στόμα: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=[[στόμα]], δοριξ [[στύμα]], ατος, τό,<br /><b class="num">I.</b> the [[mouth]], Lat. os, Hom., etc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> the [[mouth]] as the [[organ]] of [[speech]], [[δέκα]] μὲν γλῶσσαι, [[δέκα]] δὲ στόματ' Il.; στ. τὸ [[δῖον]] the [[mouth]] of Jove, Aesch.; Μοισᾶν [[στόμα]] [[their]] [[mouthpiece]], Theocr.;—with Preps., ἀνὰ [[στόμα]] ἔχειν to [[have]] [[always]] in one's [[mouth]], Eur.: ἀπὸ στόματος by [[word]] of [[mouth]], Xen., etc.: διὰ [[στόμα]] was in [[every]] one's [[mouth]], Aesch.; πᾶσι διὰ στόματος 'tis the [[common]] [[talk]], Theocr.: ἐξ ἑνὸς στ. with one [[voice]], Ar.; κατὰ [[στόμα]] [[face]] to [[face]], Hdt., [[attic]]<br /><b class="num">II.</b> στ. ποταμοῦ the [[mouth]] of a [[river]], Lat. ostia, Hom., etc.; so, ἠιόνος στ. [[μακρόν]] the [[wide]] [[mouth]] of the bay, Il.; στ. τοῦ Πόντου, Lat. [[fauces]] Ponti, Hdt.:—also, a [[chasm]] or [[cleft]] in the [[earth]] with a [[stream]] [[gushing]] out, Hdt.; τὸ ἄνω, τὸ [[κάτω]] [[στόμα]] τοῦ ὀρύγματος the [[opening]] or [[width]] of the [[trench]] at top, at [[bottom]], Hdt.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> any [[outlet]] or [[entrance]], Od., Xen.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> the [[foremost]] [[part]], [[face]], [[front]]:<br /><b class="num">1.</b> of weapons, the [[point]], Il.; the [[edge]] of a [[sword]], NTest.:—also like Lat. [[acies]], the [[front]], [[στόμα]] πολέμοιο, ὑσμίνης Il.; so [[alone]], Xen.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[generally]], [[ἄκρον]] στ. πύργων the top of the towers, Eur.; τὸ [[στόμα]] τοῦ βίου the [[verge]] of [[life]], Xen.