γάλα: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό, gen. [[γάλακτος]] (also [[γάλακος]], dat.<br><span class="bld">A</span> γάλακι Call.''Hec.'' 1.4.4, prob. in Pherecr.108.18, cf. ''An.Ox.''4.338), also <b class="b3">τοῦ γάλα</b> indecl., Pl.Com.238: dat. pl. γάλαξι Pl.''Lg.''887d. (For <b class="b3">γλακτ-</b>, cf. Lat. [[lac]] for glact):—[[milk]], ἀμελγόμενοι γ. λευκόν Il.4.434, cf. Od.4.88, etc.; <b class="b3">εὔποτον γάλα, εὐτραφὲς γάλα</b>, [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[The Persians|Pers.]]''611, ''Ch.''898; <b class="b3">ἐν γάλακτι ὤν, τεθραμμένη</b>, at the [[breast]], E.''HF''1266, Pl.''Ti.''81c; <b class="b3">ἐν γάλαξι τρέφεσθαι</b> Id.''Lg.''l.c. (so metaph., <b class="b3">ἐν σπαργάνοις καὶ γάλαξιν εἶναι</b>, of art, Ael.''VH'' 8.8); διδόναι γάλα X.''Cyn.''7.4; <b class="b3">ἐμπλῆσαι γάλακτος</b> to fill full of [[milk]], Theoc.24.3: metaph., οἶνος, Ἀφροδίτης γάλα Ar.''Fr.''596.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[ὀρνίθων γάλα]] ([[ὄρνιθος γάλα]] = [[ὀρνιθόγαλον]], Nic.''Fr.''71.5, Dsc.2.144), [[proverb|prov.]] of rare and [[dainty]] things, Ar.''V.''508, ''Av.''734, Mcn.936; τὸ λεγόμενον, σπανιώτατον πάρεστιν ὀρνίθων γάλα Mnesim.9, cf. Ach. Tat.''Intr.Arat.'' 4 (expld. by Anaxag.22 as [[white of egg]], cf. Sch.Luc.''Merc.Cond.'' 13).<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[ἀγαθὸν γάλα]] a [[good]] [[wet nurse]], Call.''Epigr.''51; <b class="b3">οὐδ' εἰ γ. λαγοῦ</b> εἶχον… καὶ ταὧς, κατήσθιον Alex.123.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[milky sap]] of plants, Thphr.''HP''6.3.4, etc.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[the milky way]], Parm.11, [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Meteorologica|Mete.]]'' 345a12, Arat.476; but ὁ τοῦ γάλακτος κύκλος Euc.''Phaen.''p.4M., Gem.5.69.