λεία: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(A), ἡ, ([[λεῖος]])<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[tool for smoothing stone]], S.''Fr.''531.<br><span class="bld">II</span> v. [[λαιαί]].<br /><br />(B), Ion. ληΐη, Dor. [[λᾴα]] (Pi.''O.''10(11).44), ἡ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[booty]], [[plunder]], freq. in [[Herodotus|Hdt.]] (v. infr.), etc. (Hom. and Hes. always use [[ληΐς]]); especially of cattle, opp. [[ἄνθρωποι]], Pi.l.c., Th.2.94 (v. infr. 4); λείας ἀπαρχὴν βοῦς S.''Tr.''761, cf. ''Aj.''54, 145 (anap.): pl., <b class="b3">ἐφθαρμένας εὑρίσκομεν λείας ἁπάσας</b> ib.26; rarely of persons, ἀγόμεθα λεία E.''Tr.''614; [[prey]] of hunters, Id.''Rh.''326: generally, [[booty]], Th.8.3, X.''HG''1.2.4, 1.3.2; <b class="b3">τοὺς λοιποὺς ληΐην θέσθαι</b> give them up [[as plunder]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]4.202; <b class="b3">λείαν ποιεῖσθαι τὴν χώραν</b>, = [[λεηλατεῖν τὴν χώραν]], Th.8.41; λείαν ἄγειν [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''5.3.1; ἐπὶ λείαν ἐκπορεύσονται Id.''An.''5.1.8, etc.; κατὰ ληΐην ἐκπλῶσαι [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]2.152: pl., διεσκεδασμένοι κατὰ τὰς ἰδίας λείας X.''HG''1.2.5: [[proverb|prov.]], <b class="b3">Μυσῶν λεία</b>, of anything that may be plundered with impunity, Stratt.35, D.18.72, Arist.''Rh.''1372b33.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[plunder]] (as an act), ζῶσι ἀπὸ ληΐης καὶ πολέμου [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]4.103.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[stolen property]], τὴν λ. ἀποδοῦναι ''PCair.Zen.''145.16 (iii B.C.), cf. ''PSI''4.438.10-13 (iii B.C.).<br><span class="bld">4</span> [[flocks and herds]], [[cattle]], ἀπογραφὴ λείας ''PHib.''1.33.2 (iii B.C.), cf. ''PPetr.''3p.279 (iii B.C.), ''BGU''1012 (ii B.C.), D.S.19.21, 97; ἀτέλεια τῆς λ. ''OGI''748.9 (Cyzic., iii B.C.). (Lit. [[the people's property]], cf. Lat. [[populari]] 'plunder'.)