- βότρυς
- βότρυς, υος, ὁ (Hom. et al; Epict. 1, 15, 7; BGU 1118, 14 [22 B.C.]; PLips 30, 4; LXX; En 32:4; EpArist 63; 70; 75; Jos., Ant. 12, 68; 75) bunch of grapes Rv 14:18 (Ps.-Callisth. 3, 21, 2 βότρυες σταφυλῆς). The word is also found in the Phrygian Papias of Hierapolis, in a passage in which he speaks of the enormous size of the grapes in the new aeon (in the Lat. transl. in Irenaeus 5, 33, 2f): dena millia botruum Papias (1:2). On this see Stephan. Byz. s.v. Εὐκαρπία: Metrophanes says that in the district of Εὐκαρπία in Phrygia Minor the grapes were said to be so large that one bunch of them caused a wagon to break down in the middle; cp. Lucian, Ver. Hist. 2, 13 on an extraterrestrial viticultural phenomenon.—B. 378. DELG. M-M.
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