ψίαθος: Difference between revisions
δρυὸς πεσούσης πᾶς ἀνὴρ ξυλεύεται → when the oak falls, everyone cuts wood | when an oak has fallen, every man gathers wood | on the fall of an oak, every man gathers wood | when an oak has fallen, every man becomes a woodcutter | one takes advantage of somebody who has lost his strength | one takes advantage of somebody who has lost his power | when the tree is fallen, every man goes to it with his hatchet
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English (LSJ)
[ῐ], ἡ (also ὁ, read by Callistr. in Ar.Ra.567, cf. Sch. ad loc. (575)), also ψίεθος, Antig.Mir.97, Ostr.Bodl. iii 228 (i A. D.), etc. (condemned by Phryn.281):—
A a rush-mat, used for sleeping on, Hesperia 5.382 (Athens, v. B.C.), Ar.Ra.567, Lys.921, Arist.HA559b3, Thphr. HP4.8.4, 9.4.4; ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς ψ. γεγονώς, prov. of persons in like condition, bedfellow, Com.Adesp.789 (anap. (?)); Dor. pl. acc. ψιάθως Ar.Ach.874. II blind, Apollod.Poliorc.169.6. III perh. sack, χόρτου πλήρης Sor.1.83; used for carriage of wool or stone, PCair.Zen.430, 518 (iii B. C.).
