς τε τἄβατα καὶ πρὸς βέβηλα [prev. author] “fragment” 88 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: hence generally, permitted, καὶ βέβηλα καὶ κεκρυμμένα λόγια public, current, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 404; ἐν βεβήλῳ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.97 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; βέβηλα permitted meats, [[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 2.65f. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II of persons, unhallowed, ={ἀμύητος}, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 154, 5th-6th c.AD: Orphica “Fragmenta” 245 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; impure, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 648; β. τε καὶ ἄγροικος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 218b; β. καὶ ἀνόσια ἐνθυμήματα 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.165 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with genitive, uninitiated, τελετῆς [[ “Anthologia Graeca” 9.298 (1st c.AD: Antiphilus Epigrammaticus); ἀποδεικτικῆς μεθόδου 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “de Usu Partium” 12.6 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]. adverb -λως[[ 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.523. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]