βόσκ-ημα, ατος, τό,
that which is fed or fatted: in plural, fatted beasts, cattle, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 762, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 677, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.6.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of sheep, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 576 (Lyric poetry), “El.” 494 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐμῆς χερὸς β., of horses, [[ [prev. author] “Hipp.” 1356 (Lyric poetry) ] Refs]; of dogs, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.1.9; ζῆν ἀπὸ βοσκημάτων 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1319a20 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: dual, of a couple of pigs, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 811 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: singular, of a single beast, ἄκανθα ποντίου β. [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 275.3; ἐν τρόπῳ βοσκήματος πιαινόμενον ζῆν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 807a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to θηρίον, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Magna Moralia” 1204a38, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 16.4.16. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II food, β. πηυονῆς [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 620, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 364, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 892 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀναίματον β. δαιμόνων prey drained of blood by the Erinyes, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 302. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]