*forbeia/n: peristo/mion, kapi/strion. para\ to\ fe/rein bi/a|. kai\ *forbeia/, h( trofh/. kai\ *forbh\ o(moi/ws. *forbeia\ de\ dia\ difqo/ggou gra/fetai kai\ o)cu/netai. 
The headword is a feminine noun in the accusative singular; see generally LSJ s.v. 
forbeia/. It is evidently extracted from somewhere, perhaps from 
Job 40.25 
LXX or later commentary thereto; see 
phi 585 and its principal note.
[1] The first gloss is the masculine/feminine accusative singular (and neuter nominative/accusative singular) of the adjective 
peristo/mios, -on (
around the mouth); see generally LSJ s.v. The second gloss, a Hellenization of the Latin 
capistrum, is a noun in the neuter nominative/vocative/accusative; cf. 
kappa 340, 
kappa 331 (gloss), and see LSJ s.v. Same or similar glossing in other lexica; references at 
Photius phi264 Theodoridis. [In her critical apparatus Adler reports that ms A transmits 
para\ to\ sto/mion, 
about the mouth.]
[2] cf. 
Etymologicum Magnum 798.32 (Kallierges) and 
Etymologicum Gudianum 556.36.
[3] cf. Apollonius, 
Homeric Lexicon 162.1. Adler also cites 
Lexicon Ambrosianum 441.
[4] Not just related in sense, but in fact properly, 
forbh/ means 
trofh/, 
forage; see 
Photius phi265 Theodoridis and the other references there, inc. 
Etymologicum Magnum 798.33 (Kallierges) and 
Eustathius, 
Commentaries on Homer's Iliad 2.57.6-9 (van der Valk). A scholion (= D 
scholia) to 
Homer, 
Iliad 11.561 (web address 1), which compares the Trojan attack on Ajax to boys driving an ass from a cornfield after the animal has gorged itself on the forage, glosses the genitive case 
forbh=s of 
Homer's verse with 
trofh=s. [Adler (apparatus) reports that mss FV transmit 
*fobh\; also that ms F reads 
*(/omhros (
Homer) instead of 
o(moi/ws (
similarly), a substitution that was already made by ms F at 
phi 510 (
o(/mws, 
likewise).]
[5] From a scholion (citing Herodian) on 
Aristophanes, 
Birds 861 (web address 2), this grammatical note appears to assert that this spelling and accentuation are preferable to other attested variants such as 
forbea/, 
forbe/a, and 
forbai/a ; 
forbei/a with paroxytone accent occurs already at 
kappa 340 (gloss). In the Aristophanic text, the headword is embedded in Peisetaerus' neologism 
e)mpeforbeiwme/non, 
being fitted with a (piper's) head strap (West, p. 89), which he notes with surprise of the raven aulete; see Dunbar, pp. 508-9 (and cf. 
phi 587).
H.W. Smyth, Greek Grammar, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1956
M.L. West, Ancient Greek Music, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992
N. Dunbar, ed., Aristophanes, Birds, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995
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