Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /próβaton/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /próvaton/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pɾóvaton/

Noun

πρόβατον • ‎(próbaton) n ‎(genitive προβάτου); second declension

1. (mostly in plural)
   1. (Ionic, Doric) cattle, flocks, herds
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.41
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Joints 8
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.61
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 14.124
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.550
      • Homeric Hymn to Hermes 571
      • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 558
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.203
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.133
   2. (Attic, Koine) sheep
      • 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 714
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.14
   3. slaughtered animals, animals for sacrifices
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.56
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.207
   4. (proverbial) stupid, lazy people
      • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 1203
      • 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 32
      • 155 CE – 235 CE, Cassius Dio, Collected Works 59.8
      • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 5.35.13
2. name of a sea-fish
   • Oppian, Halieutica 1.146
   • Oppian, Halieutica 3.139
   • 175 CE – 235 CE, Claudius Aelianus, On the Nature of Animals 9.38

Inflection

References

• πρόβατον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πρόβατον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πρόβατον in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «πρόβατον» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• πρόβατον in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G4263”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • sheep idem, page 764.