Boebeis

Boebē, ēs, f., = Boibê.

I.

A village in the Thessalian province Pelasgiotis, on the shore of Lake Bœbeïs, Ov. M. 7, 231.—

B.

Derivv.

1.

Lacus Boebēis (Boibêïs limnê, Hom. Il. 2, 711), Lake Bœbeïs, now Karla, Plin. 4, 8, 15, § 30;

because in the neighborhood of Ossa: Ossaea,

Luc. 7, 176;

and because Minerva was said to have once bathed her feet in it (cf. Hesiod. Fragm. 50, Göttl. in Strab. 9, p. 640): sanctae Boebeidos undae,

Prop. 2, 2, 11:

pinguis,

Val. Fl. 1, 449.—

2.

Boebēius, a, um, adj., Bœbeian, = Thessalian:

proles,

i.e. the Thessalian nymphs, Val. Fl. 3, 543.—

II.

Boebe palus = Boebeïs, Lake Bœbeïs, Liv. 31, 41, 4.