βουκολέω

A. tend cattle, ἕλικας βοῦς βουκολέεσκες (Ep. impf.) Il. 21.448, etc.: abs., Parth. 4.1, Luc. DDeor. 3:—Med., βουκολεῖσθαι αἶγας Eup. 18:—Pass., of cattle, graze, ἕλος κάτα βουκολέοντο, of horses, Il. 20.221, cf.Ar. Pax 153: metaph. of meteors, range through the sky, Call. Del. 176.

b. c. acc. rei, graze on, Τρηχινίδα Euph. 114.

2. of persons, βουκολεῖς Σαβάζιον you tend, serve him (with allusion to his tauriform worship), Ar. V. 10:—Med., μὴ πρόκαμνε τόνδε βουκολούμενος πόνον ruminating, pondering, A. Eu. 78.

II. metaph., cheat, beguile, πάθος Id. Ag. 669; τὸ δήμιον Ar. Ec. 81, cf. Men. Sam. 251; αἱ τίτθαι τοὺς παῖδας διὰ μυθολογίας βουκολοῦσιν Max.Tyr. 10.3; β. λύπην Babr. 19.7; ἀλλοτρίοις κόσμοις τὸ τῆς φύσεως ἀπρεπές β. Luc. Am. 38:—Med., ἐλπίσι βουκολοῦμαι I feed myself on hopes, cheat myself with them, Alciphr. 3.5, cf. Luc. Trag. 29; ἐπιθυμίαις Id. Am. 2:—Pass., Stoic. 3.147; βουκολεῖσθαι ὑπὸ ἐνυπνίων Porph. Marc. 6.